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Attention millionaires: Beatles for Sale!
Roger over at WogBlog has an excellent head’s-up on a massive collection of Beatle personal items/memorabilia from Beatle author Geoffrey Giuliano and one-time Beatle designers The Fool. (A lot of this stuff—which is really mind-blowing—seems to have originated with Derek Taylor, or directly from George and John.) I don’t know what I think about memorabilia. [...]
Continue reading...Happy Birthday, Julian Lennon!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
John Lennon’s first son Julian Lennon turns 47 today, wherever he is. I hope it’s someplace nice. Julian deserves a lot of credit for how he’s handled the world’s continuing interest in—and adoration of—his famous father. As the physical John Lennon has dissolved into soft-focus, the chief Beatle’s first family has too often faded out, [...]
Continue reading...Documentary: John and Yoko’s Year of Peace
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
I can’t figure out how to embed it, but you can watch the documentary here. I’ve always felt that John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s activities for peace were a bit cringeworthy—a misapplication of solution to problem, as if human aggression were the product of people being merely petulant, or distracted or forgetful. While I’m not [...]
Continue reading...All You Need Is Citroën
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Beatles and Lennon fans worldwide are in a tizzy over the ad below, which repurposes a John Lennon interview from 1968 to hawk Citroëns. Is that dubbed? Or just really garbled? Anyway, son Sean has tweeted that the ad was designed to keep his dad in the public consciousness. “Look, TV ad was not for [...]
Continue reading...The saddest day of Mark David Chapman’s life
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Author J.D. Salinger died today of natural causes; he was 91.
Continue reading...Funny Beatles humor from Mark Bazer
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Humor columnist, interlocutor, and bon vivant Mark Bazer sent me the following. Since I’m a sucker for Beatles humor, I’m reposting it below. Meet The Piggies By Mark Bazer If you haven’t heard lately from that friend of yours who is a huge Beatles fan, he’s likely squirreled himself away to listen over and over [...]
Continue reading...Mike’s 80s Dance Party
Friday, December 21, 2007
So I’ve finished the umpteenth draft of this Lennon/Beatles novel, which will be going out to editors after the first of the year. Positive mental imaging is, as always, welcome. For reasons much too complicated to go into here, I found myself browsing YouTube for songs I first heard at Chicago’s late, lamented Medusa’s, an [...]
Continue reading...“You Can’t Do That”
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Apparently this song–one of my all-time favorite Beatles tunes–was deleted from “A Hard Day’s Night.” You can understand why–it’s Lennon at his most creepily aggressive (bested only by “Run For Your Life” off Rubber Soul?)–but I still love it.
Continue reading...Lost Lennon Tapes podcast
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Somebody’s putting up the old radio show “The Lost Lennon Tapes” as a podcast. Originally aired on Westwood One in the late 80s. Perfect for marinating your brains, should you want to do that.
Continue reading...Coming Up (Twin Freaks remix)–1980
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
While surfing the ‘net trying to find the video where John Lennon calls Paul Simon “an evil dwarf” (accuracy is everything, folks), I found this EXCELLENT version of Paul McCartney’s’ “Coming Up.” At the beginning, Lennon is heard praising it–something he didn’t usually do. Listen, would some of you out there devote your lives to [...]
Continue reading...At last! It's here!
For 30 years, Ravin fans wondered: What if Tom Larkin had survived? Now, the story can be told.
Mixing alternative history, hardboiled noir, parody and satire, Life After Death for Beginners is a must-read for every Beatles fan. "A cross between The Rutles and Three Days of the Condor. I loved it."—Jonathan Schwarz
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