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The Beatles’ Yesterday and Today First Charted On This Day in 1965!

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Beatles Butcher Cover
Original Butcher Cover: Sells Today For Up To $10,000

On This Date, July 30th in 1965: The Beatles’ 10th album Yesterday and Today went to number one on the Billboard 200 album chart for the first of five consecutive weeks. Of course, this album is most famous for its original raw-meat-and-dismembered-baby-doll-flaunting Butcher Cover, which was soon recalled and replaced with a very bland image depicting the Beatles looking very bored and stoned (seriously, check out Paul’s nose). Controversy!

Beatles Y and T cover
Replacement Cover:  Sells for Around $10.00

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On This Day In Music: July 29th

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Here are a  few interesting events that happened on this date in Music, July 29th!

1965: The Beatles’ second movie Help! premiered at the Pavilion Theatre in London.

Led Zeppelin 1973

1973: Led Zeppelin lost $180,000 in cash, income from two concerts at Madison Square Garden, when a thief  stole the band’s safe deposit box from their hotel. The thief was never apprehended nor the money recovered.

Rush 1973

1974: Neil Peart joined Rush, replacing drummer John Rutsey, who left the band due to health problems.

Cass Elliot

1974: Mama Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen) of The Mamas & The Papas died in London of a heart attack shortly after she performed two sold out concerts at the London Palladium. She was 33 years old.

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Secret Identity of Paul McCartney’s “Marry Me Girl” Revealed!

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Photo Courtesy of Jamie Moroni

Any New Yorker who hasn’t been in a coma or hiding in a cave for the past few weeks should be aware that Paul McCartney is in town doing a run of shows at the Citi Field (formerly Shea) Stadium. The first show was on Friday July 17th, with another performance on Saturday the 18th and the final show tonight, July 21st. Like me, my friend Jamie is a huge Beatles fanatic (with a truly one-of-a-kind story about the time she met George Harrison) and she bought tickets to all three shows!
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The Beatles Box Of Vision: You Need to Own It

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Box Of Vision

THE BEATLES Box Of Vision® Ushers In A New Era For Beatles Fans And Collectors. The Deluxe Companion to the Newly Re-mastered BEATLES CDs Includes the First LP Size Book of Complete Album Artwork and Storage For The Entire Beatles CD Catalog. In anticipation of the September 2009 release of The Beatles’ digitally re-mastered catalog, THE BEATLES Box Of Vision® is now available for pre-order at Box Of Vision for late August delivery, and will be available at select retailers this Fall. Pre-order price is $80.00 US.

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Happy Birthday, Ringo Starr!

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Ringo on drums

Former Beatles’ Drummer Ringo Starr celebrates his Birthday today, July 7th (having been born in 1940). He will not be signing any autographs. A lot people know that Ringo met his current wife, Barbara Bach, while they were filming the 1981 movie Caveman (which I actually saw in the theater back in the Stone Age). But if you really want to see Starr pretend to act, you simply must see him in the role of Youngman Grand alongside the great Peter Sellers in The Magic Christian, which is just beyond brilliant. Great soundtrack by the band Badfinger as well! Happy Birthday, Ringo!