The Daily Beatle Blog

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McCartney III rumours update

  Beatles Unlimited used to be a Dutch fanzine who had two editions of every issue, one in Dutch and one in English. We used to subscribe to their English one. Nowadays they are...

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Orange Wilbury

In the U.K., The Traveling Wilburys first album, “Vol. 1” has been reissued on orange vinyl, as one of many releases in conjunction with National Album Day. This colourful version of the album is...

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My Sweet Lord, what a Black Friday

Although hinted about in “Rolling Stone”, the fiftieth anniversary edition of “All Things Must Pass”, like the “Plastic Ono Band” album failed to materialise. However, two songs from George Harrison’s triple album do get...

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Half a photo

Half a hitherto unseen photo was recently published in a John Lennon group on Facebook. It is a photo from December 8, 1961 and shows The Beatles (well, actually just John and Pete) backing...

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Colourised early Beatles photos

The Daily Mail online yesterday featured an article about early Beatles photos which has recently been colourised by a young Indonesian artist, like the one above. That one is from the Star-Club, Hamburg, 1962....

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Quino, creator of Mafalda dies

Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, born 17 July 1932 is better known by his pen name Quino. We are saddened to hear that he passed away from a stroke 30 September 2020. Quino was an...

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George Harrison book: Be Here Now

Never-before-seen candids and ephemera of “the quiet Beatle” during his meteoric solo career, as captured by his friend and famed photographer Barry Feinstein, published in a new book from Rizzoli. On hand from 1970...