#Dorothy Rhone

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I forgot what I have and haven't posted ummmm weeks old artworks warning.. most of these are requests hehe

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Important women in Beatles history

Illustrations by Marta Ponce

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Sam Leach and Joan McEvoy's Engagement Party, 17th March 1962 🕺💃

Earlier in the evening, The Beatles performed at the Village Hall in Knotty Ash, Liverpool. The evening was billed as a "St. Patrick's Night Rock Gala". Sam Leach, (Liverpool concert booker) booked The Beatles and Rory Storm and The Hurricanes to draw a big crowd so that he could make enough profits to pay for his engagement party, scheduled to follow the night's show. Both bands attended Leach's party, which didn't end until the following afternoon. Also present at the party was Mike McCartney, Paul's girlfriend Dorothy 'Dot' Rhone, Brian Epstein, Bob Wooler and Ted 'Kingsize' Taylor.

In his book Sam Leach has a distinct memory of 'a gang of us' (presumably including Beatles and Hurricanes) travelling to the party from Knotty Ash in a van. Their driver (not Neil Aspinall) pulled out from the Village Hall into the path of a speeding articulated lorry which seemed to have appeared from nowhere. Everyone braced themselves for the inevitable impact but miraculously the lorry, its brakes screeching hysterically, managed to stop less than a foot from the side of the van. Shocked, stunned, shaken and stirred, everyone in the van travelled the 1.5 miles to the party in complete silence. 

Hurricane Johnny 'Guitar' Byrne diary entry for 1962 mentions the party:

"Bought Zodiac. Knotty Ash, Orrell, then Sam Leach's engagement party. Had row with Eileen. Got home 6."

The party was at the family house in Huyton, thrown by Dolly, mother of Vera and Joan McEvoy.

"I can vouch for the fact that Brian fell in love with Vera and pursued her all night. In fact after the party he wrote more than one letter to Dolly asking her could she help him fix a date with Vera. Unfortunately for Brian she wasn't interested." Sam Leach (She seemed a little interested, as displayed below)

"Brown, who was married (but separated) at the time of her liaison with Epstein in 1962, describes him as "...very emotional. He always gave the impression of being cold and icy, but he was very softhearted, very tender, very gentle, and he had a lot of feelings. And he was all man, I don't care what they say." (Ray Coleman, The Man Who Made The Beatles)

"We’d been to the Knotty Ash Club for my sister’s engagement. The Beatles had played there, as did Rory [Storm] and a few other groups. Afterwards, as usual, we all went back to the house and Brian came along.

If you saw the Beatles in my mother’s they were just a scruffy bunch of boys. And who’d look at them? I wouldn’t bother with them but then Brian stood out and Brian looked like the real thing. He was handsome. He was tall. He was immaculate. That’s why I let Brian get behind the bar with me and help me serve the drinks. He was the best of the bunch.

So we were just behind the bar when Elvis came on, 'Heartbreak Hotel’. He loved it, I loved it, and we started dancing. There wasn’t much room. You know, you could go two steps forward, three steps back and that was it. So we sort of got a bit close and everyone was laughing at us, saying, like, 'What’s going on?’ But if you moved sideways you fell over the crates. There were crates of beer in there and everybody’s coats. We ended up on top of the coats or on top of the crates if we just moved the wrong way. And we got pretty close but I wasn’t surprised by the way he was acting towards me.

We were dancing and kissing at the same time. He was probably one of the sexiest fellas I had ever met. People say, 'Oh well, Brian was gay.’ but he wasn’t very gay with me. He was just like any other man and more. He was very easy-going and casual and funny. He’d make you laugh and he could dance. You know he could move. He said to me, 'I’ve seen you in different places and I thought you were stuck up.’ And I said, 'Well, I thought you were stuck up because I remember being in your shop and you were like the big boss.’

I think he was pretty fresh. In a house where people are looking at you it’s not like a club with all the lights out and people tend to be aware of others but Brian wasn’t that bothered. He was interested and he showed it. Maybe he’d had a bit too much to drink. I don’t know. But I can’t say that because I met Brian afterwards and he was still interested.

The next day he called round to the house. I wasn’t there so he talked to my mother about poetry. I don’t know how they got talking about poems but Brian came the following day with a book of poems for my mother with a little letter. He also gave her a letter thanking her for having the party because everyone had made such a terrible mess of the house. It was full of eggs and rubbish and bottles everywhere and he apologized for the actions of everybody else at the party.

Well, my mother just thought he was the most wonderful person in the world. At last a gentleman has come through this door and not Teddy boys and hooligans and all the rest of it. In the first letter he said he’d enjoyed meeting her, loved coming to the house, felt so welcome and would she mind if he came around again to see me. I said to my mum, 'Well, that’s impossible. How can I see him? You know I can’t go out with Brian.’ She said, 'You will have to’.

My mother was in love with Brian: 'He’s beautiful. He’s wonderful.’ So she sort of arranged it. I didn’t want him to come and pick me up at the house because I didn’t want people to see us going out. I arranged to meet him in a little cafe in Bold Street. We had a coffee and a chat and then I can’t really remember where we went. We went somewhere for a drink around Bold Street where there were all these little dives at the time. But I had to be back for nine o'clock. Another time I met him in the Tower and we had a little chat. We met in the back office and had a talk.

I liked Brian as a man and I think Brian liked me. But then he suggested if we were to go out we’d have to go to Southport or Manchester - anywhere out of Liverpool because he didn’t want to walk into my husband in Liverpool. We were separated at the time but it was a little bit awkward, you know.

It’s hard for me to believe Brian was gay. I think if I had been free and if I’d seen more of Brian I think we could have got serious. I think he was all man. I just can’t accept that he was gay.

In the shop Brian seemed like a man, like your dad shouting at you and superior. He had an attitude of superiority. But later on I discovered he was just like any other man. I thought he was a very passionate, loving person. He was like two different people. So if there’s a third person involved - this gay person - I just say he’s one hell of a man to be able to please everybody. You know, he was just unique. That’s all I can say." Vera Brown, In His Life, The Brian Epstein Story.

"George always fancied Joan and when I began dating her, he asked her to let him know when she finished seeing me. 'But don't tell Sam', he added. 'He’d batter me!' Today she probably feels like battering me for spoiling her chances." Sam Leach, The Rocking City

"Later in the evening, Joan had a headache and said she was going upstairs for a lie down. I went to fetch a couple of aspirins from the kitchen and said I'd follow her. Bob Wooler then made a typically cheap remark about pre-marital sex. Before I had a chance to sort him out, Paul and George grabbed him and made him personally apologise to Joan." Sam Leach, The Rocking City

"Rory Storm was lying on the floor hopelessly drunk. He shouted up to Paul, 'I wanna be in the picture'. So, as you can see, Paul bent down and lifted his foot into the shot." Sam Leach

"The night rolled on and I found Lennon, completely sloshed, sitting in the kitchen rolling raw eggs down Ann Barton's birds-nest hairstyle. Each time one broke, he gave a gasp of astonishment at the gooey yellow mess spreading across the tiled floor. Dolly found out and gave him a severe rollicking, which sobered him up enough to utter a sincere, 'Sorry, Mrs Mac'. Everyone liked and respected Dolly McEvoy and that was the only time I ever saw Lennon genuinely humbled. He disappeared for a while after that and was found later fast asleep in the bath.

When he finally came downstairs, he once again started to apologise. Dolly had forgotten all about it, but he was still apologising as he left at nine the next morning. As we stood outside, he shook my hand gravely. 'That was the very best party I've ever been to . . . honest,' he croaked. I was pleased everyone had enjoyed themselves, but when John started thanking me for a third time, I put him in a taxi and packed him off home. As he left, I slipped an egg into his pocket. He never did tell me how that hatched out." Sam Leach, The Rocking City

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Sam Leach and Joan McEvoy's Engagement Party, 17th March 1962🖤

Earlier in the evening, The Beatles performed at the Village Hall in Knotty Ash, Liverpool. The evening was billed as a "St. Patrick's Night Rock Gala". Sam Leach, (Liverpool concert booker) booked The Beatles and Rory Storm and The Hurricanes to draw a big crowd so that he could make enough profits to pay for his engagement party, scheduled to follow the night's show. Both bands attended Leach's party, which didn't end until the following afternoon. Also present at the party was Mike McCartney, Paul's girlfriend Dorothy 'Dot' Rhone, Brian Epstein, Bob Wooler and Ted 'Kingsize' Taylor. Hurricane Johnny 'Guitar' Byrne diary entry for 1962 mentions the party🖤

Via @inmylifeiloveyoujohnlennon on Instagram🖤

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book log - 2012

the devil wears prada by lauren weigberger

exposed by bianca giovanni

bared to you by sylvia day

before i go to sleep by s.j. watson

the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom

the hunger games by suzanne collins

catching fire by suzanne collins

mockingjay by suzanne collins

the help by kathryn stockett

lolita by vladimir nabokov

the railway children by e. nesbit

hana’s suitcase by karen levine

bedtime story by robert j. wiseman

charlotte sometimes by penelope farmer

bright young things by anna godbersen

water for elephants by sara gruen

the future of us by jay asher

the thirteenth tale by diane setterfield

a game of thrones by george r. r. martin

distant waves by suzanne weyn

the lonely hearts club by elizabeth eulberg

confined space by deryn collier

the headmaster’s wager by vincent lam

the key of kilenya by andrea pearson

gorgeous by rachel veil

taxi dance by john jeter

perfect girl by mary hogan

my best friend’s girl by dorothy koomson

god’s gift to women by michael baisden

salvage the bones by jesmyn ward

5 very good reasons to punch a dolphin in the mouth and other useful guides by matthew inman

walking with ghosts by a. c. kerr

memories from cherry harvest by amy wachspress

oak island revenge by cynthia d’entremont

insatiable by meg cabot

fool by christopher moore

truths and roses by inglath cooper

beauty queens by libba bray

sarah’s key by tatiana de rosnay

mountains of the moon by i. j. kay

spin by catherine mckenzie

arranged by catherine mckenzie

rot & ruin by jonathan maberry

tigers in red weather by liza klaussmann

naples rejuvenating cocktail by bhavna khemlani

too far by rich shapiro

the queen gene by jennifer coburn

fifty shades of gray by e. l. james

grace grows by shelle sumners

fifty shades darker by e. l. james

the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

how to teach filthy rich girls by zoey dean

cracked up to be by courtney summers

the red pyramid by rick riordan

the throne of fire by rick riordan

the serpent’s shadow by rick riordan

the diary of darcy j. rhone by emily giffin

the memory thief by rachel keener

the first faux pas by katy leen

the mark of athena by rick riordan

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Dorothy Rhone with Paul McCartney 💛

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Paul & Dorothy "Dot" Rhone....  early sixties

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Transcribed list

Updated transcriptions list. A selection of these are available commercially as sheet music via: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/inner-marshland-sheet-music/3011676 And: https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/Search.aspx?query=inner%20marshland Those marked with an asterisk aren’t (yet) commercially available. Aphrodite's Child - Break* Art Bears - The Song of Investment Capital Overseas* Beady Belle - When My Anger Starts To Cry* Brian Protheroe - Fly Now Brian Protheroe - Pinball Broadcast - Papercuts Broadcast - Colour Me In Bryan Ferry - River of Salt* Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You* Caravan - The Dog, The Dog, He's At It Again* Cardiacs - Dirty Boy* Carole King - It Might As Well Rain Until September - PVG Carole King - It Might As Well Rain Until September (full)* Chic - At Last I Am Free Chris Rainbow - Solid State Brain* Chris Rainbow - Solid State Brain (in C)* Chris Rainbow - Give Me What I Cry For* Cockney Rebel - Sebastian Cocteau Twins - Beatrix Colin Blunstone - Though You Are Far Away* Colin Blunstone - Wonderful* Curved Air - It Happened Today Dave Dulake - Sad Little No 1* Dave Dulake - Dorothy I'll* David Bowie - After All David Bowie - After All - band score* David Bowie - Dollar Days (band)* David Bowie - I Would Be Your Slave David Bowie - In the Heat of the Morning* David Bowie - I'm Deranged David Bowie - Let Me Sleep Beside You* David Bowie - Maid of Bond Street David Bowie - No Plan David Bowie - Silly Boy Blue* David Bowie - Slip Away David Bowie - Sons of the Silent Age David Bowie - Sunday David Bowie - The Buddha Of Suburbia David Bowie - Warszawa David Bowie - Warszawa - Bb David Gates - Clouds* David McWilliams - The Days of Pearly Spencer Dead Can Dance - The Carnival is Over Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih Ziwzih OO OO OO OO* Duke Pearson - Cristo Redentor - SATB Duke Pearson - Cristo Redentor - piano reduction Earth and Fire - Storm and Thunder* Earth and Fire - Memories* Earth and Fire - Maybe Tomorrow Maybe Tonight* Earth and Fire - Affliction* Edwin Astley - Randall and Hopkirk theme - Cm* Edwin Astley - Randall and Hopkirk theme* Egg - A Visit to Newport Hospital (part 1)* Elizabete Balcus - Tourist* Everything But The Girl - Each and Every One Everything But The Girl - Fascination Faust - Flashback Caruso Flake Girl - The Flake Song* Fleetwood Mac - Man of the World Fun Boy Three - Tunnel of Love Gil Scott Heron - Lady Day and John Coltrane Goldfrapp - Laurel* Goldfrapp - Laurel (in Am)* Goldfrapp - Lovely Head* Goldfrapp - Clowns* Goldfrapp - Clay* Goldfrapp - Annabel* Hank Levine Orchestra - Image (part 1)* Hatfield and the North - Calyx* Hatfield and the North - Fitter Stoke Has a Bath Hatfield and the North - Share It Hot Chip - White Wine and Fried Chicken Jackson 5 - Lookin' Through the Windows Japan - Ghosts (in Am)* Jessica Pratt - Better Hate Jimmy Webb (Glen Campbell version) - Wichita Lineman John Barry - The Human Jungle* John Greaves - Kew. Rhone Joni Mitchell - Chinese Café - Unchained Melody* Kate Bush - And Dream of Sheep Kayak - Wintertime Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone - Sea Lady - lead sheet* Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, John Taylor - Sea Lady* King Crimson - Epitaph King Crimson, The Unthanks - Starless Koop - Waltz for Koop Laura Marling - Don't Pass Me By Lindsay Cooper - As She Breathes* Lindsay Cooper - They're Moving In* Lost Crowns - Dandy Doesn't Know* Manfred Mann's Earthband - Joybringer* Molvaer/Endresen - Merciful Momus - Endarkenment Momus - The Thief Neil Innes - How Sweet To Be An Idiot* New Musik - This World Of Water News from Babel - Anno Mirabilis* News from Babel - Anno Mirabilis (lead sheet)* Nick Nicely - Hilly Fields - band score* Nick Nicely - Hilly Fields Nirvana - Rainbow Chaser PFM - Celebration* Peter Gosling - Peace* Pink Floyd - Cirrus Minor* Pink Floyd - Julia Dream* Pink Floyd - Paintbox* Propaganda - Duel Python Lee Jackson - In a Broken Dream Robert Wyatt - Free Will And Testament Robert Wyatt - Lullaby for Hamza* Robert Wyatt - Lullaby for Hamza (lead sheet)* Robert Wyatt, Matching Mole - O Caroline* Ronnie Dyson - When You Get Right Down To It* Seventh Wave - Loved By You (band score)* Seventh Wave - Loved By You* Scritti Politti - Absolute Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Kites* Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Kites - band score* Slapp Happy, Henry Cow - Desperate Straights* Soft Machine - Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening* Soft Machine - Moon in June - part 1* Soft Machine - Hibou Anemone and Bear - part 1* Soft Machine - Facelift* Soft Machine - Hibou Anemone and Bear - part 3* Soft Machine - Pig* Spencer Davis Group - Magpie* Stan Tracey - Starless And Bible Black* Stereolab - Wow and Flutter Stereolab - Ping Pong Stick in the Wheel - Over Again* Stick in the Wheel - Follow Them True* Talk Talk - Life s What You Make It The Associates - Breakfast* The Dials - That Was The Future* The Isley Brothers - The Highways of My Life (Am) The Isley Brothers - The Highways of My Life The Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime* The Lemon Twigs - How Lucky Am I? The Plan - Pier Party Nerves* The Rutles - Doubleback Alley The Stranglers - Duchess The Unthanks - Flutter* The Unthanks - Starless (King Crimson cover) The Zombies - Brief Candles* The Zombies - Care of Cell 44 Thomas Dolby - Weightless* Traffic - Hole in My Shoe Tuppenny Bunters - Geigerkali (in D)* Tuppenny Bunters - Spiral* Tuppenny Bunters - Boppy Nan* Tuppenny Bunters - Geigerkali* Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer Van Der Graaf Generator - Theme One (full) Van Der Graaf Generator - Refugees (full)* Van Der Graaf Generator - Refugees Van Der Graaf Generator - Darkness Van Der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill - House With No Door Vanishing Twin - Telescope Virginia Astley - Love's A Lonely Place To Be* Weekend - The View From Her Room* White Noise - Firebird X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents* Yazoo - Winter Kills Young Marble Giants - NITA*

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Smashing Stereotypes: Valerie the Librarian in “Spidey Super Stories” [PART 2]

See part 1 here.

Valerie tells the villain, The Vanisher, he can check out books, but only with a library card, on page 4 of a Spider Super Stories issue.

In later comics, Valerie is asked patron information about who had a book, gets her name in one comic on a placard at her desk, and realizes where she is a true hero: as a librarian, helping people. This is clear in one comic where the library is a mess when she isn’t there to help out, and it is noted that her job is important. [6] That’s not something you see in depictions of librarians every day. Her last mention in the Spidey Super Stories series is a comic in which she plays a secondary role, helping a detective, in some capacity, solve a case. She isn’t even seen in a library in that issue, which is unfortunate as its her last appearance in the comic, and it would have been better for her to go out on a better note than the last issue issue she appeared within. [7]

So it makes more sense as to why she was not remembered, as Valerie does not have consistent secondary role in the comics, sometimes more in the background and other times having a more active role. At the same time, it appears, according to the Hattie Winston Wikipedia page, that Easy Reader (voiced by Morgan Freeman) was Valerie’s girlfriend in The Electric Company series, which explains their relation to each other a little more with how they interact with one another in the comics. Other sources show that Sylvia and Valerie, in the same show, are not the same, as I had previously thought. The Root said that Valerie’s actress joined the cast in the third season, playing a “groovy librarian” who sings a duet with Easy Reader in one episode while wearing sunglasses in a library for some reason. This really makes me want to watch The Electric Company, appearing in 520 episodes according to the listing on her IMDB page. [8]

There is more to Valerie the librarian than what I have previously mentioned. For one, she is the only one of Black female librarians that I have mentioned on this blog and I have found in animated shows, films, and comics that has a MLIS degree. Neither Lydia Lovely in Horrid Henry, a Black woman who is voiced by a White actress, nor Clara Rhone in Welcome to the Wayne, a Black woman voiced by Harriet D. Foy, are noted as having MLIS degrees, although it implied that both have such degrees. The same can be said about the unnamed Black male librarian in an episode of We Bare Bears. Unfortunately, some characters are not shown to have professional experience because they are in fantasy realms. This includes two gay Black men, George and Lance in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, are self-declared historians who run a family library, making them de facto librarians, while O’Bengh / Cagliostro, a Nigerian man, in an episode of What If…?. As such, Valerie is the first Black librarian, male or female, that I have found who has a MLIS degree. And that it definitely significant!

People like Valerie are not common in the librarian profession, however. Currently the profession suffers from a “persistent lack of racial and ethnic diversity that has not changed significantly over the past 15 years,” with only 9.5 percent of librarians identified as Black or African American in the year 2020. [9] Despite this lack of diversity, there have been prominent Black female librarians who have their names etched in the annals of history. For instance, Catherine A. Latimer was the first Black librarian of New York Public Library. Dorothy Porter, who led Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, challenged the Dewey Decimal System’s racial bias and created her own classification system for Black scholarship. Marjorie Adele Blackistone Bradfield was the first Black librarian of Detroit Public Library, expanding the library’s Black literature collection. Belle Da Costa Greene was the personal librarian for J.P. Morgan, curating a collection of manuscripts, art, and rare books, but controversially passed as White. Alma Smith Jacobs was the first Black librarian in Montana, spearheading the construction of a modern library for the city of Great Falls. There are many more Black female librarians beyond the five mentioned in this paragraph, as these examples only scratch the surface of Black women’s impact on librarianship over the years. [10] In fact, one of the most outspoken Black female librarians in recent years is April Hathcock, who has been very prolific, passionate, and dedicated to librarianship.Her last post on her blog, to date, explains why she is leaving the American Library Association (ALA), calling it an organization “centered on promoting the ‘neutrality’ of white supremacy and capitalism.”

© 2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Notes

[6] Spidey Super Stories Vol 1 49, p. 17-18, 22 (the story “Fargo’s Problem”); Spidey Super Stories Vol 1 53, p. 15-20

[7] Spidey Super Stories Vol 1 57, p. 17-18 (the story “Fargo’s Brother”).

[8] See all episodes cited here in note #8.

[9] AFL-CIO Department of Professional Employees, “Library Professionals: Facts & Figures,” Fact Sheet, Jun. 10, 2021. Of course, being Black and a professional, as not stopped incidents like Stephanie Bottom, a Black female librarian in Atlanta, from being assaulted by police, who don’t care about professional credentials, seeing Black people through their racist mindsets.

[10] Evans, Rhoda. “Catherine Latimer: The New York Public Library’s First Black Librarian,” New York Public Library, Mar. 20, 2020; Nunes, Zita Christina. “Remembering the Howard University Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued,” Smithsonian magazine, Nov. 26, 2018, reprinted from Perspectives of History; Audi, Tamara. “Marjorie Bradfield: Put black history into library,” Detroit Free Press, Nov. 20, 1999; Bates, Karen Grigsby. “J.P. Morgan’s Personal Librarian Was A Black Woman. This Is Her Story,” NPR News, Jul. 4, 2021; Milner, Surya. “Honoring Montana’s first Black librarian,” High Country News, Feb. 15, 2021. Other examples of prominent Black female librarians include, as noted by Book Riot, Charlemae Rollins as head librarian at the Chicago Public Library, Clara Stanton Jones as the first Black president of the American Library Association, Eliza Atkins Gleason as the “first Black American to earn a doctorate in library science at the University of Chicago” in 1940, Sadie Peterson Delaney who was key in bibliotherapy, Annette Lewis Phinazee as the “first woman and the first Black American woman to earn a doctorate in Library Science from Columbia University,” Carla Diane Hayden as the current Librarian of Congress, Effie Lee Morris as the “first woman and first black person to serve as president of the Public Library Association,” Mollie Huston Lee as the “first black librarian in Raleigh, North Carolina,” Virginia Lacy Jones as the second black person to earn a doctorate in Library Science, Virginia Proctor Powell Florence as the “first black woman in the United States to earn a degree in library science from the Pittsburgh Carnegie Library School,” and Vivian Harsh became the “first black librarian for the Chicago Public Library where she passionately collected works by Black Americans” in February 1924.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Library Review.

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21-October 散財記録

01(fri) ・Bullion / Love Me Oh Please Love Me (2012, used 12inch) ・Future Pilot AKA / Salute Your Soul (2003, used LP) ・Mushroom vs. Bundy K. Brown vs. Faust vs. Gary Floyd / Compared to What (2000, used LP) ・Tuxedomoon / Ship of Fools (1986, used LP) ・Sanford Ponder / Etosha - Private Music in the Land of Dry Water (1985, used LP) ・Bruford / One of a Kind (1979, used LP) 05(tue) ・Ben Patterson / The Lost Tape & The Three Required Musics (2018, used LP) ・Grouper / Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (2008, used LP) ・Fugazi / Furniture (2001, used 7inch) ・Fugazi / 3 Songs (1989, used 7inch) ・The Tim Ware Group / The Tim Ware Group (1980, used LP) 08(fri) ・The Pastels / Unfair Kind of Fame (1997, used 12inch) ・David Bowie / Let's Dance (1983, used LP) ・Roland Kirk / I Talk With the Spirits (1965, used LP) 09(sat) ・西脇一弘 / To my friend who doesn't come yet (2017, CD-R) 12(tue) ・Rehash / Drone By Default (2007, used 12inch) ・Themselves / The No Music (2002, used 2LP) 14(thu) ・Takumi Moriya Black Nation / Shakey Jake (2018, used 7inch) ・Helivator / Gasoline T-Shirt (1992, used LP) ・生活向上委員会大管弦楽団 / ダンス・ダンス・ダンス (1981, used LP) ・Chic / C'est Chic (1978, used LP) ・Philip Glass / North Star (1977, used LP) 15(fri) ・Bewitched / Chocolate Frenzy (1986, used 12inch) ・松田聖子 / 赤いスイートピー (1982, used 7inch) ・Lonnie Liston Smith / Loveland (1978, used LP) ・Walter Carlos / Switched-On Bach II (1973, used LP) 16(sat) ・GOFISH / さよならを追いかけて／ペルソナ (2021, 7inch) 17(sun) ・Marching Church / Coming Down: Sessions in April (2016, used 12inch) ・Veder / Evergreen (2017, used LP) ・Leapling / Vacant Page (2015, used LP) ・DIVA / Moon Moods (2012, used LP) ・Julianna Barwick / The Magic Place (2011, used LP) ・Edibles / Other Minds Meet Inner Space (2011, used LP) ・Color Filter / Sleep in a Synchrotron (1998, used LP) ・The Gentle People / Soundtracks for Living (1997, used 2LP) ・Dorothy / Loving Feeling (1989, used 12inch) ・Minimal Compact / Deadly Weapons (1984, used LP) ・Anthony Braxton / Creative Orchestra Music 1976 (1976, used LP) ・The Undisputed Truth / Cosmic Truth (1975, used LP) ・Ornette Coleman / Science Fiction (1972, used LP) ・Lighthouse / One Fine Morning (1971, used LP) 21(thu) ・Beyond the Wildwood - A Tribute to Syd Barrett (1987, used LP) ・John Greaves, Peter Blegvad & Lisa Herman / Kew. Rhone. (1977, used LP) 22(fri) ・H. Takahashi / Low Power (2018, used CD) Aketagawa Shoji & Aketa Nisiogi Sentimental Philharmony Orchestra / Wappe (1992, used CD) 23(sat) ・Elsa Popping & Her Pixieland Band / Delirium in Hi-Fi (1958, used LP) 24(sun) ・The Sound Barrier / The Suburbia Suite (1985, used LP) 26(tue) ・dj klock / harmony ep (2002, used 12inch) ・Peter Gordon / Brooklyn (1987, used LP) ・Robert Wyatt / Shipbuilding (1982, used 12inch) ・Johnny Guitar Watson / What The Hell Is This? (1979, used LP) ・Tropea / Short Trip to Space (1977, used LP) ・Penguin Cafe Orchestra / Music From the Penguin Cafe (1976, used LP) ・Brian Auger's Oblivion Express / Closer to It! (1973, used LP) 27(wed) ・Haphazard / Haphazard (1985, used LP) 28(thu) ・荒川淳​ / ​midi50 (2021, cassette) ・Donna Regina / A Quiet Week in the House (1999, used LP) ・Captain Sensible / Revolution Now (1989, used 2LP) ・Michael Nyman / The Kiss & Other Movements (1985, used LP) ・The Dirty Dozen Brass Band / My Feet Can't Fail Me Now (1984, used LP) ・Lonnie Liston Smith / A Song for the Children (1979, used LP) 29(fri) ・Daniela Casa / Arte Moderna (2016, used LP) ・井上鑑 / カルサヴィーナ (1984, used LP) ・Jean-Luc Ponty / Individual Choice (1983, used LP)

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I think I was probably in love with Paul because I loved his family, too. His Aunties were great. One of them always came round on a Monday night to do the washing and make supper. And I loved his dad too - he was great. At Christmas and new year I would go there and it was so different to my house. They had brilliant parties and they would play music together, Paul on guitar and his dad on piano... Paul was always writing songs and he would try them out on me. He would say that he wrote them for me. Two songs, Love Of The Loved and PS I Love You he said were definitely for me... I remember the first bit, something about ‘Each time I look into your eyes I see the love of the loved.’ but no more. It is such a long time ago... PS I Love You must have been written later, in Hamburg, because the words were about writing home to a loved one.

Dorothy Rhone, October 1997

[jonesingjay]

Paul and Dot could also have married, but instead they broke up not for the first time but decisively the last. Cyn would write about a flaming row they had when Paul arrived at Garmoyle Road unexpectedly, catching Dot looking less than glamorously ready for him, but Dot's own recollection would be more circumspect: "Paul said we'd been going out so long that it was either get married or split up. He said, 'I don't want to get married, so even though I love you we'll have to finish.' I could see that Paul was growing away from me. I knew what was coming. All these years he had been having his bits on the side and it was getting so easy for him. He was young and he couldn't resist."

From the book The Beatles All These Years Tune In Vol. 1 by Mark Lewisohn, Page 665

[maureensadoll]

Dorothy Rhone was a naïve, introspective grammar school girl. She lived in a strict home in middle-class Childwall. During the summer of 1959, Dot was out with her friends at the Casbah club, dancing The Shake  while a young band called The Quarry Men played on stage. Two of their guitarists had their eye on her as she danced, and the moment their set was over they homed in and tried to work their charms."They were so fast on their feet, sparking off each other with jokes and cracks," she remembered, "it was impossible to keep up." She immediately fell for one of them, the one named John Lennon. "I liked his face, I thought he was rugged-looking. Paul was handsome in a softer way. John was also the dominant one, a very different personality. He gave me the nickname bubbles for some reason and we got along really well. I know Paul is always painted as the nice, kind one, but to me John was more compassionate. He wasn’t as mean as they make out." Dot soon discovered that John already had a girlfriend named Cynthia, whom she quickly became good friends with. Seeing as her favourite was already taken, she turned her attention towards Paul who was a little slow asking her out, so she worked out a way of getting him on his own. "We were sitting around talking and I said I felt a bit woozy, that I might faint, and went outside into the garden. Paul came out after me to see if I was all right and it was then that he said ‘D’you fancy going out?’ This had been my plan and it worked a treat. Anyway, I said yes." Dot was very nervous about the date, but Paul soon put her at her ease, telling her horror stories about his recent visit to the dentist. As he saw her back to the bus he made it plain that he thought they had hit it off, and arranged to see her again at the Casbah. 

The two started going out frequently and began a relationship that Paul remembered years later as being one of his few steady relationships, and one which lasted - unlike many of his others - for quite a long time: "I had a girlfriend called Dot, Dorothy Rhone, who was my steady girlfriend for quite a long time in Liverpool." She soon found herself falling "in love or infatuation" with Paul. "We got close very quickly and it was such an exciting time". They hadn’t been going out for long before Paul began to show signs of being overly posessive and controling. "He was so posessive that he needed to control everything about me - my appearance, the way I dressed, even the way I thought. he was always wanting me to look better than I did and I never thought I measured up to the way he thought I should be. I feel ashamed to admit it now, but back then I went along with it. I became his puppet If I knew then what I know now, I would never have allowed it to happen. He gave me a list of rules that I had to stick to. John had the same rules for his girlfriend Cynthia." This set of rules cost Dot a lot of things, including her friends. "He told me I couldn't see my girlfriends. There was no going out except with him, and I lost touch with my friends because I was never available. When we did go out I wasn't allowed to smoke, even though he smokes; it wasn't the image he wanted I guess." Paul wanted the pair of them to always wear black and insisted that Dot had blonde hair. "It started getting darker but he said I should dye it. There was one time he paid for me to have it done like he wanted and made the appointment. When I came out it looked terrible, all teased. I hated it but Paul said it was my fault because I had let them do it that way. He just said 'Give me a call when your hair grows' and walked off. We didn't see each other for a few days after that. Things like that would happen quite often." Paul himself readily admitted his behaviour regading pressuring girlfriends into being Bardot-like. "At the time everyone was trying to turn their girlfriend into a bargain basement Bardot. We all happened to be at the age when a ravishing sex goddess taking off her clothes was the fantasy for us boys. We were all smitten. So the girls had to be blonde, look rather like Brigitte and preferably pout a lot. John and I used to have these secret talks intimating, although not actually saying it, that we could be quite happy for our girlfriends to be Liverpool's answer to Bardot. My girlfriend was called Dot and, of course, John had Cynthia. We got them both to go blonde and wear mini skirts. It's terrible really. But that's the way it was." He made up for his posessive streak by being very generous to his new girlfriend. Everytime the band earned a few pounds he'd spend a large amount of it on little tokens of affection for her such as expensive tight miniskirts, and a black leather coat that would have cost her several weeks wages. Paul soon wanted to move their relationship onto another level, but Dorothy was reticent, not being as experienced in these things as him and still a virgin. "I had to fight him off - maybe that was the attraction for him. All the other girls were falling at his feet." But Paul was sweet and charming, singing romantic songs for her and making her feel part of his home life at Forthlin Road. She resisted the temptation for about four months and then finally succombed around Christmas 1959, Paul was always writing songs and he would try them out on me. He would say that he wrote them for me. Two songs, Love Of The Loved and PS I Love You he said were definitely for me...". In February 1960, when Dot was still a 16 year old bank clerk, she became pregnant by the 17 year old Paul who was still studying for his A-levels in English and Art at the Liverpool Institute. Dot’s mum was obviously shocked. "She thought I should go and stay with my sister in Manchester and have the baby adopted." But Dot remembers how Paul showed loyalty and compassion for her and refused to let Mrs. Rhone have her way. He said the child had been conceived out of love, and insisted that they would raise it together. Paul’s dad Jim began to make plans for a register office wedding. "It was just going to be in a register office. It wasn’t going to be a big wedding. No one had any money. I was going to live with his dad in their house. Everything was set. About three months into the pregnancy, Dot was rushed tearfully to hospital in an ambulance, suffering a miscarriage. An earnest looking Paul soon appeared laiden with flowers to cheer her up. "He seemed a bit upset but deep down he was probably relieved. With hindsight so am I. When I look back on what happened to Paul after the Beatles became famous, I know it would never have worked between us." A few months after her miscarriage, Paul was heading off with the band to Hamburg. Dorothy was heart broken that he was leaving her and that she had no idea when he would return, but in a way his departure was a relief. "There were so many rules, and it was so hard to meet his expectations that it was almost easier to be 'going out' with him and not have him around. I wasn't being judged." The Beatles stayed in Hamburg for four months, returning home in November when George Harrison was discovered to be too young to have a work permit. Paul cheated on Dorothy regularly during this seperation and she gained some idea from this when she used to visit Paul's father. "I went up to Paul's bedroom and found some postcard from a girl. She was saying that she couldn't wait for him to come back. It was from a German girl but written in English." When he returned home and she questioned him about it he dismissed her suspicions, saying that she knew all the girls were after him, and then changed the subject. Despite knowledge of his inidelity, Dot still remained totally faithful during their time apart. "I spent a lot of time with Cyn talking about them and writing letters. Sometimes we would dress ourselves up in the leather skirts and put on our make-up and take pictures of one another to send to them."When Paul returned from Hamburg Dot began to realise how things were changing. "They were becoming more famous and all the girls were after them all the time. One day I went to his house and this girl was in the kitchen, cleaning or something. His dad said she had been hanging around outside waiting for Paul so he thought he would invite her in to make herself useful. The girls used to come round and snip bits off the hedge just because it was Paul's. And they were always coming up to me and asking what Paul was like." In the summer of 1961 during the band's second visit to Hamburg, Dot managed to get away from the waiting around and being hassled by rivals when Paul paid for her to visit him in Germany for a fortnight. 

On returning from Hamburg, Dot found a job as a Chemist's Dispenser, and with Paul helping out with the rent, moved into a flat next door to Cynthia's on Garmoyle Road. Paul visited her occasionally but they never spen much time there together. "It was really a furnished room with a hotplate, bed and dresser. Cyn's place was nicer and we'd go sit in there."  By late 1961 Paul started visitng her less, and when he did visit there would be dreadful rows. "John was really kind to me and was always telling Paul he should be nicer." Then Brain Epstein became the Beatles manager. "He said we couldn't go to the concert's anymore. We obeyed him. We were very annoyed but we thought, if it helped their careers we would do it... I could see that Paul wa growing away from me. I knew what was coming. And all these years he had been having his bits on the side and it was getting so easy for him. he was young and he couldn't resist. That was a time of sadness but also release. I didn't keep trying so hard or worrying about trying to keep up, or saying the right things or not having my hair right or not being enough fun". The relationship ended in the Summer of 1962 when The Beatles were weeks away from national fame. Dorothy will never forget the night Paul visited her and told her they had to break up. He called unexpectedly at her flat when she was wearing her mother's cami-knickers and a baggy old sweater, with her hair in rollers. "Paul said we'd been going out so long that it was either get married or split up. He said 'I don't want to get married, so even though I love you we'll have to finish.' He didn't cry but I knew he felt badly and he was sorry, just by the way he looked. I burst out crying. I said how can you do this? What am I going to do? I thought he might come back because it had been three years, but I suppose really I knew." Dot's friend Sandra Hedges remembers that Dot's pushing to get Paul to marry her was indeed a large factor in them splitting up: "Dot wanted them to be married as were their friends John and Cynthia who lived upstairs. In an attempt to shake Paul, she returned home to her parents. Two weeks later Paul became the love of the world; the famous ticker-tape welcome in America, his face in every newpaper, every newscast. 

Dorothy had to move back in with her parents now that Paul wasn't helping her with the rent for her flat, but a few weeks later when Cynthia discovered she was pregnant and move into Brian Epstein's flat, Dot moved into the same building so that she could take care of her. "I used to see Paul when he came with John and one tim he took me out in the car. He started out being okay, and maybe he just wanted to see if we could get back together. But he ended up being nasty again because he didn't like my nylons, which were patterned with diamonds. As I said, looks were everything, he was very superficial then, though I'm sure he's changed quite a bit. I cried and cried for weeks after Paul and I split up. I didn't go out because I hardly had any friends anyway. It was probably three or four months before I got myself together." Even though she was not with Paul anymore, he was still in her life. "It was Beatles Beatles Beatles... I couldn’t escape."  In 1964 she emigrated to Canada  and within four days of her arrival she had met her future husband.  A year after emigrating she met Paul again briefly when the Beatles played a concert in Toronto, and then once more when his band Wings played there. That last time she was invited there by Paul who sent a Rolls Royce to pick up Dot, her husband and their eldest daughter, and take them to Maple Leaf Gardens where they were taken backstage. Dorothy's friend Sandra believes this meeting with Paul did Dot a lot of good in that it finally laid to rest a lot of things about her relationship with Paul that had troubled her over the years.

Dot and her husband are now grandparents living in an elegant home at Mississauga, Ontario. She didn’t keep reminders of her Beatle days, throwing away all her letters, auctioning off her photos and never buying any records, but told her family the whole story. She was upset when Paul finally acknowledged her existance in the book Many Years From Now, and stated that his abiding memory of his first steady girlfriend was that he desparately wanted to change her appearance to make her look more like Brigitte Bardot: "When I saw him refer to me in that book it was hurtful" When you go out with someone for three years you’d think he would have something more to say than that he wanted you to look like Brigitte Bardot. Maybe I didn’t mean that much to him after all - but I don’t really believe that. I know that, for a few years at least, I did." (source)      

[oobujoobu]

Paul with his first girlfriend, Dot Rhone

[what-about-the-beatles]

He sent me a hand-designed Valentines card,and there were always funny little messages. One of these read ''To Dot of English fame and great renown. This one's a quick and happy. He hasn't shaved but he still looks good all the same. All my love, Paul...

Dorothy Rhone on Paul McCartney