Friday, 14th April. 1961 The Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Pete Best, complete the second week of their mammoth 13 week engagement at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg, Germany.
CBS reports that Michael Jackson might use The Beatles — or, rather, his share of Sony publishing, which owns more than 200 of the Fab Four’s songs — to pull him out of debt. The Wall Street Journal phrases Jackson’s potential loss of half of his 50 percent share in the song collection as a [...]
 According to several sources the new Capital Records Vol. 2 boxed set that was released yesterday is not as it should be. Apparently the versions of Beatles VI and Rubber Soul labeled as “mono” are not in fact the original mono pressings but stepped-down versions of the stereo mixes. The differences are minor and don’t [...]
After expressing concern a few weeks ago that we may never hear re-mastered digital versions of The Beatles Catalog, Apple boss Neil Aspinall revealed during the recent Apple vs Apple court case that such a project is in fact underway. When discussing the possibility of Beatles tracks being available for download on services such as [...]
Apple have announced that an album featuring “completely new music” by The Beatles is in production and is scheduled to be release to coincide with the opening later this summer of the new Las Vegas show at the Mirage Hotel by Cirque Du Soleil. Â According to Neil Aspinall of Apple, the show “involves the [...]
 Horst Facher, manager of Hamburg’s Star Club, where The Beatles played during 1962, has published his memoirs under the title “Let The Good Times Roll.”  Facher was a champion boxer until he killed a man in a street fight. After serving his prison sentence he threw himself into the emerging music clubs of [...]
Bloomberg News reports that the “A British lawsuit between Apple Computer Inc. and the Beatles’ music company, Apple Corps Ltd., concluded Wednesday, with the presiding judge saying he would issue his decision at a later date. The lawsuit, the third between the two companies over the past three decades, relates to Apple Computer’s iTunes online [...]
Friday, 7th April, 1961 The Beatles complete the first of what would end up being a thirteen week engagement at The Top Ten Club in Hamburg, Germany. Â
An article in strategy+business magazine by Andrew Sobel draws four principles of teamwork from songs by The Beatles. Eight Days a Week suggests the hard work necessary to become a cohesive team; Getting Better addresses the need to evolve; With a Little Help from My Friends encourages letting teammates shine; I Need You speaks of diversity and [...]
A Beatles MySpace account has been set up to promote the upcoming “The Capitol Albums Vol.2″ boxed set. You can check it out and hear a few sample tracks at http://myspace.com/thebeatlesÂ
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Alan J. Porter has been a Beatles fan since he first saw them perform on a regional British TV show back in 1963 when he was just a wee lad. He is the author of the critically acclaimed BEFORE THEY WERE BEATLES and occasional contributor to Beatlology Magazine. He now lives in Central Texas and occasionally writes about things other than The Fab Four. You can find out more here.
