#it was 60 years ago today

[beatleswings]

THE BEATLES pictured together on stage at the Palladium Theatre during rehearsals for their appearance on SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM. October 13, 1963.

[pie-of-flames]

The glory of living in a time that coincides with a major anniversary of 1963. *points to all @javelinbk's gifs (bless you)*

[peacockstalemusicalstorytelling]

Love object plus love subject = X

[underqualifiedcritic]

"He wept after seeing a photograph of his late brother in the office of a former aide, wept when asked to comment on the Warren Commission report, and wept after eulogizing JFK at the 1964 Democratic convention with a quotation from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "When he shall die, take him and cut him into little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with the night and pay no attention to the garish sun."'

The Last Campaign, Thurston Clarke

[javelinbk]

The Beatles in Weston-super-Mare (with varying energy levels), 27th July 1963 - part three (part one, part two, part four)

[babsi-and-stella]

Marianne Faithfull and Roy Orbison photographed by Arthur Sidey, February 1965.

[mayasdeluca]

We’re getting Wynonna Earp back in the year 2024!! 😭❤️ This is such good news and I can’t wait to see Wayhaught as wives I’m so happy!!

[elizacobbs]

60 years ago today The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan show to an audience of 73 million Americans. Little did they know that they'd sweep the nation off it's feet with their rockin tunes and make history as the greatest band of all time.

[spearxwind]

Honestly i Get It now i do get why people build things constantly

[feybeasts]

it’s wild to me that people don’t just… grow out of “needlessly aggro about extremely minor subjects” when they leave their teens.

You’d think with how the world is, everyone would reach that inflection point and realize “oh, the world’s too cruel not to default to kindness and let go of the little things,” but no, some people out there really think their worth is defined by picking fights and getting aggressive over… nothing. Worse than nothing, internet screaming matches. You gain so little from it, yet you lose so very much more. It’s completely alien to me…

[beatleswings]

PAUL and LINDA McCARTNEY on their wedding day. March 12, 1969.

[anne-bsd-bibliophile]

Originally published in 1960.

"It is rather that even a theoretical knowledge of other cultures helps up to understand our own, because we can attain some clarity and objectivity about our own social institutions by comparing them with others."

"When a psychiatrist asked a Zen master how he dealt with neurotic people he replied, 'I trap them!' 'And just how do you trap them?' 'I get them where they can't ask any more questions!'"

"The individual no more acts upon the world than the world upon the individual. The cause and effect turn out to be integral parts of the same event."

"Would it really do to find out that our game is not serious, that enemies are friends, and that the good thrives on the evil? Society as we know it seems to be a tacit conspiracy to keep this hushed up for fear that the contest will otherwise cease. ... Imagine how the Christian conscience would react to the idea that, behind the scenes, God and the Devil were the closest friends but had taken opposite sides in order to stage a great cosmic game."

"Opposites and differences have something between them, like the two faces of a coin; they do not meet as total strangers. When this relativity of things is seen very strongly, its appropriate affect is love rather than hate or fear."

"...in Buddhism liberation is called awakening (bodhi) just because it is release from social hypnosis."

"The philosophy of wu-wei or noninterference implies ... that people must accept themselves as they are. This will disturb the social order far less than splitting themselves apart to strive after impossible ideals."

"It is, however, possible to see that his comparative [societal] 'rat race' need not be taken seriously, or rather, that if we are to persist in it at all it must not be taken seriously unless 'nervous breakdowns' are to become as common as colds."

"The difficulty of Zen is the almost overwhelming problem of getting anyone to see that life-and-death is not a problem."

"The disturbed individual is not so much the historical throwback in whom sufficient ego strength somehow failed to develop; he is the victim of too much ego, too much individual isolation."

"The Eastern ways direct their students to 'look within,' to find out the self, only to dispel the illusion that it is inside as distinct from outside."

"Not caring is the parody of serenity, just as worrying is the parody of concern."

"This is the loneliness of liberation, of no longer finding security by taking sides with the crowd, of no longer believing that the rules of the game are the laws of nature. It is thus that transcending the ego leads to great individuality."

"But to say, 'You must be spontaneous' is the flat contradiction at the root of every double-bind."

"At this point the patient simply stops pretending. He does not learn to 'be himself' as if that were something which one can do; he learns rather that there is nothing he can do not to be himself. But this is just another way of saying that he has ceased to identify himself with his ego, with the image of himself which society has forced upon him."

"The ways of liberation make it very clear that life is not going anywhere, because it is already there. In other words, it is playing, and those who do not play with it have simply missed the point."

[peacockstalemusicalstorytelling]

I Want To Hold Your Hand To The End Of Abbey Road

[lilybarthes]

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[rayonthego]

The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand - Live On The Ed Sullivan Show

60 years...

[javelinbk]

Paul: We got down to Miami, which was... well, I mean that was just like paradise. Because, I mean, we'd never been to anywhere where there was palm trees. And we took a lot of photos, you know... we were like tourists, and we had our Pentax cameras Paul: We had a great time there. We stayed in a hotel most of the time and sort of looked down on the sand where the kids, the fans, would write 'I love John' on the sand, you know, so you could read it from your hotel room Ringo: This was just the most brilliant place I'd ever been to, and people were lending us yachts, or anything we wanted. This family lent us their boat, and they let me drive... about a sixty-foot yacht, a speedboat... which I proceeded to bring in to port, head-on (laughs)... not really knowing much about driving speedboats... and so, you know, they have those pretty rails on the front, hanging off... well, this was (crashing sound)... just bent the bugger all over the place. But they didn't seem to mind, you know, they were just happy.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr talking about the Beatles trip to Miami (13th-21st February 1964). The Beatles Anthology (1995)