Covering the Beatles is often met with mixed results, but Brazilian songstress Elis Regina pulled it off in 1971 via her rendering of “Golden Slumbers”. Singing in English, released two years after Abbey Road, Regina works McCartney’s nostalgic lament into a soulful, orchestrated, vamp.
Category: The Beatles
Apple Scruffs :: 50 Years of All Things Must Pass & Plastic Ono Band
By 1970, each exhausted member of the Fab Four was in the process of splitting off to explore new sonic worlds. Two of the greatest ex-Beatle solo records, All Things Must Pass and Plastic Ono Band, turn the ripe old age of fifty this year. It’s instructive to see how the records emerge and then diverge from the same traumatic starting point, exhibiting the weight of disappointment, exhaustion, and disillusionment they’ve been carrying so long.
The Beatles :: Christmas Singles Club, 1963-1969
From 1963 to 1969 the Beatles issued limited edition Christmas fan-club singles on 7 inch flexi-discs. All very relaxed and off the cuff, it’s interesting to note how the cover […]
Beatles :: Child of Nature (The Esher Demo Tapes, 1968)
Unreleased John Lennon bit from the Esher Demo Tapes, recorded at Kinfauns in Surrey, England. We know it as “Jealous Guy” via Lennon’s 1971 Imagine LP . . . Only the good […]
Los Freddy’s :: Sufrirî¡s Sin Mi (It’s Only Love) – Beatles, 1966
The Beatles :: Christmas Singles Club, 1963-1969
From 1963 to 1969 the Beatles issued limited edition Christmas fan-club singles on 7 inch flexi-discs. All very relaxed and off the cuff, it’s interesting to note how the cover […]
The Beatles :: Christmas Singles Club, 1963-1969
From 1963 to 1969 the Beatles issued limited edition Christmas fan-club singles on 7 inch flexi-discs. All very relaxed and off the cuff, it’s interesting to note how the cover […]
The Beatles :: Christmas Singles Club, 1963-1969
From 1963 to 1969 the Beatles issued limited edition Christmas fan-club singles on 7 inch flexi-discs. All very relaxed and off the cuff, it’s interesting to note how the cover […]
The Beatles :: Christmas Singles Club, 1963-1969
From 1963 to 1969 the Beatles issued limited edition Christmas fan-club singles on 7 inch flexi-discs. All very relaxed and off the cuff, it’s interesting to note how the cover […]
The White Album Turns 40
This month marks the 40th anniversary of The Beatles White Album . Here’s some Footage from the 1968 sessions at Abbey Road and Trident studios. Check out Paul’s shoes. + Download your music DRM free via […]
The Beatles :: After The Break Up – The Singles
While reading Cold Splinters , I came upon a link directing me to a post entitled And Then There Were Four . In a nutshell the post juxtaposes the Beatles solo work immediately after their break up […]