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We all live in a white motorboat
DEVIN McKINNEY • This exhibit of 1964-65 Beatlepics by Curt Gunther and Robert Whitaker begins today at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in Soho. It’s supposed to run through the summer, so I hope it’s still there when I go to NY next month for a friend’s birthday. Maybe if we ask him real nice, Beatle […]
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Ticket to Ride, Ed Sullivan, 1965
J & P on the same mic. Any other instances you can remember? [Updated January 2014: Apple’s taken down the original clip, so here’s one of them doing the song for “Blackpool Night Out.” Two Beatles, one mic, as noted in the comments.] Related posts: God’s eye view Christ! The Beatles In Memphis Me on […]
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Why I love our commenters so much…
This, just received today from commenter “Otto Didact,” capping our conversation on the true/hidden meaning of “Norwegian Wood”: I’ve heard from a very, very reliable source – literally the horses mouth – that “Norwegian Wood” was just a play on words as Lennon loved to do. It sounds an awful lot like “knowing she would” […]
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Doctor Who?
DEVIN McKINNEY • I’m not a Doctor Who fan myself, but if you are, this must be the cat’s whiskers. Courtesy of Archie McPhee’s Endless Guyser of Awesome!. Related posts: LIFE Magazine: “The Old Masters and Their Girls” Me on Lennon on Huffpo Shenk on Lennon/McCartney An Innovation in Guerilla Marketing: The Photo-Blurb But who […]
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Shenk on Lennon/McCartney
My favorite photo ever of John and Paul, taken by David “Blow Up” Bailey in January 1965. Speaks volumes. In analysis that is almost Dullbloggian in its grain of detail, Joshua Wolf Shenk addresses the Lennon/McCartney collaboration in this multi-part series in Slate. Take a look; if you’re reading this blog, you’ll really enjoy it. […]
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LIFE Magazine: “The Old Masters and Their Girls”
DEVIN McKINNEY • Seems to me I recognized the shot Michael posted below, or one quite like it … It’s evidently from the same session that yielded this shot, part of a pictorial in Life magazine’s issue of May 21, 1965. The story, “Hear That Big Sound,” is about the current exploding state of pop […]
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God’s eye view
If you can’t identify this occasion within ten seconds, you’re probably here by mistake. I wonder how it was taken? Michael Lindsay-Hogg, hanging by his toes from a dirigible? EDIT: So I suppose I must excommunicate myself– it’s not the rooftop at all! Where and when exactly is a matter of debate, which can be […]
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"Hullabaloo Salute to RUBBER SOUL"
A medley of Beatles medleys at Bedazzled… Man, they loved those Beatles Medleys back in the 60’s and 70’s… Here, the Righteous Brothers and Nancy Sinatra tackle songs from “Rubber Soul” with predictable results (very lame but slightly amusing).Righteous Brothers – “I’ve Just Seen A Face”Nancy Sinatra & The Righteous Brothers – “Run For […]
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Pizza, Pooh & Magpie
DEVIN McKINNEY • The following was spotted recently in the liner notes of Peter, Paul & Mary’s LP See What Tomorrow Brings, released December 1965, simultaneous with Rubber Soul. The notes spend needless time defending PP&M for not being “hip” like Dylan, or “electric” like the Beatles; and then assuring us it doesn’t matter ’cause […]
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But who knows where or when
DEVIN McKINNEY • Reach into cyberspace and you’d swear you have a magnet hand. Things just fly into your palm. Like this great shot of two of our best boys in full gorgeous sweat. It just came to me off a Spanish website and bears the legend, Lennon e McCartney em seus melhores momentos. [MG: […]