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Holy fecking hell, folks! We are getting a deluxe 50th anniversary White Album !

Best Classic Bands reports Paul has told DIY Magazine:

“It’s all in place. I’ve just got a couple of essays [to approve]. It’s all lined up and it’s really good.”

He says more, “…we’ve also got some demos of the songs…”, but I’m on my phone and struggle to post on it.

Someone find the Best Classic Bands article and post a link please, and the full quote.

Huge thanks to @Shamrock Womlbs and @meanmistermustard for helping me out on the White Album story. I got so close to posting it properly using my laptop. It was all typed and ready. I pressed post, and my network kicked me offline because I only had 192MBs of data left. 

I just thought it was an important exchange between Paul and the interviewer, and was amazed Paul has confirmed it’s on its way so early. I expected it to be like Pepper, and if there was a 50th anniversary release on its way, we’d get confirmation in late September (Pepper deluxe was confirmed 1 April last year, two months before its 1 June official anniversary).

The talk about the Esher demos (whether all of them or not), and “…so you get things stripped right back to just John’s voice and a guitar…”, confirms it is not just a straightforward anniversary re-release like the 30th.

Apple may still be staying quite, but I don’t think there’s any doubt an expanded WA is on its around about 22 November. Even if it only added the Esher demos, it would be a good addition to the shelf, but that seems impossible after Pepper, so instead of speculating about if, as we have done, we can now start speculating about what it could contain.

They may not have messed with the outtakes on Anthology quite as much as did with Pepper, but mess with them they did. There’s already an obvious list for many of us (I can imagine mmm expecting Not Guilty  to get a proper airing), though it may be wishful thinking to hope for the 27 minute Helter Skelter .

Maybe a reason for the sudden appearance of The Beatles on YouTube is that YT plays now count toward the charts.

Former Beatles haunt, The Grapes on Mathew Street, closed its doors at the beginning if June, and it’s unknown why, and when it will reopen, though its owners expect that it will.

Seems there are problems with the current people running it. Talk of unpaid bills.

Ooo, this sounds like a doozy.

Roag Best, brother of Pete, son of longest standing Beatles employee Neil Aspinall, is opening a five-floor museum on Mathew Street called Magical History Museum on 20 July.

It will include 300 items from his personal collection of around 1200 items, with 25% of the exhibition being rotated each January.

We will be taking people on a journey though the Beatles’ career but unlike any other museum before it, every part of the journey will be accompanied with memorabilia.

Many things they will never have seen before, others they will have seen back in the day but not for many years.

Items included in the initial opening include George’s Futurama guitar, John’s Pepper medals (lent to him by Mona Best), the cello from I Am The Walrus and Pete’s Premier kit.

One of my complaints about The Beatles Story, as @Ahhh Girl could tell you, was that while it tells the story pretty well, very few of the artefacts are genuine.

Sounds like this is going to be very different, and prices seem reasonable (£15 for adults, £7.50 for children, under-fives free).

Facebook page already up, asking for guesses on what some items items are based on “What is this?” pictures.

This excites me very much. Roag’s an interesting guy, The Casbah visit – hosted by him – was among my Top 3 Beatles visits in Liverpool, part of Roag’s collection comes from Neil…

It’s going to blow people’s minds.

With the Liverpool Museum having the John & Yoko exhibition on this year, sounds like a good time to revisit the city if a trip can be afforded…

 I’m trying to work out if I can afford a long weekend up there later in the year.

In other news, Paul’s Carpool Karaoke is believed to be behind The Beatles 1 album jumping from #90 to #31 in this week’s UK album chart.

It has also been revealed that the Yellow Submarine cinema showings will include the lyrics with a bouncing ball at the bottom of the screen to encourage audience singalongs according to Deadline.com.

I can imagine certain gnashing teeth from some here, including me, about this!

(Can’t work out how to post links on phone, sorry!)