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Maori Finale
This story begins with a challenge that Arno Guzek, our Danish friend posted on Facebook: "Who is the lady who rubs noses with Ringo in this picture?"There was no fixed answer, you had to use all the...
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The Beatles in Great Yarmouth
The Beatles tours in England in 1963 have spurred several British local newspapers to bring 50th anniversary reports about when the Fabs visited their town. As an example, here's a report from EDP24:It...
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Paul teams up with Nirvana again
Paul McCartney made rock history on Friday night when he brought out Nirvana's surviving members during the encore of his show at Seattle's Safeco Field. It was only the second time that drummer Dave...
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Amazing discovery
This is "Kansas City" from an acetate recorded at the Cavern Club in 1962. Little survives from the Beatles' days at the Cavern apart from photos and paper memorabilia, so far we have only had the...
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Birthday film
Most of the streets in LA were decorated with this Ringo poster during my stay thereYou may have noticed my absense the first three weeks of July. The reason for this was that I spent three weeks...
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John Kosh Interview
From Paul McCartney's recreation of the Abbey Road cover, 1993Friends of this blog will have noticed that we are very fond of the Abbey Road cover photo session. Today I'd like to direct you to a new...
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A Magical History Tour - Beatling around LA
The GillymobileThis summer, I had the pleasure of visiting California for the first time. Although it was a family vacation with my girlfriend and her daughter, I did find the time to do a little bit...
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Weston Special Edition Newspaper
A special edition of the newspaper Weston Mercury celebrating The Beatles’ visit to Weston in 1963 is now on sale, with exclusive photos and stories of the Fab Four. So if you're near Weston...the...
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Half a chocolate bar started the Beatles
Paul McCartney reveals to Bono the real story behind the Lennon - McCartney partnership. "Here's a story. Matt Damon told it. But it's not about Matt Damon. It's about Bono. But it's not really about...
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The Beatles & Bournemouth Exhibition
The Beatles & BournemouthExhibitionBeacon Hotel, BournemouthOpens 15 AugustTo mark the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ first shows in Bournemouth, on 19 August 1963 when they opened a six-day...
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News from the uninformed
The above pictured photo has been a "news" item for a couple of days, and today it showed up over at BBC News.The reality is, this and many more photos were from a film roll in Yoko Ono's camera, which...
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The green series
On the 6th of February 1976 the 9 year contract The Beatles had signed with EMI back in 1967 came to an end. However, EMI retained the right to reissue anything it wanted from the old catalogue, and...
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Fake "rare" photos withdrawn from auction
The Daily Mail recently became the laughing stock of Beatles fans when they printed this story about someone auctioning what the paper described as "a treasure trove of hitherto unseen Beatles photos"....
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The Beatles and Me
Yesterday, The Daily Mail had an article that previewed the new book "The Beatles and Me", where they also published a photo of your's truly with a rather puzzling copyright.The book is about fans who...
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McCartney Tour Update
Paul McCartney's "Out There" tour, now nearing completion of it's North American leg, has been a success, just like most of his tours. But even if we're used to stories about shows selling out all the...
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Good Ol' Freda
If you're a fan of the Beatles you will have seen it. It's everywhere you look. What I'm talking about is the advertising campaign for the independent film Good Ol' Freda. You can't surf the internet...
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Wrong head
What's wrong with this picture?In 1964 the Beatles had their World Tour, which brought them to Holland, Denmark, New Zealand and Australia. In the Netherlands they played two concerts in the small town...
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Paul McCartney: Going Underground...
Here's the trailer to an upcoming movie, available soon on DVD: "Going Underground: Paul McCartney, The Beatles And The UK Counter-culture".Description: In the mid-1960s the often rigid and colourless...
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Live at the BBC Vol 2
The "Baby It's You" EP from the "Live at the BBC" project in 1994.In an internal list of upcoming releases, Universal Music recently revealed plans to re-release The Beatles' "Live At The BBC" along...
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Beatles BBC Show online
Looks like our post yesterday about an upcoming "Vol. 2" of the Beatles Live at The BBC spread like wildfire over the Beatles internet sites (apart from the official ones, of course). Speculations are...
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