Lon & Derrek Van Eaton signed to the Beatle's Apple Label!
Klaus, Derrek, George (seated) Lon, Robin & Pete
Strange times at Apple.
Lon & Derrek on the Apple Label
MEDIA QUOTATIONS “This staggeringly impressive first album by the Van Eaton brothers ... displays more energy, good feeling, and sheer musical talent than any debut rock record I've heard this year.
It's no wonder that Apple signed the brothers to a five-year contract simply on the basis of a homemade tape...” Rolling Stone Magazine November 23, 1972.
Lon & Derrek are songwriter/musicians and brothers, discovered and signed to Apple Records by George Harrison who then co-produced their first album “Brother” with Klaus Voormann."The Concert For Bengla Desh” and their time spent with the Beatles made a lifelong impact on the young Van Eatons as to how the power of music and media can make a difference in the world.
“Three Jersey boys on a plane, first time, land at Heathrow (1971). Klaus, who had visited us in New Jersey and Mr. Martino in a Benz speeding along to Ascot (John & Yoko’s estate), then to Buckingham Palace (tourism), then to Henley On Thames and then into the catacombs (in the dungeons below George’s Friar Park) where George whispers in my ear in the dark ‘Lon??’. . . We lived in Ringo’s flat in Hayes Mews, walking distance to Apple on Saville Row. Opening party, I think we were one of the first to record there. We only knew how to make drum tracks from hitting walls (bass drum), slapping tape on floorboards (snare), and using trays for cymbals. Quite a sight in the brand new studio when we dented the clean white walls. Impression of evolved people . . . Clear view of possible consciousness expansion and learning. Years later when I recorded at Bolshoi Hall in Moscow, I thought of these past times . . .”
Beatles Unlimited Magazine, The Netherlands, 1997
Quoted for the Article: “An Interview with Lon Van Eaton”
