This is the week that was in matters musical … 1878, seminal turntablist Thomas Edison receives a patent for the phonograph … 1956, Bill Haley & The Comets receive a $250,000 guarantee for 21 shows … an unprecedented amount in those days … 1958, the first Flying V is...

This is the week that was in matters musical … 1958, 14-year-old George Harrison demonstrates his guitar prowess by playing the Bill Justus instrumental “Raunchy” for an impressed John Lennon and Paul McCartney while the three are riding a Liverpool bus … he’s invited...

Hilarious assholes they have in England, it seems. He broke his back, but seems fine now, despite a cracked vertebra and dislodged disc. "Yeah, I'm a lizard," he says, cackling.From an article on Terry Gilliam's seemingly cursed movie "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus." Other problems: The producer d...

An e-mail yesterday reminded me that, seven years ago today, George Harrison passed away. I wrote to a friend of mine at the time: My favorite Beatle depends as much upon what day of the week it is as it does upon my mood for that day. Some days my Beatles-sense revolves wholly around John, other da...

Algumas pessoas me relataram que estão com problemas ao copiar do badongo... quem preferir, pode usar os outros links, que são do RAPIDSHARE. Show maravilhoso com George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton e outros. Imperdível. Tá no formato DVD. Com legendas e extras. Espero que gostem. Faixas: I...

It sometimes surprises me, given the cultural signifance of the Beatles, that there’s not more fiction devoted to the Beatles than there is. There’s a few novels — Liverpool Fantasy stands out — and some short stories, like Ian McEwan’s “Snodgrass” and Steph...

From my live cam chat: RevDesmondFord:  sinkers or floaters today, boy? YourMoralLeader:  Hi dad, all sinkers RevDesmondFord:  as i suspected. your brother Paul Ford came up floaters every time, he did. RevDesmondFord:  look at my miserable layabout of a son. RevDesmondFord: ...

In 1998 1988 (oops), George Harrison, looking for a “B-side” to go with the single release from his new album Cloud Nine laid down a track in Bob Dylan’s recording studio. Along with Dylan, Harrison corralled Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. None of them were in their musica...

I'm not sure what the motivations behind making these lists were—maybe they just want to turn everyone off of feeling like they need to pay for music ever again?—but the UK's Sunday Times has released its lists of Young Music Millionares and Britain's Top Music Millionaires, and boy do t...

Stephen Baxter created “God.” Maximum Bob created “Imaginary.” I created “Hot As Sun.” Imaginary Beatles albums. Had the band not broken up in 1969/1970, what would their next album after Abbey Road have been? Saturday, while looking for any sort of complete list ...