Blog, Blog Me Do... » Uncategorized http://blogmedo.com The BEATLES Blog - For everything FAB FOUR related Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:14:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A little bit of Fab Four Kindle-ing http://blogmedo.com/a-little-bit-of-fab-four-kindle-ing/ http://blogmedo.com/a-little-bit-of-fab-four-kindle-ing/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:14:36 +0000 Alan Porter http://blogmedo.com/a-little-bit-of-fab-four-kindle-ing/ "Before They Were Beatles" on the Kindle

Just popped back to post a quick note to let you all know that my biography of the Fab Four’s early days, “BEFORE THEY WERE BEATLES,” is now available as a Kindle edition for the low price of just $1.99

]]> http://blogmedo.com/a-little-bit-of-fab-four-kindle-ing/feed/ 4 On the roof top… http://blogmedo.com/on-the-roof-top/ http://blogmedo.com/on-the-roof-top/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:32:21 +0000 Alan Porter http://blogmedo.com/?p=1363 As some of you may have noticed, there hasn’t been any real activity on BLOG ME DO for several months now. It’s all the fault of the Starship Enterprise and a bunch of talking vehicles.

At the end of last year I landed a contract to write a book about the forty year history of Star Trek in comic books It turned out to be a much bigger project than we originally thought and gradually used up more and more of my available writing time. As I was working on it other writing opportunities also opened up and my schedule started to look a little crowded, as I also have a day job, and a family, things began to fall off my schedule.

My philosophy with any blog I write, and this one in particular, was that I always wanted to put the best time and effort into researching each post. If I didn’t have time to do it properly, then I would rather not post at all.

A few weeks ago we finished the Star Trek book and it was packed off to the printers. In the following few days I took a step back and looked at my commitments for the next few months. I had a lot of them, including a couple more book projects that will run well into 2010.

It was with a sense of sadness I came to the realization that it was time to move on from BLOG ME DO. I’ve had a fun three years here, and I hope that you have enjoyed the content I’ve provided. Thanks to this blog I’ve meet many other Beatles fans, attended a couple of Beatles conventions, and even reconnected with a couple of old friends.

But while I’m leaving BLOG ME DO, I’m not entirely leaving the world of the Beatles behind, as I have a couple of Beatles related book projects I am shopping around to a selection of publishers.

The talking vehicles I mentioned earlier? Well one of the writing commitments is that I am now the regular writer on the Disney*Pixar “The World of CARS” comic book series, published by BOOM! Studios.

Thanks again for reading, – I hope I passed the audition.

Alan J. Porter

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The Beatles start the year with another two performances of The Beatles Christmas Show at the Astoria Cinema in Finsbury Park.

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The Beatles stay in Weston-super-Mare for the fourth gig of their engagement at the Odeon cinema.

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The Beatles perform at the ABC Cinema in Great Yarmouth. The Beatles’ song list this night is “Some Other Guy,” “Thank You Girl,” “Do You Want to Know a Secret,” “Misery,” “A Taste of Honey,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Love Me Do,” “From Me to You,” “Baby It’s You,” “Please Please Me,” and “Twist and Shout.”

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The Beatles tape an appearance for the BBC radio program “Saturday Club” at London’s Playhouse Theatre. They perform “I Got to Find My Baby,” “Memphis,” “Money,” “Till There Was You,” “From Me to You,” and “Roll Over Beethoven.” The show will be broadcast on June 29.

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The Beatles play at appear at the Majestic Ballroom, in Finsbury Park, London as part of a “Mersey Beat Showcase.”

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The Beatles perform at Pavilion Gardens Ballroom, in Buxton.

]]> http://blogmedo.com/beatles-day-by-day-4663/feed/ 0 A Bard Day’s Night in London http://blogmedo.com/a-bard-days-night-in-london/ http://blogmedo.com/a-bard-days-night-in-london/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:25:06 +0000 Alan Porter http://blogmedo.com/a-bard-days-night-in-london/ En route to London’s Palladium, the Beatles mysteriously find themselves transported back in time where they find themselves “forced” to write a musical with William Shakespeare. That’s the premise behind singer/songwriter Chris O’Neill’s A Bard Day’s Night, which We Call This Music Fab reports is currently in development for its London stage debut.

Chris O’Neill is perhaps best known for his role as George Harrison in the movie Backbeat.

]]> http://blogmedo.com/a-bard-days-night-in-london/feed/ 1 Happy New Year and here’s to a great 2008 http://blogmedo.com/happy-new-year-and-heres-to-a-great-2008/ http://blogmedo.com/happy-new-year-and-heres-to-a-great-2008/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:24:56 +0000 Alan Porter http://blogmedo.com/happy-new-year-and-heres-to-a-great-2008/ We are back after the Holiday break. I hope that everyone had a great time and I’d like to wish all the BLOG ME DO readers around the world a Happy New Year and hope that the coming months are everything you wish them to be.

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