I fell in love with The Beatles almost ten years after they had broken up. I never knew real Beatlemania, but I did know the music and it was the Beatles that helped me fall in love with the idea of London. Larry Kane was reporter who followed The Beatles around on the 1964 and 1965 US concert tours and Ticket To Ride is his recollection of those glory days. He says that he is still asked on a regular basis, so, what where The Beatles really like? I listened to the audio book version of Ticket to Ride and…
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The Beatles Rubber Soul
The original U.S. release of Rubber Soul was a bit different from the original U.K. release. Nowhere Man and Drive My Car were left off and I’ve Just Seen a Face and If I Need Someone were put on. The CD released a couple of years ago was the U.K. version. All well and good, Beatles fans like slightly different releases, but the problem is that there was no CD release of the original U.S. version.I am a fan of the Anthology CDs, I love the Beatles LOVE, and I even kind of like Let it Be Naked, but just…
The Beatles Rarities U.S. 1980
This is one of a handful of LPs that I bought new in a record store. Most or my music library at the time consisted of hand-me-downs and thrift store finds. I bought most of my Beatles LPs second hand and had a pretty nice collection at one time. I really loved the bootlegs albums and the off the wall stuff that would pop up once in a while. Nothing really exciting most of the time, just an album you already owned with a never before seen cover. Or maybe a song or two that shouldn’t be there. These still…