Internet Beatles station Beatles-a-Rama will feature a new show starting at noon PT Monday. It’s “The Beatles Brown Bag Lunch Hour, hosted by Gary Burbank. The show will feature an hour of Beatles and their solo works for lunchtime listening with a humorous host.

You can hear the show athttp://beatlesarama.com/assets/player.

Beatles-A-Rama! features an assortment of shows including Ray Whitaker’s “Just Four Guys” podcast, “Matthews in the Morning,” “Beatle Bob Todd” and Norm McBride.

The Beatles-A-Rama! home page is at www.beatlesarama.com/.

“Beatles Deeper Undercover”
Collector’s Guide Publishing
We received this note about our profile of the new book “Beatles Deeper Undercover” from John Bezzini.
Hello Steve:
“Saw your Examiner piece about the new Kristofer Engelhardt book
The piece that intrigued me the most was the following quote: читать далее…

Ringo Starr revealed that for his latest album, Y Not, he actually recorded the songs from the ground up by creating the tracks alone on synthesizer. Ringo mainly recorded the new collection at his home in L.A. taking a more active production role than in recent years.We asked him what prompted the welcomed twist on record making: “Y’know the creative brief was that I was sitting at home with nothing better to do in L.A., and I had Pro-Tools and I had a few synthesizers in one of the bedrooms we sort of transffered into a studio — ’cause you can do ‘em anywhere now. I just started putting stuff down. Playing the synthesizer to get rhythm pattern and notes, of course, and I would play drums to whatever I did. And that would give it the color through the verses and the choruses. It would just sort of split it up into — ‘this could be a song.’ But I had no words, I had no melody.” читать далее…

Candid pictures of John Lennon which have never been seen in public have been found after being kept hidden in a photographer’s drawer for more than 40 years.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono who is talking to 16-year-old Gail Renard Photo: CATERS
The extraordinary photos of the musician and Yoko Ono, taken during their famous Bed-in for Peace in Montreal in 1969, snapped by Life photographer Gerry Deiter.
He was the only photojournalist allowed to witness and document the bed-in for the full eight days and managed to capture pictures of the couple totally off-guard. читать далее…

It has been revealed that the short clip of The Beatles, featured in episode one of The Chase, will only be included on the Region 2 DVD’s and will be removed from the masters of the discs produced for regions outside Europe.

The short clip of the group playing Ticket to Ride, was taken from the BBC’s Top of the Pops programme, and features as part of the sequence where the TARDIS crew look at various events from history on the Time-Space Visualiser. читать далее…

Kristofer Engelhardt’s original “Beatles Undercover,” published in 1998, has been one of the most used books in our Beatles library. The original book cataloged everything you’d ever want to know about the Beatles’ outside musical activities.

Now Engelhardt has written a revised edition, out this month, called “Beatles Deeper Undercover” that updates the original. The new book is actually thinner than the old one (375 pages vs. 523 pages). The difference is the new volume has fewer pictures and a more streamlined layout. But the incredible detail of the original volume carries over into the new one. (See the slideshow at the bottom for pictures of Engelhardt and various celebrities involved in the book.)

We asked author Engelhardt how the new volume was compiled and here’s the full story:

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JAMES MCCARTNEY is looking forward to getting back to where he once belonged as he heads to Scotland as part of a UK tour.
The 32-year-old son of Paul McCartney spent a chunk of his childhood on the Mull Of Kintyre, where his parents recorded many of their hit songs with the group Wings, including the 1977 mega-hit Mull Of Kintyre.
“..now I want musical career of my own”> читать далее…

John leans over Yoko’s shoulder and envelopes her in a protective embrace, an impossibly young Stevie Wonder perches in front of an oversized tour poster, and Twiggy gazes into the lens, her saucer-shaped eyes framed by spider’s-leg lashes.

• Iain Macmillan’s portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Instead, it was Iain Macmillan, a lesser-known Dundee photographer, whose body of work includes one of the most famous photographs ever taken – the one on the cover of the Beatles’ 1969 Abbey Road album, showing John, Paul, George and Ringo striding over a zebra crossing.

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Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell were among the celebrities who attended the presentation of the fall-winter 2010-2011 ready-to-wear fashion collection designed by his daughter, Stella, in Paris on Monday.
See more photos of Paul, Nancy, California First Lady Maria Shriver and others in the slideshow at the bottom of the page.
“C’est magnifique: Paul McCartney, Nancy Shevell see Stella fashion show in Paris”> читать далее…

Details regarding this years International Beatle Week have just been released. This annual event is staged in Liverpool and this year takes place during the last week of August. Typically attracting 300,000 fans from over 40 different countries, highlights of this years festival will include BILLY J KRAMER’S first UK performance for over 7 years, DENNY LAINE performing Wings and Moody Blues classics, Ron Nasty and Barry Wom from THE RUTLES (AKA Neil Innes and John Halsey) and gigs by Badfinger’s JOEY MOLLAND.

The event will also celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Pete Best joining the Beatles with a garden party at the legendary Casbah Club. The festival will host a “LOVE, PEACE & UNDERSTANDING” concert at the magnificent Liverpool Anglican Cathedral which will not only raise funds for the Cathedral, but will demonstrate via the medium of the Beatles music and solo repertoire, that as Paul & Ringo observed, their music had three broad messages, Love, Peace & Understanding. The sheer scale of this event will make it the most ambitious project ever staged at Beatle Week.

Fans will also be able to take a Magical Mystery Tour of Beatle sights and of course to round off the weekend, the city of Liverpool comes to a standstill for the MATHEW STREET FESTIVAL, which is a free event with stages in the city centre streets.

There are also shows at the Philharmonic Hall with world class performances by THE BOOTLEG BEATLES and Liverpool ’s very own MARK McGANN, portraying John Lennon in “In My Life”. And of course let us not forget over 400 performances in a week at the legendary Cavern Club where it all began. Add in a cornucopia of events, including art exhibitions, flea market, record fairs, film festival, Beatles convention and music from over 20 countries, it is an event not to be missed. ~ walrus