One off Beatles single
A record Brian Epstein (his handwriting on the label) had made at the HMV store in Oxford Street in 1962 to bring around and play when he had meetings with record companies is up...
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Beatles Live Project update
The Beatles Live – news trickles in slowly. A Beatles news page of the Japanese Universal Music site now has a few details regarding “The Beatles Live Project”. The “project” part of the title...
New Beatles vs EMI theory
“Mersey Beat” 31 May, 1962. On the front page of “Mersey Beat” in June 1962, there was an article about the Beatles’ Parlophone release – due out in July. At the EMI A&R meeting...
Carl Perkins’ “Dance” album
Dance album of Carl Perkins Those of you who have read Mark Lewisohn’s “Tune In” book will have noticed that the Beatles were very fond of the “Dance Album of Carl Perkins”, and that...
New songs and mixes for Love
From the Las Vegas Beatles show “Love” by Cirque du Soleil. As previously reported, Cirque du Soleil’s production of The Beatles show “Love” is undergoing changes for the show’s tenth anniversary. “Love” director Dominic...
The Beatles and WW II
The soundtrack album, 1976. All This and World War II is a strange 1976 musical documentary which juxtaposed Beatles songs, performed by a number of contemporary seventies artists, with World War II newsreel footage and...
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...
The “Help!” store
Illustration photo: The main HMV store in Oxford Street, London, December 1965. Twenty years or so ago, a Norwegian gentleman who was partly involved in selecting Beatles songs to release as singles in Norway...
The Fab Four meet The Big Four
The Beatles on the Morecambe and Wise Show, December 2, 1963. In an in-depth article about The Beatles on TV in the U.K., Andrew Hesford-Booth speculates that the replacement of Pete Best with Ringo Starr...
Love changes for tenth anniversary
The Beatles show “Love” is about to undergo some changes. Cirque du Soleil is planning some changes for their Las Vegas shows, including The Beatles’ Love. This according to Robin Leach of the Las...
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