#Beatles Release day

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Now and then 🥰

Love that we got both angles of this pic 🤣

His scarf and Maxie in the mirror

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John Lennon Decollage artwork with resin Layer. Now and Then sung by @mileskane

[javelinbk]

"I called him [Paul] once though, when Yoko was pregnant. It didn't go well. There was nothing there. I had got all sentimental about the news and I wanted to share it. But Yoko was listening in on the other end and I was too uncomfortable."

"Why didn't you tell her that it was a private call?"

"Charles, don't you know that a couple as close as my dear wife and I have no private anythings? I was so uncomfortable that it made Paul uncomfortable. I was already wishing that I hadn't tried by the time I got him on the line. I felt foolish. 'Hi, it's me. How ya been? What's new? We're pregnant! How are you?' The conversation just deteriorated into, That's nice, okay, good-bye, see ya,' and that was that. Then he started coming around the Dakota when he was in town, but you know about that."

"He was using you. Seeing you not producing while he was doing Madison Square Garden helped psych him up. He needed to think that he was that much better than you to get his energy up."

"The funny part is that I let him get away with it for so long. You know, I used to dread it when he was in town, but I never had the sense to go out to the island or just not answer the door. He'd come striding in with a guitar under one arm and Linda under the other, asking me what was new, knowing nothing was new. Then he'd always ask if I'd heard his latest, which I usually hadn't. The guitar was so we could sing together, but that was never going to happen. I'd just tell him that I was really busy being a father. He must have seen through that because he's a father many times over and that certainly doesn't tie him down. It wasn't till I told him that I was real busy and that if he wanted to see me he'd have to call first that he got the message to leave off. I have your tarot advice to thank for that."

"Think nothing of it."

"I don't. But really, that was important because it got me off the hook without losing face, as Yoko would say.

John Lennon talking about Paul McCartney. Excerpt from ‘Dakota Days’ by John Green

[bugscholar]

does anyone know of them

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The Beatles - Eight Days A Week

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1964 hard days night by Al Q

[japanesecds]

ビートルズがやって来る　ヤァ！ヤァ！ヤァ！

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

Released: 1993 Japan

[harrisonarchive]

Klaus Voormann’s cover art for George Harrison’s single “When We Was Fab,” released January 25, 1988.

Spotlight on: “When We Was Fab” —

The music video:

“I was a bit nervous because Godley and Creme are a couple of loonies, especially Lol [Creme]. They’re very sweet, but I wasn’t sure if they knew exactly what they were doing. I found out they knew sort of ninety percent what they were doing and the other ten percent was a bit of a grey area. But it was very good, very funny. I approached them. I said, ‘Go home and smoke something, listen to this and come up with an idea.’ They came up with the idea and after a few days they started panicking. They said, ‘It’s not going to work, it’s not going to work.’ And they tried to get out of it and I said, ‘Don’t panic now.’ I had to do it; I had three or four days before Christmas and it had to be done, so I said, ‘Just go for a walk in the garden, have a cup of tea, calm down, and then I’ll talk to you in an hour.’ And I talked to them in an hour and they said, ‘I think it’ll be okay.’” - George Harrison, Is This Live?: Inside The Wild Early Years of MusicMusic (2016)

“For years after the Beatles I didn’t want to talk about it. It was all too close, the pain and the suffering, ‘cos that was what was in my mind at the time. Then after the years away from it, I thought ‘no — we had fun, and had a good little band, and had more laughs than misery. It’s just that the misery got broadcast more than the fun.’” - George Harrison, Guardian, November 1988

“In the new video I got my old Sgt. Pepper suit on but I’m busting out of there all over, that’s why you only see it for like three frames of the movie. [laughter]” - George Harrison, Rockline, February 10, 1988

Q: "On the When We Was Fab video, I read in this magazine Beatlefan that Paul McCartney had said in a London interview that he wanted to play the role of the walrus. And I noticed, as the camera pulls back, there’s Ringo, you, and the walrus with a left-hand bass in the shot, just as the guy walks across with John Lennon’s Imagine album cover. Now, is that a reunion? Is Paul in the walrus mask or not?" George Harrison: "'Well, here’s another clue for you all, the walrus was Paul.' Would it make you like the video any more if you know it’s Paul in there or could just be B.B. King or Alfred Hitchcock? It doesn’t really matter, you know. But it really is Paul, but he’s a bit shy lately. [Laughter]" - ibid

The single cover (by Klaus Voormann; pictured here):

“George said, ‘I have a song it’s reminiscing about the old days. Can you do a cover?’ I took the same picture from the Revolver cover, the old George, and put a new George on the bottom.” - Klaus Voormann, Uncut, May 2020 (x)

The music video, via the official George Harrison YouTube channel: x)

[radioprune]

abbey road. ever heard of it

[heartfeltletters-written]

i just saw someone post AI art and omg put a trigger warning !!! i do not pay internet for u to put this nonsense in my tl.

[musiclandoux]

: 🎼❤️🎼

The Beatles released their legendary album “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” in the US, June 1, 1967. Do you or did you have this album?

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

The Ronettes - Be My Baby 1963

"Be My Baby" is a song by American girl group the Ronettes that was released as a single in August 1963. Written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector, the song was the Ronettes' biggest hit, reaching number 2 in the US and number 4 in the UK. It is often ranked as among the best songs of the 1960s, and has been regarded by various publications as one of the greatest songs of all time. Ronnie Spector (then known as Veronica Bennett) is the only Ronette that appears on the track. In 1964, it appeared on the album Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes; the only studio album by the Ronettes (credited to "the Ronettes featuring Veronica"). Produced by Phil Spector and released in November 1964 through his label, Philles Records, the album collects the group's singles from 1963–1964. In 2004, it was ranked number 422 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

"Be My Baby" has influenced many artists, most notably the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, who wrote the 1964 hit "Don't Worry Baby" as a response to "Be My Baby". Many others have replicated or recreated the drum phrase—one of the most recognizable in pop music. As for the opening drum beat, drummer Hal Blaine stated, "That famous drum intro was an accident. I was supposed to play the snare on the second beat as well as the fourth, but I dropped a stick. Being the faker I was in those days, I left the mistake in and it became: 'Bum-ba-bum-BOOM!' And soon everyone wanted that beat." Sonny Bono and Cher were among the backing vocalists. Cher stated in a television interview, "I was just hanging out with Son [Bono], and one night Darlene [Love] didn't show up, and Philip looked at me and he was getting really cranky, y'know. Philip was not one to be kept waiting. And he said, 'Sonny said you can sing?' And so, as I was trying to qualify what I felt my … 'expertise' was, he said, 'Look I just need noise – get out there!' I started as noise, and that was 'Be My Baby'."

The song appears in the opening sequence of Martin Scorsese's film Mean Streets (1973), and the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. The song appears in a fantasy sequence involving Kamala Khan in the Marvel series Ms. Marvel, in the second episode "Crushed". In 1999, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2006, the Library of Congress inducted the Ronettes' recording into the United States National Recording Registry. In 2004, it was ranked number 22 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time", where it was described as a "Rosetta stone for studio pioneers such as the Beatles and Brian Wilson." In 2017, the song topped Billboard's list of the "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time".

"Be My Baby" received a total of 86,9% yes votes!

[artist-issues]

I Hate How She Talks About Snow White

"People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it's like, yeah, it is − because it needed that. It's an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond 'Someday My Prince Will Come. "

Let me tell you a little something's about that "85-year-old cartoon," miss Zegler.

It was the first-ever cel-animated feature-length full-color film. Ever. Ever. EVER. I'm worried that you're not hearing me. This movie was Disney inventing the modern animated film. Spirited Away, Into the Spider-Verse, Tangled, you don't get to have any of these without Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937.)

Speaking of what you wouldn't get without this movie, it includes anime as a genre. Not just in technique (because again, nobody animated more than shorts before this movie) but in style and story. Anime, as it is now, wouldn't exist without Osamu Tezuka, "The God of Manga," who wouldn't have pioneered anime storytelling in the 1940s without having watched and learned from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the 1930s. No "weeb" culture, no Princess Mononoke, no DragonBall Z, no My Hero Academia, no Demonslayer, and no Naruto without this "85-year-old cartoon."

It was praised, not just for its technical marvels, not just for its synchronized craft of sound and action, but primarily and enduringly because people felt like the characters were real. They felt more like they were watching something true to life than they did watching silent, live-action films with real actors and actresses. They couldn't believe that an animated character could make kids wet their pants as she flees, frightened, through the forest, or grown adults cry with grieving Dwarves. Consistently.

Walt Disney Studios was built on this movie. No no; you're not understanding me. Literally, the studio in Burbank, out of which has come legends of this craft of animated filmmaking, was literally built on the incredible, odds-defying, record-breaking profits of just Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, specifically.

Speaking of record-breaking profits, this movie is the highest-grossing animated film in history. Still. TO THIS DAY. And it was made during the Great Depression.

In fact, it made four times as much money than any other film, in any other genre, released during that time period. It was actually THE highest-grossing film of all time, in any genre, until nothing less than Gone With the Wind, herself, came along to take the throne.

It was the first-ever animated movie to be selected for the National Film Registry. Actually, it was one of the first movies, period, to ever go into the registry at all. You know what else is in the NFR? The original West Side Story, the remake of which is responsible for Rachel Ziegler's widespread fame.

Walt Disney sacrificed for this movie to be invented. Literally, he took out a mortgage on his house and screened the movie to banks for loans to finish paying for it, because everyone from the media to his own wife and brother told him he was crazy to make this movie. And you want to tell me it's just an 85-year-old cartoon that needs the most meaningless of updates, with your tender 8 years in the business?

Speaking of sacrifice, this movie employed over 750 people, and they worked immeasurable hours of overtime, and invented--literally invented--so many new techniques that are still used in filmmaking today, that Walt Disney, in a move that NO OTHER STUDIO IN HOLLYWOOD was doing in the 30's, put this in the opening credits: "My sincere appreciation to the members of my staff whose loyalty and creative endeavor made possible this production." Not the end credits, like movies love to do today as a virtue-signal. The opening credits.

It's legacy endures. Your little "85-year-old cartoon" sold more than 1 million DVD copies upon re-release. Just on its first day. The Beatles quoted Snow White in one of their songs. Legacy directors call it "the greatest film ever made." Everything from Rolling Stones to the American Film Institute call this move one of the most influential masterpieces of our culture. This movie doesn't need anything from anybody. This movie is a cultural juggernaut for America. It's a staple in the art of filmmaking--and art, in general. It is the foundation of the Walt Disney Company, of modern children's media in the West, and of modern adaptations of classical fairy tales in the West. When you think only in the base, low, mean terms of "race" and "progressivism" you start taking things that are actually worlds-away from being in your league to judge, and you relegate them to silly ignorant phrases like "85-year-old cartoon" to explain why what you're doing is somehow better.

Sit down and be humble. Who the heck are you?

[javelinbk]

‘Beatlemania’ appears in print for the first time. The Daily Mirror, 2nd November 1963

[neil-gaiman]

Hello Mr. Gaiman, I hope this isn't too silly a question but I figured if anything it might serve as a small break from Good omens related questions, which must be an awful lot so close to the release date: I noticed that you mention The Beatles more than a few times in your replies and I was wondering, do you happen to be a fan of them or do you just mention them in a Generic-famous-band kind of way when you need to make examples? Do you have a favorite album or songs of theirs?

Again I apologise if the question isn't particularly deep, thank you for taking the time to read this and have a nice day :)

I figure that the Beatles have lasted and that people know who they are (or were) in a way that people might not follow if I made a Velvet Underground or Magnetic Fields reference.

Talking about which, the Magnetic Fields are going to be playing all of 69 Love Songs (over two nights) over 6 gigs in 5 US locations in 2024.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔩𝔢𝔰 - 𝔄 ℌ𝔞𝔯𝔡 𝔇𝔞𝔶'𝔰 𝔑𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱

[welcome-to-green-hills]

Now that Sonic 3 has been released…I humbly request Shadow and Maria headcanons. Please? 🥺

Hi Hon❤️✨

I’m more than happy to supply you some headcanons of Shadow and Maria:

Every night before bed, Maria brushes Shadow’s quills and hums him a song that her mother would sing to her as a baby. Even today Shadow will hum the tune under his breath.

Shadow and Maria like to snack on Razzles. They’re easy to hide in quills and in pockets, as well as a good sugary treat. To this day Shadow will only eat the purple ones.

Shadow and Maria were notorious for turning the bunker’s cafeteria into a roller skating rink where they competitively raced against each other.

Maria once tried to get Shadow into the 1970’s fashion of bell bottoms, jumpsuits, and tie-dye shirts. While it may be a preference for Maria, Shadow’s preference lies more with suede and leather jackets with Coke bottle cap pins.

Maria had a pet rock that she owned in the bunker. It was the ‘70s. That was normal.

Shadow and Maria had matching mood rings that they wore on their pinkies. That, and matching friendship bracelets. Shadow still wears his friendship bracelet underneath his glove cuff above his ring inhibitor.

Maria is a master in stealing Shadow from testing. And she gets very creative too! Sometimes she crawls through the vents to steal him, other times she wears a fake disguise. The scientists have learned to not be so ornery about Maria stealing him since she’s Gerald’s granddaughter.

There are tons of film negatives that Shadow stole from G.U.N.’s archives of him and Maria doing Ark Sibling antics. He keeps the film negatives in his quills.

Shadow and Maria slept in a bunk bed with Maria in the bottom bunk and Shadow up top.

Shadow and Maria are big fans of the Beatles, Aerosmith, Jefferson Airplane, ABBA, Queen, Simon & Garfunkel, and Redbone.

If they’re not roller skating or watching films, they two like to play board games. Their go-to game is “Clue,” but only if Maria gets to make up crimes scenarios and backstories for each of the characters.

Shadow and Maria like to watch Peanuts cartoons. Maria always comment how her relationship with Shadow is similar to Snoopy and Woodstock.

Maria is a big root beer float fan, Shadow likes an Orange Julius.

The two of them like to make flora pinky rings whenever they sit in the field of daisies.

In terms of food, Maria and Shadow’s go-to breakfast, lunch, and dinner is pizza. Maria likes an all pepperoni with green pepper pie while Shadow switches up pizza toppings every week. It’s very important to sample toppings, you know.😊

And finally, Shadow and Maria have shoeboxes filled with photographs (mainly blurry ones) of their entire childhood in the bunker. Sonic managed to save one of the photos to give to Shadow fifty years later.