The 100 minute cinema preview
It was a party night yesterday when Disney invited the Norwegian Wood Beatles fan club to an exclusive preview of a 100 minute excerpt from “The Beatles Get Back” in Oslo. After some complementary...
Category: Concerts
Recording and mixing the Shea Stadium concert
The Beatles walking to the stage. Behind the Beatles you can see the tall, slim column speakers Social media posts about the Beatles tend to focus on anniversaries of special events during The Beatles’...
Synched films
Lately, a couple of YouTubers have been using their skills to synchronise Beatles footage. One of them, “Doctor Robert” specialises in concert footage. These were mostly filmed by the audience with hand held 8mm...
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...
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...
John, Paul, George, Pete…and Ringo!
Five years ago, in 2015, we published a photo from the Tower Ballroom in New Brighton (close to Liverpool), of the Pete Best line up of the Beatles. What was special about that photo,...
Paul’s streamed concert
Sunday saw the Teenage Cancer Trust streamed concert with Paul McCartney, filmed in 2012. It has never been published before, but here it is. Please do also consider to donate a sum of money...
Streamed McCartney concert
“Teenage Cancer Trust Unseen” is an incredible archive of never-before-seen footage of live performances at the Royal Albert Hall through the years in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust. Driven by their patron Roger Daltrey,...
NME Poll Winners EP
Following last year’s release of an EP featuring The Beatles’s set at the 1964 NME Poll Winners Concert, here’s a follow up from 1960s Records, a company specialising in releasing public domain material from...
The Lennon tour of 1981
Roadie Henry Smith was preparing for the May 1981 John Lennon tour when he got a call from Roberta Flack, informing him that Lennon had just been shot and killed. Flack had been a...
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