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70's style
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Life altering moment
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Besieged
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George fans
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Brothers
Anyone know what is happening in this photo? Where it was taken?
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Listen to what the man says
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Smiling Ringo
Things seem a bit gloomy out there right now----so here is a smiling Ringo to brighten up everyone's day.
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Whatever Gets you Through the Night
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Take a sad song and make it better
Interesting that the Beatles For Sale album is above Mary's head and isn't that a photo of Jane and Paul at Mike's wedding over there on the nightstand?
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A rare night out on the town
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"Check it out---I have a pretty girl and a Beatle!"
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touching the stage
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Classy couple
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Hitchin' a Ride
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Beatleness: A Book Review
Beatleness by Candy Leonard tells the story of the Beatles through the eyes of the American first generation fans. I have read books similar to Ms. Leonard's book before. However, her book was written in a much more academic format. I would think that Beatleness will be used in Universities that study the Beatles or the 1960's will be happy to use this book in the classroom. Beatleness reads like a college textbook at times.
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The book starts with the reactions and memories of first generation fans seeing and hearing the Beatles for the first time in February 1964 and goes on through the touring years and movies of the Beatles. It is always wonderful to hear first hand accounts of original fans. I cannot say too many times how important it is for the legacy of the Beatles to have these accounts in writing so that when the first generation fans are no longer with us, those who continue to study the Beatles will have an understanding of what it was like for them. I have to thank Candy Leonard for the work she did in gathering these memories because the such a vital part of the Beatles story that gets overlooked.
What particularly interested me was the memories and reactions of the fans after the Beatles stopped touring. Through this blog, I have gotten so many wonderful memories of the touring years, but besides those lucky few that hung around EMI, you dont' get to read much about the regular fans reactions to things after the tours. It was really fascinating to read the reaction fans had to the Beatles facial hair during the Pepper era, or to John's long hair in 1968. I loved the memories of the "Paul is dead" conspiracies and even memories of the Beatles break-up.
But the part that I think interested me the most was the memories of fans getting a new Beatles record and what that meant to them and how they remember the details of getting that record. While I know it is true, it just amazes me how the Beatles' music has made such an enormous impact on so many people. Fans would memorize the lyrics and try to figure out what they meant. Fans would learn the guitar parts and play them in bands in their basement. Fans would talk to other fans about the songs. And memories that are deep and important to people were made with the Beatles songs playing the background. I think the one story that really made me think was the story of a fan who recalls seeing servicemen going to the front door of a neighbor who had a son fighting in Vietnam. The men were there to tell his mother that he had died in war. The song "Hey Jude" was playing on the radio at the moment this fan saw this happening and has made a strong connection between the song and that moment. Good or bad---the Beatles were there.
Much of the book was hard for me, as a 2nd generation fan, to wrap my mind around. I would love to read a Beatleness book with other generations of Beatle fans asked the same questions. Beatleness has spread to all generations. This isn't a light-hearted book. It is deep and honestly there are words in there that you might need to look up. However, it is well worth taking the time to digest because there is much to learn from our fellow fans about Beatleness.
Beatleness has just recently been released in a paperback version and is available through Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Beatleness-Beatles-Their-Remade-World/dp/1628726091/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460602734&sr=8-1&keywords=Beatleness
The book starts with the reactions and memories of first generation fans seeing and hearing the Beatles for the first time in February 1964 and goes on through the touring years and movies of the Beatles. It is always wonderful to hear first hand accounts of original fans. I cannot say too many times how important it is for the legacy of the Beatles to have these accounts in writing so that when the first generation fans are no longer with us, those who continue to study the Beatles will have an understanding of what it was like for them. I have to thank Candy Leonard for the work she did in gathering these memories because the such a vital part of the Beatles story that gets overlooked.
What particularly interested me was the memories and reactions of the fans after the Beatles stopped touring. Through this blog, I have gotten so many wonderful memories of the touring years, but besides those lucky few that hung around EMI, you dont' get to read much about the regular fans reactions to things after the tours. It was really fascinating to read the reaction fans had to the Beatles facial hair during the Pepper era, or to John's long hair in 1968. I loved the memories of the "Paul is dead" conspiracies and even memories of the Beatles break-up.
But the part that I think interested me the most was the memories of fans getting a new Beatles record and what that meant to them and how they remember the details of getting that record. While I know it is true, it just amazes me how the Beatles' music has made such an enormous impact on so many people. Fans would memorize the lyrics and try to figure out what they meant. Fans would learn the guitar parts and play them in bands in their basement. Fans would talk to other fans about the songs. And memories that are deep and important to people were made with the Beatles songs playing the background. I think the one story that really made me think was the story of a fan who recalls seeing servicemen going to the front door of a neighbor who had a son fighting in Vietnam. The men were there to tell his mother that he had died in war. The song "Hey Jude" was playing on the radio at the moment this fan saw this happening and has made a strong connection between the song and that moment. Good or bad---the Beatles were there.
Much of the book was hard for me, as a 2nd generation fan, to wrap my mind around. I would love to read a Beatleness book with other generations of Beatle fans asked the same questions. Beatleness has spread to all generations. This isn't a light-hearted book. It is deep and honestly there are words in there that you might need to look up. However, it is well worth taking the time to digest because there is much to learn from our fellow fans about Beatleness.
Beatleness has just recently been released in a paperback version and is available through Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Beatleness-Beatles-Their-Remade-World/dp/1628726091/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460602734&sr=8-1&keywords=Beatleness
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50 years of Paperback Writer
50 years ago today---April 14, 1966 The Beatles recorded one of my favorite Beatles tracks--Paperback Writer. Luckily for us Beatle Book Monthly was there to document this session and we are blessed with amazing photographs (including this great one of John) from the sessions.
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"Psst---You aren't replacing Ringo for ever..."
This has to be the funniest Beatles photo I have seen in a long time. Why on earth is Neil Aspinall on the stage during the performance telling Jimmie Nichol something? Couldn't it have waited until after the concert? And what is George doing? He has two mics and both Paul and John are looking at him in a way that makes me think he just sang the wrong words to the song!
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Ringo on Flo and Eddie
Much thanks to the John Lennon Lost Weekend Group on Facebook for sparking my re-interest in this story and sharing the photo.
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On April 14, 1974 Ringo Starr along with Keith Moon and others appeared on the radio program known as "Flo and Eddie." Flo and Eddie were really Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan who were part of the 1960's band The Turtle (Happy Together was their biggest hit). When the Turtles ended, they joined Frank Zappa and worked on the film 200 Motels--with Ringo. They discovered along the way that for legal reasons they couldn't use the name "The Turles" or even their own names when recording music. And so they became known as "Flo and Eddie."
In the mid 1970's they had their own radio show with DJ Rodney Bingenheimer (who you will remember as the groovy guy that hung out with George Harrison in San Francisco in 1967) on KROQ in Pasadena, California. 42 years ago Ringo appeared at Midnight on the show (right around teh time it was scheduled to go end) and started to take phone calls from listeners. However, Ringo was quite drunk and uttered the F-bomb at least 15 times in a 90 second period while the pair was attempting to interview him. Besides that Ringo caused the program to run over by 40 minutes. The FCC got complained and looked into the matter and that was the end of the "Flo and Eddie" show.
On April 14, 1974 Ringo Starr along with Keith Moon and others appeared on the radio program known as "Flo and Eddie." Flo and Eddie were really Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan who were part of the 1960's band The Turtle (Happy Together was their biggest hit). When the Turtles ended, they joined Frank Zappa and worked on the film 200 Motels--with Ringo. They discovered along the way that for legal reasons they couldn't use the name "The Turles" or even their own names when recording music. And so they became known as "Flo and Eddie."
In the mid 1970's they had their own radio show with DJ Rodney Bingenheimer (who you will remember as the groovy guy that hung out with George Harrison in San Francisco in 1967) on KROQ in Pasadena, California. 42 years ago Ringo appeared at Midnight on the show (right around teh time it was scheduled to go end) and started to take phone calls from listeners. However, Ringo was quite drunk and uttered the F-bomb at least 15 times in a 90 second period while the pair was attempting to interview him. Besides that Ringo caused the program to run over by 40 minutes. The FCC got complained and looked into the matter and that was the end of the "Flo and Eddie" show.
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Buggy for the Beatles!
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Two unhappy Beatles
Photo taken June 23, 1967 and available right on from Tracks on ebay.
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