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“These Paper Bullets!”: The Fabs Meet the Bard
For everyone who’s wondered what might have happened if Shakespeare had met the Beatles, These Paper Bullets! delivers “a modish rip-off of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing with a serious backbeat.” I saw one of the last scheduled performances of the play, by New York’s Atlantic Theater Company, and it was a delight. Despite a few wobbly […]
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ELO is back
Since we’re talking about Jeff Lynne, I wanted to pause for a moment and take Dullblog’s temperature on Electric Light Orchestra. Because ELO is back with their first album in 14 years, and I just listened to this catchy little tune. Commercially — for the moment — ELO is back, but for a lot of […]
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Beatles Halloween Costumes? Sure there are
Just a quick post before I go out trick or treating — okay, okay, I’m not quite that immature, my bank account to the contrary. I am going simply as moral support. But I do plan on plucking some winners out of the obscene haul my young friend Henry is poised to extract. Nice neighborhoods […]
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Fest for Beatles Fans Chicago 2015
In the “better late than never” department, herewith some notes about attending a day of #ChiFest15 — the first such I’d ever been to. My 16-year-old daughter accompanied me, and we met up with fellow Dullblogger Michael for part of the day. — Nancy Carr Events: A lot, and quite varied. Most fell into one of the following categories: authors talking about […]
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Braverman’s Condensed Cream of Beatles
Since it’s so damn hot in my apartment — much too hot to work out the plot of my historical spy thriller — I cast around a bit in the Beatles-strewn attic of my mind for a suitable post. I suddenly got a hankering to find and watch a Beatles-related film I once saw as […]
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Two of Us
Commenter Karen pointed me to this interesting interview with Mark Stanfield, the screenwriter for “Two of Us,” the film that portrays a fictional 1976 reunion between Lennon and McCartney. Stanfield’s interlocutor is Martin Lewis, whom I used to see regularly at Beatle- and Python-themed events all over Los Angeles. I spent the evening of my 40th […]
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Miley Cyrus’ Boobs Made Paul McCartney Uncomfortable
That title says it all, really. If you want to cut to the chase, start watching this clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live at about the 2:15 mark. And in this photo of Cyrus, Jett, and McCartney at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Paul does a little . . . nonplussed. […]
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John Lennon and Branwell Bronte
NANCY CARR * A recently self-published book by Jewelle St. James, John Lennon and the Bronte Connection, claims that John Lennon was the reincarnation of Branwell Bronte, the brother of the more famous Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. Also that the author is, perhaps, the reincarnation of Emily Bronte. And that in an incarnation previous to […]
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Oasis: “Tomorrow Never Knows”
I’m really of two minds about Oasis’, and specifically Liam Gallagher’s, love of The Beatles. On the one hand, this is a nice little cover of “Tomorrow Never Knows.” (Extra points for Johnny Marr.) On the other, I just read what the Gallagher brothers supposedly did to John Lennon’s talisman. You know the one he […]
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Man Plays Yesterday During Brain Surgery
I just had to forward this. Yeah, he’s kinda slow on some of the chord changes, but…STILL IMPRESSIVE. I’m putting this into the category “Beatle-inspired” because, holy moley that’s fandom. Somewhere, John Lennon is miffed because the guy isn’t playing “I Am the Walrus.” https://youtu.be/zgs6viZaMOM