According to USA Today, lawyers for the Beatles sued Friday to prevent the distribution of unreleased recordings purportedly made during Ringo Starr’s first performance with the group in 1962.The dispute between Apple Corps Ltd., the London company formed by the Beatles that helps guard their legacy, and Fuego Entertainment Inc. of Miami Lakes stems from [...]
According to the Scottish Daily Record a previously unpublished photograph of The Beatles backstage at a 1963 concert at the Carlton cinema in Kirkcaldy helped one reseracher uncover a long forgotten soft drink once manufactured by Scottish drinks manufacturer Barrs.
So own up, who else watched last nights’ edition of American Idol with a mix of fear and curiosity? Idol hopeful’s being let lose on the Lennon & McCartney songbook – a few years ago the very thought of it would have made me shudder. But this year it seemed that the Idol Top 12 [...]
According to various reports Paul McCartney has reached a $400 million agreement with iTunes for the distribution of the Beatles’ back catalog. The former Beatles star officially sanctioned the Internet download service to offer the band’s musical hits from albums such as “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” the Daily Mail said Saturday. McCartney will [...]
According to the BBC Psychologists at the University of Leeds are using The Beatles to increase their understanding of human memory. They want people to recollect moments in their lives linked to the Fab Four with the aim of discovering how musical memories affect a person’s identity. The scientists said the thoughts might be linked [...]
The What Goes On blog, reports that according to “sources with knowledge of the project,” The Toronto Sun has reported that an announcement that the Beatles are finally coming to iTunes will be made in a commercial in the Super Bowl on February 4, and that they could be available as early as sometime in [...]
Beatles scholar, writer and fellow ex-pat Brit, Martin Lewis, Â has produced an excellent column for Variety that discusses the strange relationship between The Beatles and the British press over the years. The British press is notorious for its fickle nature and its habit of building up heroes only to destroy them. As the article summarizes, [...]
Came across this on-line today – not sure if to be amused or appauled.. you decide.Â
According to a report in Billboard, Paul McCartney is predicting the Beatles’ catalog will make its long-awaited and long-desired arrival in the digital realm next year.McCartney tells Billboard.com that “it’s all happening soon. Most of us are all sort of ready. The whole thing is primed, ready to go — there’s just maybe one little [...]
I’m in the middle of a marathon viewing of Twin Peaks in preperation for writing a review of the new definitive DVD collection of this enigmatic TV show for the RevolutionSF website. This morning on one of the special feature documentries I heard a Paul McCartney story I had never heard before. Apparently during a studio [...]
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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.
