This week’s Beatles Rarity Of The Week is special because this is the week that BROW is one year old. The Beatles were always big on birthday celebrations as can be felt through this medley of happy and rare birthday recordings that I have assembled for this week. The medley includes: 1) Whit Monday – [...]
The Beatles Rarity
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Suzy’s Parlour (Get Back sessions jam)
Welcome to this week’s BROW. This recording is from Twickenham studio on January 9th, 1969. John takes a good nasal lead vocal as he kicks off this slightly off-color, up-tempo number. George and Paul give some staccato ‘rat-tat-tat’ backing. It’s a 50′s influenced song if there ever was one. An edited version of this track [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Free As A Bird (home demo)
This week’s BROW honors a request from last week for an original recording of John Lennon’s Free As A Bird. This is one of the original piano demos recorded on an audio cassette by John in 1977. Later when Paul McCartney asked Yoko Ono for any unreleased material by John, she gave him a recording [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Dr. Robert (Yesterday And Today mix)
I’ve seen a lot of discussion on MOG.com about The Beatles being “first” to do a lot of things: lyrics coming with the album packaging (Sgt. Pepper), the first feedback sound in a rock/pop song (I Feel Fine), the first classical instrumentation in a pop song (Yesterday), the first rock band to wear their hair [...]







