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Hmmm…

By Ed Park|2014-07-05T10:46:44-07:00June 15, 2009|Beatle-inspired, Covers|

Jay-R's mashup of of L'Trimm's "Cars with the Boom," Gary Numan's "Cars," and the Beatles' "Drive My Car." Thank you, Jay-R. Interesting fun fact as of July 2014: L'Trimm's Bunny D. has been married five times (never, though, to Jay-R) and has four children from her first four marriages, which is an admirable kind of efficiency. She has published a series of children's books and is working on a clothing line. Luck and happiness to you, Bunny D.! (And Lady Tigra and, of course, Jay-R.) http://www.youtube.com/v/wfmUv2FNDjE&h

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"Hullabaloo Salute to RUBBER SOUL"

By Ed Park|2014-12-30T21:38:15-08:00June 9, 2009|1965|

"We turn the sound down and say rude things." A medley of Beatles medleys at Bedazzled… Man, they loved those Beatles Medleys back in the 60's and 70's... Here, the Righteous Brothers and Nancy Sinatra tackle songs from "Rubber Soul" with predictable results (very lame but slightly amusing).Righteous Brothers – "I've Just Seen A Face"Nancy Sinatra & The Righteous Brothers – "Run For Your Life"The Righteous Brothers – "Girl"Nancy Sinatra & The Righteous Brothers – "Wait"The Righteous Brothers – "Michelle"Nancy Sinatra & The Righteous Brothers – "I've Just Seen A Face" (end of medley) [MG July 2014 -- This [...]

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First bass

By Ed Park|2014-07-04T16:27:03-07:00May 11, 2009|books, Hamburg|

Stu and Emptiness Summer reading for Dullbloggers? Stuart Sutcliffe: A Retrospective is available at Book Soup in L.A. MG adds, July 2014-- Michael Bracewell reviewed the book and show Stuart Sutcliffe: A Retrospective for Frieze Magazine, and it's well worth reading. Here's a scrap: "Since his death, and encouraged by the superior but romantically stylized biographical feature film Backbeat (1994), the assessment of Sutcliffe’s work as a visual artist has perhaps inevitably been contextualized almost solely by its position within the early career of the Beatles. The importance of this latest retrospective of his work, entitled ‘Stuart Sutcliffe: A Retrospective’, curated [...]

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10-minute "Revolution"

By Ed Park|2014-07-05T12:11:10-07:00February 24, 2009|1968, Mike's Various Misidentifications, The White Album|

I love it when the sleeves can't keep up with the group.— MG ED PARK • Dullblog scout Eric brought this find to our attention—from EW's Popwatch: Over the past couple of days, Beatles fanatics have been chattering about an amazing outtake that recently leaked onto the Internet. The 10-minute-plus recording of "Revolution" (embedded below) offers a fascinating look at the wildly ambitious plans the band originally had for the song, eventually included in much shorter form on The White Album. "As someone who's heard, I'd say, 99.8 percent of the Beatles music that has leaked onto bootleg, this is [...]

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It happened in Toronto

By Ed Park|2014-07-03T19:04:33-07:00February 17, 2009|1969, John Lennon|

John Lennon onstage in Toronto 1969. "When is a shaky, under-rehearsed performance even better than a polished, high-octane explosion by an artist who is beyond iconic? When it's September 13, 1969, and John Lennon finds himself in the unenviable position of having to follow Little Richard at the Toronto Peace Festival. "Big-time rock & roll fan John Lennon had been invited simply to host the show, but then at almost literally the last minute he decided to play it, and rounded up a few heavy friends — Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman, future Yes drummer Alan White and Yoko Ono — [...]

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Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl

By Ed Park|2015-01-18T11:54:37-08:00February 9, 2009|Paul McCartney|

Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl ED PARK • 9:57 p.m. | Ladies and Gentlemen, The Beatle! Paul McCartney performs “I Saw Her Standing There” with Dave Grohl. Jon: Glad Paul is doing “I Saw Her Standing There” - I was afraid he’d be dour. Dave: He was always the “Clean Up After a Legendary Rap Performance” Beatle. Jon: Many legendary nights with Rakim in the late 80s. But Dave Grohl: what does he signify? He’s Zelig. His career is one long episode of “Punk’d.” No one on the corner has swagger like Paul. —NYT liveblogs the Grammies

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Run it up your mast

By Ed Park|2014-12-30T10:15:18-08:00January 28, 2009|1975, comedy, Eric Idle, George Harrison, Monty Python|

http://youtu.be/NGbRHxM4X2g George Harrison on Eric Idle's Rutland Weekend Television playing his Pirate Song.(Via VSL)

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Middle eight

By Ed Park|2015-01-18T11:53:30-08:00January 28, 2009|Paul McCartney, solo|

ED PARK • Q: The Beatles’ music was always wonderful, but at a certain point it became something more than entertainment; at what point did you know that the work you were doing was important? PAUL: It’s difficult to discuss this without sounding immodest, but I think I started to feel it around the time of “Eleanor Rigby.” Prior to that, I thought the music was very good, and I realized we were in a different league when we wrote “From Me To You,” because it had a middle eight in it and went somewhere we hadn’t been before, but you used [...]

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Mete the Beatls

By Ed Park|2014-07-23T16:53:15-07:00January 15, 2009|Uncategorized|

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Every little thing

By Ed Park|2015-01-18T11:49:37-08:00January 6, 2009|Radio|

The Beatles, as seen (and heard) in Norway "Some weeks ago, NRK - Norwegian Broadcasting - signed a deal with music rights holder organisation TONO in Norway. The new deal gives NRK right to publish podcasts of all previously broadcasted radio- and tv-programs that contains less then 70% music. Podcast containing music may be up for four weeks, while our podcast without music stay up on our server forever. One result of this deal, is that we now can publish 'Vår daglige Beatles' - 'Our Daily Beatles' in English - as a podcast..." "In this series from 2001, journalists Finn [...]

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