Octopus' Garden Review of Beatles Poetry Book

Adapted with permission from Octopus' Garden fanzine, Volume 26, Issue #4, May 2017. Review by Tom Aguiar. Any Rhyme At All by Terri Whitney. The Rockin' Rhymer, U.S.  Poetry is more than writing. It is an art form that is responsible for projecting the feelings or ideas of...

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Beatlefan Interview with Youngerman Art

Article by John Firehammer and originally published in Beatlefan magazine (P.O. Box 33515, Decatur, GA 30033). Adapted with permission. Many visual artists draw inspiration from The Beatles’ image and music. But Manchester-based printmakers Ivan and Ed Chapman have ties to the...

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Beatlefan Interview with Jim Berkenstadt, Author of 'The Beatle Who Vanished'

Article by John Firehammer and originally published in Beatlefan magazine (P.O. Box 33515, Decatur, GA 30033). Adapted with permission. The news broke recently that author Jim Berkenstadt’s 2013 book, “The Beatle Who Vanished,” about temporary Beatles drummer Jimmie Nicol, is being...

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In-jokes, you know: Liverpudlian humor in A Hard Day's Night

Encountering A Hard Day's Night for the first time is a little like George Martin's experience of meeting The Beatles themselves for the first time, in June of 1962: the charisma and comedy of The Beatles gets your attention just as much as (if not more than) the music.My reaction to seeing this movie...

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Remembering The Beatles' 'First Manager' Allan Williams

ALLAN WILLIAMS by Jude Southerland Kessler, Author of The John Lennon Series Originally published in Octopus' Garden fanzine, Volume 26, Issue #3, March 2017. You couldn’t spend an evening with Allan Williams without getting into serious trouble. Even when he was “on the wagon,”...

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Ranking Paul McCartney's Albums of the 80's

With Paul McCartney's Flowers in the Dirt slated to be the next release in "The Archive Collection" in just a couple of months (March 24, 2017), it seemed like a good time to rank Sir Paul's solo albums from the 1980's and see just where Flowers fits into the picture.Hint: it's at the top.The 1980's...

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Beatlefan Review of '16 in '64: The Beatles & The Baby Boomers'

Review by John Firehammer and originally published in Beatlefan magazine. Adapted with permission. 16 in 64: The Beatles & the Baby Boomers by Marti Edwards and Joe Carroccio Meet the Beatles - that was likely the top aspiration of many a teenage girl in 1964 - and...

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Beatlefan Review of 'Days in the Life'

Review by John Firehammer and originally published in Beatlefan magazine. Adapted with permission. Days In The Life by Aaron Krerowicz & John Krerowicz. AK Books, Carmel, IN. Professional Beatles scholar Aaron Krerowicz has published a book as unique as his job title. "Days...

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