I’m going slightly off the beaten path for this week’s BROW, back to November 18, 1985, when a 12 inch vinyl single was released containing three considerably differing mixes of Paul McCartney’s theme song “Spies Like Us,” composed and recorded for the motion picture of the same name. The standard 7 inch single was also [...]
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Another Girl (1965 Bahamas “Help!” clip)
From February 4 – February 14 (St. Valentine’s Day) ,1965, Paul McCartney went on holiday to Hammamet, Tunisia with his girlfriend Jane Asher. Inside the house on the grounds where they were staying was a lavish bathroom with perfect acoustics for songwriting. This was where Paul wrote “Another Girl”. The Beatles convened the day after [...]
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” [...]
Please Please Me – McCartney ‘US’ tour encore, 2005
Paul McCartney threw the first Beatles #1 into the setlist for one of the encore performances recorded during his ‘US tour’ and it appears from the footage that this ‘pleased’ the audience very much. The ‘US’ tour began on September 16th, 2005 in Miami FL and finished on November 30th, 2005 in Los Angeles, CA. [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Take This Hammer Medley, 1969
Welcome back for another edition of The Beatles Rarity Of The Week. After the filming of their surprise concert on the roof of Apple during the cold afternoon of January 30, 1969, The Beatles thought they had enough footage for their Let It Be documentary film. Well, almost anyway. There were still a few songs [...]
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 [...]
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