Attention Millionaires: Beatles for Sale! (including John and Yoko’s Sexual History)
One of the more intriguing items at auction. Roger over at WogBlog has an excellent head's-up on a massive collection of Beatle personal items/memorabilia from Beatle author Geoffrey Giuliano and one-time Beatle designers The Fool. (A lot of this stuff—which is really mind-blowing—seems to have originated with Derek Taylor, or directly from George and John.) I don't know what I [...]
Hey Jude Times Square
http://vimeo.com/9974656 Spontaneous "Hey Jude" in Times Square subway station, 3/6/10Hey Jude Times Square Subway Station from 39forks on Vimeo.
The hits just keep on coming…
http://www.youtube.com/v/4Ph4rZU0Ns4&h What's with the weird autotuning/dubbing? It makes him sound like that guy from The Beatles cartoon.I've written some thoughts on this at my blog, mikegerber.com. (Someday, I'll investigate cross-posting.) [Sorry, folks: in 2012, mikegerber.com was hacked by Azerbaijanis, if you can believe it. I couldn't fix it, so I put up a generic landing page. Unfortunately at present I can't link [...]
Yoko in Cyberspace
Yoko Ono as (an amazingly cute) child. Yoko Ono's on Twitter, how awesome is that? To celebrate this I tweeted (mgerber937) the following: "So I went to her Twitter feed, and it said, '...' Nothing else, just '...' and I thought, 'Wow, that could be anything. Could be 'yes,' 'no', 'piss off', whatever you wanted it to be. It reflects your [...]
Covering "Julia"
From Priscilla Ahn's blog: http://youtu.be/6rmlaXwAyJY Today was a beautiful, crisp, windy day. When I looked outside there was a big morning moon hanging so delicately in the sky. It made me think of my favorite Beatles' song, "Julia". I realized I didn't have the song in my computer though, and crazy enough, The White Album isn't available to purchase on itunes! (There's [...]
Red stalks, green bars
A Beatles Authorship and Collaboration Chart by Mike Deal I don't think I understand this yet, but it's beautiful. Color patterns offer clues about the band's gradual fracturing as each member becomes more independent. Red stalks (signifying jointly written songs) decrease in the second half of the timeline; the split-color bars give way to solid bars of a single [...]
Roy Orbison — "Help"
http://youtu.be/1iA6LIhvoOE
Aspiring or inspiring?
John Lennon The Life by Philip Norman The New York Times Book Review sent Philip Norman's new biography John Lennon: The Life to singer-songwriter Nellie McKay, and her very positive review is written in the manner of Lennon the prose stylist. Did she pull it off? I'm of two minds, myself. On the one hand, the review is a chore [...]
LIFE Magazine: “The Old Masters and Their Girls”
John, Cyn, and showbiz newcomer Julian in LIFE, 1965. DEVIN McKINNEY • Seems to me I recognized the shot Michael posted below, or one quite like it ... It's evidently from the same session that yielded this shot, part of a pictorial in Life magazine's issue of May 21, 1965. The story, "Hear That Big Sound," is about the current [...]