Here’s Daytrippin‘s list for the Top 10 best Beatles holiday gifts for 2020 including new releases and also essential items for your collection:
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Review: “The Beatles A to Zed” – a disappointing offering from Beatles ‘insider’ Peter Asher
When I first heard about the book, The Beatles A to Zed: An Alphabetical Mystery Tour, I thought it would be a great idea for Peter Asher to tell some of his personal stories about The Beatles in a well-organized encyclopedia-type format. Sadly, when I started reading the book, I discovered there were few personal stories about The Beatles and the book was presented in an unhelpful design.
Top 10 Beatles Holiday Gift ideas
Here’s Daytrippin‘s list for the Top 10 best Beatles holiday gifts for 2019 including new releases and also essential items for your collection:
Breaking down The Beatles new Abbey Road 50th anniversary CD sets
The Beatles, Tittenhurst Park, August 22, 1969; © Apple Corps Ltd.
Many Beatles fans may ask themselves regarding the new Abbey Road 50th anniversary release whether to buy the Super Deluxe 4-CD boxed package or to just let it be with the 2-CD set? But help is on the way – we won’t let you down. Here is a breakdown comparing the 3 CD + 1 Blu-ray (audio) Super Deluxe package (approx. $90) versus the 2-CD Deluxe set (under $20).
I Me Mine: Revisiting George Harrison’s Autobiography
By Shelley L. Germeaux
2017 edition
This article was originally published in Daytrippin’ Issue #18, Spring 2002, after George’s death. It is being republished with updated information, in honor of what would have been his 76th birthday.
George Harrison’s autobiography, I Me Mine, was originally published in the fall of 1980 by Genesis Publications. At 450 pages long, you would expect a comprehensive and detailed life story. However, the autobiographical section, (including Derek Taylor’s italicized commentary), is just 67 pages, and not close to being a Beatles tell-all. It is an intimate and personal perspective of the major themes of George’s life up to that point, often lighthearted, but also revealing some traumatic moments.
Fifty full-page photographs follow, but the overwhelming bulk of the book–the final two-thirds— are the reproductions of George’s original song lyrics, jotted on envelopes and various notepads. Lyrics have been re-typed in their final form, accompanied by George’s candid and at times humorous comments about the inspiration behind the song.
