“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,” sang John Lennon on his 1980 album Double Fantasy. And that’s pretty much how Paul’s summer turned out! Things hav...
Is it NUJV or NVUJ? Well it depends what side of the Atlantic you live on and if you own a Parlophone or Capitol records edition of Help! The Beatles 5th album released in the summer...
In the summer of 1964 The Beatles released A Hard Day's Night in the UK. Their first album to contain purely Lennon and McCartney compositions. But by the Autumn of that year John, ...
There were 8 months between The Beatles debut album, Please Please Me and it's follow up With The Beatles. A further 8 months and A Hard Day's Night arrived in stores. By the summer ...
Exactly 8 months to the day after their debut album 'Please Please Me' was released in the UK. The Beatles second album 'With The Beatles' landed in record stores nationwide. Not onl...
11 February 1962 has become a legendary day in the history of Abbey Road. The recording studio located on a residential street in north London. For on that day, John, Paul, George an...
Following the tragedy of December 1980, Yoko took control of her husbands audio, visual and written legacy. Producing a series of releases which would not only keep John's name out t...
In the Spring of 1961 The Beatles made their first professional recordings under the guidance of Bert Kaempfert. The German orchestra leader, composer and A&R man for Polydor records...
In episode 58 Mark and Paul reviewed the rather excellent new album from Paul McCartney 'The Boys Of Dungeon Lane'. An album on which Paul reflects on his pre-fame past. In this epis...
With his 84th birthday just weeks away. Paul has gifted fans his first new collection of songs in 5 years. The question is: Is The Boys Of Dungeon Lane worth the wait? SPOILER ALERT!...
If you play all 22 original UK singles in chronological sequence, you witness first hand the creativity of John, Paul, George and Ringo. That progress was not a smooth climb. There ...
With the news that Apple are moving back into 3 Saville Row and opening a Beatles experience in 2027. To not only include access to the roof, but a recreation of the basement studio ...
When the exciting news dropped last week that apple are opening 3 Saville Row as a London Beatles experience, the Beatles network went into overdrive with rumours about what this wou...
In August 1968, The Beatles Apple records label made their debut with their 'First Four' single releases. Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days, Jackie Lomax - Sour Milk Sea, Black Dyke ...
Following a series of low key tours in 1972 and 72. Wings embarked on a 13 month world tour in the autumn of 1975. A tour which would see they start by playing cinemas and theatres i...
A couple of weeks back my daytime job took me to Wallasey, or more precisely New Brighton. Formerly the location of the Tower Ballroom, where The Beatles played 27 times during there...
When Paul, George, Ringo and the John Lennon estate won control of the groups back catalogue in late 1989. It marked a changing point in the way The Beatles back catalogue was manage...
The Hoffner violin bass is an iconic symbol of Paul's days with The Beatles. Sometime during the 60's, or was it the 70's Paul's original 1961 Hoffner disappeared. Lost for 50 years,...
In August 2024 when we published episode 1, I had no idea that 20 months later we would be publishing weekly, or that we would reach the milestone of 50 episodes! To celebrate this ...
When you read the biographies of John, Paul, George and Ringo, it's very obvious how hard they worked to progress from 4 school boys playing music for fun, to becoming the entertainm...