The Beatles were actively recording songs from 1962 through 1969. To be precise; they did record some demos prior to 1962, most of them can be heard on The Beatles Anthology 1, and they finished a single song in 1970, “I Me Mine” on 1/3/70, but obviously choosing the five best songs from the demos […]

Today it was announced that remastered versions of The Beatles 1973 “best of” compilations (known as “The Red Album” & “The Blue Album“) are set to be released on October 18th (in most of the world, and the 19th in the US & Canada.)

While this was not The Beatles news I was hoping to […]

Ringo Starr turns 70 today. He was born as Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940. Ringo was the oldest Beatle. John Lennon would be turning 70 on October 9 of this year and Paul McCartney just turned 68 (June 18th.) George Harrison was the youngest Beatle as he would have turned 67 this year (on […]

It’s been nearly two months, but I’m finally picking up with the next entry in my series on each of the original Beatles songs. “Hold Me Tight” is #9 in the series. “Misery” was #8.
This song was one of the band’s earliest originals as it had been a part of their live act from […]

The Beatles USB is back in stock. It had been sold out for quite some time so now that Amazon has more of them I thought I should share the good news (especially since I know from my StatCounter that a lot of people come to this site looking for it.)
The Beatles USB is essentially […]

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 […]

This post takes a look at the keys of The Beatles original songs to see if there are any patterns worth noting (as to how often certain keys are used and whether certain keys are more likely to be used with certain types of songs.)
I’m going to be using the following books as sources for […]

“Misery” is the 8th song in my series on the 186 original Beatles songs released from 1962 through 1970. “Do You Want To Know A Secret?” was the last entry. These first 8 songs are the 8 Lennon/McCartney originals included on The Beatles 1963 debut album, Please Please Me.
This is a pretty unremarkable song […]

I’m finally picking up where I left off with my rather ambitious “Beatles Songs” project (maybe a bit too ambitious, I’m not sure if I’m focused enough to ever finish it) where I take pretty detailed look at all 186 original Beatles song from “Love Me Do” to “I Me Mine” in the order that […]

I paid $60 for The Beatles Rock Band back when it came out on 9/9/9 and I’ve definitely got my money’s worth as I’ve played it many times (and still play it now.)
But at the moment you can get a new copy of the game for less than half of that price (just $28.49) […]