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Who’s buying the Abbey Road Anniversary Edition?
I genuinely love Abbey Road—for what it is, and for the role it plays in the Beatles’ story, too. I agree with Michael Bleicher’s recent post: of all The Beatles’ work it is the least sonically dated. More than that, it’s always somewhat refreshing to listen to. To my ear, it mapped out a solid […]
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Peter Fonda 1939-2019
Actor and acclaimed Beatle tangent (“At a party at the Playboy Mansion in 1965, Lennon overheard…”) Peter Fonda died this week at age 79. As I said in this earlier post, I met him at a party in 2009, and we talked Fabs. He was tall and gracious and looked just like, well, Peter Fonda. […]
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John Was My Favorite Beatle
Everybody’s a baby. Commenter @Justin wrote this morning about John Lennon’s lousy reputation among younger Beatle fans, and the concomitant rise in esteem that Paul McCartney has enjoyed. This has joggled some thoughts about my own fandom that perhaps are worth sharing. I haven’t given this post the obsessive working over that I sometimes mete […]
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A John and Yoko movie?
Commenter @Hologram Sam found this item on Deadline from last October, and we’ve been talking about it a little on the Jann Wenner thread, so I thought it was worthy of its own post. Apparently the project teams the director of Dallas Buyers Club, Jean-Marc Vallée, with the screenwriter behind Bohemian Rhapsody. I don’t envy […]
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Willy Chirino, “My Beatles Heart”
Willie Chirino’s 2011 collection of Fab Four songs, My Beatles Heart, is one of the few cover albums I listen to regularly all the way through. Chirino is a Cuban-American musician, singer, and songwriter who lives in Florida and was involved in the salsa-based “Miami Sound” back in the 1970s and 80s. I’m not familiar […]
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“Yesterday,” the film: slight but fun
“Yesterday” is wildly implausible, to a degree that makes “Back To The Future” look like a serious exploration of the theory of relativity. It’s a sheer waste of time to ask yourself any of the innumerable questions raised by the macguffin that is the film’s premise. But if you’re willing to suspend your disbelief, it’s […]
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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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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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Lennon and McCartney’s “lost reunion,” by David Gambacorta
Posted at the excellent aggregator and original writing site Longreads is David Gambacorta’s exploration of the 1974 California jam session John Lennon and Paul McCartney engaged in — the last time they would play together. Most Beatles fans will be familiar with the history Gambacorta recounts, but it’s nice to see it laid out succinctly. […]
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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 […]