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...
Category: Beatle People
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...
A Magical History Tour – Beatling around LA
The Gillymobile This 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...
John Kosh Interview
From Paul McCartney’s recreation of the Abbey Road cover, 1993 Friends of this blog will have noticed that we are very fond of the Abbey Road cover photo session. Today I’d like to direct...
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...
Early McCartney with Quarrymen?
The Quarrymen in Toxteth, Liverpool 8, June 22nd, 1957. Photo: Charles Roberts The BeatlesWiki has just launched a radical theory that the guy we circled around in the above photo is, in fact, the...
Beatlemania
Beatlemania was a Broadway musical revue focused on the music of The Beatles as it related to the events and changing attitudes of the tumultuous Sixties. A “rockumentary”, advertised as “Not the Beatles, but...
Fun at the wrong Abbey Road
As many of you know, a new station opened on the Docklands Light Railway in London called Abbey Road – it’s about 10 miles from the more well known Abbey Road crossing and studios....
This is your life, George Martin
Nothing like watching “an oldie” this time of year. This was originally broadcast Wednesday, January 30, 1980. All four Beatles were alive, and Paul McCartney was just released from imprisonment in Japan.
Beatles Blog Carnival
There’s a new kid in town…oops, sorry – wrong band! Anyway, a blog presenting Beatles websites has just started up, and we have been honoured by having been mentioned in the first edition. There’ll...
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