Beatle news briefs: McCartney's cover of 'It's So Easy' made Dallas show special

August 21, 8:49 PMBeatles ExaminerSteve Marinucci

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Posted Friday:

• Paul McCartney live in Tulsa - picture slideshow #2
• Beatles publicity barrage rolls on with two more magazine covers

Also, this Vintage Rock 'n' Roll Examiner column we posted Friday has a mention of Paul McCartney:

• Time-Life releasing DVD set of Rock Hall of Fame performances you thought you'd never see

Above, the cover of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy" that Paul McCartney and the band performed live in Dallas this week. (Thanks to Tom Frangione for the link.)

On Aug. 22, some major events in Beatle history took place.  In 1968, Ringo had had enough and quit the Beatles temporarily. He came back to open arms and flowers on Sept. 4. On the same day, Cynthia Lennon filed for divorce from John Lennon. In 1969, the group had their last photo session at Tittenhurst Park.

Some local looks back at times when the Beatles in their town: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer celebrates the 45th anniversary of the Beatles' stay at the Edgewater Hotel in this blog and another about photos of the Beatles taken in Seattle, while the Seattle Times also has an article about a local celebration of the event.

And here's a vintage (from 1964) article on the Hollywood Bowl concert from the Los Angeles Times.

The next edition of "Dennis Mitchell's 'Breakfast With the Beatles'" will be a tribute to the 45th anniversary of the 1964 Hollywood Bowl concert and will feature rare audio and interviews. That show will be posted for on-demand listening beginning early Sunday at the website, www.beatlesradioshow.com.  In the meantime, you can still catch this week’s program  which features details on the band’s only visit to Las Vegas. The show is heard on dozens of U.S. and Canadian radio stations, one in the U.K. and at the Cavern Club and Hard Day’s Night Hotel in Liverpool.

Interesting comment by a New York Daily News reader -- only 16 years old -- on that paper's version of the "Yellow Submarine" remake story. Speaks for a lot of people, we think.  (Thanks to Barb Pazmino.) And the Lexington Rock Music Examiner has his own take on the proposed "Yellow Submarine" remake.

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