The best thing about this book, if you’re a real die hard fan of the fab four, is that obviously this book contains hundreds and hundreds of photos of the boys from fans everywhere. These photos was sold in auctions (and I must say, it probably costs fortunes!).

Another good thing about it is that it’s not a standard book that you read from cover to cover… You don’t even have to read it if you want to.. you can just stare at the pictures.. but in my case, I just flip it wherever (whenever time frame of the Beatles I want to be) and I read along..

And now, for tonight… here are some Beatles quotes from the interview The Beatles made in a press conference in Adelaide…. Page 122-123 of the book, “The Touring Days”

Reporter: Well fellas, tell me, what did you think of the Adelaide reception?
John Lennon: Oh, it was great@ The best ever.
Reporter: Was it like I’d mentioned to you on the plane it would be?
John Lennon: Yeah, it was better!
Reporter: Was it like you’d ever had before?
George Harrison: No, much better.
John Lennon: We’d never done one of those “drives” as well. It was marvelous.
Reporter: How would it compare with the ones in the United States when you arrived there?
Paul McCartney: This was bigger. There was more people there.
Reporter: Do you think it was very well conducted?
John Lennon: Yes. Everybody was well behaved.
Reporter: Did you get a fright at all outside the Town hall?
John Lennon: Not fright. Shock, you know, because there was so many.
George Harrison: I had a feeling we might’ve got shot, ‘cosw it’s the first time we’d been sitting inthe back of a car waving, you know.

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Phil Spector, the legendary record producer, eccentric and recluse with a reputation for building walls around people as much as his signature music, was found guilty of second-degree murder by Los Angeles jurors today in the 2003 shooting death of cult-movie star Lana Clarkson.

Spector, who was taken immediately into custody, showed no emotion at the verdict, reports said; his wife Rachelle sobbed.

The 69-year-old Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member faces up to life in prison when sentenced May 29.

This was Spector’s second judgment day on the Clarkson case. In 2007, a jury deadlocked 10-2 in favor of convicting Spector.

At the second trial as at the first, prosecutors said Clarkson fell victim to a man who had a history of waving guns at, and acting violently toward, women, especially when he’d been drinking. Spector’s defense argued she shot herself.

There was one new twist at the new trial, but it ended up being a nonfactor, unfortunately for Spector.

At this trial, jurors had the option of convicting Spector of a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter. They not only didn’t take the option, they also convicted the former hitmaker of using a gun while committing a crime.

For L.A. prosecutors, the guilty verdicts were a welcome change. They previously failed to win convictions against celebrity murder defendants O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake.

Spector’s fame dates back to 1958, when, at age 19, he wrote and sang his way to No. 1 on the chart with “To Know Him Is to Love Him.”

As a young producer, Spector dominated the pre-Beatles 1960s with hit (“He’s a Rebel”) after hit (“Da Doo Ron Ron”) after hit (“Be My Baby”). The songs were predominantly recorded by girl groups and were exclusively backed by the aural sensation known as the “Wall of Sound.” Spector’s magic touch continued through the 1960s, with “Unchained Melody,” the Beatles Let It Be, John Lennon’s “Imagine” and George Harrison “My Sweet Lord,” among other standouts.

But over the past 30-40 years, Spector’s fame gave way to a kind of infamy—the mad genius who, per lore, pulled gun on Lennon and the Ramones, or who, per Ronnie Spector, of the Spector creation the Ronettes, treated her more as a captive than wife during their troubled marriage.

Spector’s alleged gun-waving ways caught up to him at trial, if not on night of Clarkson’s death at his Alhambra, Calif., castle-style home. At Spector’s first trial, five women testified about being at the other end of a gun drawn by Spector. Their testimony was allowed to be introduced in the new trial.

Spector and Clarkson, the queen of Roger Corman’s Barbarian Queen movies, met Feb. 3, 2003, at L.A’s House of Blues, where the 40-year-old Clarkson worked as a hostess and where Spector visited shortly after midnight.

About five hours later, after the pair was driven to Spector’s home, Spector walked out of his mansion, and, per testimony at the first trial, told his driver: “I think I killed somebody.”

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This was a 1967 interview with the late great Beatles guitarist, George Harrison, about their latest film project then, The Magical Mystery Tour.

True blue Beatles fanatic will surely want their hands on this one..

Here’s what we read…

A previously-unheard interview with The Beatles’ late guitarist George Harrison has been discovered.

The interview, which took place in 1967, was conducted by Miranda Ward, who worked as a journalist in the ’60s and ’70s, reports BBC 6music.

The tapes, which the station claims “could now be worth over £200,000″, were hidden in Ward’s house.

Film producer/director David Lambert told the station he unearthed the recordings while doing research.

“George, being known as the quiet Beatle, was interviewed about his part in the famous film by The Beatles called ‘Magical Mystery Tour’,” he said. “It was only a brief chat about that, but during the interview he went on and discussed all aspects of life and the way he viewed it at the time.

“It was really the meaning of life according to George Harrison in 1967. He covers all aspects of things, the Eastern mysticism, he was very involved at the time with the Maharishi,” he added.

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George Harrison’s son, Dhani Harrison is set to tour the United States with his new band thenewo2!

This is great news for the ever loyal fans of the great, late Mr. George Harrison! I only hope they wont compare the root from the leaves (is that right?) or the father to the son (better).

When I saw Julian Lennon couple of years ago, I said to myself, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. The face and feature of Julian are super likeness with John Lennon!

But then tonight, I saw a photo of Dhani Harrison (up) for the very first time and I said to myself.. “Holy shhhh… cow!” It’s like seeing George Harrison during the Harmburg days!

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Here’s the story behind that almost $60,000 piece of paper! Apparently, John, Paul, George and Ringo were scheduled to play the Balboa Stadium in San Diego. At that very moment, the lads heard that Elvis was filming Paradise, Hawaiian Style in Hollywood.

On the night of August 27, 1965, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr arrived at Elvis’s house in Bel Air.

It was also rumored that Elvis himself greeted them at the door and kiddingly said, “If you guys are going to stare at me all night,” joked Elvis, “I’m going to bed!”

Jerry Schilling, a member of Elvis’s “Memphis Mafia,” probably a big fan himself.. (come on! I’m sure those time, everyone who has a radio is a fan of the Beatles) Well anyway, he got the autographs of all four Beatles on a 5″ x 8″ piece of Elvis Presley’s personal stationery, and dated the event “8/27/65.”

And that’s the story behind the $60,000 piece of paper.

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