Monthly Archives: September 2009

a book by its cover

Posted on September 10, 2009 | 1 comment

Grapefruit

Grapefruit. 1966 paperback edition.

Grapefruit first edition

1964 edition.

grapefruit

and so on.

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pen to paper

Posted on September 9, 2009 | 2 comments

mailbag

Letter published in August 29, 1970 issue of Melody Maker.

On August 29, 1985, Macca purchased this letter at a Sotheby’s auction for €10,000—a small consolation for having lost the Northern Songs catalog nineteen days earlier.

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on your sleeve

Posted on September 8, 2009 | Leave a comment

My Love

The Mess

Above: Front and rear covers of the Japanese “My Love” single. Below: A list of other McCartney/Wings releases from inside the fold-out sleeve.

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ringo directs

Posted on September 7, 2009 | Leave a comment

ringo directs

Beatlemania orchestrating T.Rextasy: Ringo filming Born to Boogie. March 1972.

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thick and ordinary

Posted on September 6, 2009 | 1 comment

beatles burn

Beginning a week of all Beatles posts (as if that’s different from any other week) as I wait for the arrival on my doorstep of the inevitable disappointment that will be the fabs mono box.

First installment: Backlash: Burning Beatles records in Waycross, Georgia. 1966.

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lone star

Posted on September 5, 2009 | 2 comments

chas

Chaplin at Lone Star Studios. 1917.

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there was a red carpet

Posted on September 4, 2009 | Leave a comment

funeral

Unreal.

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cover art

Posted on September 4, 2009 | Leave a comment

M Hulot

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f for orson

Posted on September 3, 2009 | Leave a comment

Charles, Prince of Wales, Richard Attenborough, Orson Welles.

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dig the critics

Posted on September 2, 2009 | 2 comments

The Long Goodbye

Autumn 1973

Sight and Sound. Autumn 1973.

The Long Goodbye

Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt and Elliott Gould.

Gould

Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye. Altman. 1973.

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