Richard Avedon’s Beatles portraits
The famous “psychedelic” individual Avedon portraits of the fab four. In January 1965, US photographer Richard Avedon met The Beatles at the Ad Lib club in London. He was in town researching an assignment...
Category: Beatles memorabilia
The cassette revival
Cassette edition of “Let It Be…Naked”, 2003. Never mind the vinyl revival, hot on it’s heels is the cassette revival! For those of us who grew up in the seventies, many of us had...
Admiral Grove 10 for sale
The “V for victory” sign was recently replaced with a new one. Following the death of former resident Margaret Grose, the house where Ringo Starr grew up and lived until The Beatles took off...
Lybro Jeans photo shoot
In 1963, a Liverpool jeans company, Lybro Limited, asked if The Beatles would advertise their jeans. The request may either have come through the group’s manager, Brian Epstein – or through their friend at...
Beatles statues unveiled
Beatles statue on Liverpool’s waterfront. Photo: Paul Dean. A new statue of the Beatles has been unveiled on Liverpool’s Pier Head . John Lennon ’s sister Julia Baird and Liverpool deputy mayor Cllr Ann...
Restoring the caravan
The Caravan panel In the upcoming auction of Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach’s belongings, lot 712 of 1367 is John Lennon’s caravan panel & Photograph. The panel is depicted above. The description goes: The caravan...
Julien’s auction results
This Beatles drum head sold for $2,125,000.00. The 1962 J-160E Gibson guitar Saturday November 7, Julien’s Auctions sold what many have called the most important Beatle guitar to ever hit the auction block for...
The Höfner setlist
Paul McCartney bought his first bass guitar, a 500/1 Höfner ‘violin’ 3/4 scaled model, while the Beatles were playing in Hamburg in 1961. He played it on stage and in the studio through “With...
The Some Other Guy tape
As we reported back in early June, a tape recording of The Beatles performing “Some Other Guy” at the Cavern Club in Liverpool is about to be auctioned. For some reason, the story only...
And the Profits Four told:
1969: 8-track tapes and the new cassette format is all the rage, and for some reason, in the USA, Apple Records released this rather cheeky store display promoting the entire Beatles catalogue on 8...
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