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Phone: 504-299-1964
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Short Bio
Bruce Spizer is a first generation Beatles fan and a life-long native of New Orleans, Louisiana. He has an extensive Beatles collection, concentrating primarily on United States and Canadian first issue records, record promotional items, press kits and concert posters.
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Quotes
"Bruce Spizer is the ultimate presenter of the historical phenomenon known as the Beatles."
-Ken Mansfield, first U.S. manager of Apple Records
"Bruce provides an entertaining journey through Beatlemania through the eyes and ears of America." - Alan Livingston, president of Capitol Records, 1962-1968
"The Beatles Are Coming! is a thoroughly researched and entertaining account of the group's first U.S. visit, full of interesting and little known stories about how the Beatles caught on in America." - Walter Cronkite, former CBS News Director and anchorman
At A Glance
Since 1997, Bruce Spizer has written and compiled 13 books, and has started several more. He is considered one of the foremost experts.
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Fab Fourum Interview: Listen
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.
Early Paul McCartney Letter Offers Drummer Tryout
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 on Breakfast with the Beatles Sirius/XM
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 about becoming a Beatles author
Bruce Spizer talks informally, answering the question he is often asked, “how did you come to write your first book about the Beatles?
A Book Publisher, Beatlemaniacs? Why Don’t You Do It on Your Own?
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.
Bruce Spizer previews new book on Beatles’ Parlophone record releases
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,”…
The Beatles 1965
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…
New compilation CD is another milestone
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…
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