Norwegian Wood 120
The new issue of Norway’s own Beatles magazine, Norwegian Wood was out in late March. This is what the front cover looks like, and the rest of the contents are as follows: Page 2:...
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The Beatles – a nostalgia act?
The weekend before this one, I had the pleasure of attending two Beatles events in Norway, one here in Oslo on Friday, and the next day in Gjøvik, the city where the Norwegian Beatles...
Abbey Road Not For Sale
Here is the full statement from EMI, released today, announcing it is not selling Abbey Road Studios, but looking for a third party investor to help “revitalise” it and provide, to quote EMI, “access...
Saving Abbey Road
This is your humble blogmaster, standing at the bottom of the staircase in studio 2 inside Abbey Road Studios. Since the news were spread yesterday that EMI are looking to sell their famous studio...
Trouble at Abbey Road
On the news today: EMI are planning to sell Abbey Road Studios! This is a slideshow of photos from a cover session for The Beatles first album, tentatively entitled “Off The Beatle Track”. Taken...
Re-meet The Beatles
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BBC Beatles Bonanza
The good old Beeb has plans to give us a week of Beatles programming on TV, including a new special, The Beatles On Record, starting September 5. The programme will air previously unheard outtakes...
The Beatles and Vietnam
Paul McCartney has recently given an interview to the intellectual journal Prospect, in which he claims that he was the one who told John Lennon about the war in Vietnam. Sir Paul’s critics see...
A 5 Beatles press conference
This just posted on YouTube: A press conference from Melbourne featuring 5 Beatles: John, Paul, George, Ringo and Jimmy! Description: “A super rare and unseen Beatles press conference from Melbourne, Australia June 14, 1964....
Ringo not first choice to replace Pete?
In an article about the final concert of retiring drummer Bobby Graham (68) in Hertfordshire Mercury, the well known session man gets a couple of his anecdotes retold: In 1962 he was asked by...
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