Posted on ABCnews.com By MATT FRIEDLANDER Jun 1, 2017, 11:32 AM ET It was 50 years ago today that “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” got its official release in the U.K. The Beatles’ psychedelic masterpiece — which hit U.S. stores a day later — went where no album had gone before, combining such influences…

Who’s the Real Sgt. Pepper? New Beatles Book Unveils Identity of Soldier Seen on Album Cover by Steve Marinucci Published in Variety, May 13, 2017 While the picture of the man depicting “Sgt. Pepper” in the Beatles “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album looks like a character out of a story book, he was…

This story by Keith Spera in the New Orleans Advocate. May 18, 2017 photo by Rusty Costanza Nearly 50 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. The Beatles aren’t letting the June 1 milestone anniversary of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” pass without fanfare. And neither is local tax attorney and…

[An excellent Washington Post article quoting Bruce…]   On Feb. 11, 1964, Beatlemania blasted Washington — all shrieks and Arthur haircuts and songs people couldn’t quite make out. Two nights after their hysteria-inducing welcome-to-America appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” the Beatles played their first U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. With “I Want to…

On July 24, 2014, the Recording Industry Association of America (the “RIAA”) added four singles and one album to its list of Beatles records that have been certified gold. Beatlefan contacted Beatles author/historian Bruce Spizer in hopes of learning the story behind these new certifications.

Beatles historian Bruce Spizer is among the interviewees in the film discussing the Liverpool band’s influence on music.

FAB FAN MEMORIES – THE BEATLES BOND has been nominated for a 2012 Grammy Award and features interviews with fans telling about their personal Beatles experiences, including our own Bruce Spizer.

Ken Michaels interviews Bruce on his live Beatles Show “Every Little Thing.” Check it out tonight at 8 p.m. EST.

Bruce Spizer answered the questions about George in this May 10, 2011 interview by Sharon Abella.

Beatles For Sale on Parlophone Records October 9, 2011 For a leading tax attorney Bruce Spizer sure knows a lot about the Beatles. He is something of a legend amongst Beatles collectors. His books about the record labels the band’s output has been released on are much sought-after and comprehensive. Now, there’s a new one….

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…