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John and Julian Lennon. I'm not even going to attempt to date/source this photo (we know what happened the last time), but I discovered it yesterday and wanted to pass it along today. Spare a thought, and be good to the people who love you.
Nutopia: Threat or Menace?
Now that's a Great Seal! MIKE GERBER • Hello folks--Dullblogger Mike here. Sorry I've been silent, but it's for the best of reasons: I've just finished a comic mystery about a rock star who survives an assassination attempt, and has to go incognito to find out who did it and why. I'll let everybody know when it comes out; I trust [...]
A gracing rayhound
ED PARK • Dusty Springfield asks Paul and John some questions. http://youtu.be/0Vl1OH2dXwg (Via Don)
Which song is he talking about?
ED PARK • Want to hear a really sloppy record? It's a good song, but the recording's a mess. The drums consistently drag the rhythm; the bass player isn't quite sure how his part is supposed to go...—Douglas Wolk, "The Death of Mistakes Means the Death of Rock" http://youtu.be/T3znOTuT4K8
"John was as blind as a bat…"
George watches This Boy. http://www.youtube.com/v/NAZGpFrx8G0&h
White Album Not All That, Writer Claims
Nik Cohn & Ben Ratliff DEVIN McKINNEY • Here, via Rockcritics.com, is a New York Times podcast from September, half of which is devoted to a talk between music critic Ben Ratliff and pop-crit originator Nik Cohn on the remastered version of the White Album (which Ratliff deliciously informs us is currently #16 on the LP charts, "right below Lady [...]
I’ve just seen a face…I think
ED PARK • The face of the Beatles’ drummer, Ringo Starr, has been seen in a droplet of water bouncing on a lotus leaf... —Telegraph
And You’re Gone
Lucy O'Donnell as a child; Lucy Vodden grown up DEVIN McKINNEY • But not forgotten. Lucy Vodden, who provided the inspiration for the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” has died in London. She was 46. Her death, after a history of lupus, was announced Monday by St. Thomas’s Hospital in London, where she had been treated for [...]
“Paperback” Trail; or, The Hunt for Mark Shipper
DEVIN McKINNEY • Note from the future (2013): Refreshing this post four years after assembling it, I find that a couple of the hyperlinks are no longer functional—one doesn't exist, while the other exists but doesn't yield the indicated information. But this is the story of a few hours' Internet idling, a mesh of the long-gone afternoon, and rather than rewrite it [...]