A film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Richard Curtis and featuring lashings of Beatles music seems like a failsafe recipe and while musical rom-com Yesterday has some fine moments, it never quite lives up to its promise. In a scenario that sees speculative history meet Sliding Doors-style ‘what if’ urban fantasy, failed British singer-song writer Jack Malik (Himesh Patel)
Read moreRamble Tamble (a local Creedence Clearwater Revival cover band) to play ‘unplugged & live-in-the studio’ on Purple Haze, 88.3 Southern FM, Wednesday 31st October, 2018 8-10pm Also on the show, Mark will pay tribute to the late Beatles brilliant sound recording engineer, Geoff Emerick. He will also play some new releases, which includes ‘Egypt Station’ by Paul McCartney.
Read moreIn this podcast, Mark interviews Beatle specialist Hans Olaf about his 470 page coffee table book, “The Beatles from Cavern to Star-Club: The Illustrated Chronicle, Discography and Price Guide 1957-62’. This book contains an enormous amount of details about The Beatles 1960-1962 period, which is often only briefly mentioned in most Beatle biography books. Hans & Mark talk mainly about
Read morePurple Haze presenter Mark Copolov has secured this exclusive & rare interview with Axel Korinth, co-author of the book ‘A Is For Apple’, an amazing 725 page coffee table book, which is an illustrated history of the Beatles’ multimedia corporation during January to March 1969. Some of the topics (including music) they discuss are : The ‘Let It Be’ sessions
Read morePurple Haze with presenter Mark Copolov, Wednesday, May 31st 8-10pm – guests include: Mark Holden, Peter ‘Reggie’ Bowman ( former Southern Sons guitarist & founding member), Richard Lush (Beatles sound engineer) and Aldo Lennard, as well as new releases My guests will be : Peter ‘Reggie’ Bowman ( former Southern Sons guitarist & founding member) with his daughter Chase,
Read moreHi Everyone, My guests on this show will include : Beatle’s recording engineer Richard Lush, talking about his presentation with fellow Beatle’s sound engineer Geoff Emerick, ‘the Masters Of Sgt Pepper’ presentation, coming up in Melbourne in February 2017. I’ll also ask Richard about his recent Lifetime Achievement Award for his many years work at the iconic recording studio Studio
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