Category Archives: context

incense and permanent-press

Posted on September 26, 2009 | Leave a comment

The Raspberry Pocketwatch

Stay tuned for more of these ridiculous 1968 pants ads.

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the decorative sex

Posted on September 25, 2009 | Leave a comment

Stefania Sandrelli in Seduced and Abandoned. Germi. 1964.

Stefania Sandrelli in Il conformista. Bertolucci. 1970.

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two-lane blacktop

Posted on September 22, 2009 | Leave a comment

James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Laurie Bird.

Two-Lane Blacktop. Hellman. 1971.

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paul on ram

Posted on September 13, 2009 | 1 comment

Paul in NYC

Paul on Ram

Ram on

Linda

on drums

Paul in Ny

Paul, Denny

McCartney records Ram. New York City. January through March 1971. (Including some pretty poor quality fan photos.)

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sheet music

Posted on September 13, 2009 | Leave a comment

Getting Better

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western communism

Posted on September 12, 2009 | Leave a comment

Macca’s image used to sell subscriptions to a magazine called Careers Today. 1968.

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dig the critics

Posted on September 11, 2009 | Leave a comment

Yellow Submarine

Hard Day's Night

Sight and Sound. Autumn 1964.

Help!

Sight and Sound. Autumn 1965.

Yellow Submarine

Sight and Sound. Autumn 1968.

Odd that they embraced Help! as much as they did. I tried to watch that again a year or so ago—I hadn’t seen it in ages—and thought it was pretty awful. Then again, this magazine embraced a lot of awful things over the years.

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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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Posted in apple records, context, Macca, mail bag, music, years after the event

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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