Music Monday: Now and Then
Billed as the last new Beatles song, “Now and Then” dropped onto streaming platforms, social media, and music retailers this past week. It’s the last Beatles song because it’s the last time John, Paul,...
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Music Monday: Here, There, and Everywhere
Once again I’m featuring a Beatles song on Music Monday. This is one I’ve been meaning to talk about for a while, and since Paul McCartney celebrated his 80th birthday recently, I thought now...
Bridge Over Troubled Water: Revisited
Considered by many to be Simon and Garfunkel’s finest work, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” was the duo’s final album, released in 1970. The title track is arguably Paul Simon’s best-known song. So why do...
Music Monday: I Call Your Name
This song has been buzzing around my head recently for no particular reason so I figured I would do a Music Monday on it and get it out of my system. Some people pay...
Music Monday: Abbey Road
I haven’t done a “Music Monday” post in a while, and this one is a little different. Usually, I pick a song, talk about it, and then provide some performance notes, sheet music, lead...
Book Review: THE BEATLES: TUNE IN (ALL THESE YEARS, VOL. 1) (Extended Special Edition) by Mark Lewisohn
Yet another book about The Beatles? There are literally hundreds of books, maybe thousands, about the Fab Four. What’s so special about this one? I think that’s a perfectly legitimate question, and one that...
On This Day in 1957…
Saturday, July 6th, 1957. It was a hot day at St. Peter’s church fete in Woolton, Liverpool. But the turnout was good. One of the attractions that day was a start-up skiffle band called...
Geoff Emerick, 1945-2018
One of the unsung heroes of the recording industry passed away this past Tuesday (October 2). Geoff Emerick started out as an assistant engineer at EMI in London around the time The Beatles were...
It Was 50 Years Ago… this Past Week…ish…
Okay, so it doesn’t have quite the same ring as the opening line of the album, but yes, this past week (Thursday and Friday) marked the 50th anniversary of the Beatles landmark album, “Sgt....
RIP George Martin, the Fifth Beatle*
I found out yesterday that George Martin, the man who, in 1962, stuck his neck out and gave four young upstarts from Liverpool a recording deal, passed away on Tuesday, aged 90. George Martin...
