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Beatles-related Websites

Breakfast with the Beatles (KLOS - 95.5)
Hosted by Chris Carter, DJ at KLOS 95.5 in Los Angeles

BeatlesTube.net
Many many Beatles videos and clips, organized by album, concerts, movies & radio.

Beatles Examiner
A Beatles Blog by Steve Marinucci

A Year In The Life
A Beatles blog that's actually about the music: because there's a Beatles song for every day of the year.

WogBlog
All things Beatle. A blog by Roger Stormo who apparently has some good connections. Great source for Beatle news.

A Hard Day's Site
Great Beatles site.

Beatles Interviews (exhaustive!)
Great site.

Beatles Lyrics Site
Uncluttered & Ad-free!

My Beatles Space
A Social Networking Site for Beatles Fans

Steve's Beatles Page
"A Comprehensive Collection of Beatles Bootlegs" — Exhaustive listing of Beatles bootleg recordings ... purely for educational use...

The Bootleg Zone
Lots of Beatles bootlegs info here, as well.

Beatles Music History: The In-Depth Story Behind the Songs of the Beatles
Lots of good info.

Interviews

• Interview with John Lennon (Part I), Rolling Stone, December 8, 1970

• Interview with John Lennon (Part II), Rolling Stone, December 8, 1970

• Audio of the December 1970 Rolling Stone interview by Jann Wenner

• George Harrison, interviewed October 8, 1969 by David Wigg

• George Harrison, Crawdaddy Magazine, February 1977

• Creem Magazine George Harrison interview, Dec 1987-Jan 1988

• Q Magazine George Harrison interview, 1995

• Oct 6, 2005 Interview with Paul McCartney

• Jan 31, 1974 Interview with Paul McCartney

Analysis

• Audio Analysis of the Beatles Multitrack Masters BBC Radio 6 program called Record Producers: The Extended Cut, hosted by Richard Allinson and Steve Levine, wherein three of the Beatles' original multitrack masters are analyzed, isolating and highlighting pieces from "She's Leaving Home," "A Day in the Life," and "Come Together."

• The Opening Chord to "A Hard Day's Night" Solved by a Mathematician! It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. The opening chord to "A Hard Day’s Night" is also famous because, for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. In 2004, inspired by reading news coverage about the song’s 40th anniversary, Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve this Beatles riddle. It worked.... Read the article ». Or, better, read Jason Brown's article "Mathematics, Physics and A Hard Day's Night" and its shocking conclusion!.

Google Books

• Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now by Barry Miles
• The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono by John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson
• All You Need Is Ears by George Martin
• Mystical One: George Harrison: After the Breakup of the Beatles by Elliot J. Huntley
• Various George Harrison