It’s been fun reading about the many and varied hobbies members have! Nice to get a look at what people do outside of the Club.

I have a small guitar collection–several of them Beatle-related (Casino, J-160E, Strat, Telecaster, Les Paul, and I’m about to bite the bullet and get into the Rickenbackers). And no, they don’t just hang on a wall 😆.

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Doug,

One of the wonderful outcomes brought about by technological advancement over the last couple of decades is that cheap guitars are getting pretty good. Massive improvements in CNC machines, the rise of direct-to-consumer sales, and easily accessible free online reviews have really forced a change in the quality of instruments. I think…

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Michael Sokil, one of my favorite Beatles podcasters/YouTube channels posted a teaser from an upcoming video he’s editing. He’s a multi-instrumentalist who does some incredible deep dives on Beatle gear and history, makes note-perfect recreations of Beatle songs, and has recently branched out into interviews. I’m really looking forward to this one!

Jeff, I’ll save you the trouble of looking…it wasn’t recorded. They played the slow version for George Martin during a rehearsal session before dinner. They didn’t start recording until after dinner, and they only put “How Do You Do It?” and “Love Me Do” on tape. It’s a shame; I’d love to hear it, too. A week later, they’d sped up the tempo…

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I noticed two familiar faces on the Beatles’ Facebook Stories this morning!

Glad you’re here, Mariette. There’s certainly a lot to discover with the Twins’ back catalog. If you haven’t seen it, they have an entire Cavern Club live performance in the “Club Music” section that’s full of 60s gems, plus a sprinkling of their early original songs.

Happy birthday, Jacki! Wishing you the very best!

A lot of people pointed out Prudence Farrow as the inspiration for “Dear Prudence” in the White Album WOTT comments.

I can’t begin to guess at MLT’s inspirations–I’m content to wait until the MLT documentary, should they choose to make one–but here are a few Beatles songs inspired by real people, skipping over the ones that are obviously…

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In an increasingly digital world, I think it’s really nice to have a tangible thing that someone took a moment to jot down a signature on. It’s a cool little personal connection, and part of why I very much enjoy and treasure all of my signed MLT items.

I find Beatles signatures interesting because of how much some of them changed over the…

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This year’s advent calendar made me think of other things recorded on a strict deadline.

The most famous whirlwind session is probably the 585-minutes when the Beatles recorded the bulk of the Please Please Me album on February 11, 1963.

Another is John Lennon’s “Instant Karma!” He wrote the song on the morning of January 27, 1970, booked…

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I think there must be some truth in this. Richards has gone as far as saying that he and Mick aren’t friends, but they have clearly been able to separate their personal feelings from the band well enough to continue for decades.

On the other hand, volumes have been written about the personal relationships between the Beatles. John and Paul were,…

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There’s an interesting line from the Let it Be sessions when John and Paul aren’t aware that the film crew have hidden a microphone in a flowerpot to eavesdrop. They’re discussing some of the tensions in the creative process that have been simmering for a while.

“I don’t hear any of the flutes playing, you know?” In John’s view, Paul can “hear…

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Just for fun, with the recently announced 2025 Beatles Anthology remaster, I’m wondering what people would want to see in a hypothetical MLT Anthology (for those unfamiliar with the Beatles Anthology, it’s early/alternate takes, demos, fragments, studio chatter, and other rarities).

For example, I’d be curious to hear early takes…

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This song has another fun MLT connection–Brian said the melody was derived from a John Sebastian song (he didn’t name it, but I imagine it was “You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice”).