A Hard Day's Night (1964)

'As double albums goes, it has the making of a half-decent EP'

I'm paraphrasing, of course . . . but not by much.

Via yesterday's New York Times, a reprint of a very youthful Nik Cohn's original scathing review of The Beatles 'White Album'.

Released the same week as The Rolling Stones's 'Beggars Banquet', Cohn found it thin and wanting by comparison.

They Blog, So I Don't Have To

MIXING POP & POLITICS (I)

Via Leftpost blog comes the intriguing news that The Beatles recorded a track as long ago as 1962 in support of Tommy Sheridan. On reflection, it does makes sense and not just because of Lennon's protest music in the early seventies. Hamburg and Manchester should have been twinned if the film, Backbeat, has any veracity to it.

UPDATE

No truth in the rumour that Tommy's partner, Gail, is returning the compliment with a cover version of 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey'.