Category: Beatles

Happy birthday to Paul McCartney. Denro has pointed out that Rolling Stone has some photos of the Beatles from their first American tour that you’ve never seen before. Will there ever be an end of newly-discovered and/or released Beatles material? Not in my lifetime, I hope.

Turner Classic Movies is, at this moment, showing D.W. Griffith’s first version of The Squaw Man. Who else but TCM would show a silent movie from 1914 at 8 pm ET?

Fifty five years later, the Beatles recorded and filmed Let It Be, and that was, oh, only, uh, forty one years ago. Yikes! Who else but the BBC would have a radio documentary on the making of Let It Be? Click here to listen, but do it before next Monday.

BTW, Paul will be at the White House on July 2.

We saw Paul McCartney at Fenway Park in Boston last August, and he’s still out there touring, doing clusters of cities. In April he was at the Hollywood Bowl, playing for nearly three hours. But back in ’64 and ’65, when the Beatles played the Hollywood Bowl they were on stage for a lot less time.

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(Audio from Beatles Source)

On November 1 and 2, 1965, the Beatles taped a TV programme in, and for, England called, The Music of Lennon & McCartney. Aired in December, and coinciding with the release of Rubber Soul, the show featured songs performed by the boys themselves, as well as some by special guests. Thanks to YouTube user nyrainbow, here’s pretty much the whole thing. Pay attention to Paul’s introduction of Henry Mancini in part 6, and to the way that Mancini replies.