
Jane Birkin

And McCartney’s enemies list continues to get shorter. The villain in the fabs’ saga (among others) died on Saturday at age seventy-seven. This comes only a week or so after the pictures below began making the rounds on the various beatles blogs. Anyway, Ringo looks cool as shit.


Posted in apple records, Macca, music, we are the dead


Lt. Goodbody (Michael Crawford) inspects the recruits (John Lennon and Roy Kinnear).

Pte. Juniper (Jack MacGowran) entertains the troops.

John Lennon in Richard Lester’s How I Won the War. 1967.
Posted in cinema, context, music, years after the event

Not to keep dwelling on this but yesterday, death, as it must to all men, came to Michael Jackson and I happened upon this picture totally by accident today. I also have an excuse to post this gem.
The Lennons, quite famously, for a week in 1972 took over the Mike Douglas Show acting as talent bookers and cohosts. This gave John endless opportunities to chain-smoke and not allow Yoko a word in edgeways and allowed Yoko to come off generally (from what I’ve seen) as a patient, intelligent and borderline likable individual. Here we have something special indeed: footage of Mike, John and Yoko interviewing lady-filmmaker Barbara Loden about her then recently-released masterpiece, Wanda. Of special interest to me, for obvious reasons, is the clip of Wanda that is aired about ten minutes in. I’m either an idiot (which is very, very likely) or wordpress doesn’t allow dailymotion embedding so you’ll have to click the top pic to watch the video. Taped in New York City on February 1st 1972. Aired February fifteenth 1972.






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