The Beatles and the Stones
There’s a new book out, about The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Beatles vs. Stones (Simon & Schuster 320 pages, $26) by John McMillian is a book written by a historian and it...
Category: Beatle People
Mal Evans story on stage
Copyright © BeatleMal.com If you’re in Ireland, or planning a trip there soon, you should catch this play. Mal Evans, the Beatles truest, bestest friend, lived with Paul McCartney as his housekeeper for around...
Pop group from Liverpool visiting Sweden
Yesterday, Staffan Olander presented a radio program at the Swedish P4 all about the Beatles’ tour of Sweden in October 1963. Mostly in Swedish, some of the participants reminisc about the tour. Non-Swedish speakers...
Missed opportunity
Upon returning from the UK with the profits from his British tour, singer Tommy Roe also brought with him a promo pack for the Please Please Me album by the Beatles, including the album...
Don’t ill treat me pet dingo, Ringo
Rolf: Fellas you feel like singing a chorus with me? Beatles: yehh mmm okay yup etc etc Rolf: Theres enthusiasm for you Ill give you a rough idea how it goes, it starts off...
Sir David Frost
The legendary British broadcaster Sir David Frost succumbed to an apparent heart attack at 74 this week-end. He hosted That Was the Week That Was (known as TW3), a show that ran from 1962...
Post no. 1000!
It’s been a busy August here at the WogBlog headquarters, mainly due to the fact that I’m currently out of a job. My final day at work was at the end of June, I...
Vollmer exhibition – last few days!
© Copyright: Jürgen Vollmer If you’re in Hamburg or planning to go there, you may want to go and see the current exhibition of Jürgen Vollmer‘s photos. The address is East Hotel, Simon-Von-Utrecht-Strasse 31,...
Beatles with an A
© Otava “Beatles with an A”, subtitled “Birth of a band” is not a comic book, but it’s more adult equivalent, a graphic novel. Using the comic book format and language, the Beatles’ early...
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...
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