The U.S. National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) recently released its ‘Definitive 200‘ list, and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, tops the list as the most essential album ever made. Sgt. Pepper came out ahead of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Led Zepplin IV, U2′s The Joshua Tree and [...]
It now seems that the new Ringo Starr album that we reported on a few weeks ago will be released on May 8th. On it’s pre-order page, Amazon.com lists the CD title as “Live From Chicago II: 2001″ However the Rock Radio website describes the album as being the soundtrack to a 2005 Soundstage concert aired on [...]
According to a report on the UK website Entertainment Wise, EMI and Apple Corp are suing a company called Crystal Systems claiming that in January 2001 a cleaner reportedly threw threw a box into the trash that contained several iconic photos of The Beatles taken in 1963. Among the images lost is the original of [...]
We hear that Capitol Records is preparing a “Ringo Starr’s Greatest Hits” CD for release on June 5th, 2007. No word on track listings or packaging, so we don’t know yet if this is a reissue of a previous Greatest Hits collection or a new selection.
Welcome to the second week of our Beatles Trivia Quiz – now renamed the “Beatles Buffs Quiz.” The first person each week to answer all five answers correctly will have their name posted on the “Beatles Buffs” honor roll right here on Blog, Blog Me Do. Just include your answers in a comment. So without further [...]
Along with the continuing iTunes speculation comes hints that the complete series of Beatles albums may be reissued on CD this year, and that the new versions could be in stores as early as March. Other sources state that the CD reissue will start in June when a new “dual” version of Sgt. Pepper may [...]
The personal copy of Meet The Beatles owned by George’s sister Louise and signed to her by all four Beatles (above)Â recently sold at auction for $115,228.
Over at Beatles.com a new promo video for the track “Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows” from the LOVE album, has been posted. The video was simltanously released on MySpace and You Tube and you can see it below. LOVE MAP The Beatles.com newsletter reports that 50,000 people logged in to preview the LOVE [...]
To mark the worldwide release of LOVE, the folks over at The Beatles.com have launched a special “microsite” for the album which you can access by either clicking on the image below, or by clicking HERE.
According to the Liverpool Post a one-off Beatles record rarity created from cheeky opportunism, and worth thousands of pounds, is to go on display in Liverpool. The only copy of the Beatles “White” Album recorded on blue vinyl has been donated to the The Beatles Story, by the album’s owner, 49-year-old TV cameraman Colin McDonald. In [...]
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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.
