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An original Beatlemaniac gives the new Beatles ‘Remasters’ a listen

by Misha Berson [The Seattle Times (MCT)]

[29.Sep.09] :. Let audiophiles debate whether the Beatles albums sound best in the newly remastered, highly touted mono or in the fresh stereo editions. Or, for that matter, on the original vinyl discs. To many of...

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Sound Affects

The End of CDs Is Nowhere in Sight

by Sean McCarthy

[24.Sep.09] :. Music writers have tried to correlate the death of the CD with the release of the remastered albums from the Beatles. But as long as we like having a physical copy of a special album, hard copy formats will not disappear anytime soon.

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The Beatles - “Dear Prudence”

by AJ Ramirez

[23.Sep.09] :. In belated recognition of the recent release of Beatles CD remasters, I thought I should briefly discuss my favorite Beatles song. “Dear Prudence” is the second track on the...

Sound Affects

Rest in Pieces: Eulogies of the Past, Present, and Future Feature

John Lennon, In My Life

by Julia Karr

[21.Sep.09] :. I began identifying with the songs John was writing. His wit, his grittiness and his candor were reflections, not just of my own life, but of life in the world.

Rest in Pieces: Eulogies of the Past, Present, and Future

Rest in Pieces: Eulogies of the Past, Present, and Future Feature

My Friend, George Harrison: Reflections on the Cool Beatle

by Christopher Guerin

[21.Sep.09] :. The minute I saw George in those blue jeans, work shirt, and those sand-colored boots, I had to have them, and that was exactly what I wore for the months that followed.

Rest in Pieces: Eulogies of the Past, Present, and Future

Rest in Pieces: Eulogies of the Past, Present, and Future Feature

A Love Letter from Lisa: To Paul McCartney, My Confession

by Lisa Torem

[21.Sep.09] :. As I recall historical events, I can’t imagine a timeline existing without your presence, without your warm smile and those careful words that I’ve heard in interviews and television shows and movies.

Rest in Pieces: Eulogies of the Past, Present, and Future

The problem with reality

by Brian Crecente [Kotaku.com (MCT)]

[16.Sep.09] :. Video games are meant to be flights of fancy but, as with television, reality has become an increasingly popular concept to tap into. Nowhere is this more evident than in music-themed video games....

Dhani Harrison on the ‘The Beatles: Rock Band’ (video)

by Allison Taich

[15.Sep.09] :. Dhani Harrison, son of Beatles’ guitarist George Harrison, appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on Tuesday 8 September, to discuss The Beatles: Rock Band video...

Beatles fans deserve more in the remastering department

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[9.Sep.09] :. The bottom is falling out of compact disc sales in America. But don’t tell the Beatles, who are making like it’s 1987 all over again on Wednesday when their entire back catalog gets...

What would they think if you sang out of tune?

by Dan Deluca [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[8.Sep.09] :. The Beatles are coming! The Beatles are coming! It’s been more than 45 years since the Fab Four first arrived in America, but on 09-09-09 — that’s number nine, number nine, number...

Here comes the fun: ‘The Beatles: Rock Band’ is not just for kids

by Glenn Gamboa [Newsday (MCT)]

[8.Sep.09] :. The Beatles’ history is intertwined with one pop-culture landmark after another. The appearance of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr on “The Ed Sullivan...

The Beatles - The Complete Catalog Remastered (new CDs / videos)

by Allison Taich

[27.Aug.09] :. Revolution number nine (September), number nine (9th), number nine (2009)

The Beatles: Rock Band - (trailer / song list)

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Aug.09] :. The Beatles: Rock Band (Harmonix/MTV Games) Platform: PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 Releasing: 9 September 2009 SONG LIST Singles I Want to Hold Your Hand I Feel Fine Day...

Beatles Rock Band

by Rob Horning

[18.Aug.09] :. Though it has a great hed, Daniel Radosh’s article on the new Beatles Rock Band game reads like a long infomercial, or like a textual equivalent of one of those fake-documentary shows that gets...

George Harrison: Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison

by Andrew Blackie

[19.Jun.09] :. Not quite the definitive tribute that rediscovered George deserved, Let It Roll is a patchy albeit always listenable collection

“The Beatles: Rock Band” (trailer)

by Sarah Zupko

[2.Jun.09] :. The Beatles: Rock Band releases 9 September, “coincidentally” on the same day as the re-mastered Beatles CD catalogue drops. Think you can play these songs like the Fab...

See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me…Sell Me

by Sean Murphy

[23.May.09] :. Pete Townshend is selling (his soul), but who's buying? Not I.

The Beatles remind us why CDs are great

by Sarah Zupko

[9.Apr.09] :. Back in the late ‘80s there was a great deal of excitement when the Beatles catalogue first came to CD. For many people, including me, it was the reason to buy a CD player in the first place....

Realism will be key to ‘Beatles: Rock Band’ experience

by Brian Crecente [Kotaku.com (MCT)]

[11.Mar.09] :. When The Beatles come to “Rock Band” it may not be as different an experience as many had hoped, but what it lacks in new ways to play it will make up for in nuance. When MTV Games,...

The Beatles set launch date for ‘Rock Band’ game

by Dan Gallagher [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[6.Mar.09] :. A new Beatles-themed “Rock Band” video game has been slated for an early September release, marking the first time the iconic band’s music will be made available in the popular...

POP PAST… this week in music history

by Sarah Zupko

[9.Feb.09] :. On February 9, 1964 the Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show fully launching Beatlemania in America and changing American pop culture forever. It was one of the real...

The Beatles - “Do You Want to Know a Secret”

by Barry Lenser

[9.Jan.09] :. I’ve now listened to “Do You Want to Know a Secret” many times, read of its origins, and taken ample notes. Even so, I don’t think I could put together a commentary that...

Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1966-1970

by Christel Loar

[1.Dec.08] :. When the viewer is presented with portions of interviews with a panel of experts—including Beatles friends and biographers, journalists, broadcasters and eminent musicologists--things really pick up.

The Beatles - “Baby It’s You”

by Barry Lenser

[1.Dec.08] :. One of the obvious delights of surveying the Beatles’ catalogue is coming across unheralded gems, like “Baby It’s You”. Written by Burt Bacharach, Luther Dixon, and Mack...

Revolution None: The Beatles’ ‘Wide Album’

by Tony Sclafani

[25.Nov.08] :. How the Beatles fell into avant garde hell with 1968’s unreleased Wide Album.

The Whiteness of this Whale

by Sean Murphy

[25.Nov.08] :. Trying to cut "The White Album" down to size is ultimately like chasing that whale around all the continents and hunting him down: it can’t be done.

Forty years ago the Beatles released a double album that changed our world

by Steve Paul [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Nov.08] :. Call me daft, but every now and then I like to pick up one of those British pop music magazines. It’s not that I need updates on the latest drug scuffles of Babyshambles or Amy Winehouse. But...

The White Album: Side Four

by PopMatters Staff

[21.Nov.08] :. The potential breakthrough and the impending breakup, the final side celebrates the Beatles' artistic experimentation -- and the creative contradictions that signaled their eventual end.

The Beatles: White Album - Side 3

by PopMatters Staff

[20.Nov.08] :. Check out the PopMatters tribute to the 40th anniversary of the White Album. Side Three songs highlighted below posted today. Side Three Paul McCartney Birthday...

The White Album: Side Three

by PopMatters Staff

[20.Nov.08] :. It's back to basics once again as the band finds the musical muscle memory to mesh all their influences into seven sensational tracks.

The Beatles: White Album - Side 2

by PopMatters Staff

[19.Nov.08] :. Check out the PopMatters tribute to the 40th anniversary of the White Album. Side Two songs highlighted below posted today. Side Two Andie Forgie from the recreation of the White Album...

The White Album: Side Two

by PopMatters Staff

[19.Nov.08] :. It's the Beatles 'unplugged' -- from stardom, from pressures, from the friendship that held them together -- while simultaneously reaching inward and outward.

None More White: The Beatle’s White Album

by Vince Carducci

[18.Nov.08] :. The Beatles is called ‘the White Album’, of course, because of its cover, which is completely devoid of imagery save for the group’s name blind-embossed on its face slightly...

The White Album: Side One

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Nov.08] :. It's all guitars and good times as the Fab Four rediscover the joys of jamming -- as well as the hidden pain and problems poised to tear them apart.

The Beatles: White Album - Side 1

by PopMatters Staff

[17.Nov.08] :. Check out the PopMatters tribute to the 40th anniversary of the White Album. Side One songs post tomorrow, but here’s some video highlights to whet your appetite.   Side...

Birthday: The White Album Turns 40

by Zeth Lundy and Bill Gibron

[17.Nov.08] :. In the first day of PopMatters' week-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' self-titled double album, Bill Gibron and Zeth Lundy discuss the record's importance and impact, and why it continues to resonate within popular culture some four decades later.

The Beatles - “P.S. I Love You”

by Barry Lenser

[12.Nov.08] :. Hearing “P.S. I Love You” brings to mind the faulty stereotypes that I once associated with the Beatles’ early songs. Namely that they were mostly negligible from a technical...

Beatles deal highlights videogames’ role in music industry

by Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[31.Oct.08] :. The Beatles have found a digital format they like for licensing songs: a videogame. The legendary band that had rebuffed the modern era by not allowing its music to be sold as digital downloads at...

The Beatles - “Love Me Do”

by Barry Lenser

[31.Oct.08] :. For a debut single, especially from a band of wide-eyed and excitable young rock ‘n rollers, “Love Me Do” feels like a curious selection. It’s a decidedly mid-tempo and almost...

The Beatles - “Please Please Me”

by Barry Lenser

[20.Oct.08] :. “If they had wanted to, they could have found plenty of double meanings in our early work. How about ‘I’ll Keep You Satisfied’ or ‘Please Please Me’? Everything...

The Beatles - “Ask Me Why”

by Barry Lenser

[11.Oct.08] :. “Ask Me Why” was one of four songs that the Beatles played at Abbey Road Studios during their first recording session on June 6, 1962. Afterward, George Martin judged that this abundantly...

The Beatles - “Boys”

by Barry Lenser

[3.Oct.08] :. Paul McCartney has fondly remarked on the innocence of the Beatles’ early years, a time when they could perform a song that seemed keen on members of the male sex and not, as a result, inspire...

The Beatles - “Chains”

by Barry Lenser

[28.Sep.08] :. “Chains” marks the first time on Please Please Me where the Beatles sound indifferent to the material they’re playing. Their version of the Gerry Goffin and Carole...

Arthur Alexander’s “Anna (Go to Him)”

by Barry Lenser

[22.Sep.08] :. Here’s the Arthur Alexander-performed version of “Anna (Go to Him)”. The slinky piano line, the slightly brisker tempo, and Alexander’s soulful but still a touch inhibited...

The Beatles - “Anna (Go to Him)”

by Barry Lenser

[18.Sep.08] :. John Lennon was famously battling a cold during the recording session for Please Please Me. While the illness wasn’t major, even a pedestrian cough might have derailed his vocal efforts....

The Beatles - “Misery”

by Barry Lenser

[13.Sep.08] :. Coming off the lively snap of “I Saw Her Standing There”, a song with a melodramatic title like “Misery” seems almost bound to be a non-starter. And, to a certain extent,...

The Beatles - “I Saw Her Standing There”

by Barry Lenser

[9.Sep.08] :. After recently hearing for the first time the manic Beatles song “It Won’t Be Long”, I realized that I needed to absorb their entire catalogue and write about it. So this is my...

All You Need Is Love

by Zeth Lundy

[22.Jul.08] :. Tony Palmer's compelling yet frustrating 15-hour television series on the history of popular music, originally broadcast in the 1970s, finally sees a DVD release.

Various Artists: Easy Beatles

by Evan Sawdey

[24.Apr.08] :. Beatles covers redone as unabashed pop fluff, somehow retaining the original songs' rigidity in the process.

Release of historic ‘lost’ Beatles recordings halted

by Jay Weaver [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Apr.08] :. A London company representing The Beatles won an initial legal battle on Wednesday to stop a Miami Lakes business from releasing rare live recordings of the group at a German club in 1962. Apple...

Sgt. Pepper’s troops storm N.J. Beatles fest

by Richard Cowen [The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT)]

[31.Mar.08] :. All you need is love for thousands of Beatles fans to come together - although it certainly helps to have cash or a credit card. The Fab Four’s magical history tour made its annual stop at the...

Fab forms: Northwestern University displays images of rare Beatles lyrics

by Louis R. Carlozo [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[27.Mar.08] :. EVANSTON, Ill. - Growing up in Liverpool, the Beatles took pieces of all the pop music they could find - country, Motown, rhythm and blues, rockabilly - and turned it into rock immortal. But as for...

Beatles sue to stop release of ‘lost’ recordings

by Jay Weaver [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Mar.08] :. Despite newfound fame from their hit single “Love Me Do” in fall 1962, the Beatles agreed to return for a few final gigs at a German club where they had performed as a fledgling...

The Best Music DVDs of 2007

by Ron Hart

[25.Jan.08] :. The last few years have seen some mind-blowing DVD repackaging of a wide variety of musically projects. 2007 is the best yet.

Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald

by John Bergstrom

[29.Oct.07] :. In spite of some troubling, reactionary views, the late MacDonald's song-by-song analysis of the Fabs' music remains a Top Five acquisition.

All My Loving

by Stuart Henderson

[18.Sep.07] :. Tony Palmer's 1968 made-for-BBC "masterpiece" looks decidedly more suspect today.

Part 2: Janis Ian to Jimi Hendrix (1966-1970)

by PopMatters Staff

[17.Jul.07] :. Music truly is the universal language. The best songs of protest are passed around, from movement-to-movement, era-to-era; its singers gaining multilingual fluency along the way.

‘Sgt. Pepper’ at 40: Still the brightest jewel in the band’s crown?

by Ben Wener [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[4.Jun.07] :. Pardon the obvious start, but it can’t be helped: It was 40 years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. And ever since, as even a high-schooler with a cursory knowledge of cultural...

Sgt. Pepper at 40, from A to Z

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Jun.07] :. It was 40 years ago today -- to be precise, June 1, 1967, in Britain, a day later in the former colonies of America -- that the Beatles changed the world.

The Beatles: Love

by Zeth Lundy

[15.Dec.06] :. The companion piece to the Cirque du Soleil extravaganza, George and Giles Martin's remix project affirms newfound thematic correlations within the Beatles' catalog.