#the-beatles

It’s been 1o years this year since Madre Khan has been called home. I miss her. So today, I’m going jam some of her favorites. The first time I heard this track was with her. This track sticks out because so different then the music normally played at home. She sat quietly on the couch swaying the way she did when really feeling a track. I find myself swaying like she did, especially when hear a…

A Silly Walk Across Abbey Road

My Facebook feed — and yours, too, I’m sure — is filled with ads for bootleg, unlicensed t-shirts and has been for at least three years.

I was going to write “months” there instead of “years,” but I remember that, when I was in Chicago on business in 2017, I saw someone wearing an unlicensed Chicago Cubs/Peanuts t-shirt that I had seen on Facebook and thought about buying but never did.

The…

About two years ago, thanks to the Things We Said Today podcast, I learned of an album of Beatle-esque Christmas music, the Abbey Road Xmas Ensemble’s A Christmas Tribute to the Beatles. (There’s also this one, The Liverpool Christmas Band’s Beatle-esque Christmas, which looks like it’s the same material, but with karaoke versions of the Christmas songs as well.) With Christmas falling a week…

I was never optimistic about a CD release of the Beatles’ Live at the Hollywood Bowl album for a number of reasons — the Beatles themselves weren’t fans of it (they didn’t have any right to veto the release at the time), and George Martin wasn’t happy with the sound quality of the recordings. This September, in conjunction with a new Ron Howard documentary on the Beatles’ touring years, Live at…