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A Beatle Book Bonanza in 2023

We appear to be in something of an avalanche of Beatle books at the moment with lots of titles either out now, about to be released, or in the longer-term pipeline. A couple of Paul McCartney books available right now are The McCartney Legacy Volume 1 1969-73 (see our review of this terrific book here), and another new one called Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas – The Stories Behind the Songs…

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Beatlesongs, Rob Leonard, May 5, 2023.  Download  

Guests are Bruce Spizer, then Billy J Kramer

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Beatles Expert Bruce Spizer Talks Beatlemania Passion

Renowned Beatles expert Bruce Spizer will be part of exciting celebrations to denote the 60th Anniversary of the Beatles’ first appearance in the United States.  Image courtesy of Bruce Spizer via Facebook The Beatles made history with their arrival on American soil. Well-deserved recognition should go to Beatles expert Spizer for his passion for the band’s history and for keeping Fab Four…

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Chicago Fest for Beatles Fans 2023

I've always loved connecting with people who share my passions. For me, cons aren't about meeting celebrities or room parties, though those are both fine. For me, it's about meeting people whose eyes don't glaze over after thirty seconds of your special interest. So when I began my deep dive into Beatlemania, I wanted to find people who really wanted to chat. (Some of you have witnessed these efforts here, to varying degrees of success.) So I googled "Beatles conventions" and, on a whim, bought a ticket to the Fest for Beatles Fans in Chicago, partly because I had someone to stay with (over an hour away, but still) and didn't need to shell out for a room.

If my goal was to engineer a feeling like, say, my best one on one convos here, or the Meta the Beatles discord, or old school livejournal, or the K/S cons, it was only marginally successful. Still, I think it was a positive experience and I am considering attempting to afford the next one in February at the utterly stunning remodeled TWA hotel.

The Fest, which used to be called BeatleFest until Apple Corps intervened in 1997, has been ongoing since 1974 when founder Mark Lapidos asked John Lennon if he was cool with the idea of a Beatles convention. You can see various guests over the years here, so clearly it's a known quantity in Beatledom. Many people there this weekend have been attending since the beginning, and it's an annual (or bi-annual) tradition.

It differs from other fan cons I've been to in that the focus is largely on music itself. This is natural, but what I mean is, there is constantly at least one musical act playing Beatles music in some form. On the main stage and breakout rooms you also have guests: Pattie Boyd, Gregg Bissonette (Ringo's current drummer), Billy J Kramer, Terry Sylvester (the Hollies), Joey Molland (Badfinger), Jay Bergen (John's lawyer), Allan Kozinn (The McCartney Legacy), Bruce Spizer (various books about the recordings), Kenneth Womack (upcoming Mal Evans book!), Susan Ryan (long time Fest fixture and historian), Skylar Moody (Beatles TikTok), Jude Kessler (The John Lennon series), Sara Schmidt (Meet the Beatles for Real), Steve Matteo (Act Naturally: the Beatles on Film). There are dealers with vintage and current merch and memorabilia, a "museum" room with historic merch, old clippings, an "ashram" where you can attend various meditation and yoga sessions, a karaoke room, costume and talent contests, even a Beatles Rock Band setup I failed to attend despite my yearning to one day play it.

Some of the panels were pretty sparsely attended, and there was a strong feeling that a lot of people go to listen to the bands and stay up all night. But what that meant for those of us who were there to talk and make connections was, I got to talk and make a ton of connections. I met Sara Schmidt and her mother and they took me under their wing and introduced me to anyone who was anyone. I had a lovely chat with Ken Womack. Wally Podrazik insisted on taking a photo of my Nerk Twins shirt and demanded I email him. I spoke to Allan Kozinn about how a John boy comes to write the most comprehensive Paul biography ever. I met a lady named Tina who is going to hook me up with info about early slash and RPF fic (because I've heard several of you youngin's declare it's a relatively new phenomenon and I know it isn't!). I danced to a great cover band while looking like Twiggy. I had a lot of comments about my Stamp Out the Beatles shirt. I spoke to Steve Matteo about his book about the Beatles on film, and shared my own film work in which he took an avid interest.

All in all, it never got as in depth as you can with good fandom friends in a quiet setting. I've also heard that attendance and quality have gone down in recent years, and changes have been implemented due to stupid copyright shit (like, no being able to show any of the licensed films or cartoons? Which is a huge bummer.). But I do feel that I made connections and furthermore, felt embraced and included and warmly welcomed. No one questioned the fact I got here via "Get Back," no one challenged me on being new, no one made any attempt to gatekeep or Beatle bro at me. Only ONE person even asked who my favorite Beatle was. They all seemed genuinely delighted to have a new weirdo to share their passion with.

I haven't decided if I'm attending again, but I do already have plans in the works to suggest a few panels more in line with the type of con activity I like to see. Because even if it's not exactly the interactions I've been seeking, there's no substitute for face to face discussion and squee. And now, my photos!

Jay Bergen, Gregg Bissonette, Terry Sylvester, Joey Molland, Billy J Kramer, Pattie Boyd, and moderator Terri Hemmert.

So many shirts! My little outfits, missing my prized Stamp Out the Beatles sweatshirt:

Weirdass vintage Beatles merch:

And finally, what I spent too much money on because everyone I talked to had written a book, GDI. Plus, 1974 era buttons because I like old stuff and they were $10:

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New BEATLES book! A Hard Day’s Night & More! Bruce Spizer hits a grand s...

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Book Review: “The Beatles Rubber Soul to Revolver” Compiled by Bruce Spizer

Unlike the albums it explores, “The Beatles Rubber Soul to Revolver” has a ton of filler between its covers.

Dominated by ad nauseam accounting of the albums and associated singles’ weekly chart positions in the United Kingdom (in NME, Disc, Melody Maker and others), the United States (Billboard, Cashbox, et. al) and Canada, the book also features poorly written fan remembrances and ephemera about movies and culture of 1965-’66.

Book editor/compiler and Beatles expert Bruce Spizer does well in ensuring both the U.K. and U.S. versions of the LPs are explored. And the deep dive into Yesterday and Today’s infamous Butcher Cover is chock full of info on its origins, backlash and legacy.

Furthermore, inside-baseball-style Beatlemaniacs will find the Rubber Soul and Revolver session notes fascinating. But most of 240 pages are worthy of little more than skimming.

And some are not even skim-worthy.

Grade card: “The Beatles Rubber Soul to Revolver” Compiled by Bruce Spizer - C-

11/3/22

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Story On Capitol Records Bruce Spizer Books In Case Signed

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Si "Sgt. Pepper" vous était conté...

1er juin 1967. Une vague couleur Pepper submerge le monde de la musique. Spécialiste des Beatles, Bruce Spizer commémore la sortie du « plus grand album de tous les temps » dans The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper : A Fan’s Perspective

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7 février 1964. Les Beatles atterrissent à New York. Bruce Spizer a alors huit ans. Aujourd’hui « Taxman » de son état de Louisiane, on lui doit de nombreux best sellers consacrés aux Beatles dont The Beatles Records on Vee-Jay, The Beatles’ Story on Capitol Records Parts 1 & 2, The Beatles on Apple Records, The Beatles Solo on Apple Records, The Beatles Swan Song: “She Loves You” & Other Records, The Beatles Are Coming! The Birth of Beatlemania in America, Beatles For Sale on Parlophone Records et son dernier opus, The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper: A Fans’ Perspective.

A l’instar de ses précédents ouvrages, The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper est une véritable mine d’informations toute aussi agréable à lire qu’à contempler.

Un demi-siècle après l’avènement des Beatles, il est rare d’en apprendre davantage tant sur leur processus de création que la manière dont ils ont été reçu… et pourtant ! En cent soixante-six pages, dix essais, près de cent témoignages de fans ainsi que pléthore de visuels aux couleurs chatoyantes, l’auteur américain offre un nouvel éclairage pour le moins exhaustif sur une réalité qui peut échapper à un public francophone : la couverture médiatique et la réception tant critique que publique du huitième album des Beatles aux Etats-Unis. Qu’il s’agisse du raz de marée ayant submergé les radios américaines, de leur simili compétition avec les Monkees ou des dizaines de groupes que les Quatre Garçons dans le Vent ont inspirés,  tout est abordé !

Illustration parfaite de l’expérience internationale qu’à été Sgt. Pepper, l’ouvrage de Bruce Spizer fourmille également de témoignages d’auteurs canadiens, allemands, italiens, belges ou encore russe, résultant en une oeuvre à taille humaine célébrant l’époque où les vinyles coûtaient la somme affolante de trois dollars.

L’auteur nous entraîne enfin dans les coulisses de la composition des morceaux mythiques jusqu’à leur mixage, s’étendant sur les différences entre celui en mono et en stéréo avec brio, mais toujours de manière claire et accessible. Il n’hésite par ailleurs pas à remettre à sa place un album qui ne compte pas toujours parmi les favoris des fans comme des néophytes.

Vous souhaitez en apprendre davantage sur le paradoxe Pepper, c’est ici que ça passe !

Par Jessica Saval

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so, according to the book ‘the beatles' story on capitol records: the albums’ by bruce spizer, the O.W on the revolver cover stands for ‘otto wilhelm’. of course, this may not be true bc this is the first clarification i’ve ever seen, but i think it’s more than likely to be legit

Does klaus have a middle name? I’ve always wondered

i’ve always wondered this too !!

i was curious bc he signed the revolver cover “klaus o.w voormann” but there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of these actually being the initials of his middle names

if they are however - i can give an educated guess at the ‘o’ standing for ‘otto’, as this is the name he gave to his first child, which is, of course, a common thing to do. but i’m not certain at all sorry :(

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Don Rickles Vs. The Beatles :

The Beatles had an encounter with him when they were in Miami Beach in February 1964.   After returning to the Deuville at approximately 11:00pm, the group headed to one of the hotel's night clubs to see comedian Don Rickles, whose routine consisted of launching insults at members of the audience.  Everyone was fair game, including little old ladies and, of course, the Beatles and Sgt. Dresner.  "Look at this.  A police sergeant guarding four Zulus when all over the city there's fighting and burglary going on."   Although the Beatles laughed along with the audience each time Rickles took aim at them, they were not amused.  The group was trying to keep a low profile and resented being publicly embarrassed by the comedian.  George thought it unfair that only Rickles had a microphone.  "If we'd had him on our own terms we could have made mincemeat out of him."  

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(Story found in the book The Beatles are coming! by  Bruce Spizer)

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Bruce Spizer, Beatles, Part One

An interview with Bruce Spizer, a Beatles fan who is so knowledgeable that he wrote all the questions to the Beatles version of trivial pursuit.

Bruce Spizer, Beatles, Part Two

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Beatlesongs, Rob Leonard, December 6, 2024. Download

Guest Bruce Spizer

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It was 50 years ago today that "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" got its official release in the U.K. The Beatles' psychedelic masterpiece -- which hit U.S. stores a day later -- went where no album had gone before, combining such influences as classical, big band and Indian music with various experimental sounds and studio techniques. Beatles expert Bruce Spizer tells ABC News that perhaps the most important achievement of "Sgt. Pepper," which Rolling Stone chose as its greatest album of all time, was that "it elevated rock music to an art form," while also being "a great listening experience." As Spizer suggests, many fans may consider "Rubber Soul" to be The Beatles' best collection of songs, "Revolver" to be the band's best overall album and "Abbey Road" or the White Album to be their favorite album by the Fab Four. But he feels "Sgt. Pepper" is undeniably the group's "most important album." The concept of "Sgt. Pepper," devised by Paul McCartney, recast The Beatles as an alter-ego group. Launching the album was the McCartney-penned title track, which introduced the mythical band, while a reprise of the song brought the record up to its unforgettable finale, the epic "A Day in the Life." Beyond the innovative and captivating music, "Sgt. Pepper" features the iconic cover collage with The Beatles surrounded by cutouts of dozens of historic figures, celebrities and musicians. The album also was among the first to include printed song lyrics. Following its release, "Sgt. Pepper" spent 15 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album has gone on to sell more than 11 million copies in the U.S. and more than 5 million in the U.K. Check out a new fan Q&A with McCartney focusing on Sgt. Pepper at PaulMcCartney.com. (via ABC NEWS) // Whether the Beatles intended it or not, Sgt. Pepper came to symbolize �� immediately — the ambitions and longings and fears of a generation. Since the group had emerged in 1963 and 1964, youth culture had changed dramatically. What began in those years as a consensus in taste and style — with the Beatles at its center — had transformed into a challenging worldview. Sixties rock, along with the civil rights and anti–Vietnam War movements and a mass willingness to experiment with marijuana and LSD, had given young people a new sense of empowerment. This moment — when the possibilities of how life could be lived and power resisted were changing — was a time of promise but also doubt and risk. No single work had yet epitomized these bold new senses of community, ideas and art. Nothing, that is, until Sgt. Pepper. "[Fed up with their "boyish, mop-top" image, the Beatles were certainly] searching for sanctuary. They wanted distance from their image, and McCartney hit on a solution: "I thought, 'Let's not be ourselves.'" Instead, he suggested, they could invent an identity and work from inside the conceit of an alter-ego band that was making a record. "Everything about the album," McCartney said, "will be imagined from the perspective of these people, so it doesn't have to be us, it doesn't have to be the kind of song you want to write, it could be the song they might want to write." McCartney proposed calling this stand-in group Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and he wrote a title song to introduce the premise at the album's outset." (via ROLLING STONE)

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It was 50 years ago today that “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” got its official release in the U.K.

The Beatles‘ psychedelic masterpiece — which hit U.S. stores a day later — went where no album had gone before, combining such influences as classical, big band and Indian music with various experimental sounds and studio techniques.

Beatles expert Bruce Spizer tells ABC News that perhaps the most important achievement of “Sgt. Pepper,” which Rolling Stone chose as its greatest album of all time, was that “it elevated rock music to an art form,” while also being “a great listening experience.”

As Spizer suggests, many fans may consider “Rubber Soul” to be The Beatles’ best collection of songs, “Revolver” to be the band’s best overall album and “Abbey Road” or the White Album to be their favorite album by the Fab Four. But he feels “Sgt. Pepper” is undeniably the group’s “most important album.”

The concept of “Sgt. Pepper,” devised by Paul McCartney, recast The Beatles as an alter-ego group. Launching the album was the McCartney-penned title track, which introduced the mythical band, while a reprise of the song brought the record up to its unforgettable finale, the epic “A Day in the Life.”

Beyond the innovative and captivating music, “Sgt. Pepper” features the iconic cover collage with The Beatles surrounded by cutouts of dozens of historic figures, celebrities and musicians. The album also was among the first to include printed song lyrics.

Following its release, “Sgt. Pepper” spent 15 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album has gone on to sell more than 11 million copies in the U.S. and more than 5 million in the U.K.

Check out a new fan Q&A with McCartney focusing on Sgt. Pepper at PaulMcCartney.com.

1 June 2017 | 3:49 pm

Source : ABC News

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