Monthly Archive: February 2010

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More McCartney Dates

The new “Up and Coming” Paul McCartney Tour of 2010 is gradually unveiling concert dates and venues. In our last blog posts we were speculating that the tour may travel further south and this...

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The Come Together Festival in Hamburg

Here’s the programme for the Come Together festival in Hamburg,  which kicks off the city’s “50 years since The Beatles arrived” – anniversary a little bit premature on May 22nd (they didn’t arrive until...

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The Beatles – a nostalgia act?

The weekend before this one, I had the pleasure of attending two Beatles events in Norway, one here in Oslo on Friday, and the next day in Gjøvik, the city where the Norwegian Beatles...

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Abbey Road Not For Sale

Here is the full statement from EMI, released today, announcing it is not selling Abbey Road Studios, but looking for a third party investor to help “revitalise” it and provide, to quote EMI, “access...

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3D Logo

No news today, except that I got a new, fancy 3D style logo for my blog, courtesy of “The Beatles in 3D“. Get all your 3D design wishes fulfilled over at Yer Logos at...

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London Town launch

A rare colour film from the promotional party for the release of Wings’ London Town LP in 1978 near Tower bridge. The album didn’t feature the latest hit single “Mull of Kintyre”, something which...

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Saving Abbey Road

This is your humble blogmaster, standing at the bottom of the staircase in studio 2 inside Abbey Road Studios. Since the news were spread yesterday that EMI are looking to sell their famous studio...

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Trouble at Abbey Road

On the news today: EMI are planning to sell Abbey Road Studios! This is a slideshow of photos from a cover session for The Beatles first album, tentatively entitled “Off The Beatle Track”. Taken...