The Beatles Today in Beatles History

“The End” features the only drum solo recorded by Ringo with the Beatles and comes in at a succinct 25 seconds. He disliked solos, preferring to cater drum work to whoever sang in a particular performance. His solo on “The End” was recorded with twelve microphones around his drum kit. …

During the song’s recording sessions in April 1966, John demanded to know why the bass on a certain Wilson Pickett record exceeded that on any Beatles records. EMI recording engineer Geoff Emerick responded by boosting the bass on the record. “‘Paperback Writer’ was the first time the bass sound had …

October 25, 1964 – The Beatles’ third and final visit to Brighton was the 14th date of their 1964 British tour. They had previously performed at the same venue, the Hippodrome Theatre, on 2 June 1963 and 12 July 1964. The Beatles performed two concerts each night on the tour, …

As a security precaution they were taken to The Hippodrome in the back of a Police Van . Before entering the venue they posed with Police and signed autographs.This was part of their Autumn U.K. tour.This was their second performance at The Hippodrome with the first one happening on March …

The Beatles were the first group to experiment with the feedback sound with the electric guitar in the song I feel fine. The Beatles introduced the Indian zither to rock music. In Norwegian Wood it is heard for the first time. For the first time a pop rock group introduces …

George got his first Gibson with humbuckers in 1965, a ES-345 that he used while miming in promo videos for ‘Day Tripper,’ ‘Help!,’ ‘I Feel Fine,’ ‘Ticket To Ride,’ and ‘We Can Work It Out.’ He played it that December on what turned out to be the band’s final British …

We were doing a demo near London during a Bones Brigade tour in 1990 when a kid asked if we’d like to come to his house for dinner. It was an unusual request, but he had confidence and explained that his dad would be excited to meet us. We quickly …

While having dinner together in 1973, Dustin Hoffman inspired Paul to write “Picasso’s Last Words (Drink To Me)”. Hoffman had asked Paul how he came up with ideas for writing songs. Paul replied that he didn’t know, “You just sort do it, kind of pick them out of the air”. …

Home From Greece July 31, 1967 – Jane, Paul and Alex Mardas leaving Heathrow.. I met Magic Alex the other day in the center of Athens.He is an old man who doesn’t want to talk about the Beatles. He told me that he has already said everything about those days …

ebruary 23rd 1964 – Recording ABC TV’s ‘Big Night Out’ (Broadcast on 29th) The Beatles participate in three comedy skits, one of them showing customs inspectors searching The Beatles’ luggage as they are returning from America and finding the suitcases are all filled with cash. Then The Beatles play lip-sync …