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Ramsey Lewis recorded & released an LP of White Album covers less than a month after the release of the Beatles' White Album and reached #4 in the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. And he didn't even like #TheBeatles.
It's like the whole of the 60s encapsulated in just one album. #Jazz, kitsch strings, soul-funk, teenybop, and he even introduced early electronics (Ramsey beat The Beatles to the Moog by a year). There's a dreamy montage quality about it as if mixed by a DJ. I love it
Am I right in thinking the Get Back documentary is 9 hours of arguing and goofing off with 30 mins of rooftop concert at the end? The bluray has been tumbling in price but what I've seen of it wasn't that interesting/entertaining even for fans? My guess is its too long. #thebeatles
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FROG LEAP Multi-Instrumentalist LEO MORACCHIOLI Shares Metal Cover Of THE BEATLES Final Song "Now And Then" (Video)
Baby's good to me, you know
She's happy as can be, you know
She said so
I'm in love with her and I feel fine
Baby says she's mine, you know
She tells me all the time, you know
She said so
I'm in love with her and I feel fine
I'm so glad that she's my little girl
She's so glad
She's telling all the world
That her baby buys her things, you know
He buys her diamond rings, you know
She said so
She's in love with me and I feel fine #TheBeatles
23 Nov 1964
This book by legendary street photographer and occasional musician, Paul McCartney, is magnificent. Included are photos from The Beatles’ first trip to the US. I opened it for the first time to see these shots from Miami. So cool to see Paul’s images of a place I know so well (and such a relatable aesthetic sense). Here’s a sample
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#GreatAlbums1960 - #TheBeatles – Abbey Road (1969). Falling apart never sounded better as the Beatles rebounded from the chaotic Get Back/ Let it Be sessions for one more kick at what George Martin called a “proper” album. Bluesier than ever on “Come Together,” “Oh! Darling” and “I Want You,” the Beatles wax their grand finale on Side Two’s “Here Comes the Sun” (George’s finest song on a Beatles LP) and the suite of nine songs encapsulating everything that made them Fab.
This video review of The Beatles’ “Now and Then” is really good. I like how he says of McCartney: “his greatest gift as Lennon’s writing partner is to take a sad song and make it better.” chef’s kiss
#GreatAlbums1960s - #TheBeatles - #YellowSubmarine (1969). Although it is only half a Beatles album, the place of this LP in the band’s canon is assured via the snarling “Hey Bulldog,” the playful “All Together Now,” and two of George’s loopier psychedelic excursions. And though I sometimes wish “All You Need is Love” would disappear in the Sea of Holes, it does fit the mood. Plus, George Martin’s program music on Side 2 is quite enjoyable – in a Mantovani on acid kind of way.
#GreatAlbums1960s - #TheBeatles – The Beatles (1968). The White Album marked the beginning of the end, but schisms among the Beatles allowed each member to assert his own developing muse. Paul turns folky (and heavy on “Helter Skelter”), George turns whimsical, and Ringo writes his own on “Don’t Pass Me By.” But it is really John who keeps the Beatles a fighting unit on “Glass Onion,” Happiness is a Warm Gun” and “Yer Blues.” For all its odd digressions, one of their best LPs.
#GreatAlbums1960s - #TheBeatles – Magical Mystery Tour (1967). “Strawberry Fields” and “Penny Lane” helped this LP (the only Capitol US original LP to become part of the Beatles canon) to steal some of Sgt. Pepper’s fire. And with other gems like “I Am the Walrus,” “Your Mother Should Know,” “Hello, Goodbye” and the riveting title track, we get the psychedelic song cycle Pepper promised but never quite delivered. In some alternate universe, MMT + Pepper was an ideal double LP.
#GreatAlbums1960s - #TheBeatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). Neither the Beatles’ greatest LP nor a true concept album, Pepper still earns its keep via “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” “A Day in the Life” and a couple of Paul’s better kitchen sink dramas. Despite Pepper’s era-defining qualities (multitrack arrangements, the iconic cover, etc.), it is also the first time the Fabs allowed minor songs (“Within You Without You,” “Lovely Rita”) to make the cut.
"Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans" is a biography of the Beatles' roadie, assistant and friend, who was shot dead in 1976. Here's Salon's extract from the book by Kenneth Womack, which is out on Nov. 14. In it, Womack explains how Yoko Ono and Leena Kutti, a 43-year-old Estonian immigrant whom Ono would never meet, saved Evans' manuscript — on which the biography is based — from destruction.
starting at 1:45 this video goes out of control with AI created versions of all #TheBeatles, John in particular doing some crazy unnatural #NightmareFuel movements.
the real Paul and Ringo seem OK being surrounded by the digital ghosts of their dead bandmates, though, so i suppose that's something.