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Paperback Writer/Rain was the first Beatles single not to contain a love song on either side. It was an indication of John and Paul's evolving writing styles. Paul writing stories ("like a novelist", John said) while John offering his own philosophies.

@switcherxx The Please Please Me album was done with only TWO tracks. Since it was only recorded in mono, they could do a little bit of overdubbing (usually John's harmonica or doubled vocal). The next year (1963) EMI/Abbey Road installed their 4 track deck and mixing console, allowing for some...

George later met Elvis backstage after a concert at Madison Square Garden in late 1971. George was in New York editing the film for the Concert For Bangla Desh movie. George said that with the real long hair and beard he had at the time, Elvis didn't recognize him.

Paul said that he couldn't believe the difference between concerts at American sports stadiums between 1965-66 and when he toured the U.S. in 1976. In '76, there was concert lights and a rock-specific concert sound system with a state of the art multi-channel mix board. In 65-66 they used the f...

When he was with Rory & The Hurricanes, they'd have "Ringo Starrtime" where Ringo sang a couple of his favorite American C&W songs during club performances. In their 1965 world tour, the Beatles revived this, by pausing to let Ringo sing "Act Naturally" which was previously a #1 C&W song by Buck...

IN the 1960's in England, there was a very popular TV show called "Opportunity Knocks" where amateurs were given a chance to display their talents. The participants were introduced with "For (name) of (hometown), opportunity knocks!" George was parodying that when he introduced Paul singing "Ye...

@julyrita "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby". It was written and first recorded by Carl Perkins - one of George's rock and roll idols and later good friend. George spoke and sang at Carl's funeral in Tennessee in 1994.

WPIX reshuffled their late news, eliminating the "New York-only" stories for more world and national news and syndicated it to the growing number of independent stations in the early 80's. It didn't last very long as these stations realized that their viewers weren't interested in news, they wan...

@applesauce2100 The best thing to happen to WLKY was when WHAS snatched the ABC affiliation away in September 1990. CBS shows were popular in Louisville and this forced the then-owner of WLKY (Pulitzer) to invest some money to get the CBS affiliation. It paid off as WLKY became a factor in the ...

Who is the male anchor? Was he a fill-in or had Bruce Dunbar been fired by then?

Wayne is a great guy, but just didn't have the chrarisma to compete with the late Chuck Taylor (at WHAS) and John Belski (at WAVE). While Reed Yadon did. That's why Wayne was shoved into the Noon and 5 PM slots and Reed was brought in to do 6 and 11 PM weather in 1990. It wasn't long after th...

This was the time when WLKY was a poor #3 in the market. The marketing director had to do SOMETHING to get the station noticed, people just were not watching. So he decided to make the weather and sports guys into memorable "characters". The campaigns did get noticed, but didn't improve rating...

Vin was offered, by Roone Arledge, to be the first PBP broadcaster for Monday Night Football in 1970. Vin said he thought it would be just a part time job, and he could keep his job with the Dodgers (taking Mondays in September off). But Arledge said that Vin would have to give up his Dodger jo...

And Tony LaRussa is still managing today, 27 years later.

Both John and Paul needed glasses, but wouldn't be caught in public wearing them. There are a few photographs of the Beatles in the studio with Paul wearing glasses. Of course John made wearing old fashioned round specs fashionable starting in 1967, but to this day, Paul has never been seen wit...

In his Playboy interview made a few months before he was killed, John said about "Yesterday": "Beautiful. Well done. And I never wished I wrote it."

@BeatlEPMJo John's line during those times was "If you can't have a public fight with your best friend, who CAN you have a fight with?" He always said it with a laugh.

Fogerty and Springsteen are pals. Bruce said he idolized John and CCR when he (Bruce) was starting out in the late 60's. I'm sure Fogerty feels honored that Springsteen did one of his songs in his set list. Plus the songwriting royalties that Fogerty got every time Springsteen sang this was ni...

This could have been a HUGE hit for Fogerty, but he refused to tour, do TV appearances or any radio/press interviews to support it or the album. The critics loved this song but the public hardly heard it. It did make the Billboard Top 40, though.

John did this show for one reason: to promote the "Rock 'N Roll" album. He HATED Lew Grade for snatching Northern Songs away from Paul and John in 1969. But free TV promotion for a new album was another thing. BTW, John did have a receding hairline starting in his mid-30's. You can tell in ph...

At the "Concert For Linda" Paul said that this was one of Linda's favorite songs when she was a teenager. He said that when she told him that, he got out an acoustic guitar and sang it to her, remembering it word-for-word from his own teenage years. He said "She was digging it in New York while...

@CelestialWoodway Paramount tried to get him back. Duvall wanted the same deal that Pacino got and wouldn't settle for a penny less. He admitted it in an interview with Bob Costas. He said that the movie was only made to get some more money out of the franchise, so if he was going to be in it, ...

George Martin said that if there was a 5th Beatle, it was Neil Aspinal.

When Paul asked George Martin to produce Abby Road, Martin said "Only if you let me produce it as before". And one of those requirements was that Geoff Emerck be brought back to engineer. Martin made Paul personally call Emerick and ask him to return. Which Paul did. Emerick later engineered ...

On a later anniversary show, when introducing this clip, Johnny said (and Ed confirmed) that Ed had a lawsuit settled in his favor earlier the day of this show, and had a few - maybe more than a few - drinks to celebrate at lunch.

After he retired, the people at Snopes.com sent Johnny a letter asking him about this legend. Johnny replied that he wished it were true, since it's a great story. But, alas, it was only an urban legend.

This was the theme music for Siskel and Ebert's first TV show, for Chicago's PBS station called "Coming Soon To A Theater Near You".

@charliejazz64 After his release from the mental institution, Billy said he realized how stupid he'd been. So he pushed forward with his career, and was signed by Arnie Ripp's "Family Productions" label the next year. When writing songs for the album, he remembered his suicide note and adapted ...

Paul wasn't the first Beatle to meet a President. In 1974, while on his US tour, Steven Ford invited George Harrison to come to the White House to meet his father, and George took him up on it. In 1977, John Lennon was invited and attended (but didn't perform at) Jimmy Carter's pre-inaugural ce...

George was quite sick when performing that night, he caught the flu on the flight to New York. He missed that afternoon's rehearsal (he was in bed in his hotel room) but on sheer guts made it to the live broadcast. At the end of their second set, if you look closely, you'll see he's sweating.

Since he was around 13, George spent hours practicing on guitar. Paul knew George was a better guitarist, so he was determined to come up with innovative and melodic bass lines. Ringo was already considered Liverpool's top rock and roll drummer long before he joined the group. John was, at bes...

The blonde - the one who says "Prisoners!" - is Pattie Boyd, the future first wife of George Harrison.

Roger, politely, never mentioned that one of the guest critics was Jay Leno.

Also, Gene's 2 teenage daughters were bridesmaids at Roger's wedding in 1992. Roger was a pallbearer at Gene's funeral in 1999. So don't believe it when they say they weren't friends.

It DID apply to Dave. When he left NBC the next year, he had to leave the name "Late Night" behind. It belonged to NBC. That's why his show is now "Late Show". "At the Movies" was copyrighted by Tribune Television. When S&E left for Buena Vista (Disney), they couldn't take it with them. But...