Another groupie book

An ex-employee/groupie spills the beans on the Beatles and says they used to take drugs. Wow, there's some news. Does the book come in mono and stereo versions?

Dark Carnival at the Magic Bag in Detroit

Beatles, smeatles, I'd rather catch up with Dark Carnival, although Ron Asheton was a huge fan.

Who hates the Beatles?

Amongst all the hype around their albums being re-issued, did anyone notice this?

Allen Klein dead

The ex-Rolling Stones and Beatles manipulator has shuffled off at age 77. Obits are not expected to be warm and glowing.

Lost Beatle profiled on Aussie TV

This Friday Australian broadcaster SBS is screening a doco on Stu Sutcliffe, the original Beatles bassist who left the fledgling band to become a visual artist and died of a brain aneuyrism in 1962.

You might know the story from the Backbeat movie of about a decade ago. No doubt it'll dish a bit of dirt on the Fab Four's Hamburg days. Details here.

For Those Who Don't Hate The Beatles

Here's something you don't see often - an online video of the Beatles in full flight in Japan in 1966. Downloadable too, but at half-an-hour in duration it comes to 200MB or so.

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Hating the Beatles

I know the Mops Tops have their fans but I was over them by 2nd grade. The Stones always rocked my boat more, and the same goes for the the Monkees, who had their own TV show, what's more. In my defence, I was six-years-old.

Obviously these guys have a more extreme take on all things Beatle. If imitation is the highest form of flattery, you know the rest. Their website includes a link to BitTorrent a copy but I couldn't find any seeds. Guess I'll have to make do with an ebay copy to hear "Day Reaper", "Bomb Together" and "You've Got to Hide Your Hate Away", Kthough $US24 plus postage seems pretty hefty.

Allegations that it's all a plot by Paul McCartney's estranged wife Heather Mills don't have a leg to stand on.