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The Beatles Bible is mentioned many times in the reference section in Joshua Shenk’s book Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs

Scroll through the notes section in Google books.

Here’s a sample

Here are the links to the two pages mentioned on this notes page.
https://www.beatlesbible.com/1…..-new-york/

https://www.beatlesbible.com/1…..les-split/

Graeme Thomson biography ‘George Harrison : Behind The Locked Door’ on page 186 cites The Beatles Bible as the source for the following quote regarding ‘My Sweet Sweet‘:

I remember Eric [Clapton] and Delaney & Bonnie were doing interviews with somebody in either Copenhagen or Gothenburg, somewhere in Sweden and I was so thrilled with Oh Happy Day by The Edwin Hawkins Singers. It really just knocked me out, the idea of that song and I just felt a great feeling of the Lord. So I thought, ‘I’ll write another Oh Happy Day,’ which became My Sweet Lord .

Deep Beatles: “You Can’t Do That” from A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

The two places in the article where the BB is mentioned:

After penning the track, Lennon and the band assembled on February 25, 1964 at EMI/Abbey Road Studios to record it, along with “And I Love Her ” and “I Should Have Known Better .” Only “You Can’t Do That” was completed during this session, with the Beatles laying down nine takes of the song. (Only four takes were complete.) As the Beatles Bible notes, the song marks the first time Harrison used his soon-to-be-trademark Rickenbacker 12-string guitar. As previously mentioned, “You Can’t Do That” also features Lennon’s lead guitar debut on a Beatles single.

Despite these setbacks, “You Can’t Do That” received acclaim via the Beatles’ 1964 concerts and BBC radio appearances. According to the Beatles Bible, the omitted Hard Day’s Night footage was aired on the Ed Sullivan Show on May 24, 1964 to promote the film. In 1995, take six of the song appeared on the Anthology 1 collection, a version notable for including Lennon’s original guide vocal.

Here’s Joe’s page on the song.

https://www.beatlesbible.com/s…..t-do-that/

The BBC (that feels quite grand) have used Joe’s site as a reference for the below in reporting the creation of an Eleanor Rigby statue made out of £1m used bank notes.

Eleanor Rigby

• The song was formed part of The Beatles’ 1966 album, Revolver , and was released as a double A-side single on the same day as the LP, alongside Yellow Submarine
• Paul McCartney said he got the name by combining Eleanor Bron, who played the female lead in Help !, and Rigby & Evens Ltd, whose sign he saw while visiting Bristol
• A gravestone bearing the name Eleanor Rigby lies in Woolton Cemetery near the church where McCartney was first introduced to John Lennon in 1957

Source: The Beatles Bible

From Ultimate Classic Rock http://ultimateclassicrock.com…..-get-back/

On Jan. 2, 1969, they convened at London’s Twickenham Film Studios to start rehearsing. The Beatles Bible states that they spent much of the day working on ‘Don’t Let Me Down,’ ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’ and ’Two of Us,’ but they also found themselves jamming on some of their favorites by Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Bob Dylan.

Joe’s history page for the date https://www.beatlesbible.com/1…..s-day-one/

parlance posted a link to a Huffington Post article the other day. I see that the Beatles Bible got a mention.

5 Easter Eggs You Didn’t Know The Beatles Hid In Their Work

4. George Harrison and Paul McCartney harmonizing “tit tit tit tit” in the background of “Girl” was a dirty joke.
You’d think it’d be obvious that a “tit tit tit tit” harmonizing on a song called “Girl” was a dirty joke, but this usually goes unnoticed. The Beatles Bible points out that Paul McCartney is quoted in the book, Paul McCartney : Many Years From Now, talking about the origin of the joke:

It was always amusing to see if we could get a naughty word on the record: ‘fish and finger pie’, ‘prick teaser’, ‘tit tit tit tit.’ The Beach Boys had a song out where they’d done ‘la la la la’ and we loved the innocence of that and wanted to copy it, but not use the same phrase. So we were looking around for another phrase, so it was ‘dit dit dit dit,’ which we decided to change in our waggishness to ‘tit tit tit tit,’ which is virtually indistinguishable from ‘dit dit dit dit.’ And it gave us a laugh.

It was to get some light relief in the middle of this real big career that we were forging. If we could put in something that was a little bit subversive then we would. George Martin might say, ‘Was that “dit dit” or “tit tit” you were singing?’ ‘Oh, “dit dit,” George, but it does sound a bit like that, doesn’t it?’ Then we’d get in the car and break down laughing.

The BB also got a mention in this article from Ultimate Classic Rock

Earliest Known Color Footage of the Beatles to Be Sold at Auction
by Dave Lifton January 31, 2015 4:56 PM
A three-and-a-half minute film of the Beatles in 1963 is about to go under the auction block. It is believed that this is the earliest known color footage of the group recorded.

ABC News Radio reports that, this Thursday (Feb. 5), the Surrey, U.K.-based auction house Ewbank’s will sell the 8mm film, which includes onstage and backstage shots, as part of an ‘Entertainment and Memorabilia’ collection. Ewbank’s has released a 15-second teaser clip, which is embedded above.

In addition to the canister, the lot includes a DVD copy, letters of authenticity and souvenirs from the concert, which suggest that it took place on Aug. 23, 1963. Beatles Bible says that was the fourth in the series of five shows they played at the ABC Theater in Blackpool that summer. Chas McDevitt, a skiffle singer who was also on the bill that night, shot the footage. The concerts were hosted by actor Jack Douglas, who would go on to fame in the ‘70s in the farcical ’Carry On’ films.

There is one catch, however. The film is silent, which likely explains why Ewbank’s expects the lot to fetch only between £7,000-9,000 (roughly $10,500-13,500).

@meanmistermustard pointed out that earlier color footage of The Beatles exists. Perhaps this new footage has been dubbed “the earliest known” because it has Ringo instead of Pete Best.?.?

I like the fact that they both link to Joe’s pages that they reference.