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With your permission and sympathy:
We are sending you an e-mail made of four different parts.
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:
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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.
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 two 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 heyj...@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
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        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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P.S.
We expect to have only decent, objective and superior people threading
on this article. We expect the jealous vultures, the inferiority
complexed, the music nothings, the racist human garbages, the people
involved and their underdogs to stay away from it......
By the kind of threads that will follow you will be able to
distinguish the first ones from the second ones.....
Respectfully....our dear friend and reader.
THE NEWS MEDIA.
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