Beatles

He Wrote For Elvis And Performed The Greatest Ever Beatles Cover Version: The Story of Junior Parker

By Every Record Tells A Story on March 8, 2017 • ( 6 )

The first thing you should know about Little Junior Parker is that he wrote the song “Mystery Train”, which Elvis Presley covered and made famous. The funny thing is, as a songwriter Junior Parker wasn’t prolific. You could say he… Read More ›

A Brief History of The Beatles

By Every Record Tells A Story on January 26, 2017 • ( 3 )

Last week we published a Beatles Playlist of songs compiled by Every Record Tells A Story readers which we hope will persuade my friend, a Sceptical Swede that The Beatles are actually a half-decent band. In case you missed it,… Read More ›

The Ultimate Beatles Playlist (For People Who Don’t Like The Beatles)

By Every Record Tells A Story on January 17, 2017 • ( 10 )

In the last blog post, I introduced you to a friend from Sweden named Agaton who told me he had always found The Beatles’ music irritating. He asked me to come up with a playlist of Beatles tunes he would… Read More ›

Please Please Help! Build A Beatles Playlist For Someone Who “Doesn’t Like The Beatles”

By Every Record Tells A Story on January 12, 2017 • ( 40 )

I was catching up with a friend recently when he delivered something of a bolt from the blue. With a voice that appeared as nonchalant as that of a serial killer’s he confessed, without apparent shame, that he didn’t like… Read More ›

A Visit To Abbey Road Studios

By Every Record Tells A Story on November 18, 2016 • ( 3 )

Wednesday 6th June 1962. 6pm. The first visit of The Beatles to the EMI Studios in Abbey Road. John, Paul, George and Pete were still unsigned, and their equipment was shabby: wooden unpainted amplifiers, generating as much noise – according… Read More ›

The Best Cover Versions of Beatles songs – Part 2

By Every Record Tells A Story on February 7, 2015 • ( 18 )

The recent tribute to Macca – The Art of McCartney – featured dozens of cover versions of Paul’s solo work as well as his Beatles work, and it is fair to say that unless you were a fan of the… Read More ›

What Are The Best Cover Versions of Beatles Songs?

By Every Record Tells A Story on February 4, 2015 • ( 26 )

It is a truth universally acknowledged that you have to be either brave, stupid, or both to try to better the arrangement that The Fab Four chose themselves. It seems that they considered every arrangement, and then found the best… Read More ›

Buying Beatles, Dylan, Cash and Beach Boys on Vinyl

By Every Record Tells A Story on October 22, 2014 • ( 11 )

Instead of buying the Oasis (What’s The Story) Morning Glory box set, I have decided to spend the same amount of money building as good a record collection as is humanly possible. It isn’t clear quite why I am doing… Read More ›

Our Next Vinyl Challenger… “Gen X at Midlife” Throws Down The Gauntlet

By Every Record Tells A Story on October 20, 2014 • ( 2 )

Because I saw several people leave HMV the other day with nose bleeds when they saw how high the price was of the Oasis Box Set, (in case you are new to Every Record Tells A Story) I have been… Read More ›

Early Candidate For Music Book of the Year: “Beatles With An A” by Mauri Kunnas

By Every Record Tells A Story on September 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

In the year after the release of Mark Lewisohn’s 1,800 page Proustian Beatles biography “All These Years”, (merely part-one-of-a-trilogy) most Beatles writers have, quite justifiably one suspects, thrown down their pens in despair, turned to drink, or begun to dust… Read More ›

The Am-Azing (Moltmaker’s) Beatles Museum, Alkmaar

By Every Record Tells A Story on July 15, 2014 • ( 2 )

Alkmaar in Holland is perhaps best known for its traditional cheese market. Burly men have paraded the streets of Alkmaar for hundreds of years, all dressed in costumes whilst selling their wares. And there’s also a cheese market. Perhaps less… Read More ›

What Is The Greatest “Not Officially Released” Album?

By Every Record Tells A Story on May 27, 2014 • ( 29 )

There’s something about unreleased songs and albums which is wholly intriguing. An unreleased record taunts us whilst unheard, causing divine despair for the days that are no more, or whatever the poet said. Never mind the fact that the artist… Read More ›

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