Contra Band Music

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Happy 2013! I thought I would start off the new year by filling a request. I've posted a small bit of this before, but here is ...

On November 23rd, 1975, Derek Taylor, now managing director of Warner Brothers Records in the UK, sent a semi-serious letter to John Le...

On December 8th, 1975, the second single from George's Extra Texture album was released in the US. "This Guitar (Can't Ke...

Ringo took most of 1975 off, appearing at the occasional movie premiere and sitting in on sessions with friends (e.g., Harry Nilsson...

Wings' 1975 Australian tour continued November 10th and 11th with concerts at Festival Hall in Brisbane. Here is a selection of int...

On October 28th, 1975, Paul McCartney and Wings arrived in Perth to begin the Australian leg of their tour. Beatlemania had not subside...

October of 1975 found the ex-Beatles scattered around the globe. Ringo was the most active, participating in a celebrity tennis tournam...

The 1975 Wings Over The World tour kicked off September 9th, 1975 at the Southampton Gaumont. From the start, it was a more polished a...

George's new single, "You", was released September 15th, 1975 in the US, followed a week later by the LP Extra Texture (R...

  The summer of 1975 was a very quiet period for all four ex-Beatles. John and Yoko slowed things down during Yoko's pregnancy, occ...

With the Beatles' EMI contract due to expire in January, 1976, the company was eager to hang on to as many of the band members as p...

John Lennon's final TV (and public) performance occurred on the evening of April 18th, 1975. At the New York Hilton, the National A...

On April 21st, 1975, George went back in to the studio to begin work on a follow-up LP to Dark Horse . Working at A&M Studios in Lo...

John continued his international promotion for Rock 'N' Roll during the first week of April, 1975. On the 4th, he had several ...

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...