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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Jun 29
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Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Lady Madonna (alternate take)

This week BROW takes a look at the first Beatles 45 of 1968. John Lennon wanted it to be his new tune called Across The Universe but was eventually outvoted. Lady Madonna was recorded on February 3, 1968 just before The Beatles went to India to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The brass [...]

Jun 24
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Beatles Rarity Of The Week – I Want To Hold Your Hand (live at the Washington DC Coliseum)

Welcome to The Beatles Rarity Of the Week. This live recording of I Want To Hold Your Hand is from The Beatle’s first live outdoor concert in America. On February 11, 1964, just a few days after their historic initial appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles hit the nation’s capital. The group was [...]

Jun 15
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Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Front Parlour (unedited original mix)

It’s been a long week and I think we all deserve a new Beatles (-related) Rarity of the Week. This week’s feature is a catchy little instrumental experiment by Paul McCartney recorded in the summer of 1979. Some of you McCartney fans out there may already be aware that the McCartney II album released in [...]

Jun 08
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Beatles Rarity Of The Week – My Sweet Lord (demo)

This week’s BROW needs no introduction so I will be brief. The Beatles had broken up, and George Harrison had his first serious album to put together on his own. Here, a song immediately recognizable from the first few melodic strums of George’s six-string, is a diamond in it’s earliest recorded demo form. From the [...]

Jun 01
Jun 01 2 comments

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Wild Cat (1960 ‘Beatals’ session)

Welcome to the Beatles Rarity Of The Week. The rockabilly expertise of Gene Vincent inspired this week’s feature. In the summer of 1960, Gene was touring in the UK and apparently captured the respect of the struggling Beatles (then called The Beatals). Later that same year, while on their first visit to Hamburg, Germany to [...]