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End of the end...
Here's my final statement re: any Beatles film involvement. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fx9Xb4FZNXHyGSUTA18vc1ecDHgl48Cl/view?usp=sharing
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Amanda Riddell
1 day ago1 min read
Why form a streaming company?
Streaming isn't failing. Surveillance capture is failing. We're promising a no-ads, no-algorithms service. Think of it like XBMC for The Beatles etc. As a movie pirate, I'm used to a certain kind of service, and that's exactly what I'm promising to Imagine Multimedia consumers. Cheaper, easier, better. Paul wanted each band to have an app that could load onto people's phones.
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Amanda Riddell
3 days ago1 min read
Ringo factoid
He did drum for West End shows. A Funny Thing Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. High Spirits. Do I Hear A Waltz? He's underestimated as a drummer. Not many people know all the dance grooves.
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Amanda Riddell
3 days ago1 min read
Amanda Happens To The Beatles
I'm officially done. It's not the same without Sir Paul co-producing. Any further tracks would just end up as Sony/Wētā ML fodder. I'd never done backing vocals before, so it's great that I kicked their arses. - Sony and Disney can't use my body or voice to replace their dead actors. I was right btw: the actors were British, but the Beatlemania group was American. Himesh was training them. Obviously had no interest in making lame covers. He's a tool of the spooks, so he's
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Amanda Riddell
4 days ago2 min read
Amanda vs. Stuff (yet again)
I checked with the Police and with community mental health: I'm not under investigation. That's what I do when I'm paranoid... Dr. Barry-Walsh was obviously prejudiced against me for being transgender. I doubt he would have called a cisgender person erotically fixated for similar messages. Either he knew more than he was letting on, or a fafa in a skirt was too disconcerting. Golriz got the FTAC off my back at the end of 2024. Haven't heard from him since an apologetic pho
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Amanda Riddell
4 days ago1 min read
To Apple Corps
Imagine isn't intended to replace the existing company. We're not trying to steal the rights to The Beatles or your other artists. It's only about subsidiary rights for our streaming service. As I've stated, it's a cooperative, so I'm not going to be a megalomaniacal CEO. Taylor and I are in charge for the time being, but that's only temporary. Paul and I conceived this as a parent company to protect our IP. It's easy enough to cheat one company, but not dozens. Our coope
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Amanda Riddell
5 days ago1 min read
Am I estranged from my family?
Depends which family you're talking about... I'm not talking to my Riddell whānau, particularly after discovering their involvement in my brother's demise. Other than Clare, that side of the family is basically dead to me. They tried to disinherit me. Twice. I'm not talking to my Crawshaw whānau, but I like them. They're all good. Mum has been suggesting that I change my surname to Crawshaw since I came out. Working with the Beatles meant being cautious, but I'm all good
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Amanda Riddell
5 days ago1 min read
Working For Each Other - copyrights
Paul cleared the underlying images that weren't AI-generated. Almost all of them were, plus they were generated via DDG. While I could've defended the news clips under fair use, he paid for those too. - I own Working For Each Other. I made that film from what were largely DDG loops. As a result, I own the outputs, including for commercial use. Apple Corps had the rights to the Beatles reproductions (Ringo's Avedon photo etc.). As they're clearly co-producers, we're in the
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Amanda Riddell
5 days ago1 min read
'Come up'
I'm not welcome in the UK or US. Paul was a proscribed terrorist before our films, and their strong anti-war and pro-peace message conflicts with Five Eyes views. Australia and Canada are more likely to let me travel, but I swear that my passport was nicked while I was on holiday. It might turn up, but I don't have it atm. Yes, Paul really founded Palestine Action. Funded it as well. - Donald Trump was very clear to stay out of the US... Andy Burnham is being a dick. Tot
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Amanda Riddell
5 days ago1 min read
Imagine: what does it mean for companies?
Imagine is an umbrella company/parent company. Nobody loses their current companies. Nobody loses executive control over them. We all become a super-dense cooperative with lots of overlapping oversight boards. - We'll all meet every fortnight to discuss the future of Imagine. One of the big grey areas is how votes and shares will be apportioned, but it's likely to be roughly proportional to the value that each company brings to Imagine. - This is quite similar to how S
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Amanda Riddell
5 days ago2 min read
AI Beatle endorsements?
Fuck no! They're all dead, and nobody wants dead celebrity endorsements. Apple Corps owns the AI clones that Wētā has created. ILM's clones are a) shittier, and b) not licenced. Imagine Multimedia is designed to make money off their existing archives. That's how we see it: their hundreds of songs and thousands of video appearances are the backbone of our new streaming platform. - Paul really didn't want AI versions of himself or AI renditions of his songs. Using ML to sep
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Amanda Riddell
5 days ago1 min read
Why won't I join Disney?
We've been through this, but here are some simple answers. 1. I'm not interested in singing male roles for people that perv on me. 2. I don't want to work with people that use porn to threaten me. 3. You'll never respect me as a filmmaker or songwriter. I'm a legacy to you: that's all. 4. You're clearly part of the war machine. Imagine might be a solid competitor, so let us compete fairly. - Yeah, I pulled a Mad Men. Paul and I had no contract to produce our scripts a
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Amanda Riddell
6 days ago1 min read
Yes, I did all the parts
I'm not kidding. Arthur's got my stems. Ran out of room on my hard drive. Those Beatles covers are mine, and stealing them to use as ML training isn't ok. Claiming that Sony's dunces did them is even worse. Mark Dorrell told me he'd spent months on I Feel Fine with them, and they still failed. - The whole point of those covers, aside from getting into the headspace to write a script, was Paul telling people that AI wasn't as good as an expert musician covering them with t
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Amanda Riddell
6 days ago1 min read
Apple Corps (Imagine) vs. Disney
Stephen and John have asked me to prepare another statement with them: 'Stella and others who plan to profit now that the Beatles are all legally dead should consider the wishes of their parents, rather than their own self-interest. The money we are supposedly going to spend in Liverpool is likely to be spread around all of the world as Imagine expands, using the profits from the Imagine Triptych and the albums that Paul and Amanda produced this year. The intention is to b
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Amanda Riddell
7 days ago3 min read
Sing It From Your Heart
I wrote that song, not Paul. Paul suggested changing the title from Sing It From The Heart. That's all. I've got chord charts in my diary. It's registered with APRA.
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 231 min read
Brad Buxer (1958-2026)
Jermaine confirmed it. He's really gone. Total tragedy. It was great to work with him. He got killed rescuing Paul and others from Guantanamo Bay. Don says he got them to the mainland, so he's a hero.
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 231 min read
Where is Paul stored?
Australia. Andy Burnham went over just to spit in his face. From my experience, PM Burnham thinks we're still part of Britain. New Zealand and Australia are sovereign nations. The MI6 operation to grab Paul from Christchurch was completely illegal. Palestine Action isn't proscribed in NZ; he wasn't a terrorist here. The new video has his face in it, though I didn't type that into DDG. - The Beatles team say that it's possible to revive people from cryonic storage. As lon
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 231 min read
Dispelling rumours
I wrote my own orchestrations for Portrait of a Knight. Every note, every bar. Even did the parts. Ken Young could verify this. I handed the parts to the session players. He didn't prepare those copies. I discussed them with Tom McLeod. I wrote the piano part for These Words Are Meant For Someone. Just because I'm not very good doesn't mean I can't compose for it. Lauren was consulted, but I wrote every note and bar. I wrote Machine Fatigue and Glad They Were Playing etc. T
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 231 min read
Paul's Instagram
I've been told by Apple Corps that he's in cryogenic storage, meaning he's legally dead. I'd suggest that it's poor form to pretend he's alive if you were already aware of this. That's all.
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 231 min read
Album update
Stephen's been finishing it off with me. I didn't really want to add tracks, but we are. Anoushka has been helping me with The Inner Light. I'm about to do Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. By the way, Disney needs to accept that they took my tracks without asking, then they're attempting to flip it on me because they made a bunch of money. Sony doesn't have the right to assign covers anymore. Apple Corps does. - The album wasn't a profit-making endeavour: it's just somethi
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 232 min read
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