Chelsea Flower Show to feature garden for Beatle George Harrison.

George Harrison would be so proud of this.  I can picture George enjoying this honor and homage moreso than receiving a Grammy award.  We all know how much he appreciated his gardening and flowers.  I can see George beaming with this honor.

It’s especially amazing how they are representing his life through the use of flowers [...]

Apple licensing Beatles to whole new generation.

Being a Beatle fan can be a bit of a catch-22.  We love the music, we love the boys, we love the hysteria, but somehow some of us complain a bit that they are/were so heavily marketed.  Well folks, the marketing machine is firing up yet again.
In the past, we have seen Beatles images plastered [...]

Paul McCartney To Release Book About Late Wife

In my opinion, there’s no better way to see the 1960’s rock scene than through the eyes of Linda McCartney.  There are few photographers who knew their subjects so intimately, and shot them as people.  It’s weird, you really get to feel the people in her photos.  You get a true sense of them as [...]

Beatles authenticator at heart of memorabilia suit.

There is a scuffle going in the collector’s community. It appears that a Beatles’ expert is being sued over alleged forgeries.  This article brings to light these allegations, and illustrates how the memorabilia selling community has nearly painted itself into a corner.  It seems that the authenticators are themselves selling their itmes.  Indeed, it is [...]

Animator draws from experience with the Beatles.

I have to admit that I simply love the Beatle cartoons.  As this article states, the Fab Four themselves were not too happy with the campy cartoons that beared their likeness. The animated Beatles were simply a way to cash-in on the mania and hoopla surrounding the group. 

The accents were horrible, the storylines, if you can even call [...]

NY Times takes a look at May Pang’s new photo book.

I haven’t been this excited for a Beatle-related book to come out in a really long time.  I was meeting with a friend last night, and we have a plan for this book.  We are going to get it together (I know it sounds a little dorky), and then have a viewing party.  We are going to play [...]

Pinewood Derby winner has Beatle-themed Magical Mystery bus!

I always try to check which blogs and websites are linking here to the blog.  I am amazed the places that link to my little site.  There is such a variety of places and people that link here for various reasons. Some of them are spam, some are for the stories, and some are simply for the [...]

Special edition of Music Week magazine features Paul McCartney

Music Week, the UK’s leading music industry trade magazine, is celebrating Paul McCartney being honoured with the Brits outstanding contribution award next week with an in-depth feature about the global music icon, including an exclusive new interview.
Remarkably it will be 50 years to the month since he persuaded John Lennon to let his school friend [...]

John Lennon gets his own Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

Well folks I’ve seen it all now.  First, we had John Lennon Converse sneakers, but now there’s this.   I guess the folks over at Ben & Jerry’s are taking John’s comments about selling peace like a product to heart.  They are imagining peace through an ice cream flavor.  We all scream for ice cream. 
I like the idea of [...]

A Beatle’s Haunt, Cafe La Fortuna, to Close Its Doors

 I am thoroughly bummed by this news.  It seems a Beatle (Lennon) landmark is closing its doors in the near future.  I am so bummed.  I was planning on visiting N.Y. in the fall.  I had visions of taking my obligatory photos of the Dakota, and then spend a good part of the afternoon in [...]