Hey Jude
http://www.youtube.com/v/YXG83p2nkHw
They Said They Said
ED PARK • I remember seeing the Feelies open for R.E.M. back in 1986 (!), and remember them playing a great cover of "She Said She Said." A recent article in the Times about the group led me to do some wandering, and I came up with a nice snippet of the SSSS cover. (The Feelies, and their various side projects, performed a number of crafty covers, from VU's "What Goes On," off their debut Crazy Rhythms, to Neil Young's "Sedan Delivery" and Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot.")While we're in deep-cover territory, here's...a picture of Billy Corgan singing "All You Need Is Love"—I [...]
A Cheap Trick?
Pinky asks: "Are people so mad for the Beatles, so many years later, that even a simulacrum brings them joy?"Read her report on Cheap Trick at the Hollywood Bowl, playing Sgt. Pepper on the occasion of its 41st anniversary.
In my life—or rather, yours?
Well at least we know who wrote THIS. "I do not care for people named Burrell Webb, Margaret Fishback Powers and John Hughes. My poem titled "In My Life I Loved You More" was not written by the Beatles it was authored by me long before the song ever came out. I do however happen to like the song they later produced. ..." That's a comment on an article by Rachel Aviv that appeared last fall at the Poetry Foundation site, discussing the contested authorship of the poem "Footprints in the Sand." The Washington Post's Hank Steuver picks up [...]
Hey, Bulldog!
Macca: Boola Boola Now he can die happy -- Paul McCartney has received an honorary degree from Yale. President Levin's speech included Beatles-derived lines like: "There is no one compares with you...Here, there, and everywhere, you have pushed the boundaries of the familiar to create new classics..."
Flashback—1969!
http://youtu.be/6yIrMKLFFZg Did John go too far with the Two Virgins cover? Sissy Spacek thought so. Under the nom de disque Rainbo, she recorded this finger-pointing ditty.
Decoder ring
Beatles appear in this Godard movie? "You get a free ring with every newspaper." B[r]eat[h]les[s]
The magic number
...is 2:42! From The Morning News:I’d hit upon the perfect song length. I fist-bumped somebody.What else is at 2:42? “Don’t Do Me Like That” by Tom Petty. “Divine Hammer” by the Breeders. “Helplessly Hoping” by Crosby, Stills & Nash. “Get Up” by R.E.M. “California Dreamin’” by the Mamas & the Papas. “This Charming Man” by the Smiths.You need more proof? Jerk. Let’s look at Sgt. Pepper. “Lovely Rita” is two minutes, 42 seconds. It delivers that psychedelic vibe and a coda but then gets the hell out of your life.Compare that to “With a Little Help From My Friends.” It’s a mere [...]
X-ing the Road
ED PARK • From author Jeff Gordinier's interesting video promo for his book X Save the World: "Why is Paul McCartney barefoot on the cover of Abbey Road?" "I don't give a f---! Just stop talking about it." http://youtu.be/MPdEgwOsvDk
The moviegoer
The stunning conclusion to the mysterious black-and-white photos of a Hard Day's Night convert...As reported here, Spinster Aunt recently published a sequence of snaps (I, II, III, IV, V), possibly from 1967, possibly from Czechoslovakia. But wait! Click here for the deeply moving story behind them.