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 [...]
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In My Life – HQ promo for Beatles Anthology DVD documentary set
After mentioning In My Life in the last BROW segment, it brought back memories of this video account of John Lennon’s beautiful song from the Rubber Soul LP, as it was prepared for the Anthology documentary. The video served as an apt promo for a great film series. 12 people think this is FAB! Click [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (unconnected)
Welcome to the BROW. It’s pretty common knowledge that by the late summer of 1966, touring had become such a strain on The Beatles and they simply were not interested in doing it anymore – at least not in the near future. For examples of why, check out here, or here. Their careers had been [...]
Please Please Me live
On February 11, 1964, while between their first and second appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles performed a 12-song show at the Washington Coliseum in DC. CBS videotaped the show and had kinescope transfers made, editing the show together with performances by Lesley Gore and The Beach Boys, for screening in U.S. cinemas [...]
Hey Jude On David Frost
On September 4, 1968, television celebrity David Frost visited The Beatles in Twickenham studios where they were filming a promotional performance of Hey Jude. He aired it on his Frost on Sunday program four days later. Various clips of this film have shown up on American television too and it was shown in The Beatles [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Free As A Bird (home demo)
This week’s BROW honors a request from last week for an original recording of John Lennon’s Free As A Bird. This is one of the original piano demos recorded on an audio cassette by John in 1977. Later when Paul McCartney asked Yoko Ono for any unreleased material by John, she gave him a recording [...]








