Tag: The Beatles
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Sir Paul McCartney at Eighty: Were Wings Really The Band The Beatles Could Have Been?
“It is hard to understand quite how it happened, but there are millions of teenagers running around now who don’t know who U2 are.” I was talking to my friend Steve the other day after reading this comment online where someone with enough music knowledge to share opinions about Arcade Fire and Coldplay had nevertheless […]
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Listen Here: The Best Beatles Cover Versions: Part 3
This is the third and final chapter in the “Without The Beatles” series – a chance to hear some of the best Beatles cover versions around while reading the “liner notes” below to give you a little more context around what you are listening to. As before, you can hear all these tracks – which […]
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Listen Here: The Best Beatles Cover Versions (Part 2)
Welcome to the “liner notes” to the second of three mixes bringing you the very best Beatles cover versions. You can hear all the tunes mentioned below by playing the embedded Mixcloud player at the top of the page, or by clicking this link for Mixcloud to open in a new tab. Mixcloud is a […]
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Listen Here: Over Fifty Of The Best Beatles Cover Versions. Part 1
You can listen to all the music mentioned in this post by clicking the Mixcloud player above, or (if that isn’t working) you can click on this link and the Mixcloud player will open in a new tab. According to The Guinness Book Of Records, the most covered song in history is The Beatles’ “Yesterday”. […]
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Beatles Reunite As Ringo Starr Joins Paul McCartney Onstage In London
Beatles fans received an early Christmas present last night as the two surviving Beatles, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, played together onstage for the first time since Ringo’s 2015 inauguration into the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame, for the first time since 2002’s Concert For George in the U.K., and for only the tenth […]
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Sweet Billy Pilgrim Launch Stunning New Album At St Pancras Old Church
As the dystopian nightmare of 2017 fades, to be replaced with fresh, new dystopian horrors with a shiny “Made In 2018” badge on them, we find ourselves looking for a fresh start. And what better way to find a fresh start than turning to a band about to release their fifth album? Well, okay, on […]
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A Brief History of The Beatles
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, my friend, code-named Agaton, finds Lennon and McCartney’s singing as annoying as he does the […]
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The Ultimate Beatles Playlist (For People Who Don’t Like The Beatles)
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 like – or at least that wouldn’t set his teeth on edge – in return […]
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Please Please Help! Build A Beatles Playlist For Someone Who “Doesn’t Like The Beatles”
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 The Beatles. You can imagine my consternation. My friend grew up in Sweden, not that […]
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A Visit To Abbey Road Studios
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 to the studio employees – as the instruments themselves. The Beatles recorded four songs: Besame […]
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45 Years Ago Today – The Beatles White Album: But Is It Better As A Single LP?
Today is the 45th anniversary of the release of “The Beatles”, which was released on 22nd November 1968. Today’s news that a track listing has surfaced of The Beatles White Album as a single LP – drawn up collectively by the band in September 1968 – and found in a box of papers once belonging […]
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The Beatles: “If Brian Hadn’t Come Along They Were About To Break Up”
Two major books on the story of pop music are released this month. They are like buses. Not because you wait for ages and then two come along at once. No, these two resemble buses in size alone. The books I am referring to are Bob Stanley‘s story of modern pop, “Yeah Yeah Yeah” and […]
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The Beatles: Butcher LP Covers and How A 1966 Album Actually Lost Money
It was very confusing being an American Beatles fan in the sixties. Apparently. I have the disadvantage from a perspective point of view of a) being British and b) having been born in 1970… In the years up to 1966, Capitol in the USA had a rather cavalier attitude to albums. Rather than promoting them […]
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Bieber Meltdown Latest: He’s Not The First Pop Star This Has Happened To…
Noel Redding, the Jimi Hendrix Experience bass player had a handy quote for anyone who wanted to enter the music business and who asked his advice: “Study law. Buy a gun…” Not a stun gun though, presumably. What with Rhianna allegedly “romping with £5,000 strippers” (I say allegedly – it must be true – I […]
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It’s The 40th Birthday of Alan Partridge’s Favourite Beatles Album!
Ben: I didn’t know you were into music. I know you’re a DJ, but I’ve heard your show. Alan: Yeah, I like all the bands. I’ve got a broad taste, from the Brit-pop bands like UB40, Def Leppard, right back to classic rock, like Wings. Ben: Who’s Wings? Alan: They’re only the band The Beatles […]
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