tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66959192215230644402010-01-06T17:33:52.677+01:00All things Beatle. This is not a blog for download links.Wogewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11078163786060701898roger@norwegianwood.orgBlogger362125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695919221523064440.post-63760708013833838962010-01-06T17:31:00.002+01:002010-01-06T17:33:52.690+01:00

Ringo Starr will perform a few songs live as part of a media event on January 12th at Rockefeller Center in New York City. He'll be doing snippets of songs before taking questions from the media, and then he's scheduled to tape an episode of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" for NBC. Fallon reportedly is devoting the entire show to Ringo.

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A cassette single of "Free As A Bird", signed by George Harrison is on the market (again).An autographed copy of the single 'Free as a Bird', with cover artwork by John Lennon, cassette format, inscribed on the inlay "To Keith - All the Best George Harrison". Fine, in custom-made felt-lined collector's box with gilt titles to spine. "Free as a Bird" was the first new music to be released in

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The Beatles at the Indra Club in Hamburg, some time in August, 1960. At the time, they were five: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best. This photo has been signed by Pete.2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles. Why? Because come August, it will be 50 years since the Beatles abandoned their jobs and schools to go to Hamburg and work professionally as

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A variety of "official" Beatles Calendars for 2010, licenced by Apple Corps are now available. Take your pick!

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I told you about the Norwegian music magazine "Tunes" back in December, and the fan photo that Egil Gjerde had taken of Paul leaving his house in Cavendish Avenue, carrying an accordion. Our friendly neighbourhood blog, "Meet The Beatles for Real" has been sent another photo from the same occasion (above). See my earlier post for discussions about Rocky Raccoon and this accordion.There's another

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The Beatles – Contemporary SoundComplete Revisionist RemixesEven though the Beatles Remasters avoided remixing the stereo images of the songs, EMI and Apple have, over the years, released Beatles tracks remixed to a more "contemporary" stereo image. This is a fan made compilation of these mixes. It's currently being torrented over at the recently revived Demonoid tracker.Disc 101. Love Me Do (ant

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The WogBlog will take a holiday break, and hopefully we'll be back before the New Year. Meanwhile, I'm going to London to see Paul McCartney wind up his short tour. I'll leave you with this clip of Paul and his band playing his Christmas hit "Wonderful Christmastime", here from a performance in Cologne, Germany.

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The new song by Paul McCartney, currently featured on his Good Evening Europe Tour, "(I Want To) Come Home" has been released as a download from online music stores. It is also available as a single-song CD-R with the above cover photo, which you may order from stores like Mix'n'burn (handy for those of us who feels there's a void in our CD collection when all we have is a downloaded mp3 file).

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Your browser does not support iframes.From the Pathe Newsreels Archives, labeled "Unissued / Unused material - London Airport".Here's the description of this clip:The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison - Jimmy Nicol stands in for Ringo Starr on this trip for he is ill.) get out of coach at London Airport and wave to the fans on airport roof. LS Fans lining the roof of the

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Nowhere Boy, the new biopic about the young John Lennon is due out on general release at cinemas across the UK on Boxing Day, December 26th. It has already been previewed for the press down at Abbey Road Studios, and London Beatles tour guide Richard Porter had the chance to attend the screening. He came to the screening with mixed feelings, because of early reports about "white washing" the

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This morning, McCartney was interviewed on the CBS Sunday Morning show (see above) and tonight he appeared live at the final of the UK programme The X-factor, performing Drive My Car and Live and Let Die.

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Another of those wicked Entertainment Memorabilia auctions is taking place at Bonham's of Knightsbridge next week, Wednesday the 16th of December 2009. The above photo, taken by Liverpool photo studio Peter Kaye of the fab four aboard "The Salvor" down by the Liverpool docks in 1962 is one lot at the auction. It's priced at £3,800 - 4,200, but the front of the photo doesn't warrant this estimated

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This embedded video has been discontinued because it autostarted. Go to the official VH-1 site to view.

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1940-1980

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The latest issue of the Norwegian music magazine Tunes has a great Beatles cover, and an article about Norwegian Beatles fans who have met The Beatles or members of the group. The article has been written by Nils V. Gjerstad. One of the more interesting stories is accompanied by a photo of Paul McCartney with an accordion.The fan photo was snapped on the 13th of August 1968 by a 18 year old

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The British press has forever had one big grudge against Paul McCartney: We All Stand Together, with Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus. Time after time, that's a song that is brought forward as an example of how bad a songwriter McCartney was in the eighties. We fans are sick and tired of the British cocaine-snorting journalists dragging this one song down in the mud, because they're out of

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Ob-la-di, Ob-la-daNever played live by the Beatles, first time live performance by Paul McCartney.I Want To Come HomeFrom the new film "Everybody's Fine" starring Robert DeNiro. Unreleased and never played live before.And I Love HerNot played by Paul since 1993, and never played in the original Beatles arrangement before.

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Just a quick report from the opening of the Good Evening Europe Tour. There were a few changes in the set list since the US tour, and Paul was in fine voice.Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da went over well with the Germans with it's unmistakable rhythm. I was disappointed that the set list changes had squeezed out "I'm Down", after it only had been played a few times. There are many stalwarts which could have

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In 1995, it may have looked like the invention of the CD-ROM would give us a new way to interact with our favourite artists. Hot on the heels of Bob Dylan's release of "Highway 61 Interactive", Yoko Ono made arrangements to release an interactive CD-ROM featuring John Lennon.Yoko Ono wanted to bring an interactive Lennon/Beatles-experience to the starving Beatles-fans/computer-users.According to

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Liddypool is the first major book to concentrate solely on The Beatles and Liverpool, covering their rise from childhood in the 1940s and obscurity to their triumphant civic reception at Liverpool Town Hall on 10th July 1964, when the city said goodbye to the Fab Four, their favorite sons, and shared with the world the most famous quartet in the universe. Bedford uses local knowledge and

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Here is the Beatles Christmas Calendar for 2009. Every day you get to open a new door until December 24th. Behind each door, there's either a YouTube video or something else. Some times it's even something extra! You must allow pop-up windows to make use of the calendar.Bookmark this post, so you can return here each day for a new calendar surprise! Click on the pic to open the calendar page.

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As part of Radio 2's Great British Songbook, Bob Harris investigates the songs the Beatles gave away. The fevered excitement that accompanied every Beatles release in the 1960s is well documented but less is known about the music written, though not necessarily recorded or released, by the Beatles during the same decade.Whilst the Beatles were constantly in the charts, John Lennon, Paul McCartney

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"A little tale of two little boys" (or the Lennon - McCartney vs McCartney - Lennon controversy) was an inspired article I wrote in 2002, following the uproar in Beatles fan circles regarding Paul McCartney's so-called "reversal" of the composers credits on his live album "Back in the US"/"Back in the World". Lots of otherwise intelligent people sided with the Yoko Ono version of the story here,

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It was recently brought to my attention that the new Apple USB Memory stick containing all the Beatles remasters offers a sonic advantage over their CD equivalents. The memory stick contains 44kHz FLAC files, but they are in 24 bit of superior audio quality in comparison to CDs (which are 44kHz/16bit, which is all a standard CD can handle).This is the second time we have been offered music in

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A Columbian Beatles albumList of countries who released Beatles records in the sixties:AngolaArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBelgiumBoliviaBrasilCanadaChileColumbiaCongoCosta RicaCzech Republic (Czechoslovakia at that time)DenmarkDominican RepublicEast Germany (DDR)EgyptEquadorFinlandFranceGreeceGuatemalaHollandHong

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