Category : Tout sur les Beatles

Macca Touts New Re-Issues

Paul McCartney will soon be releasing the remastered versions of Wild Life & Red Rose Speedway, the latest editions to the Paul McCartney Archive Collection…go to paulmccartney.com to order your copies!In the meantime, a couple of tracks f...

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Back with the real Beatles: the White Album reviewed - archive, November 1968

Fifty years ago, the Guardian printed two reviews of The Beatles and recommended listening to ‘what is likely to be the biggest event of the pop music year’ in stereo The Beatles have accustomed us to look for clues to the meaning of their work. Ever...

Drake beats the Beatles' 1964 record for most US Top 10 hits in a year

Canadian rapper’s guest spot on MIA by Bad Bunny marks his 12th Top 10 hit in 2018Drake has beaten a US chart record that stood for more than 50 years, becoming the artist with the most top 10 hits in a year.The Beatles set the record in 1964 when th...

Unheard versions of the Beatles' While My Guitar Gently Weeps released

Acoustic demos of the song, regarded as one of George Harrison’s best compositions, to be included in remastered White Album setThree unheard versions of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, regarded by many as George Harrison’s greatest contribution to the...

John Tavener's The Whale reviewed - archive, October 12 October 1970

12 October 1970 Tavener’s fantasy world has something in common with latter-day Beatle-soundsIf any work of the young avant-garde deserved the distinction (or otherwise) of appearing on the Beatles Apple label, it is John Tavener’s fantastic cantata...

Geoff Emerick (1946-2018): Appreciation

OCTOBER 4, 2018 BY KIT O’TOOLE “I want to sound as though I’m the Dalai Lama singing from the highest mountaintop. And yet I still want to hear the words I’m singing.” Imagine working as a recording engineer for the Beatles, arguably the bigges...

Geoff Emerick obituary

Recording engineer who was the technical genius behind the Beatles soundEven if Geoff Emerick, who has died following a heart attack aged 72, had never recorded a note with the Beatles, his list of credits as a recording engineer and producer would b...

Geoff Emerick, Beatles Chief Recording Engineer, Dies at 72

from Variety by Steve Marinucci Geoff Emerick, the Beatles chief recording engineer who worked on some of the band’s most seminal albums, has died according to his manager David Maida and posts on social media. He was believed to be 72 and had suffer...

Geoff Emerick dies

Beatles recording engineer Geoff Emerick has died at the age of 72, following a heart attack. 10/02/2018RIP Sir Geoff Emerick pic.twitter.com/ARKx164s7U — Geoff Emerick (@GeoffEmerick) October 3, 2018 Emerick was hugely influential to the creat...

Paul McCartney announces picture book, Hey Grandude

Set for a 2019 release, the former Beatle said his book about a magical grandfather is written ‘for grandparents everywhere’Following in the footsteps of fellow children’s book luminaries Bob Dylan, Keith Richards and Madonna, Paul McCartney is to wr...

The Unheard White Album: An Exclusive First Listen

from Rolling Stone Everything we know about the White Album is about to change. The Beatles’ 1968 masterpiece has always been been the deepest mystery in their story—their wildest, strangest, most experimental, most brilliant music. But as it turns o...

The Beatles’ White Album 50th anniversary box set to include remixes, demos and outtakes

The Beatles are to reissue the White Album on 9 November 2018, with various new mixes and bonus tracks across a range of formats, including a super deluxe box set, triple CD set, and two vinyl editions. The album, which is officially titled The Beatl...

Chas Hodges obituary

Singer, songwriter and pianist who was half of the popular duo Chas and Dave, famed for their ‘rockney’ style of musicRockney was the name given to the fusion of vintage rock’n’roll music and cockney lyrics pioneered by Chas and Dave from the 1970s o...

Paul McCartney Earns First No. 1 Album in Over 36 Years on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘Egypt Station’

from Billboard Magazine It’s his first debut at No. 1, and first chart-topper since “Tug of War” in 1982. Paul McCartney achieves his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart in over 36 years, as his new studio effort, Egypt Station, bows atop t...