The Beatles Sweden Tour 1963 promoter speaks
Bengt-Åke Bengtsson was the founder and owner of the Swedish concert promoter agency Telstar, and he also managed Swedish group, The Telstars. He was born in 1931 and passed away in 2016, at 85....
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60 years since the Beatles’ first tour abroad
This week it’s sixty years since the first time The Beatles dipped their toes into the waters of international touring. They had done their stints in Hamburg, but that was no tour. They did...
Revisiting Beatles sites in Stockholm 1963
Piet Schreuders revisits a few Stockholm photo locations where The Beatles were depicted in 1963.
Sweden 1967
On the 14th of October, 1967, George Harrison and Paul McCartney went to Sweden to visit the Maharishi at the hotel where he was staying in Falsterbo, a seaside resort in southern Sweden near...
Swedish EP inspired Pepper?
Was the famous cover photo of The Beatles’ “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” inspired by a Swedish EP-cover? Swedish record store owner Jörgen Johansson developed this theory when he came across an EP...
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...
Ringo Starr and Father McKenzie
Latest edition of the bimonthly Swedish “Rock’n’Roll Magazine” The current issue of Sweden’s “Rock’n’Roll Magazine” features a recent phone interview with Ringo Starr, made by long time Swedish Beatles fan Staffan Olander, who also...
The Beatles and Norway
At least the airline was partly Norwegian. As you know, the Beatles never played in Norway – a sore point for us Norwegian fans of the group, but here are some stories related to...
The Beatles – New live single
She Loves You – Live in Stockholm 1963 A small Italian company – Kutmusic – seems to have taken advantage of the loophole in EU copyright legislation to release two songs from the famous...
The Beatles at Johanneshov
A recording from one of The Beatles’ performances at Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden suddenly materialised out of nowhere the other day, and started circulating among collectors. The Beatles played four concerts at the venue,...
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