Beatles drum head for sale
An original Beatles drum head is for sale.The Beatles’ original drop-T logo drum head, used by the band from May 31, 1964 through August 1, 1965, is for sale over at BeatlesAutographs.com. The asking...
View ArticleBeatles material that surfaced in 2014
Still not out officially, bootleggers made available a better version of The Beatles at Shea Stadium.Here's a list of Beatles material that surfaced as new or upgraded discoveries in the year we now...
View ArticlePublic domain material
If we are correct in assuming that recorded material from 1964 not released prior to 2015 now has fallen into public domain, we are attempting to make some lists, based on material circulating on...
View ArticleThe unknown Beatles concert?
USS ForrestalWhile going through some pages on The Beatles Bible, looking for confirmation of some stuff for a previous blog post, I came upon a commentary from 2009 which talked about a hitherto...
View ArticleTwitter: Who is Paul McCartney? Part 2
Tweets from 2015, following the McCartney/West collaborationTweets from 2012, following McCartney's Grammy appearance.2012 article
View ArticleInterview with Maureen Cox, 1988
Interview with Maureen Cox from Le Chroniqueur, a French magazine, in July of 1988. The interviewer is a French reporter named Maurice Devereux. I have included the original French text after the...
View ArticleStar Club tape recorders and tape
Ted Taylor's Grundig tape recorderHeritage Auctions recently listed two of Ted "Kingsize" Taylor's original tape recorders for sale, the sale also included a tape of The Beatles playing at the Star...
View ArticleThe Beatles Live Project - possible byproducts
The Beatles in HollandIn 2014, we saw a flurry of new releases from The Beatles/Apple/Universal Music/Calderstone. The US albums on CD, the Japan albums on CD, the mono vinyl albums, the Long Tall...
View ArticleBeatle Week in Obertauern
The Beatles in Obertauern13 - 21 March 2015 it's Beatle Week in Obertauern, Austria!This is THE Beatles Week for the 50th anniversary of the shooting of HELP!Freda Kelly and Ruth and Angie McCartney...
View ArticleThe Obertauern gig
18 March 1965 - Marietta Hotel, Obertauern, Austria.Jacky and the Strangers were Berlin's longest running Rock'n'Roll band. Born in 1928 in Wiesbaden, Jacky Spelter formed the Strangers in 1953 with a...
View ArticleThe Beatles reunion rumours
People Weekly, April 1976: The Beatles - will they sing again for $50 million?Throughout the seventies, the press reported upcoming Beatles reunions every now and then, reunions that were never...
View ArticleBeatles in high res audio - again
The Apple shaped memory stickIn an article in Showbiz411, it is revealed that the Beatles catalogue will be made available for Neil Young's high end music player and library, Pono.Paul McCartney...
View ArticleRingo Starr on the John Davidson Show 1980
Ringo, Barbara Bach and John Matuszac sit down with John Davidson to promote their new movie Caveman in 1980. John Davidson has a difficult trying to conduct the interview. The intros and outros that...
View ArticleAlbum covers: Help!
HELP!Help! - Robert FreemanAgain Robert Freeman is asked to make the design of the next album cover.The photo was taken in the Twickenham Film Studio near London, where the Beatles were finishing the...
View ArticleBack in the annual vinyl charts: Abbey Road
At no. 4: "Abbey Road" returns!Nielsen Soundscan's annual US record sales report is out again, and The Beatles'"Abbey Road" album is back in the vinyl album charts. And it now has company: "Sgt...
View ArticleThe Beatles' music videos
THE BEATLES' MUSIC VIDEOSVarious Beatles music videos found on The Beatles' official YouTube channel, sadly only snippets are available.Tuesday November 25th, 1965, the Beatles filmed ten different...
View ArticleA MusiCares Tribute To Paul McCartney
New DVD / Region 1 onlyOn March 24, 2015, Shout! Factory will release A MusiCares Tribute To Paul McCartney, a collection of never-before-seen performances from the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year...
View ArticleFrench Beatles re-releases
The Beatles in Tittenhurst Park, Ascot (Berkshire), 22 August 1969. | © APPLE CORPSLike in Spain in 2013, and last year in Italy, France is also getting their own Beatles collection, distributed by...
View ArticleFrench Anthologies not remastered
The first release: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandThanks to our reader, Zong' Zongadude for sending us these photos of the first of the French re-releases we told you about yesterday. He also...
View ArticleThat Spanish Beatles album
Por Siempre Beatles"Por Siempre Beatles" is a compilation album by The Beatles originally released in Argentina on October 8, 1971 (EMI-Odeon LDS 2200), and in Spain in January 1972 (EMI/Odeon...
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