Contra Band Music

After spending most of 1970 in seclusion at home or in the studio, Paul McCartney found himself back in the headlines as 1971 began, tha...

Proceedings in the case dissolving The Beatles & Company opened January 19th, 1971 in the London High Court. None of the group attended ...

Paul waited until the final day of 1970 to file suit against his erstwhile band members, beginning the interminable process of dissolving th...

On December 1st, 1970, John and Yoko flew back to America, landing in New York where they would produce a pair of films, " Up Your ...

As the Beatles' split was very much 3 vs. 1, it's not surprising that all of the group but Paul continued to work together throughou...

Towards the end of 1970, vinyl Beatlegs not taken from one of the Get Back acetates (or pirated from singles) finally began to surface. Ren...

Like his 1968 pilgrimage to Rishikesh, John's four-month course of Primal Therapy in California may not have been spiritually rewarding ...

While John was busy Primaling in America, George spent the summer of 1970 recording the mammoth All Things Must Pass album at EMI and Tride...

The profoundly anticlimactic film Let It Be premiered May 20th, 1970, simultaneously in London and Liverpool. None of the Beatles attended ...

This LP, on the Underground Sounds label, was probably compiled in the period between the release of McCartney (April 20th, 1970) and Let I...

On April 23rd, 1970, George and Derek Taylor flew to America for a 12-day visit, attending to business at Apple's newly-opened New Y...

The headline above, from the April 10th, 1970 edition of the Daily Mirror , marked the public demarcation of an estrangement which had been ...

Most of the earliest Beatlegs stemmed from the same sources: tapes of two acetates prepared by Glyn Johns, containing rough mixes of materia...

Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll, particularly those who left appreciative comments about the blog. A clear majority wants to see me...

As many of you guessed, I reached the end of the road for Beatles interviews, at least the group years (through April 1, 1970). I do have a ...

The "Let It Be" single was finally released March 9th, 1970 in the UK, and two days later in the US. On the 11th, George Harrison ...

The second week of February, 1970, found all four Beatles busy with individual recording projects. George was in Trident Studios on the 7th ...

In a burst of inspiration the day after his return to London, John wrote a new song, "Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)", gathered ...

On January 20th, 1970 in Denmark, John and Yoko traded in their lengthy tresses for close-cropped haircuts. During a stopover in Paris on th...

John and Yoko spent Christmas week, 1969, at home in Tittenhurst, ready to usher in Year One A.P. (After Peace). On the 26th or 27th of Dece...

John and Yoko's advertising campaign for peace continued on December 20th, 1969 with a visit to the University of Toronto, where they we...

Day 2 in Canada (December 18th, 1969) was set aside for various reporters and journalists to visit John and Yoko at Ronnie Hawkins's far...

The Lennons' last great push for peace took place in Canada the week before Christmas, 1969. On December 16th, they flew from London to ...

The Plastic Ono Band's LP Live Peace In Toronto hit UK and US shelves on December 12th, 1969. John and Yoko promoted the release with a...

On November 26th, 1969 at EMI, John, Yoko and friends had gathered to overdub yet another layer of cacophony to their 1968 recording "W...

Although they had been rather overexposed in the last nine months, at the start of December, 1969, two British TV companies produced feature...

With The Magic Christian set for a Royal World Premiere in London on December 11th, 1969, Ringo set out to do a bit of pre-promotion for th...

In mid-November, 1969, John and Yoko spent a couple of weeks on holiday, flying to Athens, cruising the Mediterranean with "Magic...

At the end of October 1969, Paul and Linda McCartney were ensconced in their farmhouse in Scotland, trying to enjoy a vacation while dealing...

The sublimely ridiculous rumor that Paul McCartney had died in 1966, only to be replaced by a double named William Campbell, had its genesis...

On John Lennon's 29th birthday, Yoko Ono checked in to King's College Hospital due to complications with her pregnancy. Sadly, she m...

On October 8th, 1969, George Harrison sat down with David Wigg at Apple Corps for a lengthy chat. Topics included the "Hare Krishna Man...

The long-awaited Abbey Road LP was released in the UK on September 26th, 1969. Most previous Beatles albums had promotion from the group as...

On September 12th, 1969, John and Yoko gave a joint interview to several journalists at their Apple office, discussing their recent film Se...

The Beatles' career wound down with a series of "lasts" as a four-piece band in August 1969. Last song begun on the 1st (...

The last group Beatles project turned out to be the recording of Abbey Road in July and August, 1969. John's auto accident in Scotland ...

With the Bed-ins behind them, John and Yoko put in another appearance on a David Frost TV chat series, this time the aptly named David Frost...

Reporters and disc jockeys who couldn't make the pilgrimage to Montreal were able to speak with John and Yoko via telephone. On May 29th...

As planned, John and Yoko flew to the Bahamas on May 24th, 1969, but after one night in a sweltering and uncomfortable Freeport hotel, they ...

Thus far, The Beatles' output of 1969 was limited to a single ("Get Back"), with another soon to follow ("The Ballad Of J...