Well folks, the highers-up at b5 media have decided to discontinue this blog. I’m looking at the possibility of continuing it elsewhere, though I’ll probably take a month off to focus on my upcoming wedding. If you would like to be contacted when and if the blog starts up again, drop me an email. gslisrael […]
Last week’s Beatles Blog Quiz Question Eighteen was a tough one. I received two answers, both going with Come Together. It’s a good idea. Hillary Clinton was trying to get Americans, or at least Democrats, to come together. But that wasn’t the Beatles song I was looking for. It doesn’t match up with a subtle […]
Here’s a brief video clip of The Beatles bassist Paul McCartney talking about drug use in The Beatles. He claims that John Lennon was excited by LSD, but that he himself was frightened.
The interview is followed by a promotional video of The Beatles playing Day Tripper - a song that Paul admits was written about […]
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Day Tripper (the reverse of double-A side single We Can Work It Out) has perhaps the most catchy riff of the entire Beatles catalogue. It is one of my favourite songs to play on guitar. John Lennon wrote the riff and most of the lyrics, with Paul McCartney contributing in the verses.
“Day trippers are […]
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On 3 December 1965, The Beatles released their (and the world’s) first “double A-sided” single. We Can Work It Out and Day Tripper were given equal billing and indeed both of them were #1 songs in the UK.
We Can Work It Out was another collaboration between Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Paul wrote […]
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Paul McCartney is best known for his singing, songwriting, and for playing bass guitar. But he wasn’t always a bass player. In 1956, Paul’s father bought him a trumpet for his 14th birthday.
“I used to play [the trumpet] a little bit because that was the hero instrument then, The Man with the Golden Arm […]
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Starting this year, Liverpool will celebrate July 10 as Beatles Day. The day marks the 44th anniversary of the band’s triumphant return home after their first American tour.
Event promoter Chas Cole explains:
“Liverpool has always been proud of The Beatles and it’s a wonderful idea to combine an annual celebration of their music with […]
Morecambe and Wise were a hugely successful British comedy duo from 1941 through to Morecambe’s death in 1984. In December 1963 The Beatles appeared on their ATV television programme Two Of A Kind.
Here is the entire 10 minute clip of The Beatles from that show. It includes fairly standard performances of three songs, This Boy, […]
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My first entry of the This Week in Beatles History variety was published on 6 July 2007. Since then, (almost) every week I’ve added to the series. As today is 4 July, the series has come to an end. Over the course of the year I’ve mislabeled a couple of entries, lost count, […]
In the previous entry, I listed the blog entry that was most popular each month. Here I list the top ten most popular Beatles Invasion entries of all time.
The Beatles: The Next Generation
This Week in Beatles History (#32)
John’s Guitars Part 3: 1958 Rickenbacker 325 Capri John Lennon Guitar
John Lennon’s Guitars Part Nine: 1964 Rickenbacker […]
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