Welcome to the Beatles Rarity Of The Week. This week’s BROW takes us to February 26, 1964, when The Beatles were in session working on “I Should Have Known Better,” a track for their upcoming A Hard Day’s Night film and LP. After take 8, John Lennon figured out that the reason he was running [...]
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London Town – Paul McCartney & Wings promo video, 1978
After the highly successful Wings Over America tour in 1976, Paul McCartney planned a follow up tour of the United States for 1977, but this was not to be. Linda McCartney soon discovered that she was pregnant with their third child (James). Although they abandoned tour plans, Linda’s condition did not prevent getting in a [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – A Hard Day’s Night (Live on Blackpool Night Out)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. TheBeatlesRarity.com continues it’s focus on John Lennon this month with a live performance for the British television program Blackpool Night Out (aka Big Night Out). Unlike The Beatles’ other three performances on the show, only audio without video survives of this July 19, 1964 broadcast. The Beatles [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – I’ll Cry Instead (original length in stereo)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. This month’s BROW, VOW and cartoon features focus on John Lennon in honor of his 70th, this Saturday, October 9th. Although I’ll Cry Instead is a great country-influenced rocker with a perfect John Lennon vocal, it was decided to eliminate it from the A Hard Day’s Night [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – If I Fell (composing tape, Jan. 1964)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. John Lennon got a head start on writing new material for the yet untitled first Beatles movie, in early January 1964, when he wrote and recorded the initial home demos for If I Fell in his London flat. Legend has it that the recordings were taped over [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – A Hard Day’s Night (takes 2 & 3)
Early in 1964 John Lennon published his first book titled In His Own Write. The title itself is a play on words and there are many, many other funny usages of words and phrases throughout the book, as well as some hilarious illustrations, all made by John. This is an excerpt from one of the [...]
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