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The super deluxe edition of Revolver was released in 2022 (and we haven’t had another super deluxe edition since). Among the highlights was John’s Yellow Submarine songwriting tape, in which he sang, “In the place where I was born/No one cared, no one cared,” and “In the town where I came from/No one cared, no…
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When Paul walked out of the studio during the Revolver sessions (reportedly during the recording of She Said She Said), The Beatles didn’t break up. When Ringo left during the White Album sessions, and George did likewise during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions, the remaining Beatles continued recording. But when John announced “I want…
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Near as I can figure, The Beatles have released three official versions of the Larry Williams song Dizzy Miss Lizzy, all recorded in 1965. On the Help! version, John sang this verse: Run and tell your mamaI want you to be my bride.Run and tell your brotherBaby, don’t run and hide.You make me dizzy, Miss…
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Wings isn’t in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but they should be. So if you have a vote, or know someone or does, let’s get Wings inducted soon. Musically, I can’t conceive of a rational argument why they shouldn’t be inducted. I don’t know enough about the various music charts to discern precisely…
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I didn’t plan on making my retirement year all about The Beatles, but it turned out that way: in 2025, I saw both Ringo (for the first time) and Paul (for the sixth) in concert, and I visited Liverpool (also for the first time). Ringo We had tickets for Ringo’s 2024 Philadelphia show, but as…
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To recap, I’m highlighting some of the events that have kept The Beatles in the public consciousness since 1970. I ended Part 1 talking about Anthology. One month after the Anthology book was published in 2000, The Beatles released possibly the most successful of their post-breakup ventures. 2000: The release of The Beatles 1. This…
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I’m a second-gen Beatles’ fan; I was born in 1964, and although I’d surely heard their music all my life, I didn’t become interested in the band until about 1976.* During the post-breakup years, several events–most, but not all, releases or rereleases of their music, and some not even initiated by the band or their…
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In 2024, Peter Brown and Stephen Gaines published All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words. The book contains interviews with Paul, George, and Ringo; Beatle spouses (Pattie Boyd Harrison Clapton, Cynthia Lennon Twist, Yoko Ono, and Maureen Starkey); members of The Beatles’ inner circle (Alistair Taylor, Dick James, Neil Aspinall, and…
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On some days, Hey Bulldog is my favorite Beatles’ song.* I love John’s opening piano riff (followed by George’s guitar and Paul’s bass echoing the riff), and John’s lyrics and vocals (backed by Paul) have a looseness that not many of their tracks match. It sounds like–and I mean this as a compliment–he’s singing off…
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We’ve all heard the story about the genesis of Hey Jude: Paul wrote it to console five-year-old Julian Lennon, whose parents had separated and would eventually divorce. Here’s How Paul tells the story in 2021’s The Lyrics: The song had started when I was travelling out one day to see Julian and his mother Cynthia.…
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