Tagged as the "world's most famous drum skin," the drum skin featured on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt Peppers album sold for $1.1 million, or the price of a really nice house. Also selling for the price of nice house ($834,000,) were handwritten John Lennon lyrics for "Give Peace a Chance."According to auctioneer Christie's the lyrics were given to comedy writer Gail Renard, who in 1969, at ...
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Somebody decided that it would be a masterstroke to cross-breed the heavy-handed late-‘60s “rock” musical “Hair,” which attempted to co-opt and sanitize the counter-culture of the day (those free-spirited hippies and their psychedelic hymnal) for Broadway consumption, with the catalogue of the most successful recording artists of the 20th century, The Beatles - and capture the results on
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3 Saville Row must be one of the most famous addresses in Britain. This was Beatles HQ when they formed Apple Records, famous for the rooftop concert recorded for the film Let It Be.When they weren’t on the roof they were in the basement studio. Here’s a photo of the mixing desk:When George visited San Francisco and the Haight Ashbury in 1967 he somehow invited a couple of Hells Angels to visi
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As a compliment to inrumford's recent Abbey Road Beatles posts, I thought I'd share a podcast of the Beatles Abbey Road Rooftop rehersals that I recently came across. They are heard doing various takes of 5 tracks. This is in raw, but excellent, STEREO quality. All you Beatles collectors will want this download if you don't already have it. It's about 37 minutes long. To sample it, click the Re...
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This weeks BROW takes us back to the infamous Get Back sessions at Twickenham Film Studios in London on January 9, 1969. Only two days before an embryonic version of Get Back had been performed for the first time. Now, with energy levels increased by a lunch break, The Beatles decide to bash out a hard series of "Get Back Jams" and what you are hearing is an excerpt from them. At this point Jo...
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Welcome to this week's BROW. During the first half of January 1969, The Beatles rehearsed at Twickenham Studios in London for what was planned to be a television special of them at work on new recordings. It was a tense time for the band and most of the digestible material from these two weeks is seen in the Let It Be film. The Twickenham sessions ended in disaster however when George Harrison ...
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Another kink in the long and winding road, it seems:Apple Inc has dismissed claims in the U.K. press that the Beatles catalog is about to be made available online through the computer giant's iTunes Music Store as "unsubstantiated speculation."Reports on Friday suggested that unnamed sources "close to Sir Paul McCartney" had confirmed that the Beatles catalog would be available online though iT...
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