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Live Review by Alan Smith, NME, April 1963
MIKE BERRY burst into the second half to the throbbing beat of 'La Bamba'. Close on its heels came his current release 'My Little Baby' ...
A Hard Day's Surfin' Safari: When Brian Met Macca
Memoir by Derek Taylor, World Countdown News, 1967
When Beatles press officer Derek Taylor swapped Swinging Britain for LA's Sunset Strip in 1965, he played a pivotal part in bringing the worlds of ...
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, July 1987
AND ONCE THE tumult and the shouting have died, and life returns to something resembling normality... Sgt. Pepper remains a central pillar of the mythology ...
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AUDIO: Gypsy Dave with The Beatles in India (1981)
Interview by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1981
Travel with Donovan-acolyte Gypsy Dave to the ashram at Rishikesh to witness The Beatles meeting the Maharishi. Gypsy Dave is the cynic in the camp, and makes his escape with Ringo and Maureen.
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Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages Audio, March 2003
A long, free-flowing conversation, during which Paul talks about Phil Spector and Let It Be, on his relationship with Yoko and the "whose name first" saga, and the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison, plus much more.
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 75.8mb, total interview length: 1h 22' 44" sound quality: ****
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Newcomers To The Charts: Liverpool's Beatles Wrote Their Own Hit
Profile by Alan Smith, NME, October 1962
MAKING THEIR NME Chart debut with 'Love Me Do' this week are the Beatles, a vocal-instrumental group who hail from Liverpool, the birthplace of such ...
You've Pleased-Pleased Us Say The Beatles
Interview by Alan Smith, NME, February 1963
THINGS ARE beginning to move for the Beatles, the r-and-b styled British group which crashed back into the NME Chart this week at No. 17. ...
Report and Interview by Wesley Laine, Record Mirror, February 1963
WHETHER YOU like them or not, you've got to admit that the Beatles are just about the most talked-about group on the British beat scene. ...
The Beatles: New Album and Single
Report and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, February 1963
THERE'S been a lot of stuff written on the Beatles lately. Rightly, too, for they happen to be in the class of the rarest performers ...
Beatles Almost Threw 'Please Please Me' Away
Interview by Alan Smith, NME, March 1963
THE BEATLES opened a copy of the NME and gazed proudly at the Charts when 'Please Please Me' hit the top recently. It was a ...
The Hamburg Scene: An NRM Special Report
Report and Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, April 1963
WHERE, WOULD you reckon, is the greatest training ground for British beat singers and groups? ...
Throat Sweets Keep Us Going Say Beatles!
Interview by Alan Smith, NME, April 1963
A NEVER-ENDING supply of throat sweets is one of the secrets behind the continued success of the Beatles, who come crashing into the NME Chart ...
Billy J. Kramer Adds To Liverpool Chart Invasion!
Interview by Alan Smith, NME, May 1963
FIRST THE BEATLES, then Gerry and the Pacemakers. Now a new Liverpool name, Billy J. Kramer, looks set to take the NME Chart by storm ...
Close-Up on Paul McCartney, a Beatle
Interview by Alan Smith, NME, August 1963
I WENT roof-climbing with the Beatles – up a rickety wooden ladder, over drainpipes, and past the huge chimney-pots of London's plush Washington Hotel. The ...
The Beatles: Backstage at the London Palladium
Report and Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, December 1963
The Man Who Guides The Stars Behind The Scenes ...
When the Beatles Arrived in America, 1964
Essay by Michael Lydon, Yale Daily News, February 1964
NOTE: When the Beatles hit America in the winter of 1964, the event created a tidal wave in pop music that swept all before it. ...
The Beatles: Music's Gold Bugs
Essay by Al Aronowitz, Saturday Evening Post, March 1964
BRIAN SOMMERVILLE is a balding 32-year-old Londoner whose jaw juts out like the southeast corner of England when he thinks he is about to say ...
Sshhh!!!!! Silence!!! Lights!!! Camera!!! Action!!! It's Those Beatles!
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, Fabulous, May 1964
BEATLES HERE. Beatles there. Beatles tearing about everywhere, down at Twickenham film studios. I didn't expect any of them to have time for a chat, ...
John Lennon: Happy Birthday to the Head Beatle
Interview by Keith Altham, Fabulous, October 1964
Although The Beatles have never officially had a leader, John Lennon has always been regarded as Beatle-boss because of his major role in their success. ...
Beatle Quotes: It's Not Quiet In Studio As Beatles Make New Disc
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, March 1965
WHILE THE Beatles filmed in the Bahamas, George Martin, (the Beatles recording manager), sat back in London listening to tapes of the last recording session. ...
George Harrison: Beatles Plans Revealed
Interview by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, April 1965
THE RECENT Beatle interviews by Derek Taylor and Dave Hull – broadcast over KRLA – have attracted widespread interest and enthusiasm. ...
The Beatles: Making A Gold Record
Report by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, May 1965
ST. JOHN'S WOOD is very much London. Solid and a little old. But nice and comfortable, and not yet shabby. The buildings have dignity and ...
How The Beatles Spend An Evening
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, May 1965
IT WAS A typical quiet evening at London's Savoy Hotel. Quiet that is until the Beatles turned up to see Bob Dylan. They all trooped ...
Derek Taylor's Life With The Beatles
Memoir by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, June 1965
Recalls First Meeting When He Marveled At Their Magnetism ...
Derek Taylor Recalls Early Beatle Appeal
Memoir by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, June 1965
(Editor's note: Last week Derek Taylor began the story of his association with the Beatles. He told of attending a concert in which he first ...
Derek Taylor: My Life With The Beatles — Beatlemania Grips England
Memoir by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, June 1965
(Editor's Note: This is the third and concluding installment of Derek Taylor's life with the Beatles, first as a newspaperman covering their exciting rise to ...
The Beatles: John Lennon Slams The Critics
Interview by Alan Smith, NME, August 1965
JOHN LENNON shouted for food, then turned to me in the vast, near-deserted auditorium of Blackpool's ABC theatre. In two hours he and the rest ...
Cannibal & The Headhunters: Land of 1000 Laughs
Interview by Ann Moses, Rhythm 'n' News, September 1965
(Editor's note: This is the first of two parts dealing with Cannibal and the Headhunters — their group, their thoughts, their experiences as one of ...
Cannibal & The Headhunters: Beatles Threw Marbles, Pillows
Interview by Ann Moses, Rhythm 'n' News, September 1965
"THERE WERE so many things that happened, I can hardly think of them all" reflected Yo Yo of Cannibal & The Headhunters. As we talked ...
The Beatles, The Moody Blues: Odeon, Glasgow
Live Review by Alan Smith, NME, December 1965
Beatles terrific... and rest of bill ...
Lennon and McCartney: Songwriters — A Portrait from 1966
Interview by Michael Lydon, unpublished, March 1966
Just after the release of Rubber Soul, I had the chance to meet John Lennon and Paul McCartney in London, and I conducted in-depth interviews ...
How Does a Beatle Live? John Lennon
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, Evening Standard, March 1966
IT WAS THIS TIME three years ago that The Beatles first grew famous. Ever since then, observers have anxiously tried to gauge whether their fame ...
The Beatles: Ringo Played Cards As Others Sang 'Paperback'!
Interview by Alan Smith, NME, June 1966
...reveals GEORGE MARTIN, the Beatles' recording manager, in an interview with Alan Smith. ...
The Beatles: My Broken Tooth — by Paul McCartney
Interview by Alan Smith, NME, June 1966
I HAVE interviewed Paul McCartney travelling in a car at speed. Battling up a crowded flight of stairs. In a smoky billiards room. On the ...
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, July 1966
THE BEATLES have turned out the most nauseating album cover ever seen in the U.S. The jacket [of yesterday and Today — RBP Ed] is ...
John Lennon: 'A Subconscious Urge To Get Above People'
Interview by Alan Smith, NME, July 1966
Beatle Dreams by Alan Smith ...
Paul McCartney: 'I Get Caught Out In Street In Underwear!'
Interview by Alan Smith, NME, July 1966
Beatle Dreams by Alan Smith ...
The Beatles: Four Smiling, Tired Guys Talk About Their Music
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, August 1966
THEY'RE REAL. The Beatles, that is. I had never seen them in the flesh before, so I expected some kind of supermen to step out ...
Letters to the Editor: Lennon Vs. Christianity
Readers' Letters by Various Writers, KRLA Beat, September 1966
(Ed. NOTE: The BEAT has received hundreds of letters, both pro and con, concerning John Lennon's remarks about Christianity. Unfortunately, we do not have nearly ...
The Beatles, The Ronettes et al: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, Ca.
Live Review by Rochelle Reed, KRLA Beat, September 1966
"THIS JUST stuns me!" said awed Byrd David Crosby, a Beatle mate. He was standing on the field of Dodger Stadium, gazing up at the ...
The Remains: Beatle Tour — 'Like Playing In A Closet'
Interview by Rochelle Reed, KRLA Beat, September 1966
"PLAYING THE Beatle tour was like performing in a closet with the lights off," confessed Briggs, one of the Remains who wandered up to The ...
A Conversation with Paul McCartney
Interview by Miles, International Times, November 1966
THIS WAS recorded at Paul's house in Cavendish Avenue, Saint John's Wood in November 1966 for International Times, known as IT, the London Underground newspaper. ...
The Way Out is In: A George Harrison Interview
Interview by Miles, International Times, May 1967
GH: If you could just say a word and it would tell people something straight to the point, then you take all the words that ...
Down in Deepest Beatle-land, All John Gets is Love
Report by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, August 1967
DOWN IN the prosperous community of St. George's. Hill, Weybridge, in Surrey, something stirred. It wasn't a bird – it was a caravan, John Lennon's ...
The Beatles: Two Magical Mystery Tours
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, September 1967
'Ringo stood on my foot,' said one girl helpfully. 'But I don't know where they've gone!' ...
The Times Of India and Sgt. Pepper
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, October 1967
IN THE POP column of a recent edition of the Times of India, critic Z. H. has his first listen to Sgt Pepper. Here's his ...
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
Review by Mike Jahn, Saturday Review, December 1967
WHOEVER IT WAS that wrote the Bhagavad-Gita (the Celestial Song of Hindu theology) intended to define the perfect disciple when he wrote: "Who sees Me ...
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, December 1967
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR is another example of a subject in which the Beatles have been able to exercise their vivid imaginations. ...
Records of the Year: The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Review by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, January 1968
THIS ONE has historical value as a milestone in pop music, and in the art of recording, so it ought to be on everybody's list ...
The Case of The Cock-Sure Groupies
Report and Interview by Ellen Sander, Realist, The, November 1968
THE CHORDS come flooding out of the amplifiers like a tonal wave, swelling to an impossible amplitude, blaring, ringing, pounding. A broad beam of noise ...
The Beatles: The Beatles [The White Album] (Apple)
Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, November 1968
TOMORROW THE BEATLES will release their first album in a year, titled simply The Beatles. ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album)
Review by Miles, International Times, November 1968
WELL, THE new Beatle album's here with 30 catchy little numbers for you to whistle on your way to work, glide around the Mecca to, ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album) (Apple)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, November 1968
WITH OVER a million quid already in the coffers for this latest two-LP set handed down from the Liverpudlian heights, it is difficult to put ...
The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album) (Apple PCS 7067 & 8)
Review by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, January 1969
LAST YEAR'S obvious standout LP was Sergeant Pepper and now we have its unbelievable, impossible, out-of-sight successor. It's no feat of critical perception to pick ...
Essay by Steve Turner, Beatles Monthly, October 1969
The Parents who said "Ooh, you'll grow out of it" in 1963 are wondering about growing into it themselves in 1969. ...
The Beatles: Abbey Road (Apple)
Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, October 1969
Abbey Road by Beatles Marked by Moderation ...
The Beatles: Abbey Road (Apple)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, October 1969
Natural Born Beatles ...
Review by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, October 1969
WHENEVER A NEW Beatles album is released it's generally a critical and social as well as a musical event. Rock fans spend an entire week ...
The Beatles: Abbey Road (Apple)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, November 1969
SIMPLY, SIDE TWO does more for me than the whole of Sgt. Pepper, and I'll trade you The Beatles and Magical Mystery Tour and a ...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, December 1969
"We had to do a lot of selling out. Taking the MBE was a sell-out for me". Part 1 of a new series by RICHARD ...
Guide by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, February 1970
The Beatles – do you still want to know what they're up to? Even if, sub specie aeternitatis, it's, like, nothing? Well, go ahead, indulge ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, April 1970
Your own dossier on The McCartney Affair: Paul replies ...
Paul McCartney: Your Friendly Press Agent Knew That The Day Would Not Be Easy
Report by Derek Taylor, Record Mirror, April 1970
DEREK TAYLOR, THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE McCARTNEY AFFAIR (AND WHAT BETTER PLACE TO BE?) TELLS THE INSIDE STORY ...
The Beatles: Let It Be (Apple)
Review by Alan Smith, NME, May 1970
NEW LP SHOWS THEY COULDN'T CARE LESSHave Beatles sold out? asks NME's Alan Smith ...
The Beatles: Let It Be (Apple)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, June 1970
TO THOSE WHO found their work since the White Album as emotionally vapid as it was technically breathtaking, the news that the Beatles were about ...
George Harrison: Why Is George In New York?
Report and Interview by Al Aronowitz, Rolling Stone, June 1970
Sunrise doesn't last all morning The cloudburst doesn't last all day Seems my love is up and has left with no warning But it's not ...
The Beatles: It's Open Warfare
Report by Alan Smith, NME, March 1971
Why Beatles ended in a sordid mudbath.It isn't coincidence that these solo singles have just been released, says Alan Smith ...
The Beatles: Produced By George Martin
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, August 1971
GEORGE MARTIN is probably the most shadowy character in rock and roll history. His influence has been immense, yet few people outside the immediate circle ...
Hurricane Smith: The Sixth Beatle
Profile and Interview by Steven Rosen, LA Free Press, March 1973
HURRICANE SMITH is not your ordinary pop star. At 49, he hardly exudes the virility and youthfulness of a Rod Stewart. His music is neither ...
The Beatles: 1962-1966, 1967-1970 (Apple)
Review by Richard Riegel, Phonograph Record, July 1973
Author's Note, 2009: This review of "the red and blue albums" generated the first-ever hate mail from a reader in my rock-critical career. He wasn't ...
The Act You've Known For All These Years: The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper
Retrospective by Mick Gold, unpublished, 1974
ALL ENTERTAINMENT HAS AN EXISTENTIAL dimension: all successful performances imply a life-style and a sense of values, a sub-structure of assumptions upon which the performer ...
The Beatles: Silly Charlie and the Not-So-Red-Hot Pepper
Essay by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, May 1974
Will Ringo get the mums? Can George hold the mystics? Who was the Walrus? Is Charles Shaar Murray a loony? Only the last question need ...
Report by Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, May 1976
THE WINGS LIVE show has been evolving over the past three years, and McCartney deliberately kept a low profile during its earliest stages, a university ...
Book Excerpt by Mark Shipper, Paperback Writer (New English Library), 1978
THE FIRST few months of 1966 were pleasant ones for the Beatles. Meat The Beatles remained at the top of the charts all over the ...
Mistakes And All: Recreating The Fab Four in Beatlemania
Report and Interview by John Mendelsohn, Los Angeles Times, April 1978
IF THE FOUR young musicians who portray the Beatles in Beatlemania deliver anything less than the "incredible simulation" a sign in the Shubert Theater ticket ...
Beatlemania’s Boys in the Band
Report and Interview by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, May 1978
JOE PECORINO, A small, affable young man who earns his living by pretending to be John Lennon in the successful stage production, Beatlemania, denies that ...
The Beatles: The Beatles: The Authorised Biography, Hunter Davies
Book Review by Bob Woffinden, NME, July 1978
FIRST PUBLISHED in 1968, Hunter Davies' official biography of The Beatles had just been reissued, for the most part in its entire, original form. ...
John Lennon: I Was Never Lovable – I Was Just Lennon
Obituary by Philip Norman, Sunday Times, December 1980
ONE OF THE more persistent myths surrounding John Lennon claims that he was brought up in poverty by working-class Liverpool parents. ...
George Martin: From Comedy Records To Rock Classics
Profile by John Tobler, History of Rock, The, 1982
While the man himself might deny it with typical modesty, there's little doubt that George Martin is one of the most celebrated record producers of ...
Profile and Interview by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, The Record Producers (BBC Books), 1982
IN MUCH THE same way as Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were the first American record producers, that accolade in Britain belongs to the man ...
The Times Profile: Paul McCartney
Profile and Interview by Richard Williams, Times, The, January 1982
In the year of his 40th birthday Paul McCartney, the world's most successful pop musician, adjusts the record ...
The Beatles: Sgt Pepper, The Inside Story Part II
Retrospective and Interview by Steve Turner, Q, July 1987
'STRAWBERRY FIELDS Forever' and 'Penny Lane', released in February '67, were the first-fruits of the sessions and they didn't disappoint. As American rock critic Greil ...
Book Review by Mat Snow, Q, April 1990
THERE'S A NEW story about The Beatles, and it was told by Pete Best, the drummer famous for getting sacked. ...
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, January 1991
"LAST YEAR," says the man with more rings in his ears than on his fingers, "I was sittin' round wondering what I was gonna do ...
Who The Hell Does RINGO STARR Think He Is?
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, June 1992
He was The Lovable One who cracked his daft mop-top jokes for The Queen. The Fab With The Big Nose who you could take home ...
Profile and Interview by Graham Reid, New Zealand Herald, 1994
AT 55, ASTRID Kirchherr still loves rock music and listens to it every day: The Beatles, the Doors, Bowie... "and Prince, he's such a genius ...
Backbeat: A Bit Of Slap And A Wig
Report and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, May 1994
Backbeat, the much-trumpeted, unauthorised Beatles biopic with the grunge-pedigree soundtrack, est arrivé. It revolves around the tragic story of original bassist Stu Sutcliffe, who died ...
Backbeat and The Beatles Industry
Report and Interview by Graham Reid, New Zealand Herald, May 1994
HIS LETTERS back home don't tell the whole story. But such letters seldom do. He says there are plenty of girls "but none of us ...
Eyewitness: Dylan Turns The Beatles On To Dope
Essay by Al Aronowitz, Q, May 1994
History ahoy! In the second of our new series, journalist Al Aronowitz recalls introducing Bob Dylan to The Beatles and how His Bobness turned the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Gillian G. Gaar, Goldmine, November 1994
ON DECEMBER 27, 1960, the Beatles appeared at the Litherland Town Hall Ballroom in Liverpool in a performance widely regarded as being a turning point ...
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, January 1995
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS on from their demise, The Beatles continue to exercise a hypnotic spell as the ur-myth of modernist pop culture. As befits the group ...
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, November 1995
Behind every great Beatles track is a version not quite so good. But not necessarily less interesting... Jon Savage listens to the outtakes. ...
Interview by Miles, MOJO, November 1995
WE DID THESE interviews on September 23 and 24, 1969, at Apple. When Allen Klein fired Ron Kass, the head of Apple Records, John and ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Request, 1996
"It was a good scene even when it was shitty, wasn’t it?"– Derek Taylor, Beatles publicist, 1970. ...
Review by Mat Snow, MOJO, January 1996
ANTHOLOGY IS RIGHT. HERE IS A SEQUENCE of snap shots that just so happen to have been taken in the six years from 1958's toddling ...
The Beatles: "We're a damn good little band"
Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, October 1996
On the eve of the release of Anthology 3, Paul McCartney casts his mind back to The Beatles' glorious sunset. ...
Review by Chris Ingham, MOJO, November 1996
"WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ALL THAT?" ENQUIRES PAUL McCartney after half a dozen silly-voice choruses of ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road’. ...
We Can Work It Out: The Ten Most Over- & Underrated Beatles Songs
Comment by Richard Riegel, Real Groove (New Zealand), December 1996
The Ten Most Underrated Beatles Cuts (Arranged Chronologically) ...
Taylor of Savile Row: Derek Taylor, 1932-1997
Obituary by Chris Bourke, New Zealand Herald, September 1997
DEREK TAYLOR, WHO will forever be known as "the Beatles' press officer", leant across and switched my tape recorder to "pause". I had just admitted ...
Obituary by Philip Norman, Rolling Stone, October 1997
THE SIMPLE term "music publicist" does not begin to describe Derek Taylor, who died from cancer of the esophagus at his home, in Suffolk, England, ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, MOJO, November 1997
IN 1963, WHEN BRIAN EPSTEIN INVITED HIM TO HANDLE the Beatles' PR, Derek Taylor was a 31-year-old national newspaper reporter with a suit and tie. ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, May 1998
The "fifth Beatle" signs off with a little help from his friends ...
Timeless Illustrious Past: Why The Beatles Are Still Big Business
Essay by Steve Turner, Wiener Zeitung, June 1999
Although the Beatles disbanded almost thirty years ago, public interest in the group has never waned. Beatles records still sell in their millions worldwide (six ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, October 1999
THE LURE had been the chance of a lengthy one-on-one with Paul McCartney discussing all his solo albums. "You could turn it into a book," ...
John Lennon: From the Quarrymen to the MBE
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, October 2000
"THAT WAS THE day," said John Lennon. "The day that I met Paul, that it started moving." ...
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2000
JANUARY 2, 1969. They are probably the four most famous people in the world, but this morning at the raw beginning of the last year ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, December 2000
Does The Fabs' 'Best Of' Add Up? Packed 27-track single-disc summary of pop's best-loved repertoire, but no Please Please Me? Strawberry Fields Forever? Hello-o-o-o-o? ...
The Man Who Killed Paul McCartney
Retrospective by Jim Yoakum, unpublished, 2001
The incredible, never-before-revealed true-life event that sparked the greatest rock ‘n’ roll rumor of all time. ...
Review and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, April 2001
IAN MACDONALD, now 52, was enraptured by The Beatles as a teenager, then generally disappointed by pop music from 1980 onwards. His attempt "to bring ...
Obituary by Chris Welch, Guardian, The, December 2001
George Harrison, singer, guitarist, composer and filmproducer: born Liverpool 25 February 1943; MBE 1965; married1966 Pattie Boyd (marriage dissolved 1977), 1978 OliviaArias (one son); died ...
George Harrison: Harrison in the Haight
Retrospective by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, December 2001
IT WOULD BE a stretch to say that George Harrison ever left his heart in San Francisco. ...
The Day the Angels Spent Christmas with the Beatles
Memoir by David Dalton, Gadfly, December 2001
WELL, NO, IT'S NOT that kind of story, exactly, although given the fairytale element in the legend of the Fab Four you might, circa 1964, ...
Arise, Sir George: The Man Behind the Beatles
Interview by Joe Matera, Mixdown, 2002
BEST KNOWN as the man who produced The Beatles, Sir George Martin was there at the beginning of the British pop revolution and went on ...
Obituary by Carol Clerk, Uncut, February 2002
'You know, life flows on within you and without you'– George Harrison ...
Miles: John, Paul, George and… Barry
Profile and Interview by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, October 2002
IN 1965, A YOUNG bookseller named Barry Miles decided to throw a birthday party in his London flat for his friend, the beat poet Allen ...
Retrospective by Jim Irvin, MOJO, November 2002
THERE'S A story, probably apocryphal, concerning John Lennon during his infamous 'lost weekend', the period in the mid-'70s when he split from Yoko and devoted ...
Get It Better: The Story of Let It Be… Naked
Report and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, 2003
Is it getting back to 'Get Back'? Is it Let It Be exorcised of Spector? Is it the record it always should have been? ...
Paul McCartney: Back In The World, Earls Court, London April 21st
Live Review by Richard English, Rock's Backpages, April 2003
ALL MY LIFE I’d wanted to see the Beatles. My sister saw them at Hammersmith in the ‘60s and screamed. This was my ...
The Beatles: Don't Fear The Reeperbahn
Retrospective by Johnny Black, 'The Beatles: Ten Years that Shook the World', 2004
"LIVERPOOL AND HAMBURG had a lot in common in the early sixties," muses Gibson Kemp. "They're both seaports, they're both on the same line of ...
The Beatles: Gary Pig Gold Presents A Fab Forty
Guide by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, February 2004
HAS IT REALLY been four decades already since television's greatest-ever talent scout took a chance on a brash young musical novelty act from far-off Britain? ...
More Than Words: Musings on Music Journalism — Life Goes On
Comment by Devon Powers, PopMatters, March 2004
FEBRUARY 24 WAS a banner day for the Copy Left, a loose network of computer activists, intellectuals, forward-thinking musicians and zealous fans who continue to ...
An Interview With The Blacklisted Journalist Al Aronowitz
Profile and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, February 2005
Gary "Pig" Gold meets the Man Who Invented the Sixties. ...
Abbey Road: Where Magic Was Made
Profile by Paul Trynka, Guardian, The, March 2005
Paul Trynka looks back at the relationship between the biggest band of all time and the studio that helped them create their sound ...
The Top 10 Psychedelic Moments in Rock
Comment by Lenny Kaye, Harp, May 2005
Mind expansion. The walls are breathing. Herewith, a personal list of a trip into the whirlpool of creation. ...
The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's Diary Of The Beatles
Book Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, July 2005
The madness and mayhem of the Apple empire ...
Essay by Jim Irvin, MOJO, Summer 2005
IT WAS APRIL 1967, the morning after The Beatles had completed Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and The Zombies walked into Abbey Road Studios ...
Profile and Interview by Richie Unterberger, Record Collector, June 2006
BESIDES GEORGE Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, Geoff Emerick worked on more Beatles sessions than any other individual. ...
The Beatles: Love (Apple)*****
Review and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, December 2006
WE'RE NOT unsympathetic to readers who complain of Beatles fatigue, but we reserve the right to counsel: "Deal with it", because for a large section ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, January 2007
THE RECORD ALWAYS regarded as a harbinger of pop's future is full of old-fashioned sounds. These are, in order of appearance: a theatre orchestra tuning ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, January 2007
THE PENTHOUSE mixing room at the top of Abbey Road Studios. We await Sir George Martin, who is 30 minutes late. "This is most unlike ...
Neil Aspinall: The Man Who Really Made The Beatles
Profile by Philip Norman, Daily Mail, April 2007
LOYALTY IS not a virtue associated with the pop music industry. Treachery, exploitation and kiss-and-tell are its far more familiar signature-tunes. ...
Retrospective by Harry Shapiro, MOJO, Summer 2007
Hippies tripped, tabloids raged and police cheered as Engelbert Humperdinck's Jan '67 hit, 'Release Me' became the real theme tune for the Summer of Love. ...
George Harrison Visits Haight-Ashbury In Summer 1967
Retrospective by Richie Unterberger, MOJO, Summer 2007
UNCOMMON sightings were downright common in the Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love. But even in that colorful context, the visit of George Harrison to ...
Two Encounters With Neil Aspinall
Memoir by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, March 2008
RBP REGULARS will doubtless have read last week's obituaries for Neil Aspinall, who worked for the Beatles from 1961 until shortly before he died. He ...
Magical Mysteries... The 'Fifth Beatle' Who Kept Their Innermost Secrets To The Very End
Obituary by Philip Norman, Daily Mail, March 2008
NEIL ASPINALL, the deservedly-named 'Fifth Beatle' who has died in New York aged 66, was not an easy man for a journalist to befriend. ...
By George: Harrison's Post-Beatles Solo Career
Retrospective by Roy Trakin, Capitol Vaults blog, June 2009
MOST PEOPLE THINK of George Harrison as "the Quiet Beatle," the spiritual one, the first to turn the band on to transcendental meditation, but the ...
The Birth of Beatlemania: The Fab Four on Tour, 1963
Book Excerpt by Martin Creasy, 'Beatlemania!' (Omnibus), March 2011
NOTE: Martin Creasy spent two years tracing the trajectory of the Beatles' UK tours, interviewing scores of people who in some way connected with John, ...
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see also George Martin
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RBP Album Club, June 13th: Miki Berenyi and Lucy O'Brien celebrate a Blondie classic
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RBP Album Club, July 11th: Nick Hornby and Nick Coleman celebrate Southside Johnny's debut
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