GEORGE HARRISON Who Would Have Celebrated His 81st Birthday Today About Being A Beatle Once
25 February 2024
And we still do, George.
The Beatles
‘MEET THE BEATLES!’ – First No 1 Album In The US For The Fab Four 60 Years Ago Today
15 February 2024
The Fab Four scored their first No 1 album in the US with
MEET THE BEATLES! 60 years ago today, on 15 Feb 1964.
It stayed on the top of the charts for 11 weeks until
The Beatles’ Second Album took over.
The cover featured the iconic portrait by photographer/art designer
Robert Freeman, the same one used for the UK’s LP version
‘With The Beatles’.
SIDE ONE
1. I Want to Hold Your Hand
2. I Saw Her Standing There
3. This Boy
4. It Won’t Be Long
5. All I’ve Got to Do
6. All My Loving
SIDE TWO
1. Don’t Bother Me
2. Little Child
3. Till There Was You
4. Hold Me Tight
5. I Wanna Be Your Man
6. Not a Second Time
THE JAM – This Day 42 Years Ago The PAUL WELLER Led Trio Played A Remarkable Performance On TOP OF THE POPS
13 february 2024
42 years ago today mod-punk legends THE JAM fronted by singer-songwriter
Paul Weller performed two songs on iconic British TV show Top Of The Pops.
They played A Town Called Malice and Precious, a double A-side single,
from their final LP The Gift, which topped the British Singles Chart.
Not really special as such, wasn’t it for the fact that The Jam were the first
band/artist since The Beatles playing 2 songs on the same TOTP edition.
That’s entertainment.
THE JAM: Bio – Discography
60 Years Ago 4 Liverpool Guys Conquered America Via TV
10 February 2024
60 years ago, on 9 February 1964 THE BEATLES appeared on
American TV for the first time ever. It happened on the legendary
Ed Sullivan Show.
73 million viewers saw the Fab Four. Beatle-mania exploded in the USA.
YOKO ONO About Being Hated For Years
29 December 2023
Good call, Yoko.
(Image on top: Cover of Yoko Ono’s solo album ‘Yes, I’m A Witch’)
10 BEST VIDEOS OF 2023
For your eyes
1. ‘Like A God’ by ASH (UK)
2. ‘The Bomb’ by THE HIVES (Sweden)
3. ‘Dicks In Tanks’ by MORLOCKS (Sweden)
4. ‘Six-Pack’ by SHAME (UK)
5. ‘Wireless’ by WITHIN TEMPTATION (The Netherlands)
6. ‘Fossora’ by BJÖRK (Iceland)
7. ‘Dumbest Girl Alive’ by 100 GECS (St.Louis, US)
8. ‘Now And Then’ by THE BEATLES (UK)
9. ‘Eureka!’ by THE VANITY PROJECT (Manchester, UK)
10. ‘White Van’ by LAMBRINI GIRLS (Brighton, UK)
THE BEATLES – Their Million Seller Hit ‘I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND’ Came Out 60 Years Ago Today
Top singles from the past
29 November 2023
I suppose I don’t have to introduce
this band nor this mega hit.
For the first time ever in the UK advanced orders
passed the million mark before it was released.
Once upon a time The Strangles‘ Hugh Cornwell said
that The Beatles actually wanted to sing ‘I want to fuck you’,
but couldn’t of course back in those prudish days.
THE BEATLES: Bio – Discography
Widow Of GEORGE HARRISON Shares Magical Story Related To The Last BEATLES song ‘NOW AND THEN’
The late great George Harrison‘s widow Olivia shared a ‘surprising
and magical story‘ about how the artwork of The Beatles‘ last song
‘Now And Then’ came about, on her late husbands’ socials.
Here’s a surprising magical story about Now and Then.@thebeatles | @johnlennon | @PaulMcCartney | @ringostarrmusic pic.twitter.com/v42YW40R4s
— George Harrison (@GeorgeHarrison) November 20, 2023
NOW AND THEN
MOJO – New Issue With Cover Stars THE BEATLES Out Now
18 November 2023
In this new issue: the full story behind THE BEATLES‘s last song Now And Then.
Emotional new interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Sean Lennon and Giles
Martin plus the lowdown on the Red and Blue compilation albums’ 50th Anniversary reboot.
Also: Review Of The Year, including 2023’s 75 Best New Albums, 20 Best Reissues, best music books and films, featuring Blur, Talking Heads, Sly Stone, Bob Dylan, Lankum and Ireland’s new folk radicals and lots of other features.
This month’s free CD contains tracks from MOJO’s favourite albums, by artists including: Lankum, Everything But The Girl, Rickie Lee Jones, The Coral, Wilco, Grian Chatten, Julie Byrne, Young Fathers and more!
You can purchase a copy and let it be sent to your home. Info HERE.
British Music Website NME Ranked All 188 BEATLES Songs In Order Of Greatness
15 November 2023
Despite the best band in history (to my ears) THE BEATLES split in 1970, they have never been really away as there are still two Beatles active with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, making albums (mostly Macca) and playing live. Also over the years all sorts of Fab Four compilations came out.
And just two weeks ago the final Fab Four track named Now And Then, written
and sung by John Lennon in 1979, recently worked on and finished by Paul and
Ringo, came out.
The song went around the globe and music magazines and websites used
the occasion to feature all sorts of articles about the imperishable Beatles.
So did NME by ranking all of their
188 songs in order of greatness.
TOP 3
1. TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS (On Revolver LP – 1966).
The band experimented with loops, sampling, drone and tape manipulation, guitars played backwards creating not just the epitome of psychedelia and exposing pop audiences to anti-materialist Eastern ideas, but effectively inventing dance music.
2. A DAY IN THE LIFE (On Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP – 1967)
Lennon’s ‘Sgt. Pepper…’ closer viewed a series of newspaper articles – about the death
of Guinness heir Tara Browne and road repairs in Lancashire – through LSD specs and came out with a world-beating vision. Includes arguably the most famous crescendo in rock.
3. HEY JUDE (1968)
Paul composed The Beatles most rousing sing-along to
comfort Julian Lennon over the break-up of his parents.
ALL 188 HERE.
