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Having dispatched with much of the US Rock 'N' Roll promotion in a single phone call, John turned to the UK. Disc jockey and T...

To promote Walls And Bridges , John had done one-on-one phone interviews with dozens of radio stations from his base in New York. For R...

George and Pattie had separated in 1974, and Ringo and Maureen followed suit in 1975. Ringo began dating model and photographer Nancy A...

As part of a legal arrangement with music publisher Morris Levy , John had recorded songs from the Big Seven music catalog (including ...

The new year began with the end of an old era, when the London High Court officially cut the legal ties binding The Beatles and Compa...

December 1974 was turning out to be a pivotal month in the relationships among the ex-Beatles. I've already discussed John and Geor...

The week of November 16th, 1974 marked a commercial high point in John Lennon's solo career, as the single "Whatever Gets You ...

George's 1974 tour continued to slide downhill as it trudged from city to city. Things went okay in Baton Rouge on November 26th, ...

All the events of 1974 in John Lennon's life came to a head on Thanksgiving night, November 28th, at Madison Square Garden. To backt...

George Harrison's 1974 North American tour kicked off November 2nd in Vancouver, Canada. Fans' expectations were through the ro...

In November 1974, Paul McCartney and Wings settled in at EMI's Abbey Road Studios to begin recording their next album, Venus And Mar...

Goodnight Vienna , the eagerly-anticipated follow up to the smash Ringo , was released November 15th in the UK and three days later i...

With Walls And Bridges now finally in his rear-view mirror, John could focus on completing his oldies album. Having realized that only...

Believe it or not, John Lennon wasn't the only ex-Beatle doing things in the early autumn of 1974. Two songs from Paul McCartney ...

John Lennon spent the first half of October, 1974 in pre-production for the Rock And Roll LP. Having retrieved the tapes from the late...

John's promotional campaign took an odd turn on October 3rd, 1974 when he visited the New York headquarters of ABC Radio. He was th...

After appearing in local markets from California to Texas to Canada, John Lennon finally appeared live on his hometown radio. Late in th...

September 27th, 1974 saw two McCartney-related titles go on sale in the UK. First was the LP McGear , which Paul and members of Wings had...

Thus far, John Lennon's promotional radio tour for Walls And Bridges had taken him to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Rather than c...

OK, here's a bit of a puzzler. I had this John Lennon interview identified as an RKO Radio broadcast from September 25th, 1974. ...

Let's see, where were we... Oh yes! John Lennon was in the first stage of a massive media campaign promoting his new album, Walls ...

Following their successful Nashville trip, Paul decided to continue rehearsing the new Wings lineup in London, this time in the familiar sur...

While he had been typically quiet in the public sphere throughout 1974, George's private life and musical activities had kept him bu...

Once he had moved back to New York and wrapped up the Pussycats sessions, John began to clean up his act. He accompanied Harry Nilsson to ...

On May 23rd, 1974, news leaked that Paul and Wings would be flying to Nashville for a six-week visit to rehearse the new band lineup an...