The photo and the photographer
3 Beatles in Paris In our ongoing albeit somewhat sporadic series about the photo and the photographer, we are moving along to Paris, January 1964. The Beatles, represented by three of them, are strolling...
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John Lennon’s Gretsch guitar may fetch $1m at auction
© Copyright Tracksimages.com A guitar that John Lennon played on the recording of “Paperback Writer” is expected to fetch as much as $1m (£626,250) at auction. Lennon gave his Gretsch 6120 guitar to his...
Childhood home of George Harrison goes up for auction
George Harrison at home in Upton Green, Speke, Liverpool, 1961. (Liverpool Echo) A piece of Beatles history will go under the hammer at Liverpool’s world-famous Cavern Club later this month when the childhood home...
Wings microsite
Venus and Mars/Wings At The Speed of Sound microsite Paul McCartney has published a microsite for the upcoming remastered albums “Venus & Mars” and “Wings At The Speed of Sound”, accessible here.
Ringo goes digital
Ringo’s Rotogravure, 1976 Two of Ringo Starr’s out-of-print CDs have been made available for digital download on iTunes, “Ringo’s Rotogravure” and “Ringo the 4th”. When Ringo Starr’s recording contract with EMI ended on 26...
Collecting the Beatles
Quad movie posters for the new A Hard Day’s Night. There are various types of Beatles collectors. It usually begins with the music, and then branches out. The record collector Starts out trying to...
New Dutch Beatles Museum
The still empty museum. Azing Moltmaker’s Beatles museum is about to get bigger! Yesterday he got the keys to the new building. The new Beatles museum is huge, over 5000 square feet, making this...
Paul McCartney Off The Ground
Off The Ground – vinyl LP, British pressing. Note the white border, not a feature on the CD, Believe it or not, the vinyl edition of Paul McCartney’s LP, “Off The Ground” sells for...
The geography of collecting the Beatles
Australian pressing The Beatles is, of course, history. But when I grew up and started to assemble my Beatles collection, it was also geography. In the late seventies I started collecting Beatles and solo-Beatles...
Beatles photographer: Terry O’Neill
Terry O’Neill: ‘The pictures are so naive. They didn’t know what to do either, but it was the beginning of everything. They were recording Please Please Me, and people didn’t know they’d be big”. In...
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