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- Yesterday10 min
Beatles’ ”Rubber Soul” deluxe coming!🎸🥁
Here's a link to the new Rubber Soul deluxe edition on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4yLLDnp As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The announcement fans have been waiting years for finally happened: on October 2nd, Apple Corps and UMG are releasing an expanded Special Edition of Rubber Soul, newly mixed by Giles Martin and Sam Okell. It’s the same treatment previous classics have gotten — a new stereo mix built from the original four-track masters, the original mono mix, the Capitol US album version, and Dolby Atmos, all sourced using the same de-mixing technology Peter Jackson’s WingNut team developed for the Get Back documentary. 🎧 View my favorite Beatles treasures at Amazon: https://a.co/d/0hJIhK5E
- 4 days ago20 min
Top 12 Beatles Tourist Sites 🕶️📸
View my favorite Beatles treasures at Amazon: https://a.co/d/0hJIhK5E FREE audiobook on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5J4LHILtMfo As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Beatles tourism isn’t really about visiting museums. It’s about standing in the exact physical spot where something happened — the same doorway, the same stage, the same patch of sidewalk — and feeling the strange thrill of proximity to history that’s now mostly gone. Some of these sites are polished, ticketed attractions. Others are just ordinary streets that happen to carry enormous weight. Here are the twelve places every serious fan eventually finds themselves standing in front of, counted down. 🎸
- 6 days ago8 min
🎻 Every Guitar George Harrison Ever Owned — And Where They Ended Up🥁
View my favorite Beatles treasures at Amazon: https://a.co/d/0hJIhK5E FREE audiobook on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5J4LHILtMfo As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. George Harrison’s guitars have quietly lived lives as strange and eventful as his own — stolen, smuggled to Mexico, given away to friends, rediscovered decades later, and in one case, sold for well over a million dollars. Track them chronologically and you get something like a secret biography of the Beatles, told entirely through wood, wire, and the people who eventually inherited it all. 🎸
- 1 weeks ago11 min
🎼 The Secret History of Strawberry Fields Forever ⏳🎸🥁
View my favorite Beatles treasures at Amazon: https://a.co/d/0hJIhK5E FREE audiobook on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5J4LHILtMfo As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. It’s late 1966, and John Lennon has just finished recording what he believes is one of the greatest songs of his life. The only problem is that he’s recorded it twice, and he likes both versions equally. One is intimate and spare, a meditation floating in space. The other is lush, orchestrated, almost cinematic. And they’re in completely different keys, at completely different tempos. By every known law of audio engineering, they cannot be combined into a single track. So George Martin tells him exactly. Lennon smiles, turns on his heel, and walks away with eight words: “I’m sure you can fix it, can’t you?” That’s the moment that nearly destroyed “Strawberry Fields Forever.” It’s also the moment that made it immortal. 🎹
- 1 weeks ago13 min
The Unbeatable Beatles Song 🎸🚫
“I Saw Her Standing There” is the best song ever. My favorite is the original, the take on the LP. It’s the one thing I never get tired of. Read my essay on this song: https://beatlesrewind.substack.com/p/greatest-beatles-song-ever View my favorite Beatles treasures at Amazon: https://a.co/d/0hJIhK5E FREE audiobook on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5J4LHILtMfo As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
- 2 weeks ago10 min
🚨 Unseen Beatles: ”SHOUT!” 🤯
View my favorite Beatles treasures at Amazon: https://a.co/d/0hJIhK5E FREE audiobook on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5J4LHILtMfo As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The Beatles performed “Shout” (later made famous by the film "Animal House" regularly between 1960 and 1961 during their formative Hamburg and Liverpool club days, when their live sets were built almost entirely from American R&B and rock and roll covers.
- 2 weeks ago7 min
🎸 Beatles Collectibles: July 14
Links to these live auctions: https://www.weberbooks.com/kindle/beatles-auctions-worth-watching-right-now/ View my favorite Beatles treasures at Amazon: https://a.co/d/0hJIhK5E FREE audiobook on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5J4LHILtMfo As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. This week’s auction roundup covers a lot of ground—a harmonica that predates the British Invasion’s peak, a sealed LP with a wild backstory about its own title, and even a novelty record made by chipmunks. (I may earn a small commission if you purchase through these links.)
- 2 weeks ago30 min
🛑 These “I Want to Hold Your Hand” Covers are a Disaster! 🥁
View my favorite Beatles treasures at Amazon: https://a.co/d/0hJIhK5E FREE audiobook on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5J4LHILtMfo I Want to Hold Your Hand: The 15 Corniest Covers! Can a truly perfect pop song survive being completely turned inside out? In 1963, John Lennon and Paul McCartney released "I Want to Hold Your Hand," sparking Beatlemania and rewriting the rules of modern music history. But sixty years later, its bulletproof melody has been subjected to some of the most bizarre, brilliant, and downright corny transformations imaginable. Today, we are taking a deep dive into 15 of the most fascinating cover versions ever recorded. We're testing the absolute limits of this British Invasion classic—dragging it through mid-century Las Vegas lounges, 1930s European swing clubs, Ivy League choral halls, and 1960s teenage garage rock distortions. While the title says "corniest," the truth is that the sheer level of musical talent hidden in these tracks might just blow your mind. From global vocal icons and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers to viral internet fingerstyle guitarists, we are breaking down the history, the artists, and the stories behind these unforgettable tracks. Here is the ultimate breakdown of the artists featured in today’s video: The Heavy Hitters & Legends: We look at jazz icon Keely Smith's brassy 1964 album cover (which John Lennon famously grumbled about), the pristine 6-part classical vocal harmonies of The King’s Singers, and New Jersey garage rock heroes The Knickerbockers—the band that naturally sounded so much like the Fab Four that teenagers thought their records were unreleased Beatles tracks. The Genre-Flippers: Check out the high-energy power-pop hooks of The Rubinoos, alongside Italy's premier retro-swing band Sugarpie and the Candymen, who transform the track into a frantic 1930s Gypsy Jazz dance number. The Modern Indie Wave: We explore the acoustic, slowed-down bedroom pop variations by Laura Zocca, the atmospheric streaming layers of BothWorlds, and the hard-hitting, punk-infused guitar riffs of Riff Wood. The Hidden Gems: From the mind-bending solo acoustic arrangements of viral sensation Josephine Alexandra to the ultimate wedding-band energy of La Calle Band and Evita, we see exactly how this melody gets people onto the dance floor. The Ultimate Rock Artifact: Discover The Moving Sidewalks, a 1968 heavy psychedelic Texas garage band whose teenage guitarist was a beard-less Billy Gibbons—just a year before he launched ZZ Top! The Soul Masterpiece: Finally, our "mic drop" moment with the legendary Al Green, who stripped away the teen innocence in 1969 to completely reinvent the song's DNA into deep, smoky Memphis soul. What is your favorite version of this song? Does a specific track on this list cross the line into being completely unhinged, or is it a hidden masterpiece? Let me know in the comments below!
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