Sight and Sound. Autumn 1964.
Sight and Sound. Autumn 1965.
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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Grapefruit. 1966 paperback edition.
1964 edition.
and so on.
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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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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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Beatlemania orchestrating T.Rextasy: Ringo filming Born to Boogie. March 1972.
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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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I watched the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus the other night. It was pretty good with the Stones’ performance being the one I’d say I dug the most. The real treat for me was on the DVD’s extras, commentary by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg. After spending last summer listening to the dozens of hours of audio of the fabs’ Let It Be sessions, which heavily feature Lindsay-Hogg who directed the film (see “critics” post below), it was great hearing that guy’s voice again. His Rock and Roll Circus commentary had to be recorded thirty years after the event but his winning mix of pretentiousness, name dropping (often unfamiliar name dropping), charm, cluelessness and a least one instance of his habit of referring to people by their initials, remained intact. Below is a screen grab of M.L-H. taken from the Let It Be film. Below that is a Stones performance from the film.
Stay tuned for more on Brian Jones and the fabs.
Sight and Sound. Summer 1970.
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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.
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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.
chained and perfumed 