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While the ‘Help!” album was still ‘hot of the presses’ and the movie was still in theaters, the Beatles embarked on their second tour of North America. ...read more
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At the height of Beatlemania, there was a significant advantage to being British as opposed to American.
In England, the record label obeyed the ...read more
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From today’s perspective, the movie “Help!” seems almost quaint and overtly silly, but in 1965, it was a reasonably innovative piece of work.
Although ...read more
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The movie ‘Help!’ was a much stranger animal than “A Hard Day’s Night”, and from an artistic perspective, not as successful.
The reason was mostly ...read more
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After concluding an amazingly successful but thoroughly brutal year, it was time to make plans for the upcoming year.
The basic plan? Repeat the ...read more
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For this show, we continue our coverage of the Beatles by playing the remaining tracks from “Beatles For Sale”. This was the band’s fourth album in Great ...read more
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Somehow, between thousands of promotional obligations, hundreds of live performances and God only knows how many other distractions, the Beatles somehow ...read more
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As the year 1964 began to wind down, the Beatles could do anything but. If they had even a moment to reflect on the whirlwind of activity (very successful ...read more
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If it seems like we’ve been discussing the year 1964 for a very long time, it’s because we have. If it seems a bit redundant with the material that we have ...read more
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Coming right on the heels of “A Hard Day’s Night,” the Beatles first tour of North America was an event of epic proportion. Never before in the history of ...read more
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