The Beatles closed their show at the Circus-Krone in Munich with a shorter rendition of I’m Down where the verses were rearranged and John’s keyboard antics in the ending removed. This show took place on the 24th of June, 1966. There was a 5pm show and a 9pm show and this was filmed at the [...]
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Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Tomorrow Never Knows (studio sessions)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. BROW continues to focus on the music of John Lennon this month, the 70th anniversary of his birth. One of the reasons The Beatles stopped doing live concerts is that by 1966, their music became too complex to reproduce onstage, given the technology of the day. On [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – I’m Only Sleeping (US stereo reissue mix)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week. This week’s post is a follow up to an earlier BROW I posted way back in October of 2008, that you can check out here if you like. The previously referenced post points out that there have been five mixes in the standard Beatles catalog of I’m [...]
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 – And Your Bird Can Sing (alternate take)
Welcome to The Beatles Rarity Of The Week. Journalist Richard Simpson claims that John Lennon wrote And Your Bird Can Sing after hearing from Rolling Stone Mick Jagger that his new girlfriend, Marianne Faithful, is quite a singer (“bird” is slang for girl or girlfriend in the UK). Whatever the inspiration, it turned out to [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – How Do You Sleep (take 4)
Welcome to BROW. There was still a bit of a feud going on in 1971 between Paul McCartney and the other three Beatles over legal matters with Apple and the “big breakup”. In May of that year, Paul released his Ram LP and some of the lyrics to three of the songs on the album, [...]
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