Last month I announced here that Paul McCartney will follow up last year’s expanded issue of Band On The Run with the same treatment for his McCartney and McCartney II albums. These will be issued as special edition and deluxe sets for both original 1970 and 1980 albums, along with plenty of extras, on June [...]
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Eleanor Rigby (Live in Kiev, 2008)
Since today marks the 45th birthday of the Beatles classic Eleanor Rigby, I thought it a nice fit for this week’s video. It was April 29, 1966 when Paul recorded his lead vocal for the song. Producer/arranger George Martin conducted a doubled string quartet for the backing track the previous day. It consisted of four [...]
Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand (I Want To Hold Your Hand)
The Beatles visit a village in the German Alps where the people have made a Beatle flag to fly on top of the mountain overlooking the village. The only problem is The Beatles have to get it up there. As a guide, they are given Guten Tag, a faithful Saint Bernard. Click the image above [...]
Free Job Search Site for Beatles Fans is ready for business…
AllYouNeedProject.org, a new website designed to help Beatles fans find jobs and to help Beatles fans employers locate great employees, is up and ready for business. Created and donated by BeatlesNews, the website is free to any Beatles fan who would like to post a confidential resume, or network with other fans who might know [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Goodnight Tonight (expanded version)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. Disco began to have a major influence on the music scene by the late 1970s. Many bands that you would have considered hard core rock and roll acts were at least somewhat affected by the disco movement. The Rolling Stones came out with Miss You in 1978, [...]
Judith Kristen’s ‘A Date With A Beatle’, now with a new cover
If you haven’t had a chance to read Judith Kristen’s A Date With A Beatle, then I have to tell you, it’s a great book that captures for us 2nd/3rd generation fans, what it was really like to have been around when The Beatles came to America for the first time in 1964. Don’t let [...]








