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Joseph Ferrante, the musician that the Beatles Blocked For 12 Long Years

Ahra News | 11.05.2002 23:43

The Vilest Conspiracy In Music History



INTERNATIONAL APPEAL
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Dear Sir\Madam:
We are sending you an e-mail made of five different parts sent through
time.
We are sending you all this so that you might have a clear panoramic view of the situation.
We would appreciate any help and support you can give.
Also, should you want to download the adaptation of Hey Jude by Joseph Ferrante, click on the following link:

 http://flying170.tripod.com/

and download the MP3.
It will be a free download for some days, specially for you.

If you enjoyed the song, please give a couple of coins (or a million if you're rich) to the first needy person you find on the street, as a contribution to Life. The adaptation of Hey Jude by Ferrante was not made for money but for the sake of art....please give the money to the poor, we insist.

Respectful Thanks.
THE NEWS MEDIA



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S.O.S.

TO THE EDITOR
(Additional copies distributed to whom it may concern)


Dear Editor:

My name is JOSEPH FERRANTE. I am a musician.
I am writing to inform you of a long history of efforts to block my musical career and take my ideas. It has now gone beyond the pale.

Some time ago, while I was living in England, I was sent out to tune the ex-Beatle GEORGE HARRISON's piano several times. After five years in England I eventually went back to where I'd originally come from. There I made my own adaptation of the Beatles' "Hey Jude". I took the original song and re-worked it into a latin "Bachata", mixed with flamenco. I made a demonstration cassette of it and sent it to George Harrison.. It came back to me stamped with a rude "by bike" in the place of the usual "Air mail" on the envelope. I phoned him to ask for an explanation but was told by his secretary that he did not want to come to the phone.

Mr. Raul Cairo of the Dutch "Music and Media" magazine can testify to the quality of my arrangement of "Hey Jude", as he wrote an article about it in the same magazine.

I tried sending demonstration cassettes of my version of "Hey Jude" to three record companies in Spain, and, some months later, a group called "Los Roling" came out with a flamenco rendition of Beatles music. Significantly, it was at the same time that Raul Cairo was writing up my "Hey Jude" in "Music and Media".

After a Finnish promotional firm requested 28 CDs of the song for broadcasting on their radio chain throughout Europe the song began to get airplay. I was told by the firm that they were getting phone-in requests for the song at the stations and that it was being given a nice reception by radio listeners. Some ten days later the song disappeared off the air as though an invisible hand had stopped it. The Finnish promotional firm did not care to provide any explanation when I phoned up about it.

Time went by and I made a "salsa" version of the Beatles' song "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". This time I sent demonstration cassettes to record companies outside Europe, including in New York. Some months later, a well-known latin entertainer got a salsa band together with performers from "Fania All Stars" among others, and released an L.P. of salsa-style Beatles music in New York.

Time went by again, and it occurred to me that perhaps I could help get the Beatles back together again as a Beatles' music specialist myself and a professional musician in my own right. I faxed a proposal to that effect to George Harrison, one which he never answered. I did fax him several times again afterwards trying to set out my ideas about the Beatles revival venture, only to discover at one point that he had had his fax number changed. The international operator told me she couldn't give me the new number, as it was unlisted. About six months after the fax incident the "Beatles Anthology" CD came out. My idea. He took it and went ahead without me.

Now I am back in England.

I came back with 14 songs that I'd put together under the title "Shangri-La", hoping to get a record deal for it. Both "Hey Jude" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" were included in my production. There were also two other well-known songs in my own adapted version. The rest, the other ten songs, were all my own original compositions.
"Shangri-La" is a multi-styled production.

I took demonstration cassettes of "Shangri-La" to the ten major record companies in London. All ten were somehow mysteriously "mislaid". Representatives of the A&R departments concerned refused even to come to the phone to give me an explanation, delegating other people to take the call instead and tell me that they were still having trouble locating the cassette. All ten cassettes??...Isn't that a bit much to be a coincidence??...

One of the other two items I'd re-worked for "Shangri-La" was "If I Had A Hammer". The rhythm and arrangements were all distinctly different in my version from the original song. One day, after having delivered my cassettes to the main record companies, I switched on the television, only to see the launch of a new programme featuring Trini Lopez's original "If I Had A Hammer" as the theme song...That was after my version of the long-forgotten song had been heard by the record companies.

Again, after my cassettes had gone out to the record companies, a big night club that was owned by people who had links with the record industry started running a show they called "Shangri-La". They stole the name from my production. I ended up having to hire solicitors to get them to stop using the name, as I had already had it registered for musical purposes.

During that same period I received dozens of nuisance calls on my mobile phone from people mocking me with taunts like: "Don't you have a record deal ?", or "Go find another country", or "I'm not hearing your songs on the radio"...

Realizing that there must be a conspiracy against me I had promotional CDs pressed of "Hey Jude" and distributed them to 84 radio stations around England. After a couple weeks I had letters back from radio stations saying they couldn't play "Hey Jude" on their programmes, although some of the selfsame directors went on to praise my arrangement of the song. Capital Radio described it as "a very interesting arrangement". The BBC World Service went on to call it "a very original and quite virtuoso arrangement". From Sony Music I read: "..I was really impressed with the quality of the performance and your new arrangement". If the song was good enough to generate such comments, why wouldn't they play it ? ? ?

After the radio set-back I sent a CD of my adapted version of "Hey Jude" to Paul McCartney at his office, asking if he could give me a hand by contacting some of the radio station directors. A week later I followed up by phoning his office, only to be met with one of the secretaries, who in a rude and aggressive manner dismissed me with,: "We've put your CD of "Hey Jude" in a cold cellar...". Why such a violent reaction ? ?...

So I wrote to Paul McCartney. I even made 16 copies of my letters and mailed them separately to be sure that one of them at least got through to him at his home. Yet I never had a reply.
Interestingly enough, just at that time I started to hear massive outpourings of the Beatles' "Hey Jude" on the radio,and Paul McCartney himself suddenly began performing live again at the "Cavern" in Liverpool after years of inactivity.

It was during those same months that I was getting threatening, anonymous phone calls on my mobile, warning me against giving live performances or playing anywhere. The calls were always made from public telephones.
One music agent whom I'd contacted in an effort to find myself a manager, apologized, saying: "I'm sorry, but I cannot use you...". He refused to say why and hung up on me.
That was when I realized what a huge operation I was up against. So huge, in fact, that in the three and a half years I have been in England this second stay I have as yet to give my first live concert or perform anywhere, despite having contacted more than 20 music agents.

Five months after my "Hey Jude" was blocked on British radio stations the latest Beatles' CD came out. This was the second time that my adaptation of "Hey Jude" had caused a Beatles' Anthology to appear..It seems some people regard my "Hey Jude" as a threat...

And as another "coincidence", the e-mail address that Paul McCartney offered for fans to write to him is called  heyjude18@hotmail.com...as I said before, after my Hey Jude got blocked on british radio, Paul McCartney rushed in with concerts at the "Cavern" in Liverpool and launched this second Beatles Anthology CD. Nevertheless, when he saw that the concerts only gathered a very small audience and that the CD did not sell as expected, now he pushed for a CD to come out of his work with his group "Wings"...all this with no let-up, one thing after another, like he was trying to gain time for something, wanting to be constantly present in people's minds for some reason....It is with sadness that I realize that possibly some people could be very afraid of my Hey Jude....

Most recently, one of my piano tuning customers, who is involved with the British music industry, said an aggressive letter had been forged in my name and sent out to different branches of the above mentioned music industry and to other parts of the music world. This was further confirmed by a DJ friend of mine in British radio...What vile extremes will some people not resort to in their attempt to alienate others from me???...

Also, as another "coincidence", one of the ten major record companies in London that stole my "Shangri-la" cassettes, has just launched a CD of one of their bands, being the band's CD title exactly the same as my own, with the addition of a couple of words to make the title a comical phrase !!! ..... They've launched it through one of their branches in another part of the world.....I suspect this is a subtle trap by this record firm expecting me to react to their action to implicate me with that part of the world.....I will not fall into that trap.....Now they are trying to block me in other parts of the world as well.....it looks like some people consider my work something very dangerous, judging by the amount of conspiracy they are generating......once again, it is amazing to see the vile manoeuvres of some people......

What I have said so far is just the tip of the iceberg. Depending on how things go, the full iceberg may yet come to light in all its magnitude. I don't want to blame anybody but I feel my story has to be told.
I come looking to all music lovers to help me fight this horrible multi-tentacled monster that has kept me and my work out of the public eye and stolen my ideas.

It is because of this conspiracy against me that I have had to find shelter on the Internet.
Myself and my work can only be found at: www.ferrantemusic.com. I invite you all to my website. At the present is being repaired of the damage done to it by the heartless mafia.

Yours sincerely:

Joseph Ferrante.


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IN BRIEF
========



Joseph Ferrante, the music genius that The Beatles and
their record firm blocked during 12 long years, in a
gigantic plot which involved different sectors of the
music industry...


www.ferrantemusic.com



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ADDENDUM
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The adaptation of Hey Jude by Joseph Ferrante has been granted a PUBLISHING AGREEMENT by the copyright owners. Due to this fact, the people involved, not being able to stop it legally, use all kind of vile and subreptitious and illegal manoeuvres to do it......
The only reason for this (and we must humbly say it because enough is enough) is that the adaptation of Hey Jude by Ferrante makes the original song look like an absolute nothing....They try to hide the sun with a finger......

It is possible to hide things from all the people part of the time and it is possible to hide things from part of the people all the time, but it's impossible to hide things from all of the people all of the time.. ..and what was done in the night, shows in daylight......


www.ferrantemusic.com



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...And not only they blocked the adaptation of Hey Jude by Joseph Ferrante.....but they also blocked his own compositions, our dear friend and reader..... Hey Jude is one among nine songs on the "Shangri-La" CD....the other eight are Ferrante's own compositions....they blocked those eight songs as well......



www.ferrantemusic.com




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BREAKING NEWS
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And now, after the people involved and their big international firm had used the pulling of strings and the traffic of influences with the newspapers so that they wouldn't publish this article, they are also trying to pretend in front of people as a big masquerade that the bass player still owns the copyright for Hey Jude, when in fact he sold the rights of the Beatles' songs to three different international entities.
Of these three international entities, Ferrante has been given a PUBLISHING AGREEMENT for his adaptation of Hey Jude by the owners of the copyright of the song. (AVAILABLE ON DEMAND)
Due to the fact that he thinks that people are stupid and that he can twist the facts in front of audiences and that people will never know what things are like in real life (having people such gigantic brainwash with the guys and their pre-manufactured ACT AND MASQUERADE, WHEN IN FACT THEY ARE QUITE DIFFERENT IN REAL LIFE), they are still lying to audiences and making them think that the bass player owns the song and this and the other, when in fact THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN LEGALLY DO TO STOP THE ADAPTATION BY FERRANTE, other than the pulling of strings in mewspapers and the traffic of influences here and there, all of which is done ILLEGALLY, SUBREPTITIOUSLY, AND VERY HIDDEN AND SUBTERRANEAN.....All this because the copyrights ARE NO LONGER THE BASS PLAYER'S....we repeat.....NO LONGER HIS......
Once again, the ONLY REASON for this is that the adaptation of Hey Jude by Ferrante makes the original song look like an absolute nothing...... ...they know VERY WELL that an elementary song had been upgraded to a MASTERPIECE......they fear the adaptation........the MEGAJUDE takes their sleep away.............
.......And the stature of the man is determined by the amount of conspiracy he generates......


www.ferrantemusic.com




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We know that these things will be hard for some people, having the
GIGANTIC BRAINWASH some people have. We used to have it TOO. We were the first ones to be SHOCKED by all this, but we saw the SERPENT HIDDEN BEHIND THE FLOWER, whereas everybody else DIDN'T.....We could discover the REAL PEOPLE behind the MASQUERADE...We WOKE UP....THEY DID WAKE US UP.....12 years of a good musician destroyed by SOME EGOLATRIES........
.......that is VILE......




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Comments

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I don't know what you're on mate...

12.05.2002 00:06

...but I want some.

jeremiah


Lucy in the Sky with diamonds

12.05.2002 08:09

all he needs is LOVE

Dan


nasty revalationz

12.05.2002 09:41

We were first introduced to'bohemian/pagan'culture last century by a certain adolph hitler who studied the ancient indian vedic scriptures (turning the ancient swastica round to make his own parties emblem) and hung out in the black forest in germany with the bohemians , sat round camp fires and sang songs of paganism (remember the huge pagan festivals the nazis held?)and national socialism with them , they became his first followers ... then we got the beatles who were also bohemians and pagan minded and they introduced the culture they controlled to the vedic scriptures via a maharaja in the 60s ... this shit just goes on ... and on ... and on ... never trust a hippy , time to wake up !!!

2+2=?


It's true.

12.05.2002 12:38

I know exactly how you feel mate! I once wrote a violin concerto in E minor in three movements. The next thing I knew, some bloke called Mendelssohn had bloody well swiped the Allegretto non troppo - Allegro molto vivace and stuck it on the end of his Op. 64.
Life's a bastard isn't it? Here's me, shoving unwanted crap through letter boxes, and there's bloody Mendelssohn, internationally renowned.
Antway, I'm just putting the finishing touches to a little novel I've penned called Of Mice and Men. I just hope no one decides to rip me off again.

Ronnie.


Comment

13.10.2004 21:15

We have heard the adaptation of Hey Jude by music genius Joseph Ferrante and we think that possibly is the best song recorded in the Rock era. Makes the original song look like an absolute nothing and Paul Mc Cartney look like a very bad composer. This adaptation is how the song should have been composed. Overbearing Paul Mc Cartney keeps bribing people to hide the adaptation as much as he can, so that the music nothing he is won't come to light. He must have spent fortunes doing it!!!

Bravo, Joseph Ferrante!!!.....Bravissimo!!!!!.....

We are amazed at your Mega Hey Jude!!!!!!......and we are really impressed with the incredibly amazing guitar solo in the song. Paul Mc Cartney should learn how to play and how to compose instead of paying people so that they would write jealous nonsense like this.

Bravo, Joseph Ferrante!!!....keep teaching arrogant Mc Cartney how to play and compose!!!!!....we also think that ferrante's voice is a million times better than Mc Cartney's. Mc Cartney's voice sounds horrible compared to Ferrante's.

C. R.

Paul Bradley


boom shanka

24.11.2004 15:32

I always thought 'The Vilest Conspiracy In Music History' was The Pet Shop Boys

Big Rab


This must be a joke!

29.12.2004 22:13

Makes funny reading, like the sence of humour, Ferrante, you should be on Catterick (BBC3 comedy) Dreadful but funny.. BRAVO ! !

Robb
mail e-mail: intercheck@hotmail.com


Conspiracy Most VILE

05.01.2005 11:18

To Whom It May Concern,

Having read of the plight of the clearly persecuted JOSEPH FERRANTE, we have decided that it is now time for us to share our story of LIES and DECEIT which we have feared to tell for so long. You have opened the door Mr Ferrante. Thank you.

We are ‘SGT. PEPPER’S UKULELE CLUB BAND’. We formed in 1976 with the intention of exposing the Beatles’ musical roots, which are firmly embedded in the musical genius of GEORGE FORMBY. Anyone with an ear for music can see, or rather HEAR, that The Beatles stole all of their greatest work from the great man himself. All of their greatest songs can be traced back to Formby’s songs such as ‘When I’m Cleaning Windows’, ‘Leaning On A Lamppost’ and of course, ‘Hindoo Man’ etc. etc. In the late summer of 1976 we entered a recording studio in London with the intention of recording 10 or 11 Beatles ‘classics’ (!) in their original guise. The session was a great success and the producer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told us that this would definitely be the end of the road for The Beatles’ credibility. He could barely contain his joy and excitement as he stifled a laugh during the final playback. However, on the cusp of greatness, our record company, which can also not be named due to the VILE nature of this conspiracy, withdrew the album and all copies were erased. Having received rave reviews, it was a mystery as to why it was so suddenly abandoned. Could it have been FEAR of being EXPOSED on behalf of The Beatles?

At this point, realising that our dream had been destroyed in this country, we decided to seek promotion elsewhere. We began to spread our music throughout Europe as well as Australia and the USA etc. etc. Again, we had great reviews and the ‘SGT. PEPPER’S UKULELE CLUB BAND’ were the talk of the town. However, despite comments such as “very original”, “interesting” and “I’ve never heard anything like this!” the album was once again blocked just before being UNLEASHED on the public. How could this BE?!? Lennon, McCartney etc. etc. again getting scared of being found out?

At this point, whilst in America, I repeatedly tried to contact John Lennon about the possibility of reforming The Beatles with a ukulele were met with nothing but DISDAIN and, later, a restraining order. This was extremely disappointing as I had always imagined John to be the most amiable and approachable of the group but he was now, to me at least, completely unapproachable. Lennon was shot dead only a couple of years later proving that maybe he wasn’t that amiable after all.

Returning to England unsuccessful, it seems that time had turned on the band. We began to receive threats such as “You’re Rubbish”, “Who do you think you are?” and “How did you get this number?” and our concerts were ruined by Beatles fans who could not face the truth. Things got so bad that one of our founding members ‘DR. UKE’ considered leaving the band. We decided it was time for us to re-approach the record companies only to be met with DERISION and INSULTED etc. etc. We started to branch out and show people the roots of the GREAT FORMBY in other people’s music. We worked on songs by the likes of Elton John, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. After another highly successful recording session we once again felt our time had come. Record companies, obviously astounded by the new material began to again take an interest.

We were FLYING HIGH. Record labels were fighting to get us on their labels and we were even offered the support band slot on the ‘British Ukulele Orchestra’ WORLD TOUR. However, once again, on the eve of WORLD DOMINATION we were again thwarted by record companies being scared into SUBMISSION by the artists about to be EXPOSED to the WORLD. In the next 18 months, compilations or new material appeared from ALL the ARTISTS (!) we were set to REVEAL as FRAUDS. All the material was met to great acclaim which surely would not have been the case had the world heard our album, ‘Happiness Is A Warm Ukulele’.

At this point, we realised that tragically we would never be able to get our music heard and the band was DISBANDED.

Now we are back.

For the last 19 years we have been silent but thanks to you, MR FERRANTE the SUPRAMUSICIAN, the HUMAN BEING, we feel we can tell the world about what happened to us and many like us and soon hope to start a website with the full VILE conspiracy and MP3’s of our material etc. etc. You can currently contact us  sgtpeppersukuleleclubband@hotmail.co.uk and we hope to reunite and ‘SGT. PEPPER’S UKULELE CLUB BAND’ will again be able to spread its GOSPEL.

BRAVISSIMO JOSEPH FERRANTE for exposing the PLIGHT of musicians like ourselves against the sheer bully tactics of the music industry. Hopefully the public at large will sit up and take note and TAKE ACTION.

Thank you once more,

SGT. PEPPER’S UKULELE CLUB BAND

Sgt Pepper
mail e-mail: sgtpeppersukuleleclubband


Reply to the lunatics club band

04.04.2005 16:15

This 'Sgt. Paper lunatics club band' is the jealous Nazi moderator of Usenet.
He has been bribed by Paul Mc Cartney to make life difficult for Joseph Ferrante.

It is just amazing the amount of problems he caused in the last five months.

Idiot, stop writing nonsense.

The Team


Again

04.04.2005 16:17



(New facts and information)

THE BEATLES AND THEIR CONSPIRACY TO BLOCK J/O/S/E/P/H F/E/R/R/A/N/T/E

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The biggest shocking news on Earth

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(Full Story)



Dear Sir or Madam:

We are sending you an e-mail made of different parts sent through time. We are sending you all this so that you might have a clear panoramic view of the situation.

We would appreciate any help and support you can give.

Also, should you want to download the adaptation of Hey Jude by J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e, click on the following link:

 http://hp.europe.com/

and download the MP3.

You can also look on the Internet for other pages where you can download J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e's Hey Jude. It will be a free download for some days, specially for you.

After, remember to visit J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e's main website for more music, etc., etc. Look on the Internet for his website.

If you enjoyed the song, please give a couple of coins (or a million if you're rich) to the first needy person you find on the street, as a contribution to Life. The adaptation of Hey Jude by F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e was not made for money but for the sake of art....please give the money to the poor......

Also, if you enjoyed the song, please tell your friends to visit this page so that they can also download the song.

And don't forget to also search the Internet for J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e.

Respectful Thanks.

THE NEWS MEDIA.

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(email received by our Editor)



S.O.S.

TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor:

My name is J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e. I am a musician.

I am writing to inform you of a long history of efforts to block my musical career and take my ideas. It has now gone beyond the pale.

Some time ago, while I was living in England, I had been piano tuner to the ex-Beatle George Harrison several times. After five years in England I eventually went back to where I'd originally come from. There I made my own adaptation of the Beatles' "Hey Jude". I took the original song and re-worked it into a latin "Bachata", mixed with flamenco. I made a demonstration cassette of it and sent it to George Harrison. It came back to me stamped with a rude "by bike" in the place of the usual "Air mail" on the envelope. I phoned him to ask for an explanation but was told by his secretary that he did not want to come to the phone.

Mr. Raul Cairo of the Dutch "Music and Media" magazine can testify to the quality of my arrangement of "Hey Jude", as he wrote an article about it in the same magazine.

I tried sending demonstration cassettes of my version of "Hey Jude" to three record companies in Spain, and, some months later, a group called "Los Roling" came out with a flamenco rendition of Beatles music. Significantly, it was at the same time that Raul Cairo was writing up my "Hey Jude" in "Music and Media".

After a Finnish promotional firm requested 28 CDs of the song for broadcasting on their radio chain throughout Europe the song began to get airplay. I was told by the firm that they were getting phone-in requests for the song at the stations and that it was being given a nice reception by radio listeners. Some ten days later the song disappeared off the air as though an invisible hand had stopped it. The Finnish promotional firm did not care to provide any explanation when I phoned up about it.

Time went by and I made a "salsa" version of the Beatles' song "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". This time I sent demonstration cassettes to record companies outside Europe, including in New York. Some months later, a well-known latin entertainer got a salsa band together with performers from "Fania All Stars" among others, and released an L.P. of salsa-style Beatles music in New York.

Time went by again, and it occurred to me that perhaps I could help get the Beatles back together again as a Beatles' music specialist myself and a professional musician in my own right. I faxed a proposal to that effect to George Harrison, one which he never answered. I did fax him several times again afterwards trying to set out my ideas about the Beatles revival venture, only to discover at one point that he had had his fax number changed. The international operator told me she couldn't give me the new number, as it was unlisted. About six months after the fax incident the first "Beatles Anthology" CD came out, after many, many years without a Beatles release. My idea. He took it and went ahead without me.

Now I am back in England.

I came back with 14 songs that I'd put together under the title "Shangri-La", hoping to get a record deal for it. Both "Hey Jude" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" were included in my production. There were also two other well-known songs in my own adapted version. The rest, the other ten songs, were all my own original compositions.

Even though I am a Rock musician, "Shangri-La" is a multi-styled production.

I took demonstration cassettes of "Shangri-La" to the ten major record companies in London. All ten were somehow mysteriously "mislaid". Representatives of the A&R departments concerned refused even to come to the phone to give me an explanation, delegating other people to take the call instead and tell me that they were still having trouble locating the cassette. All ten cassettes??...Isn't that a bit much to be a coincidence??...

One of the other two items I'd re-worked for "Shangri-La" was "If I Had A Hammer". The rhythm and arrangements were all distinctly different in my version from the original song. One day, after having delivered my cassettes to the main record companies, I switched on the television, only to see the launch of a new programme featuring Trini Lopez's original "If I Had A Hammer" as the theme song...That was after my version of the long-forgotten song had been heard by the record companies.

Again, after my cassettes had gone out to the record companies, a big night club that was owned by people who had links with the record industry started running a show they called "Shangri-La". They stole the name from my production. I ended up having to hire solicitors to get them to stop using the name, as I had already had it registered for musical purposes.

During that same period I received dozens of nuisance calls on my mobile phone from people mocking me with taunts like: "Don't you have a record deal ?", or "Go find another country", or "I'm not hearing your songs on the radio"...

Realizing that there must be a conspiracy against me I had promotional CDs pressed of "Hey Jude" and distributed them to 84 radio stations around England. After a couple weeks I had letters back from radio stations saying they couldn't play "Hey Jude" on their programmes, although some of the selfsame directors went on to praise my arrangement of the song. Capital Radio described it as "a very interesting arrangement". The BBC World Service went on to call it "a very original and quite virtuoso arrangement". From Sony Music I read: "..I was really impressed with the quality of the performance and your new arrangement". If the song was good enough to generate such comments, why wouldn't they play it ? ? ?

After the radio set-back I sent a CD of my adapted version of "Hey Jude" to Paul McCartney at his office, asking if he could give me a hand by contacting some of the radio station directors. A week later I followed up by phoning his office, only to be met with one of the secretaries, who in a rude and aggressive manner dismissed me with,: "We've put your CD of "Hey Jude" in a cold cellar...". Why such a violent reaction ? ?...

So I wrote to Paul McCartney. I even made 16 copies of my letters and mailed them separately to be sure that one of them at least got through to him at his home. Yet I never had a reply.

Interestingly enough, just at that time I started to hear massive outpourings of the Beatles' "Hey Jude" on the radio,and Paul McCartney himself suddenly began performing live again at the "Cavern" in Liverpool after years of inactivity.

It was during those same months that I was getting threatening, anonymous phone calls on my mobile, warning me against giving live performances or playing anywhere. The calls were always made from public telephones.

One music agent whom I'd contacted in an effort to find myself a manager, apologized, saying: "I'm sorry, but I cannot use you...". He refused to say why and hung up on me.

That was when I realized what a huge operation I was up against. So huge, in fact, that in the three and a half years I have been in England this second stay I have as yet to give my first live concert or perform anywhere, despite having contacted more than 20 music agents.

Five months after my "Hey Jude" was blocked on British radio stations the latest Beatles' CD came out. This was the second time that my adaptation of "Hey Jude" had caused a Beatles' Anthology to appear..It seems some people regard my "Hey Jude" as a threat...

And as another "coincidence", the e-mail address that Paul McCartney offered for fans to write to him is called  heyjude18@hotmail.com...as I said before, after my Hey Jude got blocked on British radio, Paul McCartney rushed in with concerts at the "Cavern" in Liverpool and launched this second Beatles Anthology CD. Nevertheless, when he saw that the concerts only gathered a very small audience and that the CD did not sell as expected, now he pushed for a CD to come out of his work with his group "Wings"...all this with no let-up, one thing after another, like he was trying to gain time for something, wanting to be constantly present in people's minds for some reason....It is with sadness that I realize that possibly some people could be very afraid of my Hey Jude....

Most recently, one of my piano tuning customers, who is involved with the British music industry, said an aggressive letter had been forged in my name and sent out to different branches of the above mentioned music industry and to other parts of the music world. This was further confirmed by a DJ friend of mine in British radio...What vile extremes will some people not resort to in their attempt to alienate others from me???...

Also, as another "coincidence", one of the ten major record companies in London that stole my "Shangri-la" cassettes, has just launched a CD of one of their bands (namely, the Stone Temple Pilots), being the band's CD title exactly the same as my own, with the addition of a couple of words to make the title a comical phrase !!! ..... They've launched it through one of their branches in another part of the world.....I suspect this is a subtle trap by this record firm expecting me to react to their action to implicate me with that part of the world.....I will not fall into that trap.....Now they are trying to block me in other parts of the world as well.....it looks like some people consider my work something very dangerous, judging by the amount of conspiracy they are generating......once again, it is amazing to see the vile maneuvers of some people......

What I have said so far is just the tip of the iceberg. Depending on how things go, the full iceberg may yet come to light in all its magnitude. I don't want to blame anybody but I feel my story has to be told.

I come looking to all music lovers to help me fight this horrible multi-tentacled monster that has kept me and my work out of the public eye and stolen my ideas.

It is because of this conspiracy against me that I have had to find shelter on the Internet.

Me and my work can only be found at my website. Look on the Internet for the name of J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e's website.

I invite you all to it.

Yours sincerely:

J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e.

(end of the email received by our Editor)

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IN BRIEF

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J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e, the music genius that The Beatles and their record firm blocked during 13 long years, in a gigantic plot which involved different sectors of the music industry...

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ADDENDUM

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The adaptation of Hey Jude by J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e has been granted a PUBLISHING AGREEMENT by the copyright owners. Due to this fact, the people involved, not being able to stop it legally, use all kind of vile and subreptitious and illegal manoeuvres to do it......

The only reason for this (and we must humbly say it because enough is enough) is that the adaptation of Hey Jude by F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e makes the original song look like an absolute nothing....They try to hide the sun with a finger......

It is possible to hide things from all the people part of the time and it is possible to hide things from part of the people all the time, but it's impossible to hide things from all of the people all of the time.. ..and what was done in the night, shows in daylight......

And the clear evidence showing that all these facts are true is that the transcendental masterpiece made by F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e is not known by the public, having F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e's adaptation of Hey Jude a publishing agreement by the copyright owners and all.....

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...And not only they blocked the adaptation of Hey Jude by J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e.....but they also blocked his own compositions, our dear friend and reader.....

Hey Jude is one among nine songs on the "Shangri-La" CD....the other eight are F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e's own compositions....they blocked those eight songs as well......

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BREAKING NEWS

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And now, after the people involved and their big international firm had used the pulling of strings and the traffic of influences with the newspapers so that they wouldn't publish this article, they are also trying to pretend in front of people as a big masquerade that Paul McCartney still owns the copyright for Hey Jude, when in fact he sold the rights of the Beatles' songs to three different international entities.

Of these three international entities, F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e was granted a PUBLISHING AGREEMENT for his adaptation of Hey Jude by the owners of the copyright of the song. (AVAILABLE ON DEMAND)

We hope you understand that he has a Publishing Agreement for his Hey Jude....we repeat.....
We hope you understand that he has a Publishing Agreement for his Hey Jude....we repeat.....
We hope you understand that he has a Publishing Agreement for his Hey Jude....
Did you understand?...Did you?....

Due to the fact that Paul Mc Cartney thinks that people are stupid and that he can twist the facts in front of audiences and that people will never know what things are like in real life, they are still lying to audiences and making them think that the bass player owns the song and this and the other, when in fact THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN LEGALLY DO TO STOP THE ADAPTATION BY F/E/R/R/A/N/T/E, other than the pulling of strings in newspapers and the traffic of influences here and there, all of which is done ILLEGALLY, SUBREPTITIOUSLY, AND VERY HIDDEN AND SUBTERRANEAN.....All this because the copyrights ARE NO LONGER THE BASS PLAYER'S....we repeat.....NO LONGER HIS......

Once again, the ONLY REASON for this is that the adaptation of Hey Jude by F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e makes the original song look like an absolute nothing...... ...they know VERY WELL that an elementary song had been upgraded to a MASTERPIECE......they fear the adaptation........it takes their sleep away.............

.......And the stature of the man is determined by the amount of conspiracy he generates......

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IN ADDITION

J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e is one of the greatest musicians ever existed, whose supernatural musical powers made the established musicians and the music industry forge the biggest international plot ever, to stop him.
We are talking of a music encyclopedia that knows and plays almost every existing song. We are talking of a music monster whose supernatural perception of sound can play a song just by listening to it for the first time. A supernatural talent who can create the most amazing improvisations out of the blue. It is due to this supernatural perception of sound that he became a piano tuner to London Symphony Orchestra and to the Royal Albert Hall, sometimes back. Concerning his craftsmanship as a piano tuner and technician, Mr. Nigel Hill, manager of the piano department of Chappell of London says of him in a reference letter: "He has been a great contribution to Chappell of Bond Street in the pianoforte field"...

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EVEN MORE

However, being one of the greatest musicians ever existed is just the beginning of J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e...the very beginning...

J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e is a graduated architect, a graduated doctor, a graduated psychologist, a nearly graduated biologist, an astronomer, a web designer, a philosopher, a writer, a painter, a master in all religions, a master in all occult sciences, a magician, an astrologer, a yoga teacher, a piano tuner and technician, a music teacher, a martial artist, a weightlifting trainer, a graduated actor, an acupuncturist, a chess teacher, a homeopater, a professional level photographer, a four languages speaking man...

J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e holds a 185 I.Q.

He spends 27 hours a day with a book in his hands, EVERY DAY of his life.

J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e is one of the greatest geniuses of our days.

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AND MORE

Did you know that J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e caused all this Latin thing that is going on with his Hey Jude? As we told you before, after his adaptation of Hey Jude was sent to Spain, a group of very bad musicians called "los rolin" came out in Spain attempting to do the Beatles' music in Latin flamenco style, the same style as F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e's Hey Jude, but all they did was music crap, due to the bad quality of the musicians. They stole J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e's intellectual property but did it very poorly, compared to the transcendental masterpiece made by the music genius.
After this, when the "Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band" salsa adaptation of J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e was sent to the record firms in New York, a Latin intellectual property thief entertainer called Ralph Mercado reunited musicians from different orchestras and attempted to do a very poor salsa interpretation of the Beatles' music. Among the people that participated were Latin intellectual property thieves from "Fania All Stars" like Celia Cruz and Tito Puentes. Another Latin called Oscar de Leon participated in the intellectual property theft. Unfortunately all they did was music crap due to the fact of being very poor musicians, but good thieves...
Latin entertainer Ralph Mercado did such a shameless theft that he even made a parody of the sleeve of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's" and used it as sleeve of his theft production, having been "Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band" the F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e's salsa adaptation sent to New York...

After J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e opened the door for this Latin style thing with his two adaptations, the record firm that designed his blocking (the Beatles' firm) and that also got the Latin section of the biggest firm on Earth involved (no names, just the Latin section), (it is just amazing to see the amount of MULTI MILLIONS that these two firms have invested in blocking the man) carried on with the intellectual property theft producing Latin music crap such as Ricky Martin, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, etc., etc. These two firms got other firms involved in the blocking of J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e later on.

All this Latin thing happening was caused and triggered by J/o/s/e/p/h F/e/r/r/a/n/t/e's two Latin adaptations. And do not consider the man as Latin. He just happens to be one of the best musicians on Earth in almost every existing style. The man is a MUSIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, as we told you earlier on...


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We expect your cooperation against this NAZI FACT and against the MOST VILE AND CRUEL THING DONE TO A HUMAN BEING IN THE WHOLE STORY OF MANKIND.
Not only they blocked his Hey Jude (otherwise there wouldn't be a problem) but THEY BLOCKED ALL HIS SONGS AND HIS PERSON TOO!!!..

Did you understand? Did you at last understand?

It is needed that YOU PROTEST AGAINST THIS NAZI FACT. YOUR COOPERATION IS NEEDED.

Respectfully....our dear friend and reader.

THE NEWS MEDIA.

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The Team


The most impressive musician I have heard

02.12.2005 23:29

The jealous idiot making this comment must surely be a footsucker of
bad musician Paul Mc Cartney, if musician at all...

Surely this idiot writing nonsense is a frustrated musician who developed an inferiority complex listening to such an amazing guitar virtuoso as Joseph Ferrante,

We have heard the adaptation of Hey Jude by music genius Joseph Ferrante and we think that possibly is the best song recorded in the Rock era. Makes the original song look like an absolute nothing and Paul Mc Cartney look like a very bad composer. This adaptation is how the song should have been composed. Overbearing Paul Mc Cartney keeps bribing people to hide the adaptation as much as he can, so that the music nothing he is won't come to light. He must have spent fortunes doing it!!!

Bravo, Joseph Ferrante!!!.....Bravissimo!!!!!.....

We are amazed at your Mega Hey Jude!!!!!!......and we are really impressed with the incredibly amazing guitar solo in the song. Paul Mc Cartney should learn how to play and how to compose instead of paying people so that they would write jealous nonsense like this.

Bravo, Joseph Ferrante!!!....keep teaching arrogant Mc Cartney how to play and compose!!!!!....we also think that ferrante's voice is a million times better than Mc Cartney's. Mc Cartney's voice sounds horrible compared to Ferrante's.

C. R.

Peter


Joseph Ferrante´s Hey Jude Gigantic Masterpiece

02.12.2005 23:30

Paul Mc Cartney is the worst musician on Earth and Joseph Ferrante is possibly the best. That is the SMALL difference!!!

We have heard the adaptation of Hey Jude by music genius Joseph Ferrante and we think is the best song ever played.
And not only this, because we also think that ferrante's voice is a million times better than Mc Cartney's. Mc Cartney's voice sounds horrible compared to Ferrante's.

Glenda H.


I think Ferrante is an incredible guitarist

02.12.2005 23:32

Impressive guitar playing!!!. Really is....

Frank


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I think Ferrante is an incredible guitarist

02.12.2005 23:33

Impressive guitar playing!!!. Really is....

Frank


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The American Nazis among the American

02.12.2005 23:34

The above comments are being made by the NAZIS working for Indymedia and Google. These HORRIBLE JEALOUS HUMAN JUNK have been creating problems for our outstanding virtuoso during the last four years. We still wonder how can it be possible that such VULTURES exist. They are the VILEST kind of people on Earth. No wonder why they get horrible hurricanes thrown at them from the Heavens. Is this the way to treat such a gigantic guitar virtuoso? If we were the Heavens we would sink these HUMAN GARBAGES in the sea with a gigantic earthquake. It is a MUST to free the Planet from this kind of HUMAN MONSTERS.
These HUMAN VULTURES full of EGOISM AND VANITY and NAZI HATRED towards any Nation on Earth except England (even though deep inside they hate the British as well). These PSYCOPATHS full of mental illness and any kind of filth you can think of are destroying America. Thanks to these HORRIBLE NAZIS America is today the last Nation on Earth. Thanks to these GARBAGES no one likes America anymore.
HUMAN WRECKS, stop your VILE JEALOUS CONSPIRACY against one of the finest musicians on Earth. DIRTY HUMAN TRASHES. NAZIS!!!

Bobby


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The British should stay away from the American Nazis

02.12.2005 23:35

The above comments are being made by the NAZIS working for Indymedia and Google. These HORRIBLE JEALOUS HUMAN JUNK have been creating problems for our outstanding virtuoso during the last four years. We still wonder how can it be possible that such VULTURES exist. They are the VILEST kind of people on Earth. No wonder why they get horrible hurricanes thrown at them from the Heavens. Is this the way to treat such a gigantic guitar virtuoso? If we were the Heavens we would sink these HUMAN GARBAGES in the sea with a gigantic earthquake. It is a MUST to free the Planet from this kind of HUMAN MONSTERS.
These HUMAN VULTURES full of EGOISM AND VANITY and NAZI HATRED towards any Nation on Earth except England (even though deep inside they hate the British as well). These PSYCOPATHS full of mental illness and any kind of filth you can think of are destroying America. Thanks to these HORRIBLE NAZIS America is today the last Nation on Earth. Thanks to these GARBAGES no one likes America anymore.
HUMAN WRECKS, stop your VILE JEALOUS CONSPIRACY against one of the finest musicians on Earth. DIRTY HUMAN TRASHES. NAZIS!!!

Bobby


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Trascendental Masterpiece

02.12.2005 23:36

We have heard the adaptation of Hey Jude by music genius Joseph Ferrante and we think that possibly is the best song recorded in the Rock era. Makes the original song look like an absolute nothing and Paul Mc Cartney look like a very bad composer. This adaptation is how the song should have been composed. Overbearing Paul Mc Cartney keeps bribing people to hide the adaptation as much as he can, so that the music nothing he is won't come to light. He must have spent fortunes doing it!!!
Paul Mc Cartney should learn how to play and how to compose instead of paying people so that they would write jealous nonsense like this.

Louise


I was really impressed with Hey Jude

02.12.2005 23:36

We have heard the adaptation of Hey Jude by music genius Joseph Ferrante and we think that possibly is the best song recorded in the Rock era. Makes the original song look like an absolute nothing and Paul Mc Cartney look like a very bad composer. This adaptation is how the song should have been composed. Overbearing Paul Mc Cartney keeps bribing people to hide the adaptation as much as he can, so that the music nothing he is won't come to light. He must have spent fortunes doing it!!!
Paul Mc Cartney should learn how to play and how to compose instead of paying people so that they would write jealous nonsense like this.

Mick


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That is what I call guitar playing

02.12.2005 23:37

Paul Mc Cartney is the worst musician on Earth and Joseph Ferrante is possibly the best. That is the SMALL difference!!!
Paul Mc Cartney should learn how to play and how to compose instead of paying people so that they would write jealous nonsense like this.

Terence


Joseph Ferrante sufferes mental illness / Be kind to him

01.11.2006 23:02

In 2004 I received a spam issued by Joseph Ferrante that described his "persecution". I sent him an email explaining that anyone can cover a Beatles song if they paid the mechanical royalty to the publisher. I also pointed out that he was allowing downloads of his version of Beatles songs without the publisher's permission and in fact he was breaking the law.

Set out below is his reply.........He is an insane piano tuner and his story is 80% fantasy.




Matthew "Nazi" Ellard

To begin with, you have to know that you are not talking to Ferrante, but to THE TEAM.
We support Ferrante. We work for a millionaire who had his daughter healed of cancer by Ferrante and is doing all this in return for him.

Do not worry Matthew. You are the kind of Nazi mafia we are fighting. We don't really need you. We reach 47 million computers on Earth. We cover every existing Nation with the exception of NONE. We send information in 9 different languages. We already have Nations on our side. It took us 4 years of work to build those gigantic lists. We are possibly the greatest media nowadays. Not even Reuters International has our reach. I will make sure that RPM Management is denounced to those 47 million computers on Earth as part of the Nazi conspiracy. Your sort will have to bite the dust.
If Hey Jude is not freed we will cause a Nuclear War gradually.and slowly. Nazis like you that make life impossible for trascendental talents instead of supporting them will have to bite the dust. That is the kind of human junk that must disappear from the planet. Let us see now if you blacklist us or we blacklist you on the PLANET. Prior to talking make sure you use your brain beforehand. As for your Beatles, they should learn how to play before POLLUTING the planet with the music junk you got brainwashed with. Ferrante recomposed Jude to teach such ARROGANT non musicians how to compose. This is war, man, ALL THE WAY TO WHATEVER. You will block the best musician on Earth just because the king of music does not belong to your etnical group?. That is NAZI. And Hitler is dead. MOVE OUT OF THE WAY NAZIS.

By the way, we could not give a DAMN about Australia and New Zealand.

THE TEAM


Matthew Ellard
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