Reuters is reporting that the company representing The Beatles has settled a 30 million-pound ($59 million) royalty dispute with EMI Group in a deal that could finally pave the way for the Liverpool band’s music to go online.Apple Corps, the company owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George [...]
The UK’s Daily Mail recently published a series of photographs taken at Abbey Road on March 30th, 1967 during the recording of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The one aspect of the photographs that has created the biggest buzz is that they show Paul (standing on left) wearing a pair of thick horn-rimmed glasses.
It has been (or “bean”) confirmed that, as we reported last week, Paul McCartney is the first artist signed to the new Starbucks backed record label “Hear Music.” According to the Associated Press The former Beatle made an appearance via a video feed from London at the company’s annual meeting. The world’s largest specialty coffee retailer [...]
According to a report in the UK’s Daily Express, Yoko Ono has given the green light for Paul McCartney and fellow surviving Beatle Ringo Starr to work on John Lennon’s unfinished song Now And Then.
(BUSINESS WIRE) – After more than a year of research, equipment acquisition and recording, soundware developer EASTWEST introduces a virtual (software) instrument collection inspired by the sounds of the Beatles with their Fab Four Virtual Instruments collection. The Fab Four Virtual Instruments -unaffiliated with or endorsed by the Beatles or Apple Corps. Ltd. – presents [...]
Monday, 1st January, 1961 At 11:00am The Beatles arrived at the studios of Decca Records in Broadhurst Gardens, London for the most important day of their career to date. The chance to audition for a major record label. While Brain Epstein had traveled down to London by train the previous day and stayed overnight with a family member [...]
According to a report on the RockRadio website, Paul McCartney has expressed regret that he, George and Ringo never finished working on the  unreleased John Lennon song, titled “Now And Then,” for the Beatles Anthology project. He explainined, “There was one more (song) that we didn’t do which was a pity. It didn’t have a very [...]
This clip is has various clips of The Beatles during the Get Back sessions and features the unreleased John Lennon song “Watching Rainbows” as the soundtrack. Â
An interesting video clip this week showing Paul, John and Ringo at work rehearsing Hey Jude while George helps out in the Abbey Road studio control room.
 The September issue of the internet music magazine Ear Candy contains a fascinating article and analysis of the bootleg track A Piece Of Mind / The Candle Burns. The track has been known about since the mid 1970s but this is the first real in depth analysis of it that tries to answer if it [...]
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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.
