By Marvin Marks on Aug 12, 2008 in Features | 0 Comments
I just came across this on YouTube: “I Met The Walrus.” It’s an interview of John Lennon in 1969 in Toronto by a 14 year old.
Full YouTube description of the video:
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and […]
By Marvin Marks on Jul 15, 2008 in Music Trivia | 1 Comment
The Beatles worked on two new George Harrison penned songs in Abbey Road studios on June 16th of 1969. Those two songs would end up on the album Abbey Road released later that year.
Those two songs? “Something” & “Here Comes The Sun.”
“Something”
This video features the girlfriends/wives of each of The Beatles at the time. […]
By Marvin Marks on Jul 6, 2008 in Features | 1 Comment
Yesterday’s post was about how The Rolling Stones dedicated their free concert in London’s Hyde Park on July 5, 1969 to their ex-band mate Brian Jones who died on July 3, 1969.
Watch this documentary on the Hyde Park concert in 8 parts:
Part 1
(Includes “Midnight Rambler”)
Part 2
(Includes “Satisfaction”)
By Marvin Marks on Jul 5, 2008 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
39 years ago today The Rolling Stones gave a free concert in London’s Hyde Park as a tribute to former band member Brian Jones who had died just two days earlier at the age of 27, making him one of the first members of a very sad “club” of famous musicians who died at age […]