Thirty one years ago yesterday, John Lennon was taken from us by a disturbed individual’s violence – the very same violence that John himself had spent much of the later years of his life opposing. Today’s video feature is a slideshow of various video clips and photographs of John’s life that were compiled into a [...]
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Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Please Please Me (live on BBC, missing on ’1′)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity Of The Week. Back in September, The Beatles 1 CD, originally released in 2000, was reissued using the recently completed 2009 remastered versions of each track. With 27 number one singles all on the same disc, it is quite an impressive collection. There are articles on various websites (including Wikipedia) [...]
Collector’s Corner – The “Love Me Do” single on Parlophone – The Beatles begin an incredible recording career
Excluding the January 5, 1962, Polydor “My Bonnie” single release (Polydor NH 66833 in the U.K.), where The Beatles were only backing musicians for Tony Sheridan, “Love Me Do” was the first song to be released by The Beatles. It was issued first as a U.K. single coupled with “P.S. I Love You” on EMI’s [...]
Paul McCartney & Guests – ‘Kansas City’ closer for Montserrat benefit, 1997
Beatles producer Sir George Martin fell in love with the West Indies island of Montserrat when he first visited there in 1977, and by 1979 he had his own recording studio established there. AIR Studios became a world renown facility used by a wide host of musicians, including Sting, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Elton John, [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Do You Want To Know A Secret (take 7)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity Of The Week. Can you believe that the BROW is four years old this week? Incredible! February 11, 1963, was easily the most productive day The Beatles would ever spend in the studio. After the relatively mediocre success of their first single, “Love Me Do”, their second single, “Please Please [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Cry Baby Cry (demo sequence)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity Of The Week. For this week I have assembled a collection of home demos and fragments of early versions of the White Album John Lennon classic, Cry Baby Cry. Proper recording of the song was not begun until July 16, 1968, but there are some recorded demos that date as [...]
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