The Beau Brummels – Introducing The Beau Brummels
As my collection must have made obvious by now, there was a period of time when I was into just about anything to do with the ‘60s, particularly the British Invasion of ’64-’65-’66, and...
Category: ’60s
The Beatles – The Beatles Broadcasts (bootleg)
I’ve written before about The Flashcubes – for post-punk powerpop fans in Syracuse at the end of the ‘70s, there was no band more energetic or exciting. While we saw them in a lot of...
The Beatles – Yellow Matter Custard (bootleg)
Kids, you may not know there were once dark days when the only Beatles music available were the official releases. All the alternate takes and live radio appearances that are now on collections like...
The Beatles – The Beatles Collection
The intensity of my love for The Beatles, starting in that magical fall of 1978, continued for quite a few years. Of course The Beatles weren’t all my roommate and I listened to, but...
The Beatles – Rock ‘n’ Roll Music
So way back when I wrote a prelude to the Beatles section of this vanity project, I explained that after discovering the Red album and the Blue album in the autumn of our freshman...
The Beatles – Hey Jude
Oh, did I think we were going to roll from “Abbey Road” right into “Let It Be”? No. In a strict chronology, the album that was released after “Abbey Road” was this compilation, titled...
The Beatles – Abbey Road
The order of “Abbey Road” confuses everyone, because it doesn’t seem to fit with the narrative of the time. What seems to make sense is that The Beatles released “Abbey Road,” an absolute masterpiece,...
The Beatles – The Beatles (The White Album)
First, we had albums from a band so famous that it didn’t need to put its name on the album covers. Now, we have an album where the only thing on the cover is...
The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
Here’s another example of knowing The Beatles before I really knew The Beatles. Although I was pretty insulated from radio and music generally until I was about 12, I spent my teen years as...
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