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 [...]
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The Fool On The Hill (1967 Magical Mystery Tour film sequence)
“The Fool On The Hill” was a Lennon/McCartney original, used in the Magical Mystery Tour film and accompanying LP/EP set. It was actually conceived by Paul McCartney, who stated in an interview that he wrote the song with someone like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in mind. He claims that he looked at the Maharishi as someone [...]
Strawberry Fields Forever (original 1967 promo video)
This week’s video feature acknowledges this month as the 45th anniversary of John Lennon’s writing of “Strawberry Fields Forever.” Two documentaries – The Beatles Anthology and Imagine: John Lennon – show footage of the clip, but both are incomplete. To this day, I am not aware of any EPK or DVD release by Apple that [...]
‘The Family Way’ returns in July
The upcoming McCartney/McCartney II reissues and Buddy Holly tribute CD are not the only Paul-related items making it to your favorite music store this summer. The original soundtrack to the film The Family Way was composed by McCartney in 1966, and recorded by Paul, with a few studio musicians and the George Martin Orchestra, for [...]
The Beatles – I Am The Walrus (1967 clip from Magical Mystery Tour film)
I toyed with the idea of April-fooling everyone into thinking I was taking the day off, and then tell everyone to come back for VOW next Friday, but then I decided that wouldn’t go over too well. Besides I have to admit, I’d feel a little guilty. So here I am with the expected Friday [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Only A Northern Song (take 3 at original speed)
Welcome to the Beatles Rarity of the Week! Perusing the information in the CD booklet for Beatles Anthology 2 concerning George Harrison’s Only A Northern Song, it’s pointed out that the song was originally written and intended for the 1967 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, but did not actually find it’s way onto [...]
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