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 [...]

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 [...]

Free to read online Beatles book is launched

The first ever free to read online Beatles book has just been launched. Bob Neaverson, author of The Beatles Movies (Cassell, 1997) and co-author (with former Apple Film boss Denis O’Dell) of At the Apple’s Core, has just launched a Beatles Movie website, www.beatlesmovies.co.uk.
The site is dedicated to celebrating the importance of the group’s [...]

Looking again at The Beatles

The are a few books on my Beatle shelf that I turn to a lot.  I wouldn’t say they always fall as essential reading, but I turn to them for their first-hand accounts of the goings-on.  Maybe one day Ringo will hit us with his own autobiography.  I know we came close with his beautiful title, [...]

BOOK REVIEW: The Beatles: The Press Reports

There are only a handful of Beatle books that really dig into primary source material about the Fab Four.  There are but a few single book titles that really give you a nicely packaged first-hand account of primary source material.  I was surprised to see a sumation of every Beatles press report.  This book provides [...]

Pattie Boyd: I burst into tears when George died. Was I right to leave him? More book excerpts.

The Dail Mail has been running several excerpts and stories around the release of Pattie Boyd’s upcoming book. It does run along the lines of a tabloid tale, but it is THE untold rock and roll tabloid tale.  There are lots of details that Beatle fans have not heard before.  They’ve always been alluded to, [...]

REVIEW: FAB FOUR FAQ

I have two collecting passions when it comes to the Beatles.  I collect the bootleg albums, and I also like to collect books about the Fab Four. I can afford the books.  Maybe one day I’ll switch my collecting passion to something a little more scarce, such authentic 1960’s memorabilia, but for now that’s what I can afford.  Maybe [...]

Laine To Spill Secrets Of Fractured Friendship With McCartney

There are just a few untold secrets surrounding the members of the Fab Four.   There are a few lingering skeletons in the closet waiting to tell their inside, personal, stories.  There is a short list of Beatle-related folks that I would love to sit down and tell their story of being a Beatle insider.

My top 5 (yet to [...]

Beatle’s muse comes clean.

There are few women in rock and roll that can lay claim to the title of true muse. Pattie Boyd happens to be the quintessential rock muse. This woman was the inspiration of not one, but two of the most famous love songs of the rock and roll generation.

Her story would be much different if [...]

Yoko Ono says she still might write a memoir

If you really think about it this is the one last Beatle story that has not been truly told in full.  She is a woman of mystery.  Love her or hate her, most fans don’t know that much about Yoko Ono personally.   There are a few Beatle books and stories that I have been holding [...]