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Saturday 29 December 2012
This is your life, George Martin
Friday 21 December 2012
Full Christmas tree photo
I was wondering why this photo was reproduced in black and white in my calendar, because it was obviously shot in colour. When you search for it on the internet, the sizes you will find are usually very small, but at least they'll be in colour.
Today I came across the version you see depicted here, which shows the full photo before it was trimmed. As you can see, the Beatles are standing on a roll of red wallpaper for this particular shot. You'll usually see the photo trimmed like this:
There's another, similar shot where George is holding his hand to his face, leaning on it. That one was used for a Bravo cover, but they seem to have gotten a black and white version only, because they have clearly coloured it themselves:
Of course, this has also originally been shot in colour, as evidenced by this version, courtesy of another, older calendar:
There's only one other shot of the full tree I've seen, although it's only available in less-than-mediocre quality:
The rest of the photos from the session has all the Beatles sitting in front of the tree, opening presents.
All photos: Robert Whitaker
Thursday 13 December 2012
Cut Me Some Slack - McCartney/Nirvana
1.Helter Skelter - Paul McCartney & band
2.Let Me Roll It - Paul McCartney & band
3.Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five - Paul McCartney & band
4. My Valentine - Paul McCartney & Diana Krall
5. Blackbird - Paul McCartney
6. Cut Me Some Slack (new song) - Paul McCartney & Nirvana
7. I’ve Got A Feeling - Paul McCartney & band
8. Live And Let Die - Paul McCartney & band
Sunday 9 December 2012
John Lennon and Yoko interview from Dec 1980
Friday 7 December 2012
Thursday 6 December 2012
The Christmas song - two versions
It was previously believed that the version of "Wonderful Christmastime" on the new single would be by the band "The Shins", as this was the version included on the Hear Music comp, but now that the single has materialised, it turned out to be Paul's original recording. The single is a limited edition release, and has already turned up at inflated prices on ebay.
Wednesday 5 December 2012
Hillsborough music video
Here's the music video for the Hillsborough charity single: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother by the Justice Collective. Kenny Dalglish, Paul McCartney, Alan Hansen, Robbie Williams, Gerry Marsden, Melanie C, Paloma Faith and Shane MacGowan are among the cast of stars in the collective. Their aim is to have the no.1 hit Christmas single, to raise vital cash for the families continuing to fight for justice for the 96 Liverpool fans who lost their lives in the 1989. Paul McCartney and Gerry Marsden were also participant singers in the first Hillsborough charity single, "Ferry Cross The Mersey" back in 1989. On the new single, McCartney contributes some vocals and guitar parts.
If the video is temporarily unavailable, you can try this link. The track will be released on December 17th.
Sold! The incomplete 1982 Decca Tapes needledrop
Our guess is that EMI realised that this tape was just a dub off an old vinyl bootleg from the seventies, and not a copy of the historic tape from 1962. This may be the highest price anyone has ever paid for a needledrop of a bootleg.
The tape has been called "a safety master" by the auction house, but documentation included with the tape shows that the tape is just the origin of a 1982 "grey market" release from Back Stage Records
The tape box is marked with BSR 1111 A and BSR 1111 B. Back Stage Records released a record with catalogue number BSR 1111 in 1982 with these songs in the same order and with the same timing as this tape has. Their source is likely to have been a tape made from the original Decca Tapes bootleg on Circuit Records depicted above.
The Telegraph
Monday 3 December 2012
The Beatle who vanished
Originally a collector of The Beatles' bootleg recordings, Berkenstadt collaborated with Scott Belmer in publishing Black Market Beatles: The Story Behind the Lost Recordings , a guide to the underground market. Talking to Citypages, Berkenstadt said "Somebody had been to Apple Corps to meet with Neil Aspinall. They saw a copy of our book on his desk. A chapter in the book highlights the most significant black-market Beatle releases. The Beatles Anthology box set, released later, aligned closely with our recommended recordings. I think they had a reference there. When they hired me in the late 1990s, it proved to be true."
The Beatles' Apple Corps company hired Mr Rock'n'Roll detective Jim Berkenstadt to dig up audio, video and other artifacts for projects including LOVE, the Las Vegas Cirque de Soleil show, and the box set George Harrison: The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992. Among other things he was able to supply George and Giles Martin with 10 or 15 hours of spoken-word Beatles audio to be peppered into the audio mix for the Cirque du Soleil Love show in Vegas.
The website for his new book can be found here. Be sure to pay his blog a visit too, you won't regret it!
Friday 30 November 2012
Unsold Decca tapes
Source: Jyllands-posten
Tuesday 27 November 2012
Paul's Christmas single
Paul McCartney's Christmas single for 2012 |
Friday 23 November 2012
Decca tape from 1983
As with all publicly circulating versions of the Decca audition recordings, these are also derived from the old Joe Pope Deccagone singles of the seventies, or from the same tape.
Friday 16 November 2012
Hamburg Beatles Museum sale
Thursday 15 November 2012
The Beatles Live Project
Friday 9 November 2012
Thursday 1 November 2012
Tomorrow Never Knows promo vinyl LP
When the album was released as a digital download in July, a spokeswoman said that Tomorrow Never Knows would not be released on CD or vinyl. So far, only a couple of these have appeared on ebay. There's one there at the moment, but with a starting price of $599.99, there are no bidders.
The back cover |
detail |
Accompanying letter |
Also, a free download |
Tuesday 23 October 2012
At last: The bubblegum book
Monday 22 October 2012
Tuesday 16 October 2012
Elton John shares Lennon footage
"I was 18 when I took it, and had bought the Super 8 camera specifically for the concert. Yoko was in the 11th row, just across the aisle from us, and seeing her take her seat confirmed the rumor Lennon would be there was for real. When Lennon came on stage, we were standing on our chairs, so the footage of him is fairly shaky, and maybe a minute in length, if that. And it was taken from the 12th row orchestra, so there were various heads I was shooting over while trying not to fall off my seat. I clearly remember my friend yelling at me "the floor is shaking" during the Lennon set."
The footage was posted on YouTube by Mary Ann, but has since been removed. Now it has been worked on and improved by Elton John's people and can only be seen at the singer's Million Dollar Piano show at Caesars Palace during the performance of "Empty Garden (Hey hey Johnny)", which Elton and his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin wrote after Lennon's tragic death.
Beatles On Sale in Italy
Source: La Repubblica
A book about the Beatles were distributed on October 3d:
Monday 15 October 2012
New Beatles documentary
In an unforeseen future, the background became the interesting part of the photo. |
Among the talking heads were the two Tony B's (Bramwell and Barrow), Phil Collins, Steve Harley, Norman Smith, Colin Hanton, Sam Leach, Ken Dodd, Freda Kelly, Sylvie Vartan and those true veterans of Beatles documentaries, Allan Williams and Gerry Marsden. By chance I happened to watch that old 1981 documentary "The Compleat Beatles" today, and it was fun to see those two guys there in their much younger incarnations.
Independently made, "Becoming The Beatles" doesn't feature original Beatles studio recordings, although they snuck in some of that infamous Hamburg Star Club tape in the background. Leaning very much on old black and white still photos and some of Klaus Voorman's Hamburg Days paintings, the film was augmented by some interesting colour footage of Liverpool in the sixties and a couple of gems in the form of that earliest "Valentines Day" colour film (Leach says he remembers the guy who asked to shoot the footage) and colour home movie footage from Paris Olympia Theatre, January 1964. John Lennon also popped in now and again, speaking from an interview with French TV in the mid-seventies.
The bulk of this material also appeared in a 2007 DVD from the same company, entitled "Rare and Unseen", so I guess this new documentary is more or less just recycling footage and interviews they already had. It's likely to be broadcast in your country too, just wait and see!
For your pleasure, here's that Paris footage set to a soundtrack from those same concerts, something Formative Productions were unable to deliver.
Sunday 14 October 2012
Vinyl Remasters Price Cuts
One of the spreads from the book that accompanies the deluxe box set of Beatles' vinyl album remasters |
Friday 12 October 2012
John Lennon 1980 interview
Well, actually it's more fly-on-the wall while John Lennon is having a normal conversation. He speaks very fondly of the "Magical Mystery Tour" film, among other subjects.
Wednesday 10 October 2012
MMT Official movie website
The boys (and girls) at the Paul Raymond Revue |
Remastered Beatles movies for DVD:
1964: A Hard Day's Night (film rights not owned by The Beatles) 2000 (DVD) 2009/11 (Blu-ray in Canada/Mexico)
1965: Help! 2007 (DVD)
1967: Magical Mystery Tour (2012 DVD & Blu-ray)
1968: Yellow Submarine 1999 (DVD), further restored/remastered 2012 (DVD/Blu-ray)
1970: Let It Be never released on DVD, only on VHS/Laserdisk in 1981
Vinyl remasters - the book
There is a chapter on each of the albums. I've expanded the original notes a great deal. I've also written an Introduction, which includes quotes from interviewees featured in my 2009 radio series The Beatles: Here, There And Everywhere. There are also chapters about the remastering process and how the vinyl cuts were made. It's beautifully illustrated.
So there you have it. Another reason to get the full boxed set.
You can check out some more spreads from the book over at superdeluxeedition.
Mister Kite - poster recreated
Now, Peter Dean was not satisfied with the quality of the reproduced posters, so he set about recreating it from scratch. He is now offering the public at large to get their own limited edition (1967 prints are available) print from this website. It's a marvellous work of art, but at the price they are charging, it looks like I'm going to have to stick with my cheapo edition.
Monday 8 October 2012
All My Loving from Sweden
At the start of the programme you can hear a telephone interview with Raymond Jones, the first customer to enquire about the "My Bonnie" single from NEMS.
Sunday 7 October 2012
1963 live tape of Beatles concert surfaces
They played a gig at the ABC – later renamed the Lonsdale – on Warwick Road on November 21.
And one man in the crowd that evening made sure he would be able to remember the event.
John Wilson, of Dalston Street, Denton Holme, went along with one of his trusted companions – his tape recorder. And his recording was played on the radio on October 5th as part of a special day of BBC broadcasting to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of Love Me Do. They played a portion of this on BBC Radio Cumbria at 5 October, just before 9am.
Almost half a century on he still has the reel-to-reel product of his amateur session with the band. It features a version of Love Me Do, which came out 50 years ago yesterday.
At that time the venue had 2,000 seats, all of which were sold out for the show, many to the group’s many female fans.
This fact had a significant effect on the recording.
“There is an awful lot of screaming girls,” joked John. “It sounds as though The Beatles are playing in the background.”
This concert was the second time that the Fab Four had appeared in Carlisle.
Previously they had played the ABC supporting then teenage star Helen Shapiro.
On this occasion they were famously thrown out of the Crown and Mitre Hotel for their appearance.
None of this seemed to deter John, 74, though who described himself as a “big fan” of the group.
His favourite singles are Love Me Do and Hey Jude.
John also has a very wide musical taste which ranges from The Beatles to country and western to classical.
Andre Rieu is a current favourite. He was also passionate about making tape recordings and regularly took his machines out with him. His collection includes two tapes of concerts from another of the biggest names in British pop, Cliff Richard.
And that's the story so far, as retold by Cumbrian newspaper, News & Star.
Further investigations reveal that the concert date probably is wrong. If "Love Me Do" was indeed played, this must be their first Carlisle gig on the 8 February 63 Shapiro concert, because the group had stopped playing "Love Me Do" by November. Anyway, it certainly is a remarkable story, and this is a tape we would very much like to hear in full.
UPDATE
Having listened to bits of the broadcast, it's evident that the song in question is From Me To You and not Love Me Do, so they have their date right. Also in evidence is a lot of Beatlemania and The Beatles struggling to be heard. A lot of historical value but the music is barely audible.
Friday 5 October 2012
Happy birthday, R4949!
Today is also the release date (at least here in Norway) of the new edition of "Magical Mystery Tour" TV-movie. And this brings us for the first time in a long while a previously unheard composition from these fine song writers. What a great birthday present! So, happy birthday, Love Me Do!
P.S. I Love You.
Thursday 4 October 2012
Shirley's Wild Accordion is out!
Until now, it's in the bonus material on the new DVD/Blu-ray of the film. And if you've seen the fish'n'chips shop footage, you've already heard it...
12. October, 1967: Studio Three, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: John Lennon
Engineer: Ken Scott
Shirley's Wild Accordion was a Lennon-McCartney composition, although it wasn't officially a Beatles recording. It featured Shirley Evans on accordion, accompanied by her musical partner and then husband Reg Wale on percussion. Paul McCartney played maracas and yelled "Go on, Shirl!", while Ringo Starr played drums. The track was recorded under the working title of Accordion (Wild), and was cut from the final edit of the film. It was recorded in eight basic takes, with Evans playing from a score written by Mike Leander from ideas by Lennon and McCartney. Two reduction mixes were then made, numbered nine and 10, followed by overdubs. The recording was completed with five additional takes, numbered takes 11-15. Three mono mixes Shirley's Wild Accordion were then made, numbered 1-3, from takes 10, 7 and 14 respectively. The second was subtitled Waltz, and the third was known as Freaky Rock. The session ended at 2am on the morning of 13 October 1967.
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Wednesday 3 October 2012
Love Me Do anniversary mix-up
The single version as you probably know featured Ringo, and the album version featured Andy White with Ringo on the tambourine. The mistake is that they have supposedly put the album version on the new 7 inch.
At the moment EMI have no plans to replace it with the correct version.
This information came from one of the retailers who had already shipped their pre-orders, so there will be a number of lucky owners of this rarity when the post arrives tomorrow....
Meanwhile, we are wondering that perhaps Ringo may have had something to do about this, due to his own faulty memory. Whenever Ringo tells the story of Love Me Do he always has it backwards, that it was the version with Andy White on the drums which became the single, whereas the Ringo version was on the album. So perhaps it is the Ringo version on the new 7-inch and Ringo through Apple may have withdrawn it because he thinks it should have been the Andy White version...