It’s been a long time—
Better late than never, right? A Vatican newspaper has forgiven the late English singer John Lennon for saying four decades ago that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus.In an article praising The Beatles, L'Osservatore Romano said Lennon had just been showing off.Lennon told a British newspaper in 1966 - at the height of Beatlemania - that he did not [...]
Wilder guitar gently weeps
Arch Oboler. Shadowplay:He’s also noteworthy for having a Beatles song written about him — Oboler Di, Oboler Da. But then, many Beatles songs commemorate great filmmakers: Straub/Huillet Fields Forever, I Am the Walsh, I Wanna Be Your Mann, Penny Lang, Polythene Pabst, Savoy Truffaut, Some Other Guy-Blaché, The Fuller on the (George Roy) Hill, The Long and Winding Roeg, and of [...]
Panel discussion
Alan Stilltoe I wish [author Alan] Sillitoe, with his contrariness towards things in popular favour, had mounted an attack on the Beatles: then I could have written, "What was the difference between [Alan's brother] Brian and Alan? One was beating panels, the other was panning Beatles." —Telegraph(Via Jenny)
A Hard Oy’s Night
http://youtu.be/6vAMgbGEDTY (Via.)
I love LA!
Paul McCartney, not jogging, but probably peeing (warm water?) Sorry the blog's been quiet for a while, folks--I've been working on some Beatle-related writing that is, uh...challenging...land wars in Asia spring to mind. Let's just say it's helping me address my perfectionist tendencies. But I think I've discovered "the way in" and hope to have something presentable by late October. [...]
Not a second time
Macca in Israel, 2008(If I've learned nothing else in my short life, I have at least learned never to mention Israel in polite company. But I'm throwing that lesson out today, because this story is Beatle-related, and how divisive could that be?) McCartney's playing Tel Aviv in September! So says Ethan Bronner in the New York Times, recalling that the [...]
Number five, number five
The double helix is essentially the Sgt. Peppers of scientific models, a ladder that's been melted and twirled by a pasta fork.... —"The Five Greatest Things Ever Accomplished While High," Cracked
Besame mucho
Decent Beatles joke, I thought. "There should be a Mexican Beatles cover band. But one of them should be American. They would be named ...wait for it..... John, Paul, George, and Gringo." From here.
Nothing’s gonna change my world…
Ofra Harnoy? Ofra Harnoy. ...except possibly this gaggle of Canadian string players delicately filleting offerings by our favorite band.(Via Five Bucks on By-Tor.)