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Harrison’s Wistful Love Letter to the Apple Scruffs
In the early ’60s, girls used to stand in line for three hours before the Beatles’ daily Cavern Club shows, sometimes clawing Starr’s future wife, Maureen, out of jealousy. In the late ’60s, when the...
View ArticleLennon’s Most Underrated Love Song? Mind Games’“Out the Blue”
In June 1973 Yoko Ono told Lennon she wanted a separation right before the sessions for the Mind Games album began began. Lennon didn’t want to believe they were through, and many Mind Games songs...
View ArticleTHE SONGS THE BEATLES GAVE AWAY
Hosts Ryan and Chris of the excellent McCartney podcast TAKE IT AWAY and I recently discussed THE SONGS THE BEATLES GAVE AWAY TO OTHER ARTISTS. We play Paul and John’s unreleased demos and compare them...
View ArticleLennon Picks “Bony Moronie” to Kick Off 1973’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Sessions
A 1957 hit for Larry Williams, Lennon sang “Bony Moronie” in the only show his mother saw him play before her death, hence the song’s special place in his heart. It was the first song Lennon laid down...
View ArticleMcCartney Celebrates His Groups Old and New With “Band on the Run”
Bored with recording in England in 1973, McCartney checked out a list of EMI’s international recording studios and discovered one in Lagos, Nigeria. Dreaming of new African rhythms to be discovered,...
View ArticleLennon Produces Jagger’s “Too Many Cooks” During “The Lost Weekend”
In 1973 or 1974 (accounts vary) while Lennon was in L.A. during his infamous “Lost Weekend,” he produced a song for Mick Jagger — a cover of bluesman Willie Dixon’s “Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup).”...
View ArticleThe 1973 Album Living in the Material World
The long-awaited follow up to the one-two punch of All Things Must Pass and The Concert for Bangladesh, Harrison’s second solo album Living in the Material World held the number #1 in the U.S. for...
View ArticleMcCartney Gets Cubist for “Picasso’s Last Words”
When McCartney and his wife Linda were on vacation in Jamaica in 1973, they visited the set of the feature film Papillon starring Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen. Hoffman invited the couple over to...
View ArticleA review from NPR for my new book 1973: ROCK AT THE CROSSROADS
The solo Beatles appear quite a bit in the book — as it was the year of Band on the Run, Mind Games, Living in the Material World, and Ringo. Here’s a link to a review of the book from NPR:...
View ArticleTHE FAB FOUR IN ’73
Beatles expert extraordinaire Robert Rodriguez had me on his super podcast Something About The Beatles to talk about the ex-Beatles during the era of my new book 1973: Rock at the Crossroads. Against a...
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