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The Beatles in Manila, 1966
And what does the ol’ “to-post” file have for us this morning? Why, it’s a webpage dedicated to the Beatles in Manila, the feel-baddiest moment in all of Beatlemania. We all know the story of their ill-fated trip to the Philippines — “snubbing” Imelda Marcos, their security mysteriously disappearing, Fabs and entourage making wills and […]
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BEATLES-STREEP-SHEA SHOCKER: IT’S NOT HER!!!!
DEVIN McKINNEY · Few things have been more spew-worthy on TV this last couple of weeks than the ads for Ricki and the Flash, with Meryl Streep as—ehh, who gives a shit. Read the Internet for the plot blurb. But the spectacle of this preeningest, phoniest of actors trying to look rocky and raunchy, let alone […]
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The Beatles in St. Louis, 1966
Meet the Beatles for Real is a favorite blog of many Dullblog readers, but that’s not the only link. The blog’s proprietor, Sara, is a proud product of the St. Louis metro area, just like yours truly. So when I heard that Sara is writing a book of fan memories of the Fabs’ one and […]
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Update: George Harrison’s India photos (and John’s Spain ones)
Shooting Film has a lovely post collecting all of the fisheye selfies taken by The Quiet One in India in 1966. You should read the whole post, but I’ll paste the whole set of George Harrison’s India photos below. [h/t Dangerous Minds, whose ever-snappy writeup is here.] FISHEYES FOREVER: …and as a special Dullblog bonus, […]
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The Beatles and the Dalai Lama
Yesterday, after reading Devin’s lovely commemoration of everybody’s favorite drummer (both here on Dullblog and on HiLobrow), I was quite tickled to find out — via Facebook — that Ringo shares a birthday with the current Dalai Lama. Then, after I’d written this entire post, I confirmed the birthdays and found that Facebook was wrong. The […]
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Happy birthday, Paul! (with a few notes on style)
DEVIN McKINNEY • Today is Paul McCartney’s 72nd birthday. He shows no signs of slowing, save for the current illness which his spokespeople will identify only as “a virus” and which has forced him to cancel several dates on his world tour—a contingency unprecedented, as far as I know, in his career. (Surely it’s ironic […]
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Paperback Writer mistakes
Eagle-eared commenter Bill Garrity writes to say: “I was just listening to ‘Paperback Writer’ and wondered if anybody noticed some flubs along with background noise — coughs, extraneous breathing, muttering, etc. Notable are the following: 0:08-0:10 extraneous breathing 0:57 cough 1:19-1:21 missed cue on background vocal 1:45-1:48 extraneous breath, sniffling or something like that, someone practicing a background vocal. […]
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Cries and Whispers, Crashes and Flutters: 10 Favorite Beatles Musical Micro-Moments
DEVIN McKINNEY • We all know you can take the Beatles to the outer limit and upper extremity of significance—Best thing in universal history—and then narrow that unit to its subordinate but still-impressive absolutes: Best miracle of the 20th century; best socio-cultural force of the 1960s; Best group of the “rock era.” Having accepted all […]
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Literary approaches to the Beatles; or, the difference between a book and a record
DEVIN McKINNEY • Once, a long time ago, I tried to maintain, just for the record, a running tab of Beatles references or mentions that cropped up in the course of my day. During that period (the latter half of the 1980s), the daily references were not many; the group’s public profile was in a […]
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Psychedelia in the UK: "A Technicolor Dream"
Any of you that have been interested by my burblings on “psychedelia”—by which I mean the whole gestation, birth and decay of the flower-power movement—will be interested in a video I streamed from Netflix last night: “A Technicolor Dream.” It documents the UK scene: the Albert Hall poetry reading in 1965; the Indica bookstore; IT; […]