Ringo Starr New Album Is Unwanted!
It has been “revealed” (the word is in inverted commas because it implies some degree of anticipation) that Ringo Starr will be putting together an autobiographical album. Here’s what he had to say: “I am actually making a record about Liverpool. It’s about me and Liverpool. It’s like I’ve decided to do mini-autobiographies, instead of writing a...
The Cavern Club – 50th Anniversary Since The Beatles Debut.
Its 50 years since The Beatles first graced The Cavern Club in Liverpool. Before we get into the history though, here’s a clip of them in that very venue one year later in 1962. It took them nine months from originally playing this venue to come to the attention of Brian Epstein though, when he...
The Beatles Songs Fail to Live Up To Commercial Hype
The Beatles have had the spotlight on them even more than usual over the last week. Firstly you have Apple coming out with what was promised to be a very special announcement. Now we’re used to the iPad or iPhone 4 given a first outing as fanboys say “oooo” and “ahhh”….me amoung them. So when...
Beatles for sale
I can’t think of any album title that has, up to now at least, seemed so fallible, so unsound, when linked to its creators. If anyone seemed to be beyond such trifles as market forces and consumer trends it was the Beatles - a consistent demand from one generation to the next has ensured that...
Beatlemania usurped by Vera Lynn
And so it turned out to be one of the biggest anticlimaxes of the year. The Beatles' back catalogue, released, re-mastered and with new stickets on the front, was expected to ddominate this week's album charts. But it wasn't to be, as another blast from the past outshone them.
