Global Beatles Day 2020

Huh, the woman who started that lives in my hometown. 🙂 I hadn’t heard of it before — her story seems to point to a love of all Beatles, though, which is also good, even if it’s not a fandom holiday per se.
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Those cakes are AMAZING. So many are Abbey-Road themed, because of the iconicism of the cover, I suppose, but I enjoy in particular the other themed cakes, like the “Help!” outlines cake, or the Sgt. Pepper theme. Thanks for sharing.

I clicked the above link to the original broadcast of “All You Need Is Love” and it’s been taken down by apple for copyright reasons!

Anyway. The biggest inspiration I take from the Beatles is the extra effort they put in. Like in their songwriting. Rather than saying “Okay, we got our three chords and some rhyming words, let’s cut this record and call it a day” they said “Let’s add a catchy middle eight. Let’s use this chord progression; it’s different than what Fabian and Bobby Rydell are doing.”

Or when offered a movie, they said “We want a good screenwriter and director. We don’t want to do the Elvis movie thing.”

So I try to go the extra mile. It could be the simplest task or it could be a major undertaking. I try (in my own little way) to be a Beatle and do it better.

The 2016 Republican National Convention seemed to be the ground zero of musicians being pissed off at Trump, as the estate of George Harrison immediately denounced the “unauthorized” use of the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” — which was written by Harrison for Abbey Road — as walk-on music for both Trump and his daughter Ivanka. “It’s offensive and against the wishes of the George Harrison estate,” Harrison’s official Twitter wrote. “If it had been ‘Beware of Darkness,’ then we may have approved it!”

https://www.vulture.com/article/the-history-of-musicians-rejecting-donald-trump.html#_ga=2.93495261.1771671941.1597318458-450952528.1597318458