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Tag Archives: The Quarry Men

Sep 09 3 comments
Films, VOW

One After 909 – The Beatles Jan. 30, 1969 rooftop performance

I thought this would be an appropriate choice for this week’s video feature since the date is September 9th. The Beatles, along with friend and keyboardist Billy Preston, made their final concert appearance at around 1:00 pm on January 30, 1969, on the roof of their Apple headquarters and studio at 3 Savile Row, London. [...]

Apr 29 0 comments
VOW

Eleanor Rigby (Live in Kiev, 2008)

Since today marks the 45th birthday of the Beatles classic Eleanor Rigby, I thought it a nice fit for this week’s video. It was April 29, 1966 when Paul recorded his lead vocal for the song. Producer/arranger George Martin conducted a doubled string quartet for the backing track the previous day. It consisted of four [...]

Mar 29 3 comments
Interviews by Happy Nat

David Bedford – author of ‘Liddypool’ – Birthplace of The Beatles

David Bedford’s 2010 book Liddypool: Birthplace Of The Beatles has been gaining a lot of recent recognition and has even been dubbed the most comprehensive book on The Beatles and Liverpool ever written. The book has been hailed as such by people who should know. To name a couple, there is official Beatles biographer Hunter [...]

Mar 29 4 comments
BROW

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – In Spite Of All The Danger (original length)

Welcome to yet another installment in the Beatles Rarity Of The Week series. When The Beatles Anthology 1 CD set was released in November 1995, I was truly in awe over it. While I had heard some of the recordings on my own unofficial releases, there were many that were new to me. And in [...]

Jan 11 11 comments
BROW

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Catswalk (1962 Cavern Club rehearsal)

Welcome to this week’s BROW, which turns out to not only be a triple feature, but also a salute to a very significant man in Beatles history known as Chris Barber. Read on… One of the main things that inspired John Lennon to form up his band The Quarry Men was the “skiffle-craze”. When UK [...]

Aug 29 2 comments
BROW, MOG-era BROW

Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Crying Waiting Hoping (Decca audition)

It’s Friday already, which is my self-established deadline for the Beatles Rarity Of The Week, so here we go. It was on this day in 1958 that 15 year old George Harrison joined The Quarry Men. George had been watching the group and hanging around with them since February of that year and his friend [...]