Paul McCartney's health
Paul McCartney was supposedly taken to hospital on May 20th. This photo started to circulate on Facebook and other social media, but has now been deemed as a "fake" by McCartney's representatives.A...
View ArticleAustralia celebrates the Beatles
Beatles tribute CD comingThere are lots of 50th anniversay celebrations planned from the countries the Beatles visited in 1964. One of those countries is Australia, and down under they are staging not...
View ArticleMcCartney: Early Days
Photo: © MJ Kim/MPL Paul McCartney: Here are some photos from the filming of a new music video for "Early Days". Johnny Depp has a cameo in this video. There are passages in the song that reminds me of...
View ArticleDenmark celebrates The Beatles
Roskilde Bibliotek (Library) hosts an exhibition 2 - 6 June 2014 - to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' concert in the KB Hallen June 4, 1964. Sadly, the concert hall was the victim of a...
View ArticleRetouching the Abbey Road cover
Front cover after retouching. Traffic and people removed?Our obsession with the Abbey Road album cover continues. Recently, we found a blog post from 2010 where Mike Cockcroft talks about his dad. John...
View ArticleThe girl in the blue dress - still an enigma
The Abbey Road cover (back) before retouching?In the aftermath of yesterday's story about the retouching of the Abbey Road cover, Guus Limberger has sent us a photo of the back cover without the...
View ArticleA Hard Day's Night - website
A Hard Day's Night website launchedA website for the A Hard Day's Night film has been launched (U.S. version). You can find it here.Meanwhile, we found that the German Special Edition will be 1 Blu-ray...
View ArticleAbbey Road - back cover again
The back cover, with some preliminary mock-up text but no "BEATLES" sign yet.People are intrigued by the various bits of information regarding touching up the photo for the back cover. I must say that...
View ArticleThe Abbey Road billboard on Sunset
Billboard, Sunset Strip, LA. Photo: Robert Landau.During research about the Abbey Road cover today, for inclusion on our ever expanding The Road Goes On Forever blog post, I came across this funny...
View ArticleJune releases - what's coming up?
This June release has been announced.Previously, a couple of Beatles related releases for June that we have mentioned were the new archive releases of Paul McCartney's (Wings'"At The Speed of Sound"...
View ArticleDutch colours
The title translates to "The Beatles in a pleasantly heated auction hall"In time for the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' one and only trip to Holland comes a new book with hitherto...
View ArticleI'm gonna buy your songs, Paul!
Once friends, Paul McCartney and Michael JacksonForbes has published an extract from the new book on Michael Jackson: "Michael Jackson Inc". The extract is titled "Buying The Beatles: Inside Michael...
View ArticleShaved Fish for vinyl re-release
A strange re-release on vinyl: John Lennon's hit collection "Shaved Fish" is due out in the UK on July 7.For some reason, John Lennon's collection of songs, "Shaved Fish"is due out on vinyl in the UK...
View ArticleLiverpool fan search
Six fans wanted: At St John’s Hall in Tuebrook, Liverpool, 1961This is being posted on Beatles sites everywhere, but we thought we might as wll post it here, too. The search is on for six early fans of...
View ArticlePromo film for Japan box
Japan's Universal Music has put together this promotional film for their upcoming boxed set of five Japan albums on CD for the first time. See also Press release.Track list.Pre-ordering.
View ArticleShaved Fish - US edition
The original sticker is probably not included on this re-release.Yesterday, we reported about an upcoming release of "Shaved Fish", Lennon's collection from 1975 reappearing on vinyl in the UK in July....
View ArticleOcean Galleries Hosts “The Art of Ringo Starr”
Meet Ringo the artist!For two weekends in June, Ocean Galleries (9618 Third Avenue, Stone Harbor, NJ) will showcase Ringo Starr’s artwork, which will be on display at two locations and available for...
View ArticleLennon auction a success
An untitled drawing of a four-eyed guitar player by John Lennon. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/ReutersOriginal manuscripts and drawings by John Lennon, produced for the two books he wrote in the...
View ArticleLittle Wing - The Jimmy McCulloch Story
One thing about this book is that every photograph included has never been published or seen before.Paul Salley is currently writing a biography of Jimmy McCulloch's life and career. Jimmy was a gifted...
View ArticleBeatles in Hillegom
Rehearsing for the TV showHere are some interesting and rare photos of the Beatles (with Jimmy Nicol) in Holland, especially nice are the ones from the Hillegom TV Show rehearsal for VARA-TV.See the...
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