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A Touch Of Tuesday Weld
2007-2015
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2007-2015
Showing posts with label the beatles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the beatles. Show all posts
July 26, 2015
November 24, 2012
From September 1967: Beatle Cartoons Theme, Season Three
A curious mix of the "old" Beatles look,
with the "Sergeant Pepper" changes.
John Lennon did not like this song, "And Your Bird Can Sing," referring to it as a "throwaway."
The signature dual-harmony electric lead guitar parts were played live (without overdubbing) by Harrison and McCartney. Lennon played the rhythm in the "D major" position with the capo on the 2nd fret (to account for the song being in the key of E).
An excellent article about The Beatles cartoon series.
Both John Lennon and George Harrison were big fans of the show, and there is a persistent rumor that John and George provided their own voices to at least one episode of the cartoon series...uncredited, of course.
October 11, 2012
From 1965: Carve Your Number On My Wall And Maybe You Will Get A Call From Me
Please, folks...I am not a snob as a general rule, but please, please listen to The Beatles in mono only.
The tunes were mixed for mono, so if you want to hear the songs the way that the lads themselves and Sir George Martin meant for the world to hear them, opt for the mono mixes.
p.s. This is another tune that was inspired by the greatest rock n' roll muse of all time, Pattie Boyd.
July 1969
p.s. This is another tune that was inspired by the greatest rock n' roll muse of all time, Pattie Boyd.
April 26, 2011
The Dreams That Filled Stadiums
From 1964, Brian Epstein appears as "Mr. X" on the popular television program What's My Line?
An immensely charming and intelligent man, Brian never had any sort of real happiness in his life, aside from his association with The Beatles as their manager. And even then, whatever happiness he managed to glean from that role was fleeting and unsatisfactory.
His interest in the group stemmed from his romantic interest in John Lennon, an interest that is said to have been reciprocated on several occasions. The two men took a vacation together to Barcelona, Spain in April 1963. Peter Brown reports in his excellent Beatle biopic The Love You Make that Lennon went along because he "...wanted to see what fucking a bloke was like."
John Lennon was often cruel to Brian Epstein about his homosexual proclivities. When Epstein wrote and published his autobiography in 1964, titled A Cellarful of Noise, Lennon's only reaction to the book was to snarl at Brian that the title should have been A Cellarful of Boys.
Brian Epstein died in his home on the 27th of August, 1967, from an accidental drug overdose. A notorious insomniac, one of the components in his sleeping tablets, carbitol, had built up to a lethal amount. Brian Epstein's heart simply stopped as a result.
In the end, I think Peter Brown put it best in The Love You Make:
"Here was a man whose passions had sparked an entertainment phenomenon, who had influenced the course of history, but the world would only remember his unhappiness and not the dreams that filled stadiums."
An immensely charming and intelligent man, Brian never had any sort of real happiness in his life, aside from his association with The Beatles as their manager. And even then, whatever happiness he managed to glean from that role was fleeting and unsatisfactory.
His interest in the group stemmed from his romantic interest in John Lennon, an interest that is said to have been reciprocated on several occasions. The two men took a vacation together to Barcelona, Spain in April 1963. Peter Brown reports in his excellent Beatle biopic The Love You Make that Lennon went along because he "...wanted to see what fucking a bloke was like."
John Lennon was often cruel to Brian Epstein about his homosexual proclivities. When Epstein wrote and published his autobiography in 1964, titled A Cellarful of Noise, Lennon's only reaction to the book was to snarl at Brian that the title should have been A Cellarful of Boys.
Brian Epstein died in his home on the 27th of August, 1967, from an accidental drug overdose. A notorious insomniac, one of the components in his sleeping tablets, carbitol, had built up to a lethal amount. Brian Epstein's heart simply stopped as a result.
In the end, I think Peter Brown put it best in The Love You Make:
"Here was a man whose passions had sparked an entertainment phenomenon, who had influenced the course of history, but the world would only remember his unhappiness and not the dreams that filled stadiums."
July 29, 2010
June 20, 2010
From 1965: The Beatles, The Way They Were Meant To Be Heard
Notice that this is a Capitol Records pressing, Beatles '65, which took elements of the British A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale. By slicing and dicing the English records, Capitol realized that they could make even more albums for the American market, and therefore make more money.
This record was a staple in the Weiss house growing up. Dad used to listen to it all the time when he would do the nightly dinner dishes for Mom.
This is my all-time favorite Beatles song, if I had to choose. It is everything that makes the Beatles magical: a Lennon and McCartney harmony, great acoustic work from George, and wonderfully subtle drumming from Ringo that perfectly fits the mood of the song. "I'll Be Back" is a Lennon composition that is once again deceptively simple in its lyrics and construction. I especially love the bridge and the final lyric: "You. If you break my heart, I'll go, but I'll be back again."
This record was a staple in the Weiss house growing up. Dad used to listen to it all the time when he would do the nightly dinner dishes for Mom.
This is my all-time favorite Beatles song, if I had to choose. It is everything that makes the Beatles magical: a Lennon and McCartney harmony, great acoustic work from George, and wonderfully subtle drumming from Ringo that perfectly fits the mood of the song. "I'll Be Back" is a Lennon composition that is once again deceptively simple in its lyrics and construction. I especially love the bridge and the final lyric: "You. If you break my heart, I'll go, but I'll be back again."
June 17, 2010
From 1968: The Lovely Jenny Boyd In India
Jenny Boyd posts are always among the most popular on this blog. Here is a particularly lovely one from 1968, when she was in India studying with the Maharishi. It was here that she met Donovan, who fell madly in love with her.
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