Paul McCartney, Miles Davis, and Jimi Hendrix; three artists whose talents irreparably changed their respective genres: pop, jazz, and rock. And it has recently turned out that the three of them could very well have done some recording sessions, maybe they could have even created a new band in the wake of the Beatles' breakup that may even have … [Read more...]

When's the last time I did a post on the Beatles? Well, okay, I did a post on Paul getting mistaken for a busker two weeks ago... and talked about a rare Beatles recording, Yoko Ono's 80th Birthday, and a re-recording of their first album in the space of a single week. Okay, so I've done a lot of Beatles articles lately. But the fact is that Tony … [Read more...]

Well, if you're one of the sixteen people who saw Macca's 1984 film Give My Regards to Broad Street, you'll remember that, in one scene, when he contemplates the consequences of the master tapes for his latest album being stolen, he's playing "Yesterday" on the streets on what appears to be the guitar he played at his first meeting with John … [Read more...]

Well, now that it's clear that Yoko has been acquitted of the crime of breaking up the Beatles, it's apparently okay to like Yoko Ono now. And just in time for her 80th birthday; and to celebrate, she and her son Sean have reformed the Plastic Ono Band and are set to perform a one-off gig in Berlin's Volksbühne on February 17. Just who will … [Read more...]

As you may know, many of the UK's record stores are closing, which may not bode well for the future of the music album, but, as a piece of nostalgia, BBC's Radio 2 is working on a "The Golden Age of the Album" program, and, as part of it, Mick Hucknall of Simply Red and Stereophonics are to attempt to record The Beatles' debut album in 12 hours on … [Read more...]

Many Beatles fans may know that the John Lennon and/or Paul McCartney sometimes gave away songs to other bands so they could, through association, become big themselves. In fact, a little Cockney blues band had their first single "I wanna be your man" written by the duo. Their name escapes me for the moment. But one of the songs the duo gave away, … [Read more...]

You'd expect that the home of one of the most revered musicians in history would be the prime place for a statue of him, right? Not so, as Olivia Harrison, George Harrison's widow has actually halted a campaign to erect a statue of the late Beatle near his Oxfordshire home. James Lambert, from Henley-on-Thames, where Harrisson lived until his … [Read more...]

Another rare piece of Beatles memorabilia is to be auctioned off soon, and, no, it's nothing as unsightly as one of John Lennon's teeth; It's a series of 65 rare, unpublished colour photographs of the Beatles' 1964 tour to the US.  There is no indication as to which 1964 tour these photos were photographed under, whether it's of the famous … [Read more...]

You thought you've seen all the odd Beatles memorabilia? How about one of John Lennon's teeth? It's going on tours of Dental Practices throughout England. If you want to know where the tooth is coming next, look no further than here. How and when the tooth, a molar, was originally extracted is unknown. But apparently, Dot Jarlett, his former … [Read more...]

As any good Beatles fan knows, before Ringo Starr finally joined the Beatles, he was part of a band called Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Of course, it should be said that hardly any of these fans know what they sounded like, especially since the only five songs they recorded professionally were recorded well after Ringo left. But all that is due … [Read more...]