{"id":806293,"date":"2020-04-11T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=982244"},"modified":"2020-04-11T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:32:08","slug":"beatles-medley-to-soundtrack-empire-state-buildings-music-to-light-show-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/beatles-medley-to-soundtrack-empire-state-buildings-music-to-light-show-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles Medley to Soundtrack Empire State Building\u2019s Music-to-Light Show Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GettyImages-1208909670.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A medley of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-beatles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-beatles\" data-tag=\"the-beatles\">the Beatles<\/a> classics will soundtrack the Empire State Building\u2019s latest music-to-light show at midnight tonight, April 11th. The light show coincides with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/beatles-breakup-anniversary-rob-sheffield-980941\/\">the 50th anniversary of the Beatles breakup<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">iHeartMedia and Empire State Reality Trust\u2019s latest weekend light show features \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)\u201d and \u201cA Day in the Life.\u201d Both songs will broadcast on New York classic rock station Q104.3 while synced to the work of the Empire State Building\u2019s resident lighting artist Marc Brickman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Empire State Building and iHeartMedia pledge to continue the special midnight shows each weekend while the stay-at-home order is in place.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.461538461538\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MIDNIGHT TONIGHT: Watch our brand-new music to light show LIVE on our site via EarthCam, synced to a mash up of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebeatles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@TheBeatles<\/a>\u2019 \u201cSgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)&#8221; &amp; \u201cA Day in the Life,\u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iHeartRadio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@iHeartRadio<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Q1043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@Q1043<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rxlIEClDee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/rxlIEClDee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf7: al3x(.)nyc\/IG <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tan8fXwBwC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tan8fXwBwC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Empire State Building (@EmpireStateBldg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmpireStateBldg\/status\/1248721061631479810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">April 10, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSome people need a break, a chance to sing out loud and shake off the stress of the week. We encourage everyone at home, First Responders, and people around the world to look outside and have a moment of fun,\u201d ESRT\u2019s Anthony E. Malkin said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIn moments like these, it\u2019s important that New Yorkers continue to stand united and support and encourage each other,\u201d iHeartMedia\u2019s Tom Poleman said in a statement. \u201cWe are excited to give our resilient city something to look forward to this weekend as we once again partner with New York\u2019s most iconic building with a synchronized music-to-light show, this time on our New York classic rock station, Q104.3.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to the weekend music-to-light shows, the Empire State Building will continue its now-nightly tradition of its hourly sparkle in the colors of first responders to pay respect to the emergency workers on the front line of the COVID-19 fight, its 9 p.m. light show synced to Alicia Keys\u2019 \u201cEmpire State of Mind\u201d and the building\u2019s five-minute moment of darkness in memory of those lost during the global pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beatles-empire-state-building-light-show-982244\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A medley of the Beatles classics will soundtrack the Empire State Building\u2019s latest music-to-light show at midnight tonight, April 11th. The light show coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Beatles breakup. iHeartMedia and Empire State Reality Trust\u2019s latest weekend light show features \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)\u201d and \u201cA Day in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 08:48:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}