Nominated for two awards at Thursday’s AWGIE Awards – the Australian Writers’ Guild prizes for stage, screen, radio and online – the Emmy-winning TV series, Beat Bugs, began as a ridiculous idea. The show’s creator Josh Wakely knew it. Everyone else did too. After all, as this 2016 story explained, just because you want to use hundreds of Beatles songs in a beautifully realised animation doesn’t mean the universe will listen. Even if you have the backing of the Devo music min

Today, a massive reissue package of the now remastered – by Giles “son of George” Martin – version of The Beatles’ 1968 self-titled album, with 77 extra tracks, becomes available. Yes, you read that correctly, 77 extra tracks. Across five discs and more than five hours of music. For one album? It’s no ordinary album. It’s one with almost as much mythology, interpretation and misunderstandings as its predecessor, the cultural behemoth that was Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club B

There’s a new Beatles box set. Of course there’s a new Beatles box set. And that certainty is not just because it’s the 50th anniversary of the release of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Beatles fans are a licence to print money because we – yes, we: I’ve been buying Beatles reissues and box sets since 1985 and have all the albums in at least six iterations – not only have our numbers swell each generation but are eager to spend on new versions, including sets such as t

As I said in an earlier post, I had to pick 50 songs from 50 years to mark a landmark that we don’t need to go over again here thank you very much (cos I still feel like the 13-year-old and I sure act like him often enough). Only one song per year, one song per artist, each with some significance for me. There was a CD, so along with the songs these are excerpts from the liner notes. (Of course there were liner notes.) The first tranche takes us from 1965 to 1989. 1965: The