Click on the above image and read what would become Dr. Yury Pelyushonok's last interview on the subject of the Beatles Influence on the U.S.S.R. The interview was
arranged by Tony Copple and John Whelan of the Ottawa Beatles Site. Special thanks to Bruce Ward of the Ottawa Citizen for providing excellent coverage regarding this topic.
The report was published on Saturday, January 9, 2010.

 


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Click here to read a review of the new CD by Ottawa Beatle Site researcher John Whelan.

 

Click here to read a review of the new album by Ottawa Beatle Site researcher John Whelan.

 

It was 40 years ago today

1 June 1967

Sgt. Pepper was first heard in North America at Expo 67, and broadcast on CBC radio's C'est la vie. Visit John Whelan's Expo 67 site.

 

"Punk Opera: CheLennon" by The Oz.

 

This full-length experimental "punk opera" project includes 13 unique post-punk  versions of John Lennon revolutionary and rare songs mixed with 6 reprises of politically intense interviews with him. This brilliant work was created by The OZ -- a post-punk group located in the very heart of the true underground of St. Petersburg -- Russia's cultural and revolutionary capitol!

 

Click here to read a review of the new CD by Ottawa Beatle Site researcher John Whelan.

 

 

 



The Beatles release
"Now and Then" 
November 2, 2023


 "Maybe I'm Amazed"
 Vocal & Piano Cover by Sangah Noona



Paul McCartney
live, Independence Square, in Kyiv Ukraine,
June 14, 2008
This groundbreaking event has been named the Independence Concert

 

 

 

Sershen & Zaritskaya's

Badass Beatles Cover Version of "Come Together"

 

Margot Cotten 

Covers George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord"

Featurette: The history of Capitol Records in Los Angeles 

 


THE OTTAWA BEATLES SITE
by Tony Copple and John Whelan

 

"Created in the belief
that the Beatles were more than a great band;
they generated an atmosphere for good
throughout the world,
uniting people in many cultures,
and through their timeless music
and the optimistic subjects of their songs,
continue to inspire new generations."  

 



The Beatles and Their Influence on Culture
B.A. Thesis by Rudolf Hecl
Masaryk University, Brno
Faculty of Arts
Department of English and American Studies

Power To The People:
"Pure Freedom Verses Commitment - The changing values of the Counter Culture" - by James DeWilde

You Say You Want A Velvet Revolution? John Lennon and the Fall of the Soviet Union
A Harvard University "Grad Paper" by Dave LaFontana

 

 John and Yoko meet Prime Minister Trudeau

 

Strings for a Beatle Bass

by Yury Pelyushonok

 

Le Dain Commission of Inquiry
John Lennon's drug testimony

 

Beat brother Roy Young Interview

 

A John Lennon Remembrance in Words for the 60th Anniversary of Hiroshima

Let It Be...Naked - album review

 

Ottawa Beatles Convention 1995
Twist and Shout behind the Iron Curtain: the birth of an idea

for a book by event organizer Alan Chrisman

 


15 photographs of John & Yoko's visit to Ottawa,
June 3, 1969




Photo: Annmarie Wilhelm Click the car for its story
The Beatles are appreciated all over the world. We welcomed visitors from far and near at the second Ottawa Beatles Convention in 1996 at the Ottawa Museum of Science and Technology, where John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls Royce was on display.

"You can't do that"
Music on this site
courtesy of
Bryan Anthony