Contra Band Music

What a time to take a vacation, and what a time for Mediafire to suspend my account, just as we're getting into the "Nixon Adminis...

As long as we're in the late 71/early 72 era, here are a few snippets from Lost Lennon Tapes episodes which don't seem to be availa...

In mid-January, 1972, Wings found its fifth and final (for now) member, guitarist Henry McCullough, who had most recently been a member of J...

John and Yoko's final Mike Douglas Show appearances were taped January 27th and 28th, 1972. The first of these shows included the most ...

John and Yoko's Mike Douglas Show tapings continued on January 18th and 20th, 1972, in Philadelphia. Each show had a controversial gues...

no label, 1972 This is a copy of a Beatleg from late 1971, The Beatles Last Album . The BBC Radio material (from a Top Of The Pops transcri...

Here's a special bonus post, featuring a recording I just stumbled across. It has much in common with the "born in a prison" ...

John and Yoko kicked off 1972 with a less-than-cheerful New Year's Message (particularly Yoko's segment). Two events early in Janua...

John added a few more pages to his FBI dossier by appearing on the syndicated David Frost Show on December 16th, 1971. He and Yoko had ...

Paul and Linda began December 1971 with a brief vacation in Jamaica, and then flew to New York to meet up with the other members of Wings fo...

John and Yoko's radical activism phase went public in a big way in December, 1971. Sometime during the first week of the month, their Ba...

George continued promotion for Raga and the Concert For Bangla Desh LP (finally released December 20th in the US) with back-to-back ap...

November 1971 was the month of Beatle-related movies, as 200 Motels opened in New York on the 10th, Blindman premiered in Rome on the 15th...

As soon as Ram was released, Paul was already considering his next step, and with the thought of going back on the road, he decided to form...

With their duties in Syracuse finished, John and Yoko returned to their suite at the St. Regis in New York City. On October 25th, they were ...

Yoko Ono's art exhibition, This Is Not Here , occupied the entire Everson Museum at Syracuse University from October 9th (John's...

Yoko's Fly LP was accompanied by a single, released September 29th, 1971 in the US, which paired two surprisingly conventional numbers ...

Ringo Starr spent the summer of 1971 in Spain and Italy, co-starring in the ABKCO-produced spaghetti western, Blindman . Ringo played the ro...

Once they settled into their suite at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, John and Yoko wasted no time hitting the promotional circuit....

One of the more notable early Beatlegs appeared in August, 1971 on the Trademark Of Quality label. Yellow Matter Custard was the first of a...

In August, 1971, John Lennon spent his final days in England completing filming of Imagine and lending his name to a couple of causes. Most...

One of the highlights of George Harrison's solo career, the Concert for Bangla Desh went from chance remark to superstar benefit ...

John and Yoko spent early July, 1971 at the Record Plant East in New York, overdubbing and Mixing Imagine and recording tracks for Yoko...

On June 1st, 1971, John and Yoko landed at Kennedy Airport in New York, where they were met by Apple's Pete Bennett. They had been i...

In recent years, Paul McCartney's album Ram has grown in stature to become one of the most beloved by fans and respected by critics fro...

John and Yoko spent much of April and May 1971 tracking down Yoko's ex-husband Tony Cox and her daughter Kyoko across the globe. The...

Ringo Starr spent the first week of February, 1971 at Pinewood Studios participating in the filming of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels , in whi...

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...