The Beatles had a new single to promote but did not want to interrupt their Revolver recording sessions to visit television studios all over the world to perform it for everyone. So instead they enlisted the help of director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (who would also end up working on a few Beatles projects after this) to [...]
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Sealed copy of ‘Yesterday and Today’ with Butcher Cover goes to auction
A sealed copy of The Beatles controversial album Yesterday And Today will go up for auction this week at Heritage Auction Galleries in New York. A good condition copy alone is very rare, but a sealed copy goes way beyond that. The lot description reads that it is the finest copy that they have seen [...]
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 – 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 – I’m Only Sleeping (U.S. mono mix)
Welcome to this week’s Beatles Rarity Of The Week. This track was requested by a subscriber a few weeks ago. Back in 1966, while The Beatles were working on their Revolver LP, Capitol Records in the U.S. were putting together a compilation album of singles tracks that had yet to appear on a U.S LP [...]
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