Fest for Beatles Fans: Saturday afternoon

Neil Innes, genius satirist and songwriter, and star of The Seventh Python.


Tabloid Baby pal Victor Spinetti.


Legendary promoter Sid Bernstein, who brought The Beatles to America.


The marketplace.


Greg Hawkes, formerly of The Cars, has a new album of Beatles songs played on the ukulele.


Barbara Poudrier, Neil Innes superfan, with autograph.




In the marketplace. Ronnie Spector appears tonight. Phil Spector may go away next week.

NY Metro Fest for Beatles Fans gets underway as countdown to The Seventh Python begins

Neil Innes is there, and so are out pals from Frozen Pictures who made The Seventh Python, the movie about him that's being shown in less than twelve hours at the New York Metro Fest for Beatles Fans at the Crowne Plaza Meadowlands Hotel on the other side of the Lincoln Tunnel. Above, brothers Mark and Brett Hudson signed autographs along with Neil and legendary actor Victor Spinetti (more on them tomorrow). Mark Hudson is introducing his long-awaited first solo album, The Artist (Five stars (out of five)! A pop rock masterpiece!"-- Sam Peters, Tabloid Baby), while Brett is waiting for American Airlines to bring him his luggage.

(Above: Impresario extraordinaire Martin Lewis -- in suit-- hosts the festivities in the Grand Ballroom, where The Seventh Python plays in the morning.)