Ken McNab's Shake It Up, Baby! –breaks down the Beatles’ concerts, business deals, sleepless nights, and bloody fights month by month during the transitional year of 1963. – Peter Thomas Webb

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#PMPick Shake It Up Baby!: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem

'SHAKE IT UP, BABY is a gritty account of the Beatles’ rise to fame. Shake It Up Baby breaks down The Beatles’ concerts, business deals, sleepless nights, and bloody fights month by month during the transitional year of 1963,' writes PopMatters. 🎶 popmatters.com/beatles-shake-…

My grateful thanks to Peter Thomas Webb and PopMatters for the very nice review of Shake It Up Baby. Appreciate very much the warm vibes. Pegasus Books

The fool monty cannot possibly last at Hibs.

Truly something a bit different today in the pages of Mail Sport - and perhaps a wee reminder of the power of print.

Wonderful pictures and words from Campbell Ramage and Julie McNeill… highly recommend their new book for all lovers of Scottish football.

My top ten rock singers. And they have all brought me unbridled through the ages. Open to rejections.
1. Roger Daltrey
2 Freddie Mercury
3. John Lennon
4. Robert Plant
5. Paul McCartney
5. Mick Jagger
6. Stevie Nicks
7. Bruce Springsteen
8. Bono
9. Geddy Lee
10. Phil Collins

On holiday so running a mental book on my top ten drummers. Chosen for influence/style.
1. John Bonham
2. Neil Peart
3. Keith Moon
4. Ringo Starr
5. Phil Collins/Chester Thompson
6. Jim Keltner
7. Roger Taylor
8. Stewart Copeland
8. Charlie Watts
9. Hal Blaine
10. Larry Mullen

I know folks will say...ah well, you would say that...but to watch and hear the Fabs singing Let It Be is still so good for my cynical old soul.

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Very sad news. Who can forget his Yossir Hughes? Simply majestic as King Theoden in Lord of the Rings. One of the world's finest actors.
'Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn.'
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Some of us already knew this. A dangerous liaison and a Rolling Stones rift that inspired a legendary Rolling Stones riff. Read all about it in my book You Started It.

Yes, Jagger and I WERE lovers, says Pallenberg

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Grateful to Sarah Shrive Library Journal for this five-star review of Shake It Up Baby, which is out in the US Next month
We're flying high with Pegasus Books
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My thanks to Herald Mag & Arts for giving me some acreage for some Beatles chat. Tin hat in place. Feedback welcome from the good, the bad and Swifties...here come the sons.

A word to the haters: leave the new McCartney-Lennon duo alone, please, says Shake It Up Baby heraldscotland.com/life_style/art…

'VAR ruined one of the greatest FA Cup moments ever. A toe nail offside. Utterly pathetic' 😡

WATCH 👉 trib.al/9ftOjwg

Please help find my brother

A north-east businessman who was jailed for drug offences has been ordered to pay £65,000 under proceeds of crime laws
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Man linked to serious organised crime jailed for drug offences
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Ayrshire man jailed and banned from owning animals after abandoned dog had to be put down
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And another nice one from E.M.Lyng(He/Him)

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Nice American review for Shake It Up Baby.
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