This Beatles page is a snapshot in time. I made it when the web was shiny and new, and I was a university student with too much time on my hands! :-) It is no longer actively maintained and contains links from the 1990s. Don't be surprised that they are dead. Be more surprised at the ones that still work after all these years! This was an HTML 'frames' based site. Since frames are no longer supported, I collapsed them into single page views and the look of the site suffers for it.

The first version of this page in 1993 or '94 was a single picture and 2 or 3 paragraphs of text. I was ecstatic that it worked. Then magazines and radio stations assumed I knew the surviving Beatles and asked for introductions or to set up interviews. If only I could! Even after saying I was a university grad student and simply a fan, some still didn't believe I didn't know them. So funny, the web then and now.

-Mike Markowski, June 2026
mike.ab3ap@gmail.com

Table of Contents.

The Beatles

I declare that the Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen." ---Timothy Leary

The Fab Four

Here is a little info on those mop tops in the photo above.
* John (says hello)
I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was a dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.
* Paul (says hello)
It's hard to follow my own act. But the only answer to that would be to give up after the Beatles. I only had two alternatives. Give up or carry on.
* George (says hello)
I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, "You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly."
* Ringo (says hello)
I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying "Yes."

Current Beatles Happenings

Beatles Anthology Info from ABC TV.
Beatles Anthology Info from Parlophone.
Beatles Anthology Info from Capitol Records.
Beatles Anthology Info from Life Magazine.
Anthology I CD: Within the US, it lists for $32 but can be easily found
for $20. Release date is November 21, 1995.
In the last few seconds of Free as a Bird there is a forward message for (and
from) John which is immediately followed by a backward messagefrom John.

Beatles Covered by Jazz Artists. A new (1995) cd celebrates the Beatles' songs. I listened to the disc recently and wrote down my opinions and a track listing.

H&S Media have published a Beatles Tribute magazine coinciding with Anthology. It contains many, many pictures -- as a matter of fact, it is mostly photos with just a bit of text summarizing the Beatles' history. The text doesn't say anything that longtime Beatles fans don't already know, but for a new fan it might be handy to have a short but wide ranging overview. For the long time fan, though, decide to buy based on the photos alone. The magazine, by the way, is printed on nicer paper than normally found at newstands.

The Dubious Origins of the Beatles and some ABCs

On rec.music.beatles, Kevin McGuire brought to our attention John's whimsical "history" of the Beatles. But in addition to this MerseyBeat piece by John, the Beatles had fun submitting other classified ads to the same publication. Frederic Beghin was nice enough to enter the text for our further enjoyment. He says, "'Merseybeat : the beginnings of the Beatles' is a book by Bill Harry (editor of MerseyBeat) published in 1977 (Omnibus Press) and containing facsimiles of every page The Beatles ever contributed to." And here they are.

And while we're enjoying John's uniqe style of writing, in 1970 a suite of John Lennon's lithographs were displayed at The Lee Nordness Galleries in New York City. Among the fourteen shown was one, the first I believe, which was a handwritten list of the "ABC"s. Some of the writing is a little hard for me to make out, but I've done my best to copy into typewritten form John Lennon's ABCs.

Beatles Information Requests

he asks.

Andy Goldberg has a Polish poster that's shown to the right (click on it to see a much bigger version). His problem was that he didn't know anything about it. Spotting it here, a Beatles fan in Prague offers a translation, while another fan from Poland gives some background on the poster and what Beatlemania was like in Poland in the 60's.

Here are still more stories about Beatlemania behind the Iron Curtain.

Beatles Stories

(Picture courtesy of Philippe Berube.)

Every Beatle fan's dream would be to meet one or more of the Beatles. Since the ratio of Beatles to everyone else is about, oh, 4 to 5,000,000,000, chances are kind of slim of happening across them. But Gregory Neu's mom and dad were lucky enough to do just that a while back. This is how Greg describes their meeting with John and Yoko.

Randy Klauk had a more recent encounter with Paul in 1994. You're guaranteed to get nervous just reading it!

And a year earlier than that, Clayton Eames also managed to get within earshot of Paul. Next time Paul's ears are ringing, he might be remembering Clayton...

During the Help! Tour, Peter Whitelaw came thaaaaaat close to meeting the Beatles. You can't help but wonder, "What if..."

And here's yet another close call. This time, though, it would have been Ringo.

We haven't been lucky enough to meet the Beatles, but in 1992 my wife and I each individually entered a Disney Beatles contest. First prize was a set of Beatles discs. We didn't win that either but Alice did win one of the lesser prizes: an approximately 5" x 7" Beatles print.

[Do you have a story of your own? Send it this way!]

Paul is Dead??

Everyone's heard about all the Paul is dead rumors. Well, could it be that all those clues were misinterpreted? ...That actually Paul is the only one who survived? ...Hmm, let's check and see. Chris Fishel is the first-rate detective who put the pieces together and posted them to rec.music.beatles.

And recently, more clues have been uncovered. I'm beginning to suspect all the governments of the world are behind this. You doubt that there's an evil plot at hand?? Ha. Well, just read this. And in the Czech Republic, still more clues have been unearthed. Who knows how many other clues are out there waiting to be found. There might even be a UFO connection... You never know.

Just when you thought the clues had slowed to a trickle, well golly gee willickers, would ya look at this!

(I hope I don't really need to say this, but add lots of :-) faces.)

It seems my little comment in parentheses above has gone unnoticed. And so, yes, I'm sorry to say that there are doubters in our midst...

Iê-Iê-Iê

Here is a little historical tidbit from Brazil about what effect the Beatles have had on rock'n'roll there.

MIDI Files

Someone, whose name I have yet learn, has offered his collection of Beatles MIDI files to fans on the net. You can grab all of them in a PKZIPped file, a QuickTime audio file (provided by Richard Shapiro), or sample each individually. Oh, and be sure you use an appropriate MIDI mapper for playback. You can get very strange sounding results otherwise - as I've already found out. Enjoy!

Olinto Neto made a MIDI file of Free as a Bird which is not included in the PKZIP or SIT files above. [I haven't been able to get email to him. If you're reading this, Olinto, thank you.]

Discography

With CDs it's such a pain to remove those little booklets that I rarely read what originally were the album sleeve notes. It's not as much fun as holding the album cover in your hands, but for the LPs and EPs (there are no notes on singles) you can read the album sleeve notes for the highlighted titles. Titles not highlighted have no notes on the sleeve or contain only lyrics; Pepper and White album, for instance. Lyrics are available from computer sites in the Beatles web pages and music sites listed below.

* LP Discography with sleeve notes.
* EP Discography with cover art and sleeve notes.
* Singles Discography
* Bootleg Discs

Off to Liverpool

While not focusing on the Beatles themselves, Jeremy White has put together a mini tour of Liverpool that you'll undoubtedly find enjoyable. Unless you happen to be lucky enough to live nearby, this is a much cheaper way to visit---so no complaining about slow image downloads! :-)

Beatles in Cyberspace

It seems with a little spare time and access to a computer, Beatles fans have begun to spin webs containing all sorts of interesting things related to the Fabs. The pointers collected below offer snippets of audio, images, text, guitar chords, and---need I say it?---"much, much more." (Think I could get a job in marketing?...)

* A list of other folks' Beatles web pages and music sites.
* Beatle talk on Usenet.

Where to Buy Beatles Goodies

Ever wish you had a beach towel, mug, magnet, or whatever that shows off your interest in things Beatle? Here are a few companies I've come across that sell those sorts of items.

Help Improve This Page

Please send me anything you think would be helpful to add (like European or Asian Beatles info, your URL, better ways to organize this page, or anything else you can think of).

Really! Nothing is more fun and better made than the result of a group effort. If you've got Beatley things and no time or web server access, tell me how you'd like them formatted, and send them this way.

Thanks!
Mike

Usage Stats...

Web browsing is an isolated kind of activity. Even though there are hundreds of thousands of us out here browsing, technology forces us to be completely on our own---a high tech kind of tunnel vision. If you're curious who else has been to this page in addition to you, here is a little history of the page.


Mike Markowski
Last modified: February 12, 1996