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January 08, 2010

In 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono took time off to buy second-hand jeans at a flea market in Paris. Photographer Henry Pessar was there and shot over one hundred pictures. They're now part of an exhibition in Paris

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Lather was thirty years old today,
They took away all of his toys.
His mother sent newspaper clippings to him,
About his old friends who'd stopped being boys.
There was Harwitz E. Green, just turned thirty-three,
His leather chair waits at the bank.
And Sergeant Dow Jones, twenty-seven years old,
Commanding his very own tank.
But Lather still finds it a nice thing to do,
To lie about nude in the sand,
Drawing pictures of mountains that look like bumps,
And thrashing the air with his hands

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Chris Isaak sings ‘Blue moon’

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And on the eighth day of Chanukah my true love gave to me an official Richard Nixon showerhead

January 8, 2010 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

March 07, 2009

Literal Beatles

Cover of the best selling book Communism, Hypnotism & The Beatles, by David Noebel

An odd photo of John, Yoko & Andy Warhol

New shots of John Lennon and Mick Jagger found

(YouTube above from Bits & pieces)

Un-related: Sturgeon Face

Huge Depositories of Unusual Links About Bob Dylan And About The Beatles Here

March 7, 2009 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

December 06, 2008

Make it easy to be near you

From "We're Only in It for the Money" to "History Never Repeats" - 55 Album Cover Parodies of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, on “Am I right?”

Interactive cover at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography of all celebrities featured on SPLHCB

In music, does nature reveal the emotion of the player hidden in the tempo of the piece? (√60″) x 10^-1 as .7745… seconds and (√60″) x 10 as 77.45… beats per minute is both the emotional and mathematical Mean Speed of music. Meanspeed-Carlton Summary of Sgt Pepper’s

Bob Boilen, of All Songs Considered, tells why he listens to the White album every November for the last 40 years, and how he discovers something new in it every time. From there, I will on YT. “I will” on the Beatles Bible

Avant-garde Carnival of Light track to be released

Update: The Dakota Building and Central Park West circa 1884

Huge Depositories of Unusual Links About Bob Dylan And About The Beatles Here

December 6, 2008 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack

October 11, 2008

All I have to do is think of her

Lego Help! From flickr LEGO Album Covers pool

The signed contract between The Beatles and Brian Epstein sold at auction last month

...Something, the second track on Abbey Road, later became Harrison's first A-side single. Originally written during the White Album sessions, the first line is based on the James Taylor song "Something in the Way She Moves" (Taylor was signed to Apple at the time). After the lyrics were refined during the "Let It Be" sessions (tapes reveal Lennon giving Harrison some songwriting advice during its composition), "Something" was initially given to Joe Cocker, but was subsequently recorded for Abbey Road. "Something" was Lennon's favourite song on the album, and McCartney considered it the best song Harrison had written. Frank Sinatra once commented that "Something" was his favorite Lennon-McCartney song…

So many more articles about The Beatles on wikipedia

Here comes the sunspot

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Also, The Beach Boys and Satan - Wow! Down, Boy, Down!

Huge Depositories of Unusual Links About Bob Dylan And About The Beatles Here

October 11, 2008 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

July 22, 2008

When Dylan got the Beatles high

"Bob Meets The Beatles" is Episode 22 of The Meth Minute cartoon series. This one takes us back in time to a milestone moment in rock history: the day Bob Dylan first smoked up the Beatles. It got weird in that room. Directed by Dan Meth (Creator of Nite Fite. Background about the significance of that moment on Phawker. For that, he is going to be damned and punished in Hell)

Previous Dan Meth on grow-a-brain: Y’all got Kosher food, Schlepping Through the Alps and The Smart-Ass Guide to the USA

Somehow related: Paul Simon explains his work

Huge Depositories of Unusual Links About Bob Dylan And About The Beatles Here

July 22, 2008 in Music - Beatles, Music - Bob Dylan | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

June 26, 2008

The love you take is equal to the love you make

(The last lyric on the last album The Beatles recorded). This is a re-post, performed by Chris Bliss

Inside The Beatles Records: Strawberry Fields Forever and A Day in the Life. (From Andy Farrell)

Songs My Boyfriend Knows All the Words To That Cause Me to Question His Attitude Toward Commitment

George Carlin is dead. (But Barack is still alive)

Rectangle by Harmlog

A Huge Depository of Unusual Beatles Links Here

June 26, 2008 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack

May 05, 2008

A love like ours Could never die

Rare Top down Beatles. (Click for larger version)

Hey Jude sung by an Afro-rock group called Assagai

Esther Phillips covers “And I Love Him”, introduced by John Lennon (YT. From a Metafilter tread about Beatles covers)

Google knows everything - John Lennon Was Wrong

An Interview with Michael Johnson, the artist who designed the Beatles stamps for Royal Mail

A Huge Depository of Unusual Beatles Links Here

May 5, 2008 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

April 22, 2008

Happy Earth day

You say it's your earth day
It's my earth day too, yeah
They say it's your earth day
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your earth day
Happy earth day to you

B3ta Photoshop The Beatles challenge. (From Tony Zimnoch)

Ringo loses his head: A foliage sculpture of Beatle Ringo Starr in the band's home city has been beheaded by vandals

A Huge Depository of Unusual Beatles Links Here

April 22, 2008 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

March 13, 2008

Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a loner

Also, 10-Year-Old Billy Preston on Nat 'King' Cole's TV Show (YT)

A Huge Depository of Unusual Beatles Links Here

March 13, 2008 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

February 26, 2008

Paul Cole is dead

Smoking Marlboros (YT)

How we all live. (From a flickr set that charts graphical interpretation of songs)

Paul Cole, man on Beatles' 'Abbey Road' cover, dies

Abbey Road photo session

Abbey Road on wikipedia

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
Care is heavy, therefore sleep you,
You are care, and care must keep you;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby

People Who Think About The Beatles A Little Too Much have a blog

A Huge Depository of Unusual Beatles Links Here

February 26, 2008 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

January 30, 2008

Sit back and let the evening go

The Full Promo Videos for Paperback Writer / Rain (YT). It was filmed at Chewick House

Liverpool Cityscape 2008, the most detailed landscape picture ever painted

A new re-design to the George Harrison.com site

Sissy Spacek singing John, You Went Too Far This Time (mp3 4.9 megs) , an expression of her shock over the "Two Virgins" cover. (From a WFMU post about Girls Who Loved The Beatles and the Beatles Who Hated Them)

John and Ringo in the Crowd at the Isle of Wight Dylan concert, August 31st, 1969

Ringo wrote a song?! Yes, he did

~~Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper~~ (YT)

A Huge Depository of Unusual Beatles Links Here

January 30, 2008 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

December 26, 2007

Mersey Beat - full of beat, melody and close harmonies

Here is another “co-blogged” post, this time composed with Avi Abrams, of the popular Dark Roasted Blend blog, who provided most of today’s links. Thank you, Avi! (All previous co-bloggers archived here.) If other creative types are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.

The late great Freddie and the Dreamers: "Funny over you" (YT) - full of infectious joy

Milkman by The Merseybeats (YT)

Billy J. Kramer Official website

Justin Hayward (before he joined The Moody Blues) I Can't Face The World Without You

The Iveys "Maybe tomorrow"

Joe Meek, Britain's first independent record producer

'Across the universe', performed by the Slovenian experimental music group, Laibach

The Beatles come to town - Rare Pathe News clip from 1963 (in color). Also, Beatles on "Thank Your Lucky Stars", Dec 15th 1963

More from Liverpool, the Super Lamb Banana sculpture

Piggies (YT) is sandwiched between two other songs with animals in their titles ("Blackbird" and "Rocky Raccoon")…

John, Yoko & baby. More there

A rare video for “Something”

Many other rare bands from this era - across the world. Even Russia joined the fun: The Singing Guitars. The last echo of Merseybeat in the 70s - Ten O'Clock Postman by the Swedish group "Secret Service"

A Huge Depository of Unusual Beatles Links Here

December 26, 2007 in Co-blogged with, Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack