In celebration of the upcoming Blu-Ray/DVD re-release of Yellow Submarine, I thought it would be a good week to show a small snippet from the film. Details on the re-release can be found here. The animated movie’s box office premier was in July of 1968. At the film’s intro, the village of Pepperland is introduced [...]
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Beatles Rarity Of The Week – How Do You Do It (before the ‘Sessions’ mix)
Welcome, once again, to The Beatles Rarity Of The Week. In the summer of 1984, long before there was any concept of The Beatles Anthology, EMI began putting together a new Beatles album as a secret project. The album was appropriately titled Sessions and would contain alternate takes of some known songs, as well as [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Think For Yourself (‘Dexterized’ mix)
For this week’s BROW, I first want to talk about a guy who was a Capitol Records A&R executive in the 1960′s named Dave Dexter. Capitol Records was actually owned by the U.K.-based company, EMI, that were handling the distribution of Beatles records in Britain through their Parlophone subsidiary. When EMI sent “Please Please Me” [...]
Real Love (Official Anthology Video Clip, 1996)
Most Beatles fans are well aware of the John Lennon demos Yoko Ono gave to Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in 1994, and the magic that was breathed into them for use on the Beatles Anthology project. Although even casual fans have seen both of the resulting video clips more than once, it [...]
All Those Years Ago (George Harrison original slideshow promo, 1981)
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 [...]
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) [...]
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