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Tag Archives: Mal Evans

Penny Lane (original 1967 promo video)

Back on November 11th, 2011, I featured the promo video for one side of the double A-sided Strawberry Fields Forever c/w Penny Lane single. I decided to follow that up this week with the other side. The promo clip for Paul McCartney’s “Penny Lane” was shot at a few locations on the 5th and 7th [...]

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – The Beatles Fourth Christmas Record (1966 fan club record)

Welcome to your 2011 Holiday-week BROW! As most fans are aware, each year from 1963 through 1969, The Beatles recorded a special Christmas greeting for their fans. The Official Beatles Fan Club in England sent flexi-discs containing the Christmas messages to its members each holiday season. Last year, I featured the 1965 message, so this [...]

Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) – 1970 promo

Instant Karma! was John Lennon’s third US/UK single following Give Peace A Chance and Cold Turkey and was released in February 1970, which was still a couple months before The Beatles were disbanded officially. John had Phil Spector produce the record and this could have been a way of trying him out prior to giving [...]

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Yellow Submarine (special effects track)

It’s time for this week’s BROW. As you likely know, it was fairly customary for John Lennon and Paul McCartney to pen a song together, for Ringo to sing, on whatever album they happened to be working on at the time. During the Revolver sessions of 1966, John had a verse melody in mind for [...]

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 – Laugh

This one ought to be good for a chuckle. First the background information: Back in 1969 as The Beatles were falling apart, John came up with his Plastic Ono Band concept. The basic idea was that the Plastic Ono Band was defined as whomever he (or Yoko Ono) happened to be playing with at the [...]