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How “Lost” Was My Weekend?
Lennon and friends, up to no good. Especially that woman up front there, she seems like TROUBLE. 🙂 Frequent commenter @Hologram Sam provided this comment in one of our earlier threads. I commented, but as is usual these days had enough to say that I’m making a post out of it. Pop over and read […]
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All Our Troubles Seemed So Far Away…
I saw Yesterday a month ago, one day after it premiered, and liked it. But since I haven’t commented on it until Nancy’s post, clearly the movie didn’t spark much of a reaction in me.  I think that’s because Boyle et al. made the simplest version they could possibly make…which, to me at least, deftly […]
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Beatles as Women
I think I went to high school with Ringolina. Immediately after running across this delightful bit of Photoshoppery, I knew I had to post the following “Shakespeare’s Sister” question: Would the Beatles happen today, if four women came together in a band that great? How would it happen? What would it look like? We know […]
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New Commenting Policy
Do you know exactly what you think? Green. OK for trees, but generally nah.Scissors. Necessary, but I don’t trust ’em.Tom Jones. My mom would totally sleep with him, and not just because he’s Welsh. As you can see, I usually do. So for me the primary joy of this site has always been reading our […]
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Beatles Songs In Latin
“Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And for the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.” Rest assured, I didn’t translate these myself; I took Latin for five years and never quite got the hang of it. But I got a kick out of these. Classicists, add more in the […]
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A Touch of Nilsson in the Night…
Well, it’s night here in Santa Monica at least, erstwhile nest of Harry (and John and Paul, at least for a day or two in the Seventies), so I thought I’d share a few Pussycats-era demos from “The Beatles’ favorite American artist.” (Thanks to the indefatigable Stephen Kroninger.) Related posts: Unreleased Beatles song from Hard […]
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The Beatles and Richard Avedon: Two Outtakes
Ran across these last night, and thought I’d share. I think Avedon’s portraits of The Beatles are my favorite (with David Bailey’s a close second). Related posts: David Bailey shoots Brian Epstein and the Beatles Critic Amanda Marcotte: Sgt. Pepper’s made rock “music for men” Update: George Harrison’s India photos (and John’s Spain ones) Fab […]
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Pictures of Beatles and Pot?
I had a funny little thought today: we know the Beatles smoked a progidious amount of marijuana. Even Paul McCartney, the Beatle most likely to get you home by eleven p.m., smoked so relentlessly that he was actually thrown in jail for smuggling. But I couldn’t recall a single photo of any Beatle with a […]
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All Hail the Rutles!
I’ve mentioned this sublime Beatles parody band many times before on this blog, but if you love the Fabs there’s never a good time not to celebrate the Pre-Fabs: Ron, Dirk, Stig and Barry. This afternoon I quite randomly happened to listen to “Let’s Be Natural” and was struck, for the millionth time, what a […]
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Happy Birthday Paul McCartney, Friend of the Jews
In honor of Macca’s 77th, The Forward posted this little squib detailing Paul McCartney’s various Jewish spouses, friends, business associates, et cetera. (This from Heeb aside, there is no evidence that McCartney has converted—though of course all his children would be considered Jewish under Hebraic law, because Linda was Jewish.)With all the Jews in and […]