By Jeff K
Jun 25, 2021
Happy Global Beatles Day! It was on this day in 1967 when an estimated 400 to 700 million people around the world watched The Beatles perform on
Our World, the first live, international, satellite TV production. The Fab Four had specially commissioned the song, ‘All you need is love’ to capture the program’s spirit of peace and togetherness. In the studio crowd that day were Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash, Keith Moon, and others during the broadcast.
In honor of the anniversary, YOU get to pick The Beatles song I play today with
Click below to see the Beatles perform as part of the event, 54 years ago today.
By Jeff K
Released on this day in 1967,
Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by The Beatles. It spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honor.
In 2003, the Library of Congress placed
Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry as culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant . That year,
Rolling Stone ranked it number one in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . As of 2011, it has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums. Professor Kevin J. Dettmar, writing in the
By Jeff K
Released on this day in 1967,
Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by The Beatles. It spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honor.
In 2003, the Library of Congress placed
Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry as culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant . That year,
Rolling Stone ranked it number one in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . As of 2011, it has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums. Professor Kevin J. Dettmar, writing in the
By Jeff K
Released on this day in 1970
Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by The Beatles. Released almost a month after the group s break-up, it was a number one album in many countries, including both the US and the UK, and was released in tandem with the motion picture of the same name. As previously reported, I cannot wait for Peter Jackson’s new documentary using that footage,
The Beatles: Get Back, released August 27th.
Following several rejected mixes by producer Glyn Johns, a new version of the album was produced by Phil Spector. Paul McCartney was never pleased with the lush arrangements so in 2003 an alternate version of the album was released as