This week on #askNat, I’m addressing a couple of questions I received last month concerning concerts and concerning bootleg recordings. First off, Joe D. from North Providence, R.I. asks: Between late 1963-1966, why did The Beatles live performances last only 30 minutes? Was it their “Being seen/not heard” theory or was it a showbiz criteria [...]

Welcome to another go-round of #AskNat, a new series on TheBeatlesRarity where I chose one or more Beatle-related questions sent in by site-readers to give it my best answer. Feel free to join in with any added information by commenting to the post. Information on submitting your own questions is given below. Thanks are also [...]

Welcome to the first installment of #AskNat, a new series on TheBeatlesRarity where I chose one or more Beatle-related questions sent in by site-readers to give it my best answer. Feel free to join in with any added information by commenting to the post. Information on submitting your own questions is given below. This week’s [...]

TheBeatlesRarity is gearing up for a new feature beginning in May called #askNat and I am getting excited about it already! This is where I will invite site readers to send me their Beatles-related questions to answer and open for discussion. I will select a few of these to address and share with everyone on [...]

Welcome to The Beatles Rarity Of The Week. There isn’t much to say about this week’s offering other than it is another of many Paul McCartney demos that never saw the light of day. This home recording of “Indeed, I Do” was most likely taped sometime between the Ram album (May 1971) and the first [...]

Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living In The Material World will finally see a U.S. home video release on May 1, 2012. I’ve posted some details about the film when the U.K. version was released last fall here. As was expected, the film will be released in three editions: a two-DVD set, a separate Blu-ray version [...]