On the radio: George Harrison and Michael Jackson
George Harrison and Michael Jackson in a recently rediscovered radio chat.Thanks to one of our readers, Richard M White, a BBC radio 1 radio programme with George Harrison and Michael Jackson as guests...
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The Beatles visited the ABC Theatre in Great Yarmouth twice. This poster is from their final appearance there.A 17 year old photographer's assistant saved one of the negatives his boss was about to...
View ArticleA limited edition Egypt Station
Egypt Station - Traveller's Edition.Paul McCartney just announced the release of another strictly limited (3000 copies for worldwide distribution) boxed set, this time it's the "Traveller's edition" of...
View ArticleLiverpool Weekend
Lots of people wanted to have their photo taken with the Beatles statues.Just back from a family weekend in Liverpool, where I finally got the chance to see the Double Fantasy John & Yoko...
View ArticleOne double super album
The best selling Beatles album in the U.S.A.The late Sir George Martin wanted to have the Beatles'"White album" as "one super single album" by weeding out the songs he felt were surplus and below par....
View ArticleThe Beatles - Made on Merseyside
Next Friday, 29 March 2019, BBC Four will be broadcasting a special TV programme, "The Beatles - Made on Merseyside".They defined music and popular culture like no other band ever will. But how did The...
View ArticleLost Top of the pops footage found?
From the press call for Top of The Pops June 16th, 1966¨Although by June 1966 it had been running for over two years, The Beatles had never previously appeared live on the BBC music show Top Of The...
View ArticleAn accidental studio: the story on HandMade Films
Bill Jones (son of Monty Python Terry) and Ben Timlet have completed "An Accidental Studio", the story of Handmade Films. It’s on AMC in the UK May 4th, and internationally later in the year.Coming to...
View ArticleDont Bother me - live performance?
Set list in Paul McCartney's handwriting includes "Don't Bother Me".Up for auction at Gotta Have Rock and Roll is a Beatles setlist, signed on the flip side by Ringo and John. The interesting thing is...
View ArticleRare Lennon film footage rediscovered
Film crews from all over the world were there: the Bed-in for peace by John and Yoko. The famous images went all over the world. You would say we have seen them all. But 50 years later, a unique...
View ArticleNew old George pics on Instagram
George revisits Cliveden House in 1981. Home of the Profumo affair and the palace scenes in "Help!"Olivia Harrison has taken over George Harrison's Instagram account for a while, and is using it to...
View ArticleBlue plaque for 3 Savile Row
The Beatles - 3 Savile Row - Blue Plaque from MONO MEDIA FILMS on Vimeo. A blue plaque, commemorating the Beatles' final live performance slightly more than fifty years ago was today mounted on the...
View ArticleThe Beatles on TV and video: New book
Jorg Piper and Volker Path's groundbreaking volume on The Beatles on TV and Film.The subject of The Beatles' TV appearances was covered by the 448 pages book The Beatles - Film and TV Chronicle, 1961 -...
View ArticleAn interview with (Aunt) Jessie Robins
Jessie Robins with Ivor Cutler and John Lennon in a scene from Magical Mystery TourAn old interview with the actress who played Ringo's Aunt Jessie in Magical Mystery Tour, Jessie Robins recently...
View ArticleBBC releases "found" Beatles clip
The BBC has just released this little film clip, which is what we wrote about earlier in our blog post Lost Top of the Pops footage found?
View ArticleEarly version of "Something" promo recovered
Footage from the early edit of The Beatles'"Something" promotional film.In the wake of the newly found 11 second fragment of The Beatles' 1966 "Top Of The Pops" appearance, Kaleidoscope reports that...
View Article"Hutch" is dead
Larry Parnes audition, with Hutch behind the drums.Johnny «Hutch» Hutchinson from Liverpool group The Big Three passed away yesterday, he was 80.Hutch filled in on drums when The Beatles’ regular...
View ArticleRock and Roll Circus 2CD track list
An updated track list for the new edition "Rock and Roll Circus" came our way, so we thought we'd share:Disc 1Mick Jagger’s Introduction Of Rock And Roll Circus – Mick JaggerEntry Of The Gladiators –...
View ArticleMcGear tracklist
"McGear" due out 28 June.Details about the upcoming new edition of «McGear», Paul McCartney’s brother Mike «McGear» McCartney’s 1974 album. Out 28 June, 2019 as 2CD+DVD or single LP or digital...
View ArticleEgypt Station - Explorer's Edition cover revealed
Egypt Station - Explorer's EditionDue out May 17 is the Explorer’s Edition of Egypt Station, bringing you all the music from the Traveller’s Edition suitcase without all the stash. 2CDs or 3LPs,...
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