Birthday’s | BILLY PRESTON (another Beatle >honorary<)

 Billy Preston was born in Houston, Texas on this day in 1946

Route reminded us . . . . . 

Billy sits in

The Beatles with Billy up on the roof! Get Back!

Beatles pics : Jane and Paul in Wales!

Beatle Paul McCartney & Jane Asher photographed during their visit to the 10-day conference on Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Bangor, Wales in August 1967.

 Is it me or do they look less than impressed . . . . . ?

Dear Prudence . . . . . .won’t you come out to play?

Where shall we go tomorrow!? Wait . . . . . I know

 THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR

All you need . . . . . . .

We said ‘Peace and Love’ at 12 noon for Ringo’s Birthday!

 UPDATE: 

on the day!

There were LOADS!

Check out Ringo’s Facebook page!

AWESOME scarcely covers it!

Sunny here . . . . . here’s some Beatles

 

Forgotten Coach and Mentor to THE BEATLES : HAROLD PHILLIPS [Lord Woodbine]

"Trinidadian calypsonian Harold Phillips (Lord Woodbine) drove the Beatles to Hamburg in his VW van, along with Alan Williams, his wife and brother - in- law. The Beatles were known locally as Woodbine's boys and used to hang around the Jacaranda club in Liverpool (which he ran with Williams), where he let them play steel pan and coached them on their guitar chords. He also advised them to get a drummer, which they did not have at the time, (Pete Best obliged) and coached them in Hamburg in stagecraft, song selection and performance. Thanks to the forgotten Beatle coach and mentor. ❤️💚🖤"

The Beatles Top Ten Club Hamburg 1961

The Beatles at one of the British gas company Cleveland’s petrol pumps to fill up their 'tour bus'. July 22, 1963.

BEATLES FANS USA!

 

George takes notes 

Day Tripper re-discovered | Le Ramasseur De Mégots

 

1966

A duo of Day Trippers for you! 🎵🎵

Didn’t expect to stumble on this today… Nancy Sinatra covering Day Tripper!

Her take brings a whole new flair to The Beatles’ classic—sleek, stylish, and unmistakably hers!

There’s even a video version : 

I’ve included the Beatles’ original for comparison—

1965

And if you’re curious to hear a totally different vibe, check out the instrumental version by Lee Moses I posted back in January.

For more takes on timeless tracks, hit #double dose or #triple dose. 🎵🎵 🎶

Le Ramasseur De Mégots

THE BEATLES LAST GIG! Candle Stick Park SF 1966 (and Circus Krone Bau Munich June ’66)

She's Dressed In Black

The Beatles from you guessed it,1966.

A TV performance from Germany &

a side of the stage recording from their last

ever show in San Francisco.

HERE . . . . 

Choice of sources pixeldrain or file factory

These are fun . . . . . maybe for completist w but if you don’t have the Last Ever Beatles Live concert from Candlestick Park SF 1966 then this is for you!

HEAR ROCK CITY

Shades of The Beatles!

 

Billy Preston drops by The Beatles (introduced to George Martin for the first time)

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/p1CkbMbqf18RE85r/

couldn’t find this exact clip on YouTube or elsewhere than Facebook but check it out from the Get Back film when Billy Preston drops by to say ‘Hi!’ and ends up saving a session (or three!)

or maybe here . . . . 

In Tribute to the Bob Dylan biopic film ‘A Complete Unknown’ . . .

 George Wein on Dylan taking Over Newport Folk Festival

George Wein, founder and producer of the Newport Folk Festival, tells the story of Bob Dylan's pivotal role as the "Crown Prince" of the Festival in the years leading up to his epic and transformative electric performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and the effect that the performance had on the Festival itself. In this interview filmed in 2018, we get a full picture of the folk music revival, which was led by Pete Seeger, and how Dylan's performance upended all that Seeger had built over many years. George Wein, who also created and produced the Newport Jazz Festival until his passing in 2021, also co-created and co-produced the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The impact that George had on so many genres of music -- all of which were a joy to him -- was and is indelible. George was also a highly accomplished professional musician who performed and toured until shortly before his passing.

Of course the context only make sense if you consider it in relationship to the Newport Folk Festival itself as his first single was indeed an electric band playing on ‘Mixed Up Confusion’ and B-side 'Corinna Corinna’ which although it sounded like an acoustic song was in fact electric at first here and it was the poor old folkies who struggled to keep up.

Boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same eh, Pete!? 

🪓

 

Today’s “Best Beatles Guitar Solos” is ‘The End’ (1969) |

"The most complete set of solos in a Beatles song came at the very end of their career, aptly titled ‘The End’. 

The song features nine guitar solos with each one lasting around two bars with Paul, George and John all given three apiece. It makes for a perfect reflection of their talent and their individual personalities.

Naturally, George and Paul provide the more eloquent expressions with their guitar solos but there’s something fitting about John’s third and final go. 

Not only does he force it over the line with brute energy, but he also picked up the final solo acting as the final recorded moments of The Beatles—the band he started all those years ago.

“The idea for guitar solos was very spontaneous and everybody said, ‘Yes! Definitely’ – well, except for George, who was a little apprehensive at first,” said engineer Geoff Emerick.

“But he saw how excited John and Paul were so he went along with it. Truthfully, I think they rather liked the idea of playing together, not really trying to outdo one another per se, but engaging in some real musical bonding.

“Yoko was about to go into the studio with John – this was commonplace by now – and he actually told her, ‘No, not now. Let me just do this. It’ll just take a minute.’ That surprised me a bit. Maybe he felt like he was returning to his roots with the boys – who knows?”

Above are Paul and John with their Epiphone Casino guitars they used during The End solos and George with his Les Paul Gibson “Lucy”"

Abbey Road Tribute 

Thanks to Boris for these images and contribution to this post.

Beatles of The Day | 'Get Back' Take 3 Rooftop Saville Row

 Someone posted this take from Get Back from then Disney channel’s film on der Flickkenbuch and I admit I had forgotten how good some of these alternate takes were. . . .this is special

Love the start where George and John are trying to get the amp volumes right mid number with the browbeaten Mal (Evans - he of Maxwell’s Silver Hammer anvil playing! - sic) 

the boys are having such fun and after seeing how the song started this is frankly staggering stuff!

Dhani Harrison : a favourite George Harrison story

 

“I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing “Yellow Submarine”, and I didn't understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are they singing that song to me? I came home and I freaked out on my dad: 'Why didn't you tell me you were in The Beatles?' And he said, 'Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.'” - Dhani Harrison

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George Harrison - quote of the day

 

"I don't know if I delivered something really valuable. The fans will say my music and maybe I agree, but I think that more than the songs themselves what is really valuable is the sincerity that each one of them has. You can like it or not, but they are all from the heart."

—George Harrison—

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More Beatles | I've Got A Feeling °•°☆°•° The Beatles [GET BACK]

 I’VE GOT A FEELING - THE BEATLES (‘GET BACK')

I don’t think I would ever NOT post this . . . . miss my big brother’s brothers!

Breaking News! OASIS to reform next Summer (2025)

 THE BEATLES had always been a strong influence on the Manchester based Gallagher brothers (now in their 50s!)

OASIS have bills to pay!

The Beatles - The Night Before (HELP!)

 I might now sign off for the day with this a favourite Beatles song from the film Help! 

It is filmed on the southern moor of Salisbury Plain (Knighton Down, Larkhill) where the MOD practiced tank manoeuvres hence the army motif the security for the ‘boys’ demanded the Army look after as they realise Ringo is being sought by nefarious ‘baddies’ among the scenes filmed during this time. Also on hand were troops from 3 Division, Royal Artillery, who were on exercises there at the time. The army also allowed their tanks and other equipment to appear in the film but it was a clearly freezing and the boys were incredibly tolerant to do take after take to sync and sing along to the recordings as part of the film. When they weren’t outside in the cold and windy conditions, The Beatles stayed at the Antrobus Arms in Amesbury. They arrived at the hotel on the night before the shoot began, shooting began on the 3 May and they left on the afternoon of 6 May.

with thanks to website The Beatles Bible

The Beatles ‘Rubber Soul’ - Zappa on The Beatles!

Out of all their recordings, ‘Rubber Soul’ was the album where the Beatles became artists in their own right. Before 1965 they released pop songs to please their fans- pop music about holding hands and sharing secrets. All of which made them irresistible to their young girl fans buying the records.

It is thought that a meeting with Bob Dylan in 1964 changed the band’s attitudes. They didn’t want to make music just to sell records, they want to express themselves and have more freedom. It turned out to be pivotal moment for the group.

The Beatles recorded the album in London in October 1965 and it was released in December. They had full commitment to the album over 4 weeks.

The title ‘Rubber Soul’ comes from ‘plastic soul’, which is a term used to describe white musicians playing a traditionally black style of music- essentially “fake” soul music. Paul heard the quote from an American who described Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones as “good, but plastic soul”. 

Paul says that this was “the germ of ‘Rubber Soul’.”

 "I didn't hate them. I actually like two or three of their songs. I just thought they were ridiculous. What was so disgusting was the way they were consumed and merchandised. No music has succeeded in America unless it was accompanied by something to wear, something to dance or a hairdo. A phenomenon is not going to occur unless you can dress up to it.”

 - Frank Zappa on the Beatles

Pot, Kettle, Kettle, Pot?

I find Zappa’s ludicrous pontificating about music the funniest thing. He is SO pompous and dull; notoriously anti drugs (except for his beloved tobacco like Mitchell funded by American Tobacco!) Hence his inability to ‘get’ the Velvets and Andy Warhol and the clashes of culture. 

Just reflect for a moment upon the sheer variety of songwriting and song structures from John, Paul, George and okay a lesser extent Ringo but each song contains worlds within it, tells stories reflecting the human condition. Zappa? Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow? Debra Kadabra? Brown Shoes Don’t Make it? Lumpy Gravy? Lyrically about 9 years old musically derivative and monotonous. Guitar style, one key noodling with endless repetitive riffing. Originalty? I hear next to none unless he brings in other musicians to inspire him and the music hence his ability to ‘understand’ (exploit?) Don Van Vliet, Wild Man Fischer or staple Mothers like Underwood, Carl Black, et al 

Like he is not a product and salesman as much as they were? That is what is “disgusting” Frank!

Crass and ultimate sin? Boring! It’s all just so much wakka jawaka!

 

Lemmy on The Beatles versus The Rolling Stones!

 

“The Beatles were hard men too. Brian Epstein cleaned them up for mass consumption, but they were anything but sissies. They were from Liverpool, which is like Hamburg or Norfolk, Virginia a hard, sea-farin' town, all these dockers and sailors around all the time who would beat the piss out of you if you so much as winked at them. Ringo is from the Dingle, which is like the f***ing Bronx.

The Rolling Stones were the mummys boys they were all college students from the outskirts of London. They went to starve in London, but it was by choice, to give themselves some sort of aura of disrespectability. I did like the Stones, but they were never anywhere near the Beatles not for humour, not for originality, not for songs, not for presentation. All they had was Mick Jagger dancing about. Fair enough, the Stones made great records, but they were always s**t on stage, whereas the Beatles were the gear.”  

Perhaps they should have met Frank! or Lemmy would have done the job for them!?

— Lemmy Kilmister

Abbey Road Tribute