Did the late Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd, ever play on a Beatles track? This excellent and extensively researched article at the Neptune Pink Floyd web magazine charts the interactions between Syd Barrett and The Beatles between 1966 and 1969 concluding that while it hasn’t been 100% proven that Syd did contribute to a [...]
The Law.com website has posted details of a ”lawsuit filed by the Beatles, their representatives and their recording label Apple Records against Capitol Records and EMI Records will go forward following a Manhattan judge’s denial of a motion to dismiss.Capitol and its affiliate EMI concealed their use of the band’s recordings “in an effort to pocket [...]
With all the recent news coverage of the stolen “Get Back” tapes I thought it might be a good time to run a little video of one of the more harmonious sessions from that time. Â
According to a BBC News report, the “man who tried to sell stolen tapes of the Beatles’ recording sessions for their Let It Be album has been placed under a two-year supervision order. Nigel Oliver, from Slough, was charged with two counts of handling stolen goods. He was found unfit to plead. Judge Jeremy McMullen [...]
The case surrounding the recovery of stolen tapes from the final Beatles “Get Back” recording sessions, recovered in January 2003, opened at Southwark Crown Court. According to the BBC report Nigel Oliver, 55, from Slough, is on trial on charges of handling stolen goods. He is accused of trying to sell the tapes for a [...]
Saturday, 24th June, 1961 According to some sources the Tony Sheridan / Bert Kaempfert recording sessions ran on into a third day. The notes on the 1984 CD release suggest that on the Saturday the recording session was switched to the Studio Rahlstedt in Hamburg to record a single track; a cover of the Jimmy [...]
Friday, 23rd June, 1961 According to some sources the Tony Sheridan / Bert Kaempfert recording session at the Friedrich Ebert Halle in Hamburg ran over to a second day. However there is no apparent documentry evidence to support this.
Thursday 22nd June, 1961 Â This is the most probable date of The Beatles’ first recording session with German producer Bert Kaempfert although it can’t be verified for certain. What we do know of these sessions dates back to a set of sleeve notes on a 1984 CD reissue of material, however several things 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.
