New release of the Budokan concerts
The Beatles performed five concerts over three days, one on June 30, and two on each of the two following days, July 1 and 2 at the Budokan Hall in Tokyo in 1966. Two...
Category: Beatles TV
The rise and fall and rise of the Let It Be film
Note that this is an updated and enhanced version of a blog post we originally posted back in 2008. So many years ago, it seems. Wikipedia entry (edited): “Let It Be” is a 1970...
Independent Blackpool EP
The official Beatles releases this year may have been postponed to 2021, but the small, independent record companies here in Europe continue to exploit the recordings that have fallen out of copyright. After not...
People and Places recordings leaked on YouTube
Adrian Killen by Adrian Killen I have decided to come on to this website to correct some mistruths that exist about the audio recordings made from the Granada People and Places T.V. programme in...
Rare 8mm film of Beatles in cartoon studio
The animated Beatles An uploader on YouTube has made available a rare 8mm film shot by Norman Kauffman from TVC animation studios on 38 Dean Street, in Soho, London on July 29, 1965. This...
The story of Ready Steady Go!
Subject of a new radio documentary Tonight BBC Four will broadcast a documentary that showcases Britain’s iconic 1960s music show, Ready Steady Go!, which revolutionised television ‘for the kids’ and introduced emerging talent from...
The Beatles on People And Places October – December 1962
This just in from Mark Ashworth: A Friday night treat for you all. The audio of the Beatles’ appearances on Granada TV’s People and Places were recorded by Adrian Killen, a 16 year old...
From The Archives podcast
The Beatles on “Pops and Lenny” May 16, 1963. “From the archives” is a British Television podcast, discussing lost or missing or thought missing and found again film and / or audio from TV....
Rare films to be screened in Liverpool
As part of International Beatles Week, the British Music Experience have partnered with Kaleidoscope to screen astonishing missing-believed-wiped tapes from television performances from The Beatles and many more on 24 August 2019. The British...
More Top of the Pops footage found
Still from found footage…now including John! 92 seconds worth of material from The Beatles’ mimed performance of “Paperback Writer” from “Top of the Pops” in 1966 will be screened in Birmingham this Saturday. The...
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