McCartney in new app for android smartphones
Still from the app. © Copyright Jaunt.Inc.Paul McCartney's performance of "Live and Let Die" from the concert at Candlestick Park is a featured preview in a new app.Here's the blurb: "Experience...
View ArticleYoko bought Lennon's former home?
Newcastle Road number 9An article in Breitbart.com speculates that Yoko Ono may have been the anonymous bidder who last year bought 9 Newcastle Road in Liverpool, John Lennon's address from birth to...
View ArticleThe Abbey Road pics got £180,000
One of the Abbey Road photos, #4. Photo: Iain Macmillan. Copyright: Apple Corps Ltd.The not particularly rare photographs of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road, shot for the cover of the album of the...
View ArticleThe butcher cover
The original "Yesterday And Today" cover. Photo: Robert WhitakerOn the 25th March 1966, a photo session which was to become a notorious part of The Beatles' history took place: the infamous 'butcher...
View Article12 days of Christmas
Universal Music's 12 days of Christmas campaign.In a new article from the Daily Mirror about the revitalised vinyl records industry, we noticed the following sentence: "Music giant Universal Music is...
View ArticleNew Lennon art book
John Lennon The Collected ArtworkA new book collects John Lennon's drawings. The book will be published in the UK on December 3, and in the USA on December 23. Here's the description:Throughout the...
View ArticleNew CD: The early works of George Martin
George Martin compilation on independent label.The small record company Not Now Music is releasing another out of EU copyright compilation, this one focusing on recordings made by the Beatles'...
View ArticleWhat is life - the winner
A winner of this competition has been chosen by Dhani and Olivia Harrison, above is the winning entry. Brandon Moore won the $5000 price, and The Apple Years boxed set. The video has been posted on...
View ArticleSpanish Beatles boxed set
Spanish boxed setsJosep M. Navarro has written to us about a Spanish Beatles boxed set which, like the current Italian one we wrote about recently, was being sold in newsstands, and featured a...
View ArticleBootleg Recordings 1964 coming
The Beatles bootleg recordings 1963Universal Music Canada supposedly confirmed that a release is forthcoming. Like last year's Bootleg Recordings 1963, the new Beatles release is going to be a digital...
View ArticleElton and Lennon on YouTube
Very happy to see that the concert footage we had a modest hand in helping to unearth back in 2011 has been given a proper pubic airing this Thanksgiving, courtesy of Elton John's official YouTube...
View ArticleWhy Ringo is hated in Liverpool
In 2008, Liverpool celebrated being one of the cities named "Capital of Culture" and a big celebration was held, one which included Ringo Starr coming home to perform and do some bits for the city....
View ArticleStudio tracks for Bootleg Recordings 1964
A fan made creation, not really the cover art of the actual awaited releaseWhile waiting for the Beatles Bootleg recordings 1964 to pop up over at iTunes, here's a list of studio performances from 1964...
View ArticleLennon's Own Books
In His Own Write 1964The two John Lennon books that he wrote at the height of Beatlesmania, "In His Own Write" (1964) and "A Spaniard In The Works" (1965) have been reissued on December 8 by the...
View ArticlePetition: Bowie-McCartney
Ziggy and MaccaA group of teenagers has started a campaign trying to get Paul McCartney and David Bowie to collaborate on a song. Despite their age, they deeply appreciate and admire these two artists...
View Article"Hope" due out on vinyl - in the future
In the future, "Hope for the Future" will be out on vinyl.Contrary to previous reports, the recent iTunes release from Paul McCartney, "Hope For The Future" will be out on a physical disc in the er......
View ArticleMal Evans' article about the Get Back album
Reproduced in the Beatles' Anthology book, this was the original artwork for the Get Back album. Looks like it has been pasted over with a corrected cover from when the album's name was changed to "Let...
View ArticleA new live album from Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney: Live at the Electric Proms, 2007A new Paul McCartney album, “Live at the Electric Proms 2007” on the Charly label was introduced to iTunes (and other music download shops) in the U.S....
View ArticlePresentation folder for the 1965 Intertel promos
Sales presenter from 1965Currently up for sale over at ebay is a presentation folder for the 1965 Intertel promos, the folder is said to have come from Brian Epstein's own collection.It is a 4 page...
View ArticleThe Beatles in St. Louis book
The Beatles in St Louis, 1966.Our friend Sara over at the Meet The Beatles For Real blog has started a funding campaign to help her achieve her goal of writing a book about The Beatles' visit to St....
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