In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan managed to snag a brief interview with John Lennon in his hotel room in Toronto. Using his reel-to-reel tape recorder, Levitan asked Lennon a series of questions about peace, popularity, and messages in music.
In 2007, Levitan collaborated with director Josh Raskin, illustrator James Braithwaite, and animator Alex Kurina to produce […]
I’m in the early stages of a new book about a certain dashing British hero who is parodied in this sequence from the Beatles cartoon series. This clip came up during one of my research sessions, it wouldn’t work in the book - but it’s perfect for here.
On Friday evening, as part of his promotional activities for his new album, Liverpool 8, Ringo Starr appeared at the House of Blues in West Hollywood. As well as perfoming he also did an on-stage interview, which you can watch here.
At last the truth behind the breakup is revealed..
Ringo performs his nostalgic new single, and album title track, Liverpool 8 in Liverpool as part of the city’s “2008 European Capital of Culture” celebrations.
Last Friday evening I was lucky enough to host a private house concert featuring the two lead guitarists from the excellent Beatles tribute band Daytripper in an “un-plugged” session. The show was two hours of great Beatles songs and chat about the Fab Four’s music.
Here’s a short video I shot of them perfoming my wife’s favorite Beatles […]
Our good friend, and fellow Beatle comics collector, Fabio from Italy has launched Beatlestube.net, a YouTube style site devoted entirely to The Fab Four.
Here’s how he describes the site: the site that tries to organize all Beatles Video that you can find on the web. There are plenty of Beatles clips on Youtube™ and Google […]
Elvis covers Yesterday during rehersals in 1970. That lyric - “I’m not half the man I used to be,” never seemed more appropriate.
Listed among the upcoming releases at the MVD Entertainment website is “BEATLES - DESTINATION HAMBURG.”
The DVD is described as covering the period “from the formation of the Quarrymen in 1957, and The Beatles early years in Hamburg, this 60 minute music documentary uses contemporary film, and recently rediscovered and restored footage to tell the definitive […]
Last week’s posting of the Whitesnake cover of Day Tripper sent me on a search for other artists covering Beatles songs. Most of what I found ranged from simply bad to stunningly awful. Some of it was good. And then there were the few truly brilliant interpretations…
Topping that later list was this stunning performance of Come Together by […]
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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.
