Whoa - first time I heard that  ;D  I couldn't exactly make out what was being said, but that fits...


Another hidden thing you may not have noticed is that at 1:44 on Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy" the background singers (members of Badfinger) sing "Hare Krishna". It's clearly there but it's barely noticeable. But once you hear it you will never NOT hear it again. This is a holdover from when George (the main author of the song) cut it  himself and sang the lead vocal. He instructed the Badfinger singers to chant "Hare Krishna". It's MUCH more pronounced on the unreleased Harrison version (which can be found on Youtube). The backing track of the Harrison version was later used for the version Ringo sings.

Listen for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCD0fPSsdBA

Another hidden thing you may not have noticed is that at 1:44 on Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy" the background singers (members of Badfinger) sing "Hare Krishna". It's clearly there but it's barely noticeable. But once you hear it you will never NOT hear it again. This is a holdover from when George (the main author of the song) cut it  himself and sang the lead vocal. He instructed the Badfinger singers to chant "Hare Krishna". It's MUCH more pronounced on the unreleased Harrison version (which can be found on Youtube). The backing track of the Harrison version was later used for the version Ringo sings...


Wow cool!  :D  It's definitely easier to hear in the George Harrison version

Another hidden thing you may not have noticed is that at 1:44 on Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy" the background singers (members of Badfinger) sing "Hare Krishna". It's clearly there but it's barely noticeable. But once you hear it you will never NOT hear it again. This is a holdover from when George (the main author of the song) cut it  himself and sang the lead vocal. He instructed the Badfinger singers to chant "Hare Krishna". It's MUCH more pronounced on the unreleased Harrison version (which can be found on Youtube). The backing track of the Harrison version was later used for the version Ringo sings.

Listen for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCD0fPSsdBA
I known the song well over the years but never noticed that before.

BTW, happy birthday to his son Zak for today.

Good news for Beatles fans:

Strawberry Field site opens as tourist attraction

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/12396/production/_108764647_theiconicredgatesatstrawberryfield.jpg

The children's home that inspired The Beatles' famous song Strawberry Fields Forever is to open its gates as a tourist attraction and youth centre.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-49674883

Good news for Beatles fans:

Strawberry Field site opens as tourist attraction

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/12396/production/_108764647_theiconicredgatesatstrawberryfield.jpg

The children's home that inspired The Beatles' famous song Strawberry Fields Forever is to open its gates as a tourist attraction and youth centre.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-49674883


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8
I have been twice to Liverpool, but do wish to go again to the Beatles tour.

I have been twice to Liverpool, but do wish to go again to the Beatles tour.


and cross Abbey Road?

and cross Abbey Road?
Many a time, with photos somewhere.

Many a time, with photos somewhere.


Does Abbey Road have stop signs?

Does Abbey Road have stop signs?
It is a pedestrian crossing, similar to the below image

https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/uploads/3/2/9/2/3292309/rule-19-zebra-crossings-have-flashing-beacons_orig.jpg

No stop signs, but traffic does have to stop if someone is crossing.

It is a pedestrian crossing, similar to the below image

https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/uploads/3/2/9/2/3292309/rule-19-zebra-crossings-have-flashing-beacons_orig.jpg

No stop signs, but traffic does have to stop if someone is crossing.


Isn't that dangerous?

Isn't that dangerous?
It can be if the cars are approaching too fast, but is in the rule book of the road driving "The Highway Code" too slow down.

Just three words...

"Is Paul Dead?"

The clues are out there!

Just three words...

"Is Paul Dead?"

The clues are out there!


        :D

Regarding vinyl releases, "USA" releases differed from "UK" releases.  Who saw that a problem?  The Beatles did!  That is why they came up with the idea of the infamous "butcher cover" for the album "Yesterday and Today".

(The Butcher Cover - recommend not to look at this while eating  8-P ):
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This distasteful album cover was a way for the Beatles to protest what Capitol records was doing to the American album releases.  You see, "Yesterday and Today" was never supposed to be an album - at least in the minds of the Beatles.  In essence, whereas the UK releases generally contained 14 songs apiece, Capitol records culled different combinations of songs from these to make the US versions, which generally contained only 11 songs (or less).  The Beatles used the Butcher cover to protest Capitol's greedy behavior.  However, the public wasn't happy with the cover and so Capitol had to recall the early released Yesterday and Today albums and paste a "boring" cover on top of it (ironically any album having the butcher cover today commands a pretty penny, as it is a collector's item).

Once Sgt. Pepper hit, the practice of making different albums for "USA" and "UK" stopped.

Any thoughts about the different album configurations?  I will add personally that whereas I say my favorite Beatles album is Rubber Soul, it is the "USA" version of the album I refer to...

Just three words...

"Is Paul Dead?"

The clues are out there!


He is still touring.

Regarding vinyl releases, "USA" releases differed from "UK" releases.  Who saw that a problem?  The Beatles did!  That is why they came up with the idea of the infamous "butcher cover" for the album "Yesterday and Today".

This distasteful album cover was a way for the Beatles to protest what Capitol records was doing to the American album releases.  You see, "Yesterday and Today" was never supposed to be an album - at least in the minds of the Beatles.  In essence, whereas the UK releases generally contained 14 songs apiece, Capitol records culled different combinations of songs from these to make the US versions, which generally contained only 11 songs (or less).  The Beatles used the Butcher cover to protest Capitol's greedy behavior.  However, the public wasn't happy with the cover and so Capitol had to recall the early released Yesterday and Today albums and paste a "boring" cover on top of it (ironically any album having the butcher cover today commands a pretty penny, as it is a collector's item).

Once Sgt. Pepper hit, the practice of making different albums for "USA" and "UK" stopped.

Any thoughts about the different album configurations?  I will add personally that whereas I say my favorite Beatles album is Rubber Soul, it is the "USA" version of the album I refer to...


Both the Beatles and the Stones had "American" and "UK" album releases. This was due to the fact that UK albums traditionally had fourteen or so songs in the early days while American LPs traditionally had twelve and later ten. "Flowers" was to the Stones what "Yesterday and Today" was to the Beatles. A collection of the songs that didn't make it onto the American albums.

Regarding vinyl releases, "USA" releases differed from "UK" releases...


Perhaps among the worst examples of this was the U.S. version of the album "Help!".  It contains the following seven outstanding Beatles cuts, a collection whose quality is second to none:

Help!
The Night Before
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
I Need You
Another Girl
Ticket To Ride
You're Going To Lose That Girl

It also contains five more songs, instrumentals from the Help! movie soundtrack:
Another Hard Day's Night
In The Tyrol
Me To You Fantasy
The Bitter End
The Chase

I'm not criticizing the dozen or so people who love those instrumentals equally to the Beatles' cuts.  But WHY did Capitol interleave the songs together, so that if you put the LP album on and let it play, your euphoria with the awesome Beatles' songs is repeatedly interrupted by instrumental filler?  WHY WHY WHY?!?!?!?!?

>:(

BTW the Help! album, to my knowledge, cost the same price as the others...

Perhaps among the worst examples of this was the U.S. version of the album "Help!".  It contains the following seven outstanding Beatles cuts, a collection whose quality is second to none:

Help!
The Night Before
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
I Need You
Another Girl
Ticket To Ride
You're Going To Lose That Girl

It also contains five more songs, instrumentals from the Help! movie soundtrack:
Another Hard Day's Night
In The Tyrol
Me To You Fantasy
The Bitter End
The Chase

I'm not criticizing the dozen or so people who love those instrumentals equally to the Beatles' cuts.  But WHY did Capitol interleave the songs together, so that if you put the LP album on and let it play, your euphoria with the awesome Beatles' songs is repeatedly interrupted by instrumental filler?  WHY WHY WHY?!?!?!?!?

>:(

BTW the Help! album, to my knowledge, cost the same price as the others...


Hmmm, that is interesting...

The Beatles' Abbey Road returns to number one 50 years on

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49931789

The Beatles' Abbey Road has returned to number one in the UK, 50 years after it first topped the album charts. The Fab Four reclaimed the top spot with an expanded anniversary edition. The feat also sees the album set a record - the gap of 49 years and 252 days since its initial chart-topping run ended in early 1970 is the longest gap before returning to number one. "It's hard to believe that Abbey Road still holds up after all these years," tweeted Sir Paul McCartney on Friday. "But then again it's a bloody cool album," he added.

The new version features original tracks such as Here Comes The Sun and Come Together as well as previously unheard material from the recording sessions.

The previous record for longest gap between number one appearances by the same album was held by (yup, you guessed it) The Beatles again, for their seminal 1967 record, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The sprawling psych-rock masterpiece returned to number one in 2017 courtesy of another anniversary re-release - a mere 49 years and 125 days after its previous spell at the top.

From another topic:

Back in October 2013, we visited Strawberry Fields, the memorial to John Lennon in Central Park, New York, located near the Dakota Building, his residence and site of the fateful shooting. All the time I was there I was getting a strange shiver down my spine, I feeling I have always had where something is spooky happening. I asked our host to check something on the Google on her phone and it turned out it was October 8th, one day before the birthday of John Lennon. We then walked to Times Square, via Fifth Avenue, I think (passing Trump Tower), and spent time there sitting down drinking tea/coffee waiting for a friend of our host. Now, if we were there a day later, more events would had been happening at Strawberry Fields, and at Times Square Paul McCartney gave a free concert prompting his then latest album. We missed out on it!

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/2348/production/_111723090_quarrymen.jpg

A rare photograph of the trio who evolved into the Beatles has emerged. The previously-unpublished photo of The Quarrymen shows Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison a year before becoming The Beatles. The picture, captured in a Liverpool home in 1959, has surfaced on the 50th anniversary of McCartney announcing he was leaving the group. "History shines in every dimly-lit detail," said Beatles' historian and author Mark Lewisohn. "Within a year of this moment the Quarrymen had become The Beatles, professional musicians playing long hours in Hamburg," he added.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-52233396

Of which reminds me, I must see the movie "Yesterday".
I did get to see this film, and I do not know why, but after the expectation of the delights of this film I was disappointed with it, may it was me for I was down with flu at the time.

Today sees the 80th birthday of Ringo Starr, but he is not the first Beatle to reach 80 for the drummer Jimmie Nicol (turned 80 August 2019) who temporary replaced Ringo during a series of concerts during the height of Beatlemania in 1964, when Ringo Starr became ill with tonsillitis and was hospitalised. Paul McCartney celebrated his 78th birthday last June.

Happy birthday Ringo!

The Cavern Club in Liverpool, best known for launching The Beatles, says it is facing a fight for its survival as a result of the pandemic. The venue usually hosts about 800,000 visitors a year but one of its directors, Bill Heckle, said it had lost £30,000 a week since the lockdown began in March. He said: "We went five months before unfortunately we had to make about 20 people redundant." The Cavern is reopening for virtual sets by music bands from around the world later in August. But its survival depends on a bid to the government's cultural recovery fund, a Liverpool City Council spokesperson said. The city's mayor Joe Anderson said: "Liverpool City Council is doing all it can to help our venues but we can only do so much, given how much financial pressure we are under supporting the most vulnerable in our communities."

The Cavern Club in Liverpool, best known for launching The Beatles, says it is facing a fight for its survival as a result of the pandemic. The venue usually hosts about 800,000 visitors a year but one of its directors, Bill Heckle, said it had lost £30,000 a week since the lockdown began in March. He said: "We went five months before unfortunately we had to make about 20 people redundant." The Cavern is reopening for virtual sets by music bands from around the world later in August. But its survival depends on a bid to the government's cultural recovery fund, a Liverpool City Council spokesperson said. The city's mayor Joe Anderson said: "Liverpool City Council is doing all it can to help our venues but we can only do so much, given how much financial pressure we are under supporting the most vulnerable in our communities."


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I have been to Liverpool twice and on both visits shamefully we had no time to visit the Cavern Club, but we did do the Beatles Story museum, which has an exact mock up of the Craven Club and you realise how small and cramped it is.

I have been to Liverpool twice and on both visits shamefully we had no time to visit the Cavern Club, but we did do the Beatles Story museum, which has an exact mock up of the Craven Club and you realise how small and cramped it is.
...and I do plan to go to Liverpool again, stay a few days and do everything Beatle, but nowadays the pandemic has stopped me.

I think The Beatles breaking up by 1970 gave/gives them a kinda 'faraway, exotic, they were of another, classic, time' type of energy to them.
Who knows? Perhaps they would have outstayed their welcome, and made very tacky music and then ruined their legacy and the idealism about them!
Sometimes things happen in a weird way.

I don't think it matters one way, or the other, at the end of the day, though! The Beatles have sold roughly 400 million copies worldwide. So, it's not like
they're suffering!

I think The Beatles breaking up by 1970 gave/gives them a kinda 'faraway, exotic, they were of another, classic, time' type of energy to them.
Who knows? Perhaps they would have outstayed their welcome, and made very tacky music and then ruined their legacy and the idealism about them!
Sometimes things happen in a weird way.

I don't think it matters one way, or the other, at the end of the day, though! The Beatles have sold roughly 400 million copies worldwide. So, it's not like
they're suffering!


Far away and exotic? I remember when they were together. They were far away and exotic then! And yes they broke up at the correct time. These things have a lifespan.  I'm surprised they stayed together as long as thy did.  John Lennon is on record as saying he wanted to leave as early as 1966. George Harrison left in 1968 during the White Album sessions and was talked into coming back.

Far away and exotic? I remember when they were together. They were far away and exotic then! And yes they broke up at the correct time. These things have a lifespan.  I'm surprised they stayed together as long as thy did.  John Lennon is on record as saying he wanted to leave as early as 1966. George Harrison left in 1968 during the White Album sessions and was talked into coming back.


Darn, there were already signs! Too bad Yoko is used as a scapegoat.  ;D

As for exotic and 'faraway,' is because I'm a late 80's born!

Darn, there were already signs! Too bad Yoko is used as a scapegoat.  ;D

As for exotic and 'faraway,' is because I'm a late 80's born!


Of course there were signs. By the time they broke up there was precious little left to break. The Yoko-broke-up-the-Beatles nonsense has unfortunately, at this late point, passed into the realm of folklore, and it is impossible to fight folklore.

80 years ago today, this boy was born...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/5GoB9ZoyveDESIIsudtCBk0MGx2Fra3LsHEW_3_w-5dI6gi9O-ruGBsOifsBw5wVdTUtWc9s4e3BVehUeaCgg4aYHjPJawkunKLV74pAkMeS5_fIDTrSNFh05Thgp1TwjzzLlP9BqjORIeZPqjKwo5pPWDIzgD1qufS-IA

Who knew then he would change the musical landscape of the world forever?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YqB8Dm65X18/hqdefault.jpg

Happy Birthday, John!

On the news just now, showed a report on the 80th birthday of John Lennon, displaying the Empire State Building lit up in his honour with the peace sign ☮️ and footage of him and Yoko walking along The Mall in Central Park. It warmed my heart to see these images, but to also think, I was at Strawberry Fields and walking along The Mall myself almost to the day seven years ago.

BTW

From another topic:

Back in October 2013, we visited Strawberry Fields, the memorial to John Lennon in Central Park, New York, located near the Dakota Building, his residence and site of the fateful shooting. All the time I was there I was getting a strange shiver down my spine, I feeling I have always had where something is spooky happening. I asked our host to check something on the Google on her phone and it turned out it was October 8th, one day before the birthday of John Lennon. We then walked to Times Square, via Fifth Avenue, I think (passing Trump Tower), and spent time there sitting down drinking tea/coffee waiting for a friend of our host. Now, if we were there a day later, more events would had been happening at Strawberry Fields, and at Times Square Paul McCartney gave a free concert prompting his then latest album. We missed out on it!

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This was an enjoyable film documentary into the minds of John Lennon and Mark David Chapman.

On the news just now, showed a report on the 80th birthday of John Lennon, displaying the Empire State Building lit up in his honour with the peace sign ☮️ and footage of him and Yoko walking along The Mall in Central Park. It warmed my heart to see these images, but to also think, I was at Strawberry Fields and walking along The Mall myself almost to the day seven years ago.


I kind of wonder what he would've thought of The Coronavirus in 2020?

Good ol' Willie Nelson!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqS4rgG7TjU&feature=youtu.be

Good ol' Willie Nelson!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqS4rgG7TjU&feature=youtu.be
O0

Venues and organisations, including The Cavern Club in Liverpool and the London Symphony Orchestra, are to receive a share of £257m government arts funding. The Cavern, which hosted early gigs from The Beatles, has been given £525,000 to fund the recording of performances from local musicians.

http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=62150.0

There is a story being bantered around the Internet that John Lennon once asked the film director Stanley Kubrick to direct a film with the Beatles in "Lord of the Rings", obviously it never materialised, and seeing some online reports, I read them as fake news, and the chance of a cheap joke 'Lord of the Ringos'.

There is a story being bantered around the Internet that John Lennon once asked the film director Stanley Kubrick to direct a film with the Beatles in "Lord of the Rings", obviously it never materialised, and seeing some online reports, I read them as fake news, and the chance of a cheap joke 'Lord of the Ringos'.


Lord of the Ringos?    :D  ;D  :D

There is a story being bantered around the Internet that John Lennon once asked the film director Stanley Kubrick to direct a film with the Beatles in "Lord of the Rings", obviously it never materialised, and seeing some online reports, I read them as fake news, and the chance of a cheap joke 'Lord of the Ringos'.


Actually that WAS an idea that was thrown around back then. Not that there's a snowball's chance that it would have happened, but this is the way things were back then. If you were the Beatles, the sky was the limit. Lennon was forever coming up with ideas, some of which came to fruition, some which did not. Some were impractical, but it mattered not. And, of course, "Lord of the Rings" talk was everywhere back then. Don't forget, one of the most popular clubs in London in the late 60s was called Middle Earth. Tyrannosaurus Rex, later known as T. Rex, used to play there, among others.

As a child of the eighties I can say that Julian Lennon proves that talent is not inherited.

As a child of the eighties I can say that Julian Lennon proves that talent is not inherited.
For me talent is discovered, and many a person can go through their life not discovering their 'hidden' talent. Parents, of course, can inspire their children, for after John Lennon's divorce for Cynthia when Julian was five years old, had almost no contact with his father until the early 1970s. Those missing tears can mean so much to a young child.

Why is today 'Global Beatles Day'?

Because: June 25th 1967 - The Beatles performed "All You Need Is Love" live on the "Our World" program.?

Or

Sir Peter Blake's 89th birthday?

"Jealous Guy" by John Lennon from his 1971 album Imagine, was not released as a single during Lennon's lifetime, it became an international hit in a version by Roxy Music issued in early 1981; this version reached #1 in the UK and Australia, and was a top 10 hit in several European countries. Lennon's own version was subsequently issued as a single, and charted in the US and UK.

Lennon began writing the song in 1968, when, as "Child of Nature", it was among the many songs demoed by the Beatles before they recorded their self-titled double album (also known as the "White Album"). The lyrics were originally inspired by a lecture given by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in early 1968, when the Beatles attended his spiritual retreat in Rishikesh, India. In its rewritten form, the song serves as a confessional in which Lennon addresses the feelings of inadequacy that resulted in his failings as a lover and husband.

Peter Jackson’s Disney+ Beatles documentary Get Back shines a new, clear light on the band’s story

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/peter-jackson-beatles-documentary-review-get-back-disney-plus-b968008.html

Peter Jackson’s Disney+ Beatles documentary Get Back shines a new, clear light on the band’s story

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/peter-jackson-beatles-documentary-review-get-back-disney-plus-b968008.html


Have you seen it?

Have you seen it?


I saw the original Let It Be movie in theater in 1970 during it's original release. I won the tickets from a radio station!

Have you seen it?
The Beatles: Get Back, is over 7 hours in duration, and Disney+ is released on three successive days, November 25th, 26th and 27th. I just watched part one, and it is very enlightening into the way of The Beatles.


I saw the original Let It Be movie in theater in 1970 during it's original release. I won the tickets from a radio station!
I saw "Let It Be" on an original screening on television, and never seen it seen. Seeing the documentary reminds me of certain scenes in "Let It Be".

Have you seen it?


I don't have Disney+. I'm sure it will eventually be available elsewhere, though.

I don't have Disney+. I'm sure it will eventually be available elsewhere, though.
My friend, who does not have Disney+, in fact, he does not have wi-fi, is asking me to watch out for on DVD.

I don't have Disney+. I'm sure it will eventually be available elsewhere, though.


I kind of flip around canceling and subscribing different streaming services throughout the year and will probably resubscribe to Disney+ later on this year.

I have to ask you, VOT70s, are you a Star Wars fan?

I kind of flip around canceling and subscribing different streaming services throughout the year and will probably resubscribe to Disney+ later on this year.

I have to ask you, VOT70s, are you a Star Wars fan?


Never was much for Star Wars. I never even saw the original. I DO remember the advertising campaign back in 1977. I had never seen anything so massive up to that point. By the time it hit the theaters there was not a person on Earth who had not heard of that movie, even if they lived in a cave. The era of the "blockbuster" started in 1975 with "Jaws" and was cemented with "Star Wars".

I subscribed to Disney+ last year when they started streaming Hamilton (which I have watched I don't know how many times already-oh, I think it is time for another viewing). So, we will probably watch this Beatles thingy.


Cat

I subscribed to Disney+ last year when they started streaming Hamilton (which I have watched I don't know how many times already-oh, I think it is time for another viewing). So, we will probably watch this Beatles thingy.


Cat
Thank you for reminding me, I still need to see "Hamilton". But will do a quick history research on him first.

The Beatles: Get Back, is over 7 hours in duration, and Disney+ is released on three successive days, November 25th, 26th and 27th. I just watched part one, and it is very enlightening into the way of The Beatles.
Having seen "The Beatles: Get Back" complete now, I found it a charm to watch. The camera capturing the songs from inspirational starts to 'jam sessions' to the complete recorded songs, it is like witnessing the songs in creation. The was the smile on road manager Mal Evens' face that summed it up, he was glad to be there, working on the best job of his (short) life.

In 1968 The Beatles were in the midst of their excursion to India, working on new music. During this time, the band were sent the Lord of the Rings books by their Apple Corps film producer Denis O'Dell who thought they might enjoy it. After this, the Fab Four were keen to get a musical version of fantasy epics.

The director of the 2000's Lord of the Rings adaptation, Peter Jackson, recently gave some insight into what really went on.

Jackson revealed: "Ultimately, they couldn't get the rights from Tolkien, because he didn't like the idea of a pop group doing his story. So it got nixed by him.

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1528053/the-beatles-lord-of-the-rings-peter-jackson-jrr-tolkien

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The childhood home of George Harrison has sold for £171,000 at auction.

The Beatles guitarist moved to 25 Upton Green in Speke, Liverpool, in 1949 when he was six years old.

Harrison rehearsed with John Lennon and Paul McCartney at the house, which his family left in 1962 just as the Fab Four were about to hit the big time.

An American fan of the band bought the house when it went under the hammer at Omega Auctions in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside.

Auctioneer Paul Fairweather said the American was "a Beatles fan but also saw it as a good investment".

In the same auction an original sign from 1960s hotspot Carnaby Street in London fetched nearly £5,800.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-59462548

Having seen "The Beatles: Get Back" complete now, I found it a charm to watch. The camera capturing the songs from inspirational starts to 'jam sessions' to the complete recorded songs, it is like witnessing the songs in creation. The was the smile on road manager Mal Evens' face that summed it up, he was glad to be there, working on the best job of his (short) life.


Just resubscribed to Disney Plus. I finished watching the first segment of Get Back and am halfway into the second.

Not only is it fascinating to watch the songwriting process as it happens, but I feel almost as if I'm getting to know the Beatles themselves.

10 Times the Beatles Used Pseudonyms on Records:

https://bestclassicbands.com/beatles-pseudonyms-7-23-17/

10 Times the Beatles Used Pseudonyms on Records:

https://bestclassicbands.com/beatles-pseudonyms-7-23-17/
The list is interesting, some I knew, but others I was unaware of, especially Harry Georgeson

Hubby took me tonite to the local IMAX theater.  We saw The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert (2022).  It was AWESOME!  :D  So much more detail over the previously released rooftop concert movie (which I love).  Well done!  I just went, but I'm already hoping to see it again!

Ah yes, I am the designated Beatlemaniac in my family. My wife and I had our second date watching A Hard Day's Night while taking a break from university final exams.

Ah yes, I am the designated Beatlemaniac in my family. My wife and I had our second date watching A Hard Day's Night while taking a break from university final exams.

That was a good choice! O0

Hubby took me tonite to the local IMAX theater.  We saw The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert (2022).  It was AWESOME!  :D  So much more detail over the previously released rooftop concert movie (which I love).  Well done!  I just went, but I'm already hoping to see it again!

I'd like to see that at some point!

I'd like to see that at some point!


O0 If you can, do - very worthwhile!

Hubby took me tonite to the local IMAX theater.  We saw The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert (2022).  It was AWESOME!  :D  So much more detail over the previously released rooftop concert movie (which I love).  Well done!  I just went, but I'm already hoping to see it again!

I am tempted to watch the whole 8 hours of "The Beatles: Get Back" again.

I am tempted to watch the whole 8 hours of "The Beatles: Get Back" again.

Same here. It was very interesting

When you look at the history of the Beatles, you see a lot of users, abusers and exploiters of the Fab Four.

I am tempted to watch the whole 8 hours of "The Beatles: Get Back" again.


Well I finally watched Get Back (the whole 8 hours).  Have the DVD.  Have also started watching it a second time, this time with hubby.  I love it!    :D

Can't believe I missed it -

Happy (one day late) Birthday to John Lennon!  :D

Jealous Guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O4J4DH4tyo

Can't believe I missed it -

Happy (one day late) Birthday to John Lennon!  :D

Jealous Guy

Also my spooky story regarding...

Back in October 8th 2013, we visited Strawberry Fields, the memorial to John Lennon in Central Park, New York, located near the Dakota Building, his residence and site of the fateful shooting. All the time I was there I was getting a strange shiver down my spine, I feeling I have always had where something is spooky happening. I asked our host to check something on the Google on her phone and it turned out it was October 8th, one day before the birthday of John Lennon. We then walked to Times Square, via Fifth Avenue, I think (passing Trump Tower), and spent time there sitting down drinking tea/coffee waiting for a friend of our host. Now, if we were there a day later, more events would had been happening at Strawberry Fields, and at Times Square Paul McCartney gave a free concert prompting his then latest album. We missed out on it!

Also my spooky story regarding...

Back in October 8th 2013, we visited Strawberry Fields, the memorial to John Lennon in Central Park, New York, located near the Dakota Building, his residence and site of the fateful shooting. All the time I was there I was getting a strange shiver down my spine, I feeling I have always had where something is spooky happening. I asked our host to check something on the Google on her phone and it turned out it was October 8th, one day before the birthday of John Lennon. We then walked to Times Square, via Fifth Avenue, I think (passing Trump Tower), and spent time there sitting down drinking tea/coffee waiting for a friend of our host. Now, if we were there a day later, more events would had been happening at Strawberry Fields, and at Times Square Paul McCartney gave a free concert prompting his then latest album. We missed out on it!


Cool story!  Sorry you missed the next day's magic...

Cool story!  Sorry you missed the next day's magic...
Not only that, a few weeks later Sir Paul McCartney gave a free concert in Covent Garden, London shortly afterwards, only for to discover so the following day when catching up with the local news.

Thy may indeed by snarky, but they are also incredibly insightful and utterly truthful.  Oh, for a musical artist with this kind of integrity today!

Five of George Harrison’s Snarkiest Comments on His 80th Birthday

hwww.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/5-george-harrisons-snarkiest-comments-80th-birthday.html/

5. ‘See you around the clubs’
In Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back, fans saw how George’s patients were stretched. There were tensions between the bandmates, but things between Paul McCartney and George got to boiling point. George abruptly quit and said, “I think I’ll be leaving the band now.”

John Lennon, surprised, asked, “When?” “Now. Get a replacement. Write into the NME and get a few people,” George said. As he packed up his things, George told the group he’d see them “’round the clubs.” However, George eventually returned to the band.

4. ‘But what do they want? Blood?’
During a 1979 interview with Rolling Stone, George discussed his dissatisfaction with certain Beatles fans who wanted the band to continue.

“They’ve got lots and lots of songs they can play forever,” he said. “But what do they want? Blood? They want us all to die like Elvis Presley? Elvis got stuck in a rut where the only thing he could do was to keep on doing the same old thing, and in the end his health suffered and that was it.

“The Beatles fortunately did that hit-and-run. But every year we were Beatling was like twenty years; so although it might only have been five or six years it seemed like eternity. That was enough for me, I don’t have any desire to do all that…

“People used us as an excuse to trip out, and we were the victims of that. That’s why they want the Beatles to go on, so they can all get silly again. But they don’t have consideration for our well-being when they say, ‘Let’s have the Fab Four again.'”

3. ‘Elton John’s music is something I’ve never thought much of’
Some of George’s snarkiest comments came when he bluntly criticizing his fellow singer-songwriters. In a 1976 interview with India Today, George claimed he didn’t think much of Elton John’s music, even thought they were friends.

“Well, Elton John’s music is something I’ve never thought much of,” he said. “It all sounds the same, though I think he’s written a good song once (many years ago, of course). His music is made to a formula: throw in lyrics, throw in four chords, shake well, and there it is, the new Elton John super-hit!”

2. ‘You don’t want see three old men hobbling around the stage’
George was also very blunt and snarky about The Beatles’ cultural impact. After being hounded about the band for most of his life, he was sick of The Beatles. He never considered himself “Beatle George” anyway. He used to say that The Beatles did some good things, but they also did some rubbish too.

During an interview on Australian TV, an interviewer asked George what the odds were of The Beatles reuniting. “It’s best left as it was,” he said. “With all those nice memories and the records are there. You know, you don’t want see three old men hobbling around the stage pretending to be the Fab Four.”

1. ‘Get another monkey’
If it was one thing that George disliked the most about his fame, it was receiving awards. He didn’t like being rewarded for a career he didn’t even want. In Martin Scorsese’s 2011 documentary, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, George’s widow, Olivia, said, “George had maximum amount of diversion in life.

“Towards the end of his life, I’d say, ‘Oh, they want to give you this award thing.’ He said, ‘I don’t want it. Tell them to get another monkey.’ I’d say, ‘Yeah, but you know, it’s a really nice one. You should have this.’

“And he’d say, ‘Well, if you want it so bad, you go and get it. I’m not going. I’m not doing that anymore.’ Because it’s just a big diversion… He really did draw the line, and I really admired him for that.”

Ultimately, George was snarky because he had to be. Dealing with extreme fame, which he didn’t want, wasn’t easy and he criticized every part. He never took anything seriously and tried to make light of everything.

He believed that life was too short to not say the things he wanted. However, none of his friends or family disliked him for it. It was one of his more endearing traits and something to reflect on during what would’ve been his 80th birthday on Feb. 25.

I love everything on the beatles white album except the song REVALUTION #1!!

The original version of that song ON MY 45 is 1000x better!!

I love everything on the beatles white album except the song REVALUTION #1!!

The original version of that song ON MY 45 is 1000x better!!


Actually it's the other way around. "Revolution 1" was the original recording. It's also the one where John Lennon expresses his ambivalence by singing "but if you're talking about destruction/don't you know you can count me out...in". They re-recorded the song in a faster, rockier version for the single, and Lennon sings (some say cops out) "but if you're talking about destruction/don't you know you can count me out".

Lennon is on record as saying he prefers the slower "Revolution 1" because the words are more easily understood, and, presumably, because he sings "out...in".

Thy may indeed by snarky, but they are also incredibly insightful and utterly truthful.  Oh, for a musical artist with this kind of integrity today!

Five of George Harrison’s Snarkiest Comments on His 80th Birthday

hwww.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/5-george-harrisons-snarkiest-comments-80th-birthday.html/

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O0 Cool article - thanks!


I love everything on the beatles white album except the song REVALUTION #1!!

The original version of that song ON MY 45 is 1000x better!!



Actually it's the other way around. "Revolution 1" was the original recording. It's also the one where John Lennon expresses his ambivalence by singing "but if you're talking about destruction/don't you know you can count me out...in". They re-recorded the song in a faster, rockier version for the single, and Lennon sings (some say cops out) "but if you're talking about destruction/don't you know you can count me out".

Lennon is on record as saying he prefers the slower "Revolution 1" because the words are more easily understood, and, presumably, because he sings "out...in".


As far as "Revolution 1" and "Revolution" - I like both, differences and all.  The one I separate from the White Album is "Revolution 9"; I like owning it, but it messes with the flow IMO.  Sometimes I just gotta hear "Revolution 9" - but usually on its own.  8)

O0 Cool article - thanks!

As far as "Revolution 1" and "Revolution" - I like both, differences and all.  The one I separate from the White Album is "Revolution 9"; I like owning it, but it messes with the flow IMO.  Sometimes I just gotta hear "Revolution 9" - but usually on its own.  8)


One time in grad school, we had to go to a weekend gathering. One evening, one of the other students had a guitar and was leading everyone in sing-a-longs. It was actually a lot of fun. But we didn't sing my suggestion. "Hey, let's sing Revolution #9."  :D ;D



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March 1st 1972 - John Lennon was granted an extension on his American work visa.
What would fate had been if has visa extension was refused?