Video of the Day: Cover Tune Grab Bag – “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
Today’s Video of the Day brings you an amazing apartment complex cover of a famous Beatles song. Enjoy! [youtube i6BKhvhSehc]
The Beatles are (finally) on iTunes
Who knew such a thing would cause so much commotion?? I was on Twitter the other day, reading this awesome YouTuber, Meekakitty’s tweets, and one caught my eye: “WHY AREN’T THE BEATLES ON ITUNES?!” So I decided to investigate this. Sure enough, I checked on iTunes and the Beatles were nowhere to be found! This…
No, I meant RAIN, A Tribute to the Beatles!
The weather in Calgary hasn’t been all too sunny for the season, but all the rain has reminded me of one of my favorite bands of all time! Rain – A Tribute to the Beatles, is an amazing band and their concert a couple of years ago was the first I had ever been to.…
The Last Touring Year – Revolver (1966)
“We suddenly thought hey, what does a record do, it revolves, great you know and so it was a Revolver.” -Paul McCartney 1966 ended with the end of the touring of the Beatles. With increasing complexity in the reproduction of their music on stage and also getting tired of touring since they can only hear…
Dash and Daring! Help! And Rubber Soul (1965)
“They were getting more and more interested in unusual sounds, they were trying out new instruments and always coming to me saying, what, what ideas have you got for this.” – George Martin, Music Producer for the Beatles 1965 is the year that The Beatles really came out of their previous genre of music and…
British Invasion! A Hard Day’s Night & Beatles for Sale (1964)
So this is America. They must be out of their minds. – Ringo Starr Welcome to Part 4 of my series on the history of The Beatles. In the year 1964, the British Invasion hit and artists from Great Britain became popular in the United States. The movement was first started by The Beatles (of course!). This is also…
Beatlemania! Please Please Me and With the Beatles (1963)
“We thought that if we lasted for two or three years that would be fantastic.” – Ringo Starr Welcome to the third part in my series about the Beatles! 1963 is The Beatles’ annus mirabilis. 1963 is year of touring. 1963 is Beatlemania! It all started with their second single, Please…