Today at 3:30PM EST Paul McCartney is performing a benefit concert which is going to be streamed live on the Born HIV Free YouTube Channel.
In other cool McCartney related news, I appreciate that he is refusing to apologize for the joke he made about George W. Bush when he was collecting the Gerswin Prize at […]

It’s nice when your musical heroes dig your political heroes and luckily and as a liberal I get to experience this quite often because artistic types tend to be political liberals due to the empathy that comes naturally with being an artist.
And of course empathy usually leads to liberal political views because it allows […]

I recently came across the following quote from Norman Smith (who was The Beatles recording engineer from Please Please Me through Rubber Soul)
I don’t want to take anything away from anyone, but production of the Beatles was very simple, because it was ready-made. Paul was a very great influence in terms of the production, especially […]

One of my favorite things about Last.FM is that you can pretty much put in any adjective (”tag”) into the radio search bar and it’ll randomly play songs that users have tagged with that word. The more often people have tagged a song, the more likely it is that it’ll be played on that radio […]

Paul McCartney - Good Evening New York City
This is a 2CD/1DVD combo (and it’s quite a good deal getting two CDs and 1 DVD for only $13.99) which documents Paul’s three shows at New York City’s Citi Field in July of this year. Citi Field is the New York Mets new field (replacing Shea Stadium […]

My final entry in my “Most Valuable Beatle” series (which except for Yellow Submarine could really be called my Lennon vs. McCartney series.) Before I get to the Past Masters 2 disc let me share my previous entries here:
Please Please Me (John), With The Beatles (John), A Hard Day’s Night (John), Beatles For Sale (John), […]

I’m a bit late to this, but I just came across a Zogby poll of Americans released on September 15th which asked over 4000 Americans (ages 18 and above) who their favorite Beatle is. I was surprised to see these results:
Paul McCartney 27%
John Lennon 16%
George Harrison 10%
Ringo Starr 9%
Don’t Like The Beatles 22%
Don’t Know? 3%

I’m finishing up my “Most Valuable Beatle” series with the Past Masters non album tracks compilation which I’m splitting up into disc 1 and disc 2 to make it easier to chew.
First a recap:
Please Please Me (John), With The Beatles (John), A Hard Day’s Night (John), Beatles For Sale (John), Help! (John), Rubber Soul […]

Alright, I’ve finally made it to the last Beatles album in my “Most Valuable Beatle” series for each album. And as a pre-emptive strike against the comments I’ll get if I don’t mention this; I know that Abbey Road was recorded after Let It Be (with the exception of “I Me Mine” and Phil Spector’s […]

Continuing with my series on who is the “Most Valuable Beatle” (which basically turns into a John Vs. Paul battle) for each Beatles album, I’ve made my way to Abbey Road today (I’m going by release date, not recording date as Let It Be was the last album released, but Abbey Road was the last […]