Published in American History Magazine, April 2004 by Bruce Spizer FEBRUARY 2004 MARKS the 40th anniversary of the Beatles’ arrival in America. Nearly two centuries after the British “invasion” of 1776, the battle cry was changed from “The British are coming!” to “The Beatles are coming!” And while television had not even been dreamed of…

FROM NOLA.COM  BY KEITH SPERA | STAFF WRITER NOV 14, 2019 – 9:30 AM Was that guy who sang all those Beatles songs at the Smoothie King Center in May really Paul McCartney? Not if you subscribe to the “Paul is dead” conspiracy theory that first emerged in the late 1960s, around the time the Beatles released…

Bruce Spizer will elaborate on the rumor during a discussion Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library (4747 W. Napoleon Ave. in Metairie). Admission is free.  

By Bruce Spizer Another first class project from Apple and Universal First things first, this is not what I would have done for a vinyl collection of the Beatles British singles. I would have presented the U.K. singles as they appeared back in the sixties, with British Parlophone labels for the first 17 singles and…

Bruce will be appearing at the Jefferson Parish East Bank Library on Thursday evening 10/3/19  at 7:00 PM. He will give an audio/visual presentation on his latest book, “The Beatles Get Back to Abbey Road.” Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

The Beatles Get Back to Abbey Road went to press prior to the release of the Anniversary Edition of Abbey Road. Kevin Howett, who wrote the notes included in the book of the super deluxe edition of the Anniversary Edition, had the benefit of listening to all of the tapes from the Abbey Road sessions….

Bruce will be delivering his multimedia presentation on “The Beatles Get Back to Abbey Road” this Saturday evening, September 28, at 9:00 PM at the Abbey Road Conference sponsored by the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.

A quiet night in 1964 was interrupted by the unusual sound of an airliner approaching Walnut Ridge Airport. Its arrival sparked enough interest that three local teens went to investigate, only to discover John, Paul, Ringo, and George walking from the plane. The Beatles, the biggest rock band in the world, had arrived at Walnut…

The super deluxe anniversary edition of Abbey Road is a solid “A” and another necessary purchase for Beatles fans and music scholars. The first question Beatles fans will probably ask about the 50th anniversary remix of Abbey Road is whether it is worth buying if you have the 09-09-09 remaster. After all, that was only…

Great news! The Abbey Road books are in and I’m signing them this week so my team can get them ready for shipping. We plan to send them out on September 24 and 25. The digital version will be available for download on the 26th. We will send out an email when the books go…

Bruce was included in CNN’s coverage of the Abbey Road Anniversary celebration. He appears at 0:56.  Click here  

I will be the featured speaker at Beatles at the Ridge on September 20, 2019. Headlining the weekend will be Featured Author Jim Berkenstadt (“The Rock ‘n’ Roll Detective”) whose book about fill-in drummer Jimmie Nicol, The Beatle Who Vanished, is being turned into a feature film. Jim will be talking about some of the…

August 15, 1969 While the Beatles were putting finishing touches on their Abbey Road album, an ambitious music festival was scheduled to take place on a dairy farm in Bethel, NY, the weekend of August 15-17, 1969. The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was billed as “An Aquarian Exposition—3 Days of Peace and Music.” It…

Beatles fans recreate iconic Abbey Road album cover 50 years on Half a century since their final album, the public’s love of The Beatles is undimmed. Aug. 8, 2019, 9:01 AM CDT By Patrick Smith and Yuka Tachibana   [Bruce appears at :30 in the video (click on link to go to NBC News to watch)]…

July 20, 1969 While the Beatles were at Abbey Road Studios recording their Abbey Road LP, Apollo 11 headed towards the moon. On the day of the July 16 liftoff, the Beatles were adding overdubs to “Something” and “Here Comes The Sun.” On July 20, 1969, while in lunar orbit, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin…

The Beatles waited nearly eight months after the release of “Hey Jude” to take any action towards issuing a follow-up single. As was often the case after the death of Brian Epstein, Paul took control. Two weeks after his marriage to Linda Eastman, McCartney arranged for a mono mix of “Get Back” on March 26,…

Bruce will be a featured guest and speaker at the Chicago Fest for Beatles Fans,  August 9-11, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare. Bruce will be selling and signing copies of his books and will give two presentations and be on multiple panels. Stop by his table and say hello!

New Orleans, LA (May 27, 2019) 498 Productions, LLC is pleased to announce that Bruce Spizer’s latest book, THE BEATLES GET BACK TO ABBEY ROAD, is nearing completion. According to Spizer, layouts are finished and the text is being proofed. The book’s publication date is set for September 26, 2019, the 50th anniversary of the…

Bruce will be a guest and featured speaker at the New York Metro Fest for Beatles Fans held at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City. His schedule is as follows: Friday, March 29               6:30        Author’s panel (Main Ballroom) Friday, March 29               10:30     Panel discussion on 1969 and the new wave of Beatles reissues (Act Naturally Stage)…

Bruce will be giving an audio/visual presentation on The Beatles White Album and the Launch of Apple. Bruce will be selling and signing copies of his books. Admission free. click here for more info