After two huge UK hit singles and a #1 UK album, The Beatles were a sensation at home, but had yet to make a major impression in the most lucrative music market in the world: the US. On 1 July 1963, they returned to the studio to record yet another John/Paul collaboration. "She Loves You" […]
Recording 17 days before the "Please Please Me" album would be released, The Beatles hoped to score another hit single with "From Me to You". Once again John and Paul worked together, reportedly writing in a car. The track opens with the band singing what was originally written as a lead guitar line. This innovation […]
The second-last track on "Please Please Me", and the last of the originals, was "There’s a Place". This was yet another John-Paul collaboration. Paul cites the tune "Somewhere" from "West Side Story" as an inspiration for the lyrics. Unlike "Somewhere" and other escapist songs of the time, this one is more metaphorical, as the "place" […]
Evening Echo News reports that Paul spoke today at graduation ceremonies at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. Also in attendance were Ben Elton and Anita Dobson, who became honourary Companions of the Institute. The Institute was established by Paul in 1996, and is housed in the same building where he attended high school: the […]
July 22 - 1963. Vee-Jay records misses its scheduled release date for "Introducting… The Beatles". Finally released in January 1964, it was the first Beatles album available in the US.July 23 - 1965. "Help!" / "I’m Down" single released in the UK.July 24 - 1967. The Times of London publishes an advertisement signed by The […]
George sang lead on two tracks from "Please Please Me". One was the cover of "Chains". The other was the Lennon/McCartney penned track "Do You Want to Know a Secret". John found inspiration for the song in the tune "I’m Wishing" from the 1937 Disney film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", which his mother […]
The second track on the "Please Please Me" album was another collaboration between John and Paul. In early 1963, Helen Shapiro, all of 16 years old, was the biggest female singer in the UK. When she needed some new material for an upcoming album, her manager Norrie Paramor suggested The Beatles compose one for her. […]
For the first track of their debut album, The Beatles selected "I Saw Her Standing There". The original idea for the song was Paul’s, and he would sing lead, but John had a large part in the writing process.
"I had ‘She was just seventeen,’ and then ‘Beauty queen’. When I showed it to John, he […]
Yahoo music reports that Illinois proto-power pop band Cheap Trick is putting on two special shows at L.A.’s Hollywood Bowl in August. The trick: each performance will consist entirely of The Beatles songs. The second half of each show will be a track-for-track reproduction of the "Sgt. Pepper" album.
Sounds like a cheap trick to me.
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U2log.com reports that Julie Taymor has directed a new film, "Across The Universe", inspired by The Beatles music. The film combines live action, animation and puppetry to tell the story of a Liverpool dock worker (Jim Sturgess), who travels to America to find his long lost father. On his way, he meets an American girl […]
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