Welcome to the BROW and I’m hoping all of you had a good Independence Day. In 1969, The Beatles signed Doris Troy (known as “Mama Soul”) to their Apple label as an artist, writer and producer. Between December 1969 and June 1970, George Harrison and Ringo Starr played in the sessions for her upcoming Doris [...]
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George Harrison visits VH1 in 1997
In 1997 George Harrison visited VH1 for a short chat with host John Fugelsang and was talked into performing a few songs on his acoustic guitar while he was there. In his company were Ravi Shankar and his wife, Sukanya. George performs the Traveling Wilbury Vol. 3 tune If You Belonged To Me (sung on [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Runaway (original mix)
Welcome to the BROW. A couple of months ago when I made a post about The Traveling Wilburys, the song I featured had no vocal, so I’ve decided to let you hear them sing this time. The lead vocals here are handled by Clayton Wilbury (i.e. Jeff Lynne), though you can hear, Spike, Muddy and [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – New Blue Moon (instrumental version)
I’m going to break some ice with this week’s BROW. This will be my first post to feature this amazing Beatles-related supergroup. George Harrison wanted to come up with a unique B-side for his upcoming This Is Love single release of May 1988 and rounded up some of his friends to help him on the [...]
Beatles Rarity Of The Week – Free As A Bird (home demo)
This week’s BROW honors a request from last week for an original recording of John Lennon’s Free As A Bird. This is one of the original piano demos recorded on an audio cassette by John in 1977. Later when Paul McCartney asked Yoko Ono for any unreleased material by John, she gave him a recording [...]



