In 1975, John Lennon was embroiled in his fight with U.S. Immigration and couldn’t leave the States. He’d been missing England for years, and was having the British Top 10 charts sent to him. Since he could not appear in person, John made a recording in New York for the U.K.’s television program Old Grey [...]
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Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
From the UK BBC television show Red Alert, this is Lulu helping Paul McCartney promote his (then new) 1999 CD of covers, Run Devil Run, by running through a lively version of this Chuck Berry classic. 5 people think this is FAB! Click here if this is FAB! Click here if you change your mind.
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – All You Need Is Love (Our World version)
This week BROW looks back 42 years ago to a very special occasion. On June 25, 1967, the very first live international satellite television production was broadcast. The two and a half hour program called Our World featured performers from nineteen nations, and according to Wikipedia, an estimated 400 million people around the globe watched [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Happy Birthday BROW!
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 – [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – A Picture Of You (BBC’s Here We Go)
Welcome to this week’s BROW. This track hails from The Beatles’ first BBC session that George Harrison took on a lead vocal. It was also the last BBC session that Pete Best played drums on as one of The Beatles. George covers A Picture Of You which was already a hit song at the time [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week (All My Loving/Spot The Oddity, Pt. 2)
Last week’s “Spot the Oddity” edition of BROW went great so I’m going to try it again. Thanks for the responses. This one is even easier than the last one so let’s see how you do. See if you can tell what is different about this version of All My Loving that was officially released [...]
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