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Local Beatles expert Bruce Spizer’s latest book chronicles the band’s British output

New Orleans expert on The Beatles releases eighth book WWL-TV October 17, 2011 NEW ORLEANS – He’s considered by many the best source of information on The Beatles in America. New Orleans attorney Bruce Spizer was in the studio Monday his eighth book on the fab four – the recently released “Beatles for Sale on…

Fab Fourum talk with author Bruce Spizer about his book “Beatles For Sale on Parlophone Records”, and in-depth look at the group’s UK releases.

A newly discovered letter found folded in a book at a Liverpool yard sale has shed new light on the Beatles’ early days, revealing that Paul McCartney offered an audition to a mystery drummer in 1960, just a few days before the band left for a formative two-month gig in Hamburg, Germany.

Bruce will be featured on Chris Carter’s BREAKFAST WITH THE BEATLES on Sirius/XM radio this Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 9 a.m. ET (rebroadcast on August 1 at 12 a.m. ET)

Bruce Spizer talks informally, answering the question he is often asked, “how did you come to write your first book about the Beatles?

Bruce Spizer, a lawyer in New Orleans, began his work as a do-it-yourself Beatles author with a study of the fraught legal relationship between EMI, the Beatles’ British record label, and Vee-Jay, which licensed the group’s early recordings.

In a phone interview with Beatles Examiner, Spizer said the idea for the book came last year from Frank Daniels, co-author (with Perry Cox) of “Price Guide for the Beatles’ American Records,”…

NPR All Songs Considered – April 13, 2006 This week Capitol Records is releasing four early Beatles recordings, never before available on compact disc. The American versions of The Early Beatles, Beatles VI, Help! and Rubber Soul make up a new box set, The Capitol Albums Volume 2. All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen talks…

He loves them, yeah, yeah, yeah New compilation CD is another milestone for Beatlemaniac Bruce Spizer by Angus Lind Times-Picayune, Wednesday, April 12, 2006 Orleanian Bruce Spizer, arguably the country’s leading expert on The Beatles Capitol Records releases, was talking about preparedness. “There’s always speculation about what we call ‘desert-island discs,’ what you would bring…