The Beatles

DECEMBER 12, 1979 – Paul McCartney & Wings performed in Birmingham, England, the latest stop on their last tour. It was originally to have been the first leg of a planned world tour, with further stops scheduled in Japan, Europe and America. However, it became Wings’ final concert tour, after Paul’s marijuana bust in Tokyo the […] More

OCTOBER 13, 1992 – Linda McCartney released “Linda McCartney’s Sixties: Portrait of an Era,” a collection of her most memorable works as a rock photographer. The book includes photos of The Rolling Stones, The Beatles (including husband Paul McCartney), The Who, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison (The Doors), Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, […] More

Paul and Mike in the back garden of their house in Western Avenue in Speke in Liverpool …their mother Mary at the back door …..this was before they moved to Forthlin Road….. Yes it is the back garden at Western Avenue. My mother and I had a good visit there in the 80’s with Shelagh […] More

David Hurn: ” I desperately needed a head shot of John so I asked him to pose when the day’s filming had ended. Even though he was very obliging and co-operative he never really grasped the fact that a photographer needs to take time to set up the shot and then take a number of […] More

Runout groove to Sgt Pepper Revolution number 9 Goo goo gjoob Sgt Peppers inner groove Cranberry sauce Bang bang Maxwell Silver Hammer Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog’s eye. sugar plum fairy I’ve got blisters on my fingers!! I buried Paul. Strawberry fields forever. Funky finger Georgia gunboot Yoko Lucy in the sky […] More

When I pose the question, “Could there ever be another Lennon and McCartney,” I would agree with those that say well The Beatles did strike the iron at the right time, but I think there’s more then that, with Lennon’s raspy, but catchy voice and McCartney‘s natural vocal range that could sing soft, but also […] More

′′ When we received YER BLUES in 1968, it wasn’t a title in the Double Blanc A classic of no importance, a pretty nervous blues, but well… And this way of taking him showed a guy – the performer – who screams that he’s alone and will die! Ah this is funny. While surrounded by […] More

John Lennon and Yoko with the Hong family The Lennons repeatedly offered financial help, which Emily Hong said the family first refused, but eventually accepted. The “support made a big difference in our lives,” Ms. Hong said. The checks, sometimes for thousands of dollars, were sent for years — until the girls reached adulthood. “When […] More

The Beatles heading to Buckingham Palace on October 26, 1965, to be decorated by the Queen of England, Elizabeth ll, with MBE (Members of the British Empire), in a private ceremony, before which , says legend that John Lennon locked himself in with his three companions, in one of the palace bathrooms and, together, they […] More

′′ I’m So Tired ′′ is a Beatle s’ song composed by John Lennon and credited to Lennon / McCartney, released on the 1968 White album Lennon wrote the song on his journey to the camp of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of Transcendental Meditation Meditation in Rishikesh, India after three weeks of constant meditation and missing […] More

” Lennon wanted my bloody shorts from the Cooper Fight to raise money for peace We kept up with each other after that and the last I heard from John Lennon was the day he wanted to auction off my bloody boxing shorts – the ones I had worn in the Henry Cooper fight. I […] More