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New tour for Sir Paul

March 9, 2016, 11:36 pm
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The new tour is called "One On One".
Paul McCartney has announced the start of a new tour, which means that "Out There" is behind us, and the new tour is called "One On One".
Some of the dates and venues have also been announced. They are:

NORTH AMERICA:
13th April: SaveMart Arena - Fresno, CA
15th April: Moda Center - Portland, OR
17th April: Key Arena - Seattle, WA
19th April: Rogers Arena - Vancouver, BC
20th April: Rogers Arena - Vancouver, BC
30th April: Verizon Arena - Little Rock, AR
02nd May: Denny Sanford Premier Center - Sioux Falls, SD

GERMANY:
28th May: Esprit Arena - Dusseldorf
10th June: Olympic Stadium - Munich
14th June: Waldbuhne - Berlin

Pre-sale tickets go on sale today. You will probably not notice so much of a difference in the set lists, the new tour name just means a redesigned stage, tour memorabilia and other, non-musical differences. The band is the same one he has been touring with for 14 years.
Live Nation in Spain also recently tweeted this photo, which probably means that a concert in Madrid is in the works.

Tweeted by Live Nation, Spain.
Further dates and venues are expected to be announced as deals and contracts are finalised.
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George Martin's final project

March 14, 2016, 12:12 am
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The two Georges at the launch of the red and blue albums at Abbey Road, 1993.
George Martin’s final project, an eight-part TV series on the evolution of recording technologies, Soundbreaking: Songs From The Cutting Edge Of Recorded Music, is what he was involved in when he passed away. Martin and his son Giles spent five years working on the documentary series.

Martin prepared a quote on the series prior to his passing. "Music is the only common thread and universal language that binds us together regardless of race, nationality, age or income. And, recorded music is how we experience it and what makes it accessible," he said. "Through the production of Soundbreaking, I was afforded the opportunity to tell the story of the creative process of so many of the artists I have worked with throughout my life." 

Soundbreaking is presented by Higher Ground and Martin, and produced and directed by Maro Chermayeff and Jeff Dupre of Show of Force. It’ll make its North American broadcast debut on PBS in November 2016. Details will be unveiled at SXSW in Austin, Texas on March 14.

Ringo Starr has released the first of a four part series of clips from the project:



Here's a video clip from the project's YouTube channel:

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The cassette revival

March 16, 2016, 3:51 am
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Cassette edition of "Let It Be...Naked", 2003.
Never mind the vinyl revival, hot on it's heels is the cassette revival! For those of us who grew up in the seventies, many of us had our first encounters with the music of The Beatles through the cassette medium. For the past five years, the cassette tape market has been experiencing a revival, increasingly so.

In 1969, this was the first cassette player in our household.
Resident Advisor recently reported that America's biggest cassette manufacturer, National Audio Company, has seen sales increase by 33 percent since 2014. NAC owner Steve Stepp told the Chicago Tribune that his firm is making 250 to 350 titles at any given time, including 5 to 10 releases a week from Universal Music Group.

Some major artists are capitalising on the trend. Kanye West's "Yeezus" and Justin Bieber's "Purpose" both had cassette pressings, as does Macklemore's new album (which isn't on vinyl). Roy Culver of Nuclear Blast Records confirms that Slayer's recent "Repentless" LP sold out of its 1,000 cassette run before the record even came out.

Record Store Day 2015 reported growth in cassette tape sales, while a survey by ICM in April last year revealed 5 per cent of music fans had bought a cassette tape that month, up from 2 per cent the previous year.

Beatles collectors are starting to pick up on the trend, and we have seen increased prices in the used cassette market the past years.


The Beatles Golden Greatest Hits, official Swedish release from 1979.
For a long time, getting used Beatles cassette tapes has been relatively easy and affordable, but prices are on the way up. Like the case is with vinyl records, a cassette collector is mostly collecting domestic cassette releases from his own country - when branching out, the original first editions from USA and U.K. is next on the list, followed by more exotic cassettes from other countries. The short-lived trend of cassingles is also a niche to collect, and of course cassette-only releases like the famous Heineken cassette has a place in any collection.

Further reading:
USA cassette releases
UK cassette releases
The Beatles on Cassettes (Facebook group)
WogBlog tag: Beatles Cassettes
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Richard Avedon's Beatles portraits

March 17, 2016, 2:16 am
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The famous "psychedelic" individual Avedon portraits of the fab four.
In January 1965, US photographer Richard Avedon met The Beatles at the Ad Lib club in London. He was in town researching an assignment for the magazine Harper's Bazaar. At a photographic studio in a penthouse in Thompson House, 200 Gray's Inn Road, London, Avedon shot a portrait photo of Ringo, wearing a laurel wreath, looking like a Roman emperor. The photograph was first published in the Daily Mail newspaper on 12 May 1965, under the headline "Hail, Ringo".

One of the January 1965 Avedon portraits of Ringo.
Two and a half years later, The Beatles were photographed by Richard Avedon on August 11, 1967. at the same photographic studio - and the studio was again used by The Beatles for one of the "Mad Day Out" photo locations on 28 July 1968. Avedon, whose career spanned 60 years, died in 2004 at the age of 81 while on assignment in Texas for The New Yorker.

The American photographer took a number of shots of the group in the August 1967 session, four of which were later adorned with psychedelic effects. They were first published in the 9 January 1968 edition of the US magazine Look, and were subsequently sold as posters.

Look magazine, front.
They were published simultaneously by Stern Magazine in Germany, Daily Express in England, Varagids in Holland and Look Magazine in the USA. It has recently become known  that there was Japanese printing as well, but we don't have much information of those. The Varagids prints are the smallest, measuring 18.5" x 26.77" (47 cm x 68 cm). The Stern and Daily Express versions measure 19 x 27" (47,7cm x 68,7cm), the Look versions are slightly larger, at 22.5" x 31" (57.15 cm x 78.74 cm).

The German Stern Magazin, no. 16, 1968.
In the USA, you could order your set for $1.50 from a pullout tab in the magazine, and wait for them to be delivered by mail. The posters were also available from newsstands, wrapped in plastic, and displayed in a special presentation stand. The "Mount Rushmore" banner was the same size in all countries, 40" x 14" (101 cm x 37 cm).

German cardboard display poster holder.
The following image is a colour proof of the photographs, prepared for the edition of Look magazine.

Collection of colour separation proofs for Richard Avedon's psychedelic portraits of The Beatles for Look magazine, 1968.
Advertisement for the Look editions of the posters.
By contractual agreement at the time of the Aug. 1967 Beatles shoot, Mr. Avedon sold the copyrights to his Beatles psychedelic color work and other Beatles portraits to NEMS Enterprises, Ltd. NEMS was the firm run by the Beatles music manager Brian Epstein. Avedon relinquished all rights, but collected royalties under the now defunct Richard Avedon Posters, Inc. On August 27, 1967, sixteen days after Avedon’s Beatles photo session, Brian Epstein died from an accidental mixture of alcohol and pills.

French advertisement for the five posters
Clive Epstein was management director of his brother Brian’s NEMS Enterprises, Ltd. He helped his and brother Brian’s mother Queenie Epstein, who was heir executrix of her son Brian’s estate. In 1979 Clive Epstein told Richard Warren Lipack, the then young unknown Beatles historian visiting the Epsteins in Liverpool; a secret. Clive had explained to author Lipack that in order to circumvent impending death duty taxes on the estate, he had to sell NEMS quickly. He did so, selling to Triumph Ltd. Triumph stock was then bought for his mother Queenie with the money but Triumph went bust and almost, the Epsteins.

A retailers' cardboard stand, housing the posters for sale. US version. 
Clive managed to eventually make a grand comeback for himself and his mother Queenie. Since the Beatles photo copyrights were owned by NEMS, when Brian Epstein died and NEMS transferred to Triumph, Ltd, the copyrights transferred as well. The copyrights now became held by the liquidation receiver when the firm went under. It was at this point that Mr. Avedon could have bought back the Beatles 1967 photo copyrights, but did not. The four psychedelic portraits were later re-published in several magazines around the world, throughout the seventies typically in the size of a magazine page, which you could then tear out and hang on your wall.

Copyright notice from one of the prints.
Never mind copyrights, in 1990 Avedon created a Beatles portfolio, which was a color dye-transfer set of the four psychedelic colour pictures of each of the Fab Four. These prints measured 21 5/8" x 17¼" (55cm x 43.9cm). Avedon created nine editions of the portfolio, all commanding hefty prices at the high end collector's market these days.

The four portraits later appeared on the 2000 hits album 1.

At the same time as the four "psychedelic" portraits, Avedon also shot another set of individual portraits which have been used on a Beatles album cover.

Individual black and white portraits
These portraits were used by Avedon to create a collage, which was also used in Look magazine and offered as a banner alongside the four psychedelic portraits.

A collage made from the individual portraits depicted above.
The collage was nicknamed "Mount Rushmore". After the success of the 1976 compilation album "Rock and Roll Music", Capitol wanted to repeat the success by releasing another themed compilation album, called "Love Songs". The packaging for this set was designed by the then Art Director of Capitol records, Kenneth R. Anderson. Christmas 1977 was approaching, and Capitol wanted to cash in on the Beatles revival. Anderson wanted to use the "Mount Rushmore" collage, but didn't know that this was in fact a collage of four portraits. Furthermore, Anderson wanted to bring Paul McCartney closer to the front - after all, Paul was the main composer of many of the songs and he was the only Beatle still connected to Capitol at the time. So, using airbrush retouching, Capitol Records created a new version of "Mount Rushmore" to serve as both a logo and inner gatefold for the album.

The 1977 version of "Mount Rushmore", used as gatefold on the album

"Logo" version, used on the front cover. Close up.
The lavish "leather look" compilation album did fine for Christmas and stayed on the Billboard charts for 31 weeks, eventually selling 3,000,000 units. Still, it was the first Beatles Capitol album to miss the Top Ten, indeed, the Top Three! since "The Early Beatles". It only got up to number 24.

TRACKS:
All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted.
Side one
    "Yesterday"– 2:03
    "I'll Follow the Sun"– 1:47
    "I Need You" (George Harrison) – 2:27
    "Girl"– 2:30
    "In My Life"– 2:24
    "Words of Love" (Buddy Holly) – 2:12
    "Here, There and Everywhere"– 2:22

Side two
    "Something" (George Harrison) – 3:00
    "And I Love Her"– 2:28
    "If I Fell"– 2:18
    "I'll Be Back"– 2:21
    "Tell Me What You See"– 2:35
    "Yes It Is"– 2:38

Side three
    "Michelle"– 2:40
    "It's Only Love"– 1:55
    "You're Going to Lose That Girl"– 2:16
    "Every Little Thing"– 2:01
    "For No One"– 1:59
    "She's Leaving Home"– 3:35

Side four
    "The Long and Winding Road"– 3:37
    "This Boy"– 2:12
    "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"– 2:02
    "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"– 2:07
    "I Will"– 1:46
    "P.S. I Love You"– 2:02

The LP's original packaging included an 11 x 11" booklet, with the songs' lyrics printed, calligraphy-style, on simulated parchment paper. For the first several pressings, the cover itself was simulated leather, and the front logo was simulated gold-foil. A deluxe edition on yellow vinyl was also produced.

The newly redesigned "Love Songs" logo was even used on the label of the US pressing of the album.
Advertising the album in Rolling Stone magazine.
In the pre-Anthology era, Capitol continued to release Beatles compilation albums like "Beatles Ballads" and "Reel Music". Like "Rock and Roll Music" and "Love Songs", all have later been discontinued, and never officially made it to the CD era.

The poor cousin: cassette tape edition of "Love Songs".
Of course, when it was first decided to release The Beatles albums on CD back in 1987, the catalogue was streamlined to just include the original UK albums, accompanied by a special collection of wayward tracks called "Past Masters" and assembled by Mark Lewisohn. In 1993 however, the Capitol compilations "red" and "blue" albums was seen fit to reproduce on CD. In later years, we have seen that albums from other countries have made it to the market, starting with the US sixties era albums, and 2014 also saw a collection of five Japanese albums officially released on CD. Perhaps one time we will also see some of Capitol's compilations like this one making their CD debut.
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McCartney regaining rights to some northern songs

March 23, 2016, 3:50 am
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A book about Northern Songs
Paul McCartney is in the process of reclaiming US publishing rights for a huge chunk of The Beatles’ catalogue from Sony/ATV.

The U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 stipulates that writers of pre-1978 tracks can reclaim their US publishing rights – if they’ve previously signed them away – after 56 years.

That means the publishing rights for McCartney’s share of Beatles songs will begin expiring in 2018 – 56 years after the Fab Four’s first hit, Love Me Do, was penned and recorded in 1962.

Following a Billboard report on Friday (March 18), Music Business Worldwide has trawled the US Copyright Office’s records and discovered that McCartney filed termination notices last year for two batches of Fab Four tracks – ‘All You Need Is Love & 23 Other Titles’, in addition to ‘All Together Now & 32 Other Titles’.

Between them, these filings included hits ranging from "Back In The USSR" to "Helter Skelter", "Hey Jude", "I Will", "Revolution", "Yellow Submarine", "Get Back" and "Because". They will expire in 2024 and 2025.

But the story doesn’t stop there.

Music Business Worldwide has also dug through McCartney’s historical records with the US Copyright Office and discovered that the star has actually filed to terminate Sony/ATV’s US publishing rights to more than 170 Beatles songs in total.

McCartney’s first filing for copyright termination came in October 2008, when he filed for "Love Me Do"– the US publishing rights for which expire on October 5, 2018.

Since then, McCartney has filed a number of additional termination requests for his US publishing share, including a single batch containing no less than 40 compositions in December 2010.

The publisher’s share of John Lennon’s contribution to those early Beatles 1962 songs first became eligible for reversion in 1990 following his death ten years earlier.

Sony is this month spending $750m to fully acquire the ATV catalogue first purchased by Michael Jackson for $41.5m in 1985.

Interestingly, this huge set of songs contains worldwide publishing rights to The Beatles songs.

Although Sony/ATV is now set to lose a chunk of these rights to McCartney over the next ten years, it is understood that the publisher will hold on to the rights outside of the US market.

Paul McCartney’s owned copyrights are managed by his own MPL Communications, which in turn is an administration client of Kobalt. According to Companies House filings, McCartney is a minority shareholder in Kobalt Music Group.

Read the rest of the story over at Music Business Worldwide, with listings of the songs and information about the Sony/ATV copyright expiration.

Please note that all this only deals with the USA copyrights, copyright legislation is different for each country. Additionally, several European countries are mutually bound by joint EU copyright legislation.

Northern Songs Ltd was a limited company founded in 1963, by music publisher Dick James, Brian Epstein, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, to publish songs written by Lennon and McCartney, as well as songs written by George Harrison and Ringo Starr, who were all members of the Beatles. Their producer, George Martin, was offered a stake in the company but turned it down, as he believed that his position at EMI made it a potential conflict of interest. In 1965, it was decided to make Northern Songs a public company, to save on capital gains tax.

After Epstein died in 1967, Lennon and McCartney sought to renegotiate their publishing deal with James, but early in 1969 James and his partner sold their shares in Northern Songs to Britain's Associated Television (ATV), giving no warning to the four Beatles and their record company, Apple Corps Ltd. Lennon and McCartney attempted to gain ownership of the publishing rights, but their bid to gain control failed, as the financial power of Lew Grade ensured that Northern Songs passed into the control of ATV. Allen Klein (then de facto Beatles' manager) attempted to set up a deal for Apple Corps to buy out ATV, but this also failed.

In the early eighties, McCartney informed Michael Jackson about the financial value of music publishing, as Jackson had enquired about the process of acquiring songs and how songs were used. According to McCartney, Jackson then said, "I'm going to get yours [Beatles' songs]". Northern Songs was later purchased by Jackson, although both McCartney and Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, were notified of the sale, but did not bid themselves. Apparently, Ono was pleased that the publishing rights were held by family friend, Michael Jackson, and McCartney didn't want to bid on his own, since the compositions were originally labeled both McCartney and Lennon. One can understand that if he had bought the entire catalogue, it would not have fared well with Lennon fans.

It turned out Ono had actually encouraged Jackson to buy the shares, telling the press after the sale, "I just feel like a friend has them." Yoko Ono and her son Sean were friends with Jackson at this point in time, and Sean was very into Jackson's music and style. At one point he even sported the "one glove" fashion at school, and he participated in Jackson's 1988 movie Moonwalker. One Lennon-McCartney composition, "Come Together" was also performed by Jackson in the movie and on the soundtrack album.

In 1995, Jackson merged his catalogue with Sony Music's publishing for a reported £59,052,000, establishing Sony/ATV Music Publishing, in which he retained half-ownership. Northern Songs was dissolved in 1995 after the merger, and is now a part of Sony/ATV Music Publishing. McCartney's MPL Communications later succeeded in acquiring the publishing rights to "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You", from EMI, which had been published by Ardmore and Beechwood, prior to the formation of Northern Songs.

In April 2006 a package was proposed whereby Jackson would borrow £186,480,000, and reduce the interest rate payable on a loan he had, while giving Sony the future option to buy half of Jackson's stake in their jointly-owned publishing company, leaving Jackson with a 25% stake. Jackson agreed to a Sony-backed refinancing deal, although the finalised details were not made public. Following Jackson's death in June 2009, there were reports that Jackson had left the Beatles catalog to McCartney in his will, having added it just five months before. However, it was later revealed that Sony/ATV Music Publishing would keep control of the Beatles' songs. On March 14, 2016, Sony announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the Jackson estate's stake in the company.

George Harrison's compositions
The Northern Songs catalogue also held the publishing rights to most of George Harrison's Beatles compositions. The compositions of George originally handled by Northern Songs, now Sony/ATV are:
  • Blue Jay Way
  • I Need You
  • I Want to Tell You
  • If I Needed Someone
  • It's All Too Much
  • Love You To
  • Only a Northern Song
  • Taxman
  • Think for Yourself
  • Within You Without You
  • You Like Me Too Much
as well as the songs Harrison composed for the "Wonderwall" movie, released on his "Wonderwall Music" solo soundtrack album.
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Here's another clue for you all

March 30, 2016, 2:31 am
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The above video was posted on Twitter and Facebook by Paul McCartney yesterday, and has puzzled fans all over the world. It consists of five seconds of audio, and sounds like snippets of McCartney songs played very fast.

Andrew Lubman posted this explanation on Facebook: "It's about 62 snippets of songs, each lasting about 80 milliseconds (8 hundredths of a second--or, a little less than a tenth of a second). I think they're all solo songs. I didn't recognize any of them as being from the Beatles' catalog. I definitely hear Paul's voice in many of the clips, and maybe a little of Linda's in one. Pretty sure I heard "Let 'Em In", "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five", "Band on the Run", maybe "Pipes of Peace", and "We All Stand Together" (I grabbed the audio on the computer, and listened to 80 milliseconds at a time--otherwise it goes by too fast to identify anything when playing the whole 5-second clip.)"

It could well be that this is an early clue to an upcoming compilation of Paul McCartney's songs. Previously we've had "Wings Greatest", "All The Best!" and "Wingspan", but a new compilation is likely to feature the remastered (and sometimes remixed) versions of the songs, taken from previous and upcoming releases in McCartney's ongoing "Archives" project.
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Pure McCartney

March 30, 2016, 4:01 pm
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"Pure McCartney" is a new 2CD or deluxe 4CD compilation of previously released songs.
So the news are out...er somewhat. I guess we'll have to wait for paulmccartney.com for the press release. Meanwhile, we're off to London, so you'll have to do with other news sources for a while.

Likely songs featured:

Maybe I’m Amazed (McCartney)
Heart of the Country (RAM)
Jet (Band on the Run)
Warm and Beautiful (Wings at the Speed of Sound)
Silly Love Songs (Wings at the Speed of Sound)
Listen to What The Man Said (Venus and Mars)
Dear Boy (RAM)
The Song We Were Singing (Flaming Pie)
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey (RAM)
Early Days (New)
Big Barn Red (Red Rose Speedway)
Another Day (non-album single)
Flaming Pie (Flaming Pie)
Jenny Wren (Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard)
Too Many People (RAM)
Let Me Roll It (Band on the Run)
New (New)
Live and Let Die (non-album single)
English Tea (Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard)
Mull of Kintyre (non album single)
Save Us (New)
My Love (Red Rose Speedway)
Bip Bop (Wild Life)
Let ‘Em In (Wings at the Speed of Sound)
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (Band on the Run)
Calico Skies (Flaming Pie)
Hi Hi Hi (non-album single)
Waterfalls (McCartney II)
Band on the Run (Band on the Run)
Appreciate (New)
Sing The Changes (The Fireman – Electric Arguments)
Arrow Through Me (Back To The Egg)
Every Night (McCartney)
Junior’s Farm (non-album single)
Mrs Vandebilt (Band on the Run)
Say Say Say (2015 remix) (Pipes of Peace)
My Valentine (Kisses on the Bottom)
Pipes of Peace (Pipes of Peace)
The World Tonight (Flaming Pie)
Dance Tonight (Memory Almost Full)
Souvenir (Flaming Pie)
Ebony and Ivory (Tug of War)
Fine Line (Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard)
Here Today (Tug of War)
Press (Press to Play)
Wanderlust (Tug of War)
Winedark Open Sea (Off The Ground)
Beautiful Night (Flaming Pie)
Girlfriend (London Town)
Queenie Eye (New)
We All Stand Together (non-album single)
Coming Up (McCartney II)
Too Much Rain (Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard)
Good Times Coming / Feel The Sun (Press to Play)
Goodnight Tonight (non-album single)
Baby’s Request (Back to the Egg or Kisses on the Bottom)
With A Little Luck (London Town)
Little Willow (Flaming Pie)
Only Mama Knows (Memory Almost Full)
Don’t Let It Bring You Down (London Town)
The Back Seat of My Car (RAM)
No More Lonely Nights (Give My Regards to Broad Street)
Temporary Secretary (McCartney II)
Great Day (Flaming Pie)
Venus and Mars/Rock Show (Venus and Mars)
Hope For The Future (non-album single)
Junk (McCartney)
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Pure McCartney playlist

April 5, 2016, 12:17 am
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Pure McCartney - a glorified playlist
Thanks to Spotify, the new compilation album by Paul McCartney is easily compiled from tracks already out there. What's more, Levi Weiss has already saved us the trouble of compiling it ourselves, if you have Spotify, just click here.
Of course, some of these tracks are the 1993 remasters, likely to be replaced by newer remasters on the official compilation.
You may also compile this list on other streaming platforms where McCartney's catalogue is available. This really drives home the point what an unnecessary release this is. What would have meant something, is if he had given us "Cold Cuts", the full McCartney II album, the lost McCartney album or a Paul McCartney Anthology with tracks that were left out on previous albums.

'PURE McCARTNEY': 2CD - 39 tracks

DISC 1:
1. Maybe I'm Amazed
2. Heart Of The Country
3. Jet
4. Warm And Beautiful
5. Listen To What The Man Said
6. Dear Boy
7. Silly Love Songs
8. The Song We Were Singing
9. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
10. Another Day
11. Sing The Changes
12. Jenny Wren
13. Save Us
14. Mrs Vandebilt
15. Mull of Kintyre
16. Let ‘Em In
17. Let Me Roll It
18. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
19. Ebony and Ivory  

DISC 2:  
1. Band on the Run
2. Arrow Through Me
3. My Love
4. Live and Let Die
5. Too Much Rain
6. Goodnight Tonight
7. Say Say Say [2015 Remix]
8. My Valentine
9. The World Tonight
10. Pipes of Peace
11. Dance Tonight
12. Here Today
13. Wanderlust
14. Great Day
15. Coming Up
16. No More Lonely Nights
17. Only Mama Knows
18. With a Little Luck
19. Hope For The Future
20. Junk

'PURE McCARTNEY': 4CD – 67 tracks

DISC 1:  
1. Maybe I'm Amazed
2. Heart Of The Country
3. Jet
4. Warm And Beautiful
5. Listen To What The Man Said
6. Dear Boy
7.  Silly Love Songs
8. The Song We Were Singing
9. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
10. Early Days
11. Big Barn Bed
12. Another Day
13. Flaming Pie
14. Jenny Wren
15. Too Many People
16. Let Me Roll It
17. New

DISC 2:
1. Live and Let Die
2. English Tea
3. Mull of Kintyre
4. Save Us
5. My Love
6. Bip Bop
7. Let 'Em In
8. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
9. Calico Skies
10. Hi, Hi, Hi
11. Waterfalls
12. Band on the Run
13. Appreciate
14. Sing The Changes
15. Arrow Through Me
16. Every Night
17. Junior’s Farm
18. Mrs Vandebilt

DISC 3:  
1. Say Say Say [2015 Remix]
2. My Valentine
3. Pipes of Peace
4. The World Tonight
5. Souvenir
6. Dance Tonight
7. Ebony and Ivory
8. Fine Line
9. Here Today
10. Press
11. Wanderlust
12. Winedark Open Sea
13. Beautiful Night
14. Girlfriend
15. Queenie Eye
16. We All Stand Together

DISC 4:  
1. Coming Up
2. Too Much Rain
3. Good Times Coming / Feel the Sun
4. Goodnight Tonight
5. Baby’s Request
6. With a Little Luck
7. Little Willow
8. Only Mama Knows
9. Don’t Let it Bring You Down
10. The Back Seat Of My Car
11. No More Lonely Nights
12. Great Day
13. Venus and Mars / Rock Show
14. Temporary Secretary
15. Hope For The Future
16. Junk
   
VINYL:

A1:
1. Maybe I'm Amazed
2. Heart Of The Country
3. Jet
4. Warm And Beautiful
5. Listen To What The Man Said
6. Dear Boy

A2:  
1. Silly Love Songs
2. The Song We Were Singing
3. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
4. Another Day
5. New

B1:
1. Mull of Kintyre
2. Sing The Changes
3. Jenny Wren
4. Mrs Vandebilt
5. Save Us

B2:  
1. Let 'Em In
2. Let Me Roll It
3. Ebony and Ivory
4. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

C1:
1. Band on the Run
2. Arrow Through Me
3. My Love
4. Live and Let Die
5. Too Much Rain

C2:
1. Say Say Say [2015 Remix]
2. My Valentine
3. Goodnight Tonight
4. The World Tonight
5. Pipes of Peace

D1:
1. Dance Tonight
2. Here Today
3. Wanderlust
4. Great Day
5. Coming Up
6. No More Lonvely Nights

D2:
1. Too Many People
2. Only Mama Knows
3. With a Little Luck
4. Hope For The Future
5.  Junk
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Remastered Anthologies

April 6, 2016, 12:47 am
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Now remastered - but only available from streaming providers
The Beatles Anthology, Vols 1-3 are now available on all collaborating streaming services, and it is the June 2011 remastered-for-iTunes versions. Originally released in 2CD volumes in 1995 and 1996, Anthology’s three chronological collections of rare and previously unreleased Beatles recordings include studio outtakes and alternate versions. The “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” singles, from Anthology, Volume 1 and Anthology, Volume 2, respectively, were completed in 1995 by George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr from 1977 demos recorded by John Lennon.
The 2011 remasters sound a lot better than their 1995-96 counterparts, which is especially noticeable on the first of the three volumes.

Upon their original release, Anthology, Volumes 1-3 topped charts and went multi-platinum in several countries around the world. “Free as a Bird” became The Beatles’ 34th Top 10 hit in the U.S., winning the 1996 GRAMMY® Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Anthology, Volume 3 includes “A Beginning,” an instrumental orchestral arrangement originally recorded for The Beatles (The White Album).


Anthology, Volumes 1-3 were remastered at Abbey Road Studios by the same team of engineers responsible for The Beatles’ GRAMMY-winning 2009 studio album remasters, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. The collections are accompanied by original collage artwork created by Klaus Voormann from classic Beatles imagery.

You can listen to The Beatles Anthology Vol 1-3, and the selected highlights collection, right now.
Find your local streaming partner at thebeatles.com.

A podcast has also been made,with Kevin Howlett and Mark Ellen discussing The Beatles Anthology. Available here.
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Ron Howard's tweet

April 6, 2016, 2:11 am
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Happy days: Ron Howard and Paul McCartney
Yesterday, Tuesday 4th of April, director Ron Howard went to see Paul McCartney in LA for "an extraordinary on-camera conversation" for Howard's documentary, "The Beatles Live" (working title). After that, he tweeted this photo of the two of them. You'll recall that Howard also once had his picture taken with John Lennon and his son Julian, while Howard was filming "Happy Days" for TV.

The "Happy Days" gang with John and Julian.
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White label 1985 promo

April 6, 2016, 3:17 am
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There are only 300 copies worldwide of this 12" single.
One of the weirdest ways to promote his new collection "Pure McCartney" McCartney chose, was to sneak out a white label 12" promotional single containing two new remixes of the song "Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five". Pressed in only 300 copies worldwide, it quickly sold out, but you can listen to samples of the two tracks on this page.
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Clive Arrowsmiths photos

April 7, 2016, 6:30 am
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Up popped a sea lion

Photographer Clive Arrowsmith has made available some photos of Paul & Linda McCartney alone and together with assorted members of Wings and McCartney's 1989-93 tour band, jokingly nicknamed "The Shoes". The above promo photo for the 1974 "Junior's Farm" single release is one of them, and others are published in this article in the Daily Mail.
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Pure McCartney pack shots and track lists

April 8, 2016, 12:44 am
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4CD Deluxe edition

4CD edition:<-- amazon.com="" link="" on="" p="" page="" product="" to="">
DISC 1:
1. Maybe I'm Amazed
2. Heart Of The Country
3. Jet
4. Warm And Beautiful
5. Listen To What The Man Said
6. Dear Boy
7.  Silly Love Songs
8. The Song We Were Singing
9. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
10. Early Days
11. Big Barn Bed
12. Another Day
13. Flaming Pie
14. Jenny Wren
15. Too Many People
16. Let Me Roll It
17. New

DISC 2:
1. Live and Let Die
2. English Tea
3. Mull of Kintyre
4. Save Us
5. My Love
6. Bip Bop
7. Let 'Em In
8. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
9. Calico Skies
10. Hi, Hi, Hi
11. Waterfalls
12. Band on the Run
13. Appreciate
14. Sing The Changes
15. Arrow Through Me
16. Every Night
17. Junior’s Farm
18. Mrs Vandebilt

DISC 3:
1. Say Say Say [2015 Remix]
2. My Valentine
3. Pipes of Peace
4. The World Tonight
5. Souvenir
6. Dance Tonight
7. Ebony and Ivory
8. Fine Line
9. Here Today
10. Press
11. Wanderlust
12. Winedark Open Sea
13. Beautiful Night
14. Girlfriend
15. Queenie Eye
16. We All Stand Together

DISC 4:
1. Coming Up
2. Too Much Rain
3. Good Times Coming / Feel the Sun
4. Goodnight Tonight
5. Baby’s Request
6. With a Little Luck
7. Little Willow
8. Only Mama Knows
9. Don’t Let it Bring You Down
10. The Back Seat Of My Car
11. No More Lonely Nights
12. Great Day
13. Venus and Mars / Rock Show
14. Temporary Secretary
15. Hope For The Future
16. Junk

Amazon (UK) link
2CD edition

2CD edition:<-- amazon.com="" link="" on="" p="" page="" product="" to="">
DISC 1:
1. Maybe I'm Amazed
2. Heart Of The Country
3. Jet
4. Warm And Beautiful
5. Listen To What The Man Said
6. Dear Boy
7. Silly Love Songs
8. The Song We Were Singing
9. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
10. Another Day
11. Sing The Changes
12. Jenny Wren
13. Save Us
14. Mrs Vandebilt
15. Mull of Kintyre
16. Let ‘Em In
17. Let Me Roll It
18. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
19. Ebony and Ivory

DISC 2:
1. Band on the Run
2. Arrow Through Me
3. My Love
4. Live and Let Die
5. Too Much Rain
6. Goodnight Tonight
7. Say Say Say [2015 Remix]
8. My Valentine
9. The World Tonight
10. Pipes of Peace
11. Dance Tonight
12. Here Today
13. Wanderlust
14. Great Day
15. Coming Up
16. No More Lonely Nights
17. Only Mama Knows
18. With a Little Luck
19. Hope For The Future
20. Junk

Amazon (UK) link

Vinyl edition


Vinyl edition:<-- amazon.com="" link="" on="" p="" page="" product="" to="">
A1:
1. Maybe I'm Amazed
2. Heart Of The Country
3. Jet
4. Warm And Beautiful
5. Listen To What The Man Said
6. Dear Boy

A2:
1. Silly Love Songs
2. The Song We Were Singing
3. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
4. Another Day
5. New

B1:
1. Mull of Kintyre
2. Sing The Changes
3. Jenny Wren
4. Mrs Vandebilt
5. Save Us

B2:
1. Let 'Em In
2. Let Me Roll It
3. Ebony and Ivory
4. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

C1:
1. Band on the Run
2. Arrow Through Me
3. My Love
4. Live and Let Die
5. Too Much Rain

C2:
1. Say Say Say [2015 Remix]
2. My Valentine
3. Goodnight Tonight
4. The World Tonight
5. Pipes of Peace

D1:
1. Dance Tonight
2. Here Today
3. Wanderlust
4. Great Day
5. Coming Up
6. No More Lonely Nights

D2:
1. Too Many People
2. Only Mama Knows
3. With a Little Luck
4. Hope For The Future
5.  Junk

Amazon (UK) link

To sum it up:
Origins

To sum it up:
· 8 songs from "Flaming Pie" gives this album most weight
· No tracks at all from "Driving Rain" or "Flowers in the Dirt"
· "New" has ethe equal amount of tracks as "Ram" and "Band On The Run"
· "McCartney II" represented with as many tracks as "Tug of War"

Our guess is that "Flowers In The Dirt" was left out because it will soon show up as an Archive series release on its own. "Driving Rain" probably reminds him too much of the Heather Mills years.-->-->-->
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Beatles fanzines

April 8, 2016, 2:51 am
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Things, the German fanzine - March issue
In the age of internet, it's nice to know that there are still several Beatles magazines published throughout the world by fans. What with the new digital printing techniques, they are better looking than ever.
Current issues of Beatles fan magazines from Norway, USA, Great Britain and Sweden
The Danish fan magazine, "Beatles Again" was probably the first printed publication to feature the upcoming "Pure McCartney" release, and it had listings of the contents of all editions of the release within. It was timed to reach the subscribers on the date the release was announced on the internet, but the announcement came a few days earlier than anticipated.

"Beatles Again", the Danish fanzine.
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The Beatles on Spotify -the first 100 days

April 11, 2016, 1:59 am
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Infographics from Spotify about The Beatles first 100 days
The Beatles were a bit behind when it came to availability on streaming services, but Christmas eve 2015 saw the group make it's debut on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Pandora and Google Play. Spotify just released some numbers, as seen in the colourful infographics above.

Even though they had a late debut, now that the first 100 days are behind us, The Beatles has overtaken the figures from well known current acts like Sia and Ed Sheeran. If we add together the songs based on their lengths, so far 2,793 years of Beatles music have been streamed during these 100 days.

The majority of listeners in the U.K., 67 percent of them, are under 35 years of age. Globally, the biggest Beatles Spotify audience are people in the USA, followed by U.K., Mexico and Sweden. Also on a global scale, the most streamed Beatles song is George Harrison's "Here Comes The Sun". After that, it's the B-side, Lennon's "Come Together", followed by McCartney's "Let It Be" and "Yesterday".

4,2 million playlists featuring Beatles music have been created by Spotifyers. Of 65 million weekly global listeners to The Beatles' music on Spotify, 65 percent of them are male and 35 percent female. Top 4 albums globally are "1", followed by the classics: "Abbey Road", "The Beatles (White album)" and "Let It Be".
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McCartney's One on One tour opens

April 14, 2016, 1:20 am
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Perhaps the most surprising element of the set list for Paul McCartney's opening show of his new tour in Fresno last night, was that "A Hard Day's Night" opened the ball. Primarily known as a John Lennon composition, Paul always sang the middle eight, but now he had a chance to sing the whole song. He also performed Love Me Do, which he dedicated to the late Sir George Martin. Another surprise was that The Long and Winding Road, a mainstay at McCartney's concerts was not performed. For the rest of the set list, click here. An amateur film from the concert is available at YouTube.
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Danish discography

April 15, 2016, 4:21 am
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New online Danish Beatles discography
After years of collecting data, not to mention records, the Danes have launched a website with a full discography of the Beatles releases in Denmark. Here you'll find information and illustrations og singles, EPs, LPs and a few CDs, released in Denmark from 1963 onwards. Included are not only records by The Beatles, but also solo-, Apple- and other related records. Also some non-EMI records are listed.

The discography is based on info collected by the long time  Danish Beatles expert Arno Guzek. It isn't complete, as they know about more variations, but as they don't have scans, they are not included. Collectors are encouraged to participate in sharing scans of variations not included. So far, nearly 70 new or improved scans have been added to the discography since the site was launched.

In Denmark, UK based singles were all released with the UK catalogue numbers, except "Hey Jude", which was released with catalogue number DP570 from the UK export series. Scandinavian based singles were released on the Odeon label, with prefix 'DK' for Danish based releases,'SD' for Swedish, and 'ND' for Norwegian. Most sleeves for singles were manufactured by Rotex, a small printing facility in Valby, Copenhagen. Other sleeves were imports from Sweden and Germany. The first Beatles-single "Love Me Do" was never released in Denmark. The record company received a demo in the autumn of 1962, but decided against the release. "Please Please Me" became the first Beatles single release in Denmark in early 1963.

The UK EPs were released in Denmark with UK catalogue numbers and Danish produced records. Besides the UK catalogue, EPs were taken from the Swedish GEOS-series, and two came from Germany. Nearly all covers were imports. As with the singles, the Scandinavian based EPs were released on the Odeon label. EMI-Denmark made a few mistakes with these, as some GEOS-EPs came on the Parlophone label.

All original UK Beatles LPs, up until "1962-1966" (Red album) and "1967-1970" (Blue album), were released in Denmark, using imported covers, and locally produced records. In the 70s, covers were also imported from Germany and Holland. "Hey Jude" was released with 3 different catalogue numbers, among them SW385 from the US. Only a few covers were locally produced, "Hottest Hits" from 1965, Club-editions from the 70s, and a few covers for solo-releases.

Link: FabFour.dk
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Atlantic City - fake again!

April 19, 2016, 12:34 am
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Turns out this CD is not what it promised to be.

As reported in this blog earlier, The Livewire label has now released what they call a "classic live performance: FM radio broadcast from The Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey. August 30th 1964". The first copies have now arrived - and yes, it's a let down. It's the old Philadelphia recording again, running slightly fast and not in the best available quality.
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Pete Best's revenge

April 19, 2016, 3:24 am
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An American release of the Polydor recordings.
When Klaus Voorman made the collage that became the front covers of the Beatles' Anthology album series and related releases, the front cover of Anthology Vol 1 had as centre piece the album cover of an obscure American 10" album of the Polydor songs the band, including Pete Best, recorded as a backing band for Tony Sheridan.

Anthology 1 depicted the old record, but Pete's head was torn off.
However, on the collage, Pete Best's head was torn off, revealing Ringo from a picture of The Beatles taken for the Please Please Me album cover.

Pete Best Band's album "Hayman's Green" from 2008 depicted the missing piece.

But Pete got his revenge when the album cover of his band's "Hayman's Green" album from 2008 featured just the missing piece from the Anthology cover on the front.

Even though he was not involved in the making of the Anthology series, he was the drummer on several songs on Anthology Vol. 1, including songs from the Polydor sessions as well as songs from the Decca audition and others. Best negotiated a deal with Apple for his involvement on these recordings, and through this deal he finally became a millionaire in pounds sterling.
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The Wilburys are coming...again

April 20, 2016, 12:18 am
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The Traveling Wilburys have switched record company.
The Wilburys are coming… again...

Back in 2007, The Traveling Wilburys reappeared on Rhino Records, as they re-released the original two albums the group made, alongside some of the more obscure releases of the band which were made available through limited edition boxed sets on CD and vinyl, and a documentary DVD. What I thought was a revelation then, was that when Rhino found that their limited edition CD+DVD boxed set actually sold out, they simply pressed a second edition, thereby effectively putting an end to the credibility of the so-called "limited edition" lie, rendering it null and void.

Well guess what?  Concord Bicycle Music have now acquired the entire back catalogue of the group's output and they are doing us all over again, with the same releases. What's new is that the music of The Traveling Wilburys is now to debut on streaming services as well, plus that it will be made available for the first time as high-resolution downloads. And all the Rhino releases are going to be pressed up again.



Here's the press release: 
– Concord Bicycle Music is very pleased to announce that it has entered into a worldwide licensing agreement with The Traveling Wilburys to represent the iconic band's entire catalog, including physical and digital reissues.

For the first time ever, The Traveling Wilburys music will be available on streaming services, beginning June 3RD, 2016, along with the re-launch of the hugely successful Traveling Wilburys Collection box set as a limited-edition, uniquely numbered 2-CD 1-DVD box set, standard 2-CD 1-DVD package, deluxe 180-gram vinyl box and for the first time as high-resolution downloads. The release includes albums (Vol. 1 and Vol. 3), bonus tracks and a DVD featuring footage of the band from the first chord to the final mix.

When originally released in 2007, The Traveling Wilburys Collection debuted at #1 in the UK and six other countries and entered the US charts at #9, making it the highest chart debut of a box set at the time, and has since been certified Gold.

"…one of the few rock super groups actually deserving to be called either super or a group."—Rolling Stone, Dec 1, 1988




The previously released albums Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 and Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 feature music's greatest singer-songwriters—George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan—as the legendary band the Traveling Wilburys.

The Wilburys formed in 1988 after Dylan, Harrison, Petty, Lynne and Orbison assembled at Dylan's Malibu, California studio to record a B-side for the Harrison single "This Is Love." The resulting song, "Handle With Care," was instead released under the Wilburys name, with the artists posing as a band of brothers. George later said, "I liked the song and the way that it turned out with all these people on it so much that I just carried it around in my pocket for ages thinking, 'Well what can I do with this thing?' And the only thing to do I could think of was do another nine. Make an album." The original album release, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, achieved great success; after hitting No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, the certified double Platinum album earned a GRAMMY® for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group.

Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, the group's second album, was released in 1990 and dedicated to Lefty (Roy Orbison) Wilbury, who passed away in late 1988 before recording could be completed. "She's My Baby" and "Wilbury Twist" became radio hits as the album reached #11 in the U.S. and was certified Platinum.

Scott Pascucci, CEO Concord Bicycle Music and Sig Sigworth, SVP Catalog Concord Bicycle Music said in a joint statement, "The global success of The Traveling Wilburys reissues in 2007 was one of our career highlights. So, we are very proud to bring the Wilburys' catalog to Concord Bicycle Music and work with these incredible songs and musicians a second time."

Links:

The Traveling Wilburys Website: travelingwilburys.com
Facebook: facebook.com/travelingwilburys
Instagram: instagram.com/officialwilbury
Twitter: twitter.com/officialwilbury
YouTube: youtube.com/user/TravelingWilburys
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