Since this footage pre-dates even their first 45, Love Me Do, we are lucky it has been preserved at all. This is The Beatles covering the old RIchie Barrett hit, Some Other Guy at the infamous Cavern Club. Granada Television filmed The Beatles with their new drummer, Ringo Starr, on August 22, 1962, to “possibly” [...]
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Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Wild Cat (1960 ‘Beatals’ session)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity Of The Week. The rockabilly expertise of Gene Vincent inspired this week’s feature. In the summer of 1960, Gene was touring in the UK and apparently captured the respect of the struggling Beatles (then called The Beatals). Later that same year, while on their first visit to Hamburg, Germany to [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – To Know Her Is To Love Her (Decca audition)
Welcome to BROW. It’s a snowy day in my neighborhood. This week’s post takes a look at another snowy January Monday, 47 years ago, when The Beatles, supervised by A&R assistant Mike Smith played 15 songs, carefully selected by their new manager Brian Epstein, for Decca Records in West Hampstead, London in hopes of securing [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – My Bonnie (German intro)
Welcome to this week’s Beatles Rarity Of The Week. Most Beatles fans are aware of the early session where the Beatles (including Pete Best on drums) were invited to back up singer/guitarist Tony Sheridan. The resulting Polydor single My Bonnie released first in Germany and later in the UK, became the cause for, then Liverpool [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – A Picture Of You (BBC’s Here We Go)
Welcome to this week’s BROW. This track hails from The Beatles’ first BBC session that George Harrison took on a lead vocal. It was also the last BBC session that Pete Best played drums on as one of The Beatles. George covers A Picture Of You which was already a hit song at the time [...]
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