The Tokyo police film
The Beatles in Tokyo, 1966. It certainly looks like the police making security films around rock concerts was in vogue in 1966. So far we’ve seen police films around the Munich, Essen and Hamburg...
Category: Beatles Concerts
The Beatles – for free on YouTube
The Beatles – Free As Birds on YouTube! In an unprecedented move, The Beatles have released most of their albums for free – on YouTube. Whether or not this is going to be a...
The “lost” Cavern Club tape
Live at the Cavern Club, 1962. In mid-1962, “a fan in the audience” at the Cavern Club in Liverpool recorded a Beatles’ performance, more-or-less in full. It’s the only full-length recording of them live...
New footage from Candlestick Park
The Beatles live at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, 1966. Recently some hitherto not publicly available colour amateur film footage from The Beatles’ final concert was uploaded to YouTube. As you probably know, that final...
New source for “It’s The Beatles”
Imaginary CD cover for an imaginary CD. Last week, someone uploaded to Soundcloud his own audio tape recording of the televised concert “It’s the Beatles”, which was filmed at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool...
Who’s that girl?
Embed from Getty Images You’ve seen her. That girl posing with the Beatles in French hats. At present, the copyright is held by Getty Images. This is how they caption the image: “English group...
The Beatle Who Vanished – film
Embed from Getty Images In Ron Howard’s documentary film about The Beatles’ touring years, “Eight Days A Week“, Jimmie Nicol literally was “the Beatle who vanished”. Although briefly seen in the film, his presence...
Newly disovered footage from Canada
Rare colour Beatles concert footage to be auctioned off. Photo: Omega Auctions. Previously unseen footage of The Beatles playing in Montreal during their first tour of North American found lying in a drawer after...
Film review: Eight Days A Week and Shea
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK – THE TOURING YEARS Here’s a map of the Beatles tours as assembled by the pre-production crew of the film. Why not animate it and use it? It would have...
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