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I think Alex wanted to be a very loyal friend to John. He wanted John's attention. There were enough men that wanted his attention at that time. It wasn't physical, it was mental. They were almost desperate, the heterosexual ones.
Pattie Boyd on "Magic" Alex Mardas and John Lennon, interviewed in 1980. Peter Brown and Steven Gaines, All You Need Is Love (2024)
#go pattie go!#it's so interesting to see it spelled out#so near the time#john absolutely did have this effect on a lot of men#but because most of the histories have been written by those men#they've been very very bad at acknowledging it#(pattie isn't the only one to mention alex being starstruck. but she's the bluntest and the best)#pattie boyd#john lennon#magic alex#all you need is love: the end of the beatles#peter brown
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I love how stressed he looks in these screencaps. diva.....you weren't doing anything that warranted that 😭
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Magic Alex was Alexis Mardas, a blond and handsome Greek with a terribly serious face and a dazzling smile. He arrived in England knowing only two people – Mick Jagger and the Duke of Edinburgh. He met the Beatles in the acid summer and that was that and that was that and that was that. He could do anything, make any fantasy come true. His plans were many and more and more amazing; to make a force-field round a house and fill it with coloured air so that no one could get in (it didn’t matter because no one got hurt and the colour was good); to put a noise in a record, inaudible on a record but so nasty that when anyone tried to tape the record the noise would be reproduced as an appalling scream; to invent a telephone so sensitive that you would tell it who to ring – just say to it ‘ring the king’ and it would; to make a few changes to a car so that it would illuminate from behind when anyone got too close; to invent a camera which would take pictures through people’s walls and see what they were up to … and of course there was a recording studio to build and a dream to fulfil and a world to change. Well, well, well … not much happened but if Alex Mardas wasn’t magic then why was he called Magic Alex? There must have been something so wherever you are Alex, you are magic … yes, you are.
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Neil Aspinall’s room was a high-class Headorama full of visuals, with a lovely fireplace and chimney corner. Neil has always been with the Beatles; maybe he can remember when he wasn’t but I can’t. He is a fine man, began as the road manager, became managing director of Apple and was deposed by Klein but allowed to remain, if allowed is the word, but it isn’t. Neil had to remain because he is Neil. It is impossible to explain so I won’t. If you want to speak to Neil, ring Apple. He could make a great movie, create beautiful pictures, do anything, but so far he hasn’t. Not one the public has seen, anyway. One day I hope he will. One day I hope you will see his work. The Beatles, however, cast a tall shadow and a wide one. It is not their fault – they have given ‘breaks’ galore but what is a break? What we all need is not breaks but challenge.
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Mal Evans (Neil’s companion when they were managing the road before the job got its own title and its own dignity and its truly fascinating place in the complexities of touring, in other words before we heard the word ‘roadies’), is still at Apple and still one of the greatest roadies the world has ever known. But more than any of us he found a way to adapt to changing times and he became a record producer (Badfinger), played parts in movies (Help, Magical Mystery Tour, Blindman with Ringo and others) and he is willing to serve if he may and there is nothing nobler than real service I believe.
(As Time Goes by Derek Taylor)
(Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI)
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Mark Lewisohn really wants to overturn narratives and “Get Back” accidentally gave us incredible insight into how little it takes to make him smoothly and confidently wrong
Great AKOM. Maybe too good because it left basically nothing to add on the primary topic. This show followed my own notes more than any so far—but I had not caught the John quote being about the Maharishi—chef's kiss. 👩🍳💋
However... it does give me a chance to riff off something they touched on that I've also been thinking about for awhile: Mark Lewisohn's big desire to overturn narratives, and how wrong he gets it when he runs into a fact check we can all see with our own eyes.
Pre-“Get Back” Mark Lewisohn previewed some of the narratives he was itching to overturn, and off the top explained that no one had really told the Get Back sessions correctly. By trying to ingest all that Nagra audio on a sort of anniversary-tribute calendar schedule—(which is insane, impossible, and hubristic beyond words)—he was prepared to make news on a few fronts. (All clips of him are from 2019.)
First of all, no one has told the "Get Back" sessions story right. Yet.
But after binging the Nagras once the expert is ready to “write it differently”
Redeeming Magic Alex
In this tweet is a hidden wink-wink-hint at the new Magic Alex storyline Lewisohn was queuing up. Although if he hadn't tipped us off in the podcast the “not so bad then” would be meaningless. As it is, we have the key.
Magic Alex has been slandered, his studio was fine, and the Nagras — especially George's good vibes — prove it.
Honestly, just imagine what we would be reading from him if “Get Back” didn't exist. This is the flimsy nonsense he builds entire storylines around. Because he prioritizes flipping narratives second only to deifying John. And like a reporter with a thesis he interviews and searches out sources to prop up that thesis. But unlike a reporter he has no checks. No imperative to give competing evidence. Answers to no one. Is wholly opaque about sources. And most certainly doesn't concern himself with adhering to even the most basic UK and US ethical guidelines for historians.
And so this is possibly the best peek we will ever get into how his process works and just how incredibly flimsy it is.
Paul didn't want to go up on the roof—he was the one who had to be persuaded—because it wasn't enough of a climax
Apparently even Anthology was trying to pull the wool over our eyes about Paul and the rooftop concert, but Lewisohn was ready to rewrite history and tell the truth about Paul not wanting to go up on the roof.
The last clip isn't of Mark Lewisohn, but references him as an expert. The final arbiter of fact. And it fits. Because at this point if Mark Lewisohn says it, no matter how ridiculous it is, it becomes cannon. And it pains me to see anyone—especially Beatles' fans—parroting nonsense and looking foolish.
Mark Lewisohn, heroin expert
It is so clear that Mark Lewisohn is going to handle John and Yoko's heroin issue by feigned expertise blended with apologia and creepy idolatry. (See Prellies in Tune In.) How he thinks he's expert enough to opine on the effects of heroin is beyond me, but that's never stopped him before. I really don't think he ever even questions himself or his superior knowledge of anything, despite zero experience or study. His expertise at extricating John from all hard truths is enough, and will make us all stupider. (Also playing now because I am inching up to pointing out something on those Nagras.)
Repeating Mark Lewisohn: the "Two Junkies" interview (where John literally had to stop to throw up) was from a heroin hangover because John and Yoko weren't messed up enough to actually be doing heroin on set
*I posted this last night and Tumblr disappeared 90% of the post then wouldn't let me post more audio because it counted the disappeared audio against me. Therefore I forced myself to repost it this morning before listening to the bonus (Womak/Mal Evans) AKOM I've been so looking forward to and may now go revel in my reward without guilt. 😌
#the beatles#beatles#mark lewisohn#lewisohn#tune in#akom#fine tuning#narrative flipping#get back#nagras#john lennon#leader lennon#heroin#historiography#ethics#transparency#Magic Alex#rooftop concert#Spotify
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"In a different alternative universe, I definitely would have just been in a band."
John Simm talking to Craig Charles on BBC Radio 6 Music
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Someone actually made Alex's design in a way that works and isn't a joke. This is so cool!
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ALEX PETTYFER Magic Mike (2012)
#alex pettyfer#magic mike#actor#men#menedit#mancandykings#mensource#filmgifs#fyeahmovies#dailyflicks#cinemapix#cinematv#tvandfilm#usermichi#userviet#userjimholden#holesrus#gifs#mine#*
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I will be forever intrigued by Magic Alex
#magic Alex#Beatles books podcast guest today wrote this#he’s refreshingly honest in using the reply ‘I don’t know’
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I am in desperate need to draw Tad strange. No not the canonical human, I mean the crazy square the fandom made up before the episode revealed. I wanna make my own Tad strange I really wanna do that. I think he'd be friends with Stanley.
#rambles#gravity falls#ted strange#stanley pines#i will never forget#I wish we had more shows where the fandom came together like that#alex hirsch dana terrace please make a crazy magical mystery show together#why arent we getting new animated shows with cool plots#please please please#wait is it ted or tad?
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THE ERA
i don't care what anyone says.
nothing (not even jackson and april) will ever top this era.
#greys anatomy#meredith grey#cristina yang#greys abc#mark sloan#alex karev#derek shepherd#izzie stevens#merder#george o'malley#m.a.g.i.c#magic greys#preston burke#richard webber#addison montgomery
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a cursed and haunted image... happy halloween 🎃 👻
#apple corps#feat. the apple jacket#paul mccartney#john lennon#magic alex#neil aspinall#mal evans#derek taylor#denis o'dell
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Magic Alex⚡
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💣💥
#dimension 20#d20#dropout#dropout.tv#never stop blowing up#nsbu#misfits and magic#misfits and magic 2#mismag#mismag2#brennan lee mulligan#isabella roland#izzy roland#iffy nwadiwe#ally beardsley#jacob wysocki#rekha shankar#alex song xia#aabria iyengar#danielle radford#lou wilson#erika ishii#jack manhattan#paula donvalson#evan kelmp#long post#sylvansleuthings#he learned from the best 🥹😂
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He didn’t teleport over, nor did he walk round. No, he climbed over the desk, such was the desire to come between them.
Paul McCartney, a cockblocker extraordinaire.
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A Cure for Barbarity
The grand old manor of Northcrest provided more luxurious accommodations than most in the rag-tag group of soldiers in the company of the Rising Dawn were accustomed to - if they ignored the peeling wallpaper, smell of mold and the manor's creeping, foul-tempered owner. Unfortunately, Alex couldn't do the latter. She needed to wrangle their prisoner-turned-annoyance wizard Hyden into doing any work at all, and that meant negotiating with his self-appointed apprentice and biggest fan, their host with the least, Baron Theopolis North. Now she had two egotistical, unstable mages to deal with, which was two more than she ever wanted.
She was common, he was the worst kind of arrogant old-blood nobility, she no-nonsense, he excessively prone to nonsense, she hated Hyden, he adored the man beyond all reason. It was inevitable that tensions between the rat and bat would boil over into conflict. True, Alex was a disciplined soldier who knew how to keep a cool head in times of stress, but the mad mage of Northcrest knew how to get under her skin... in more ways than one.
#comics#amaranthine#my draws#theo#and guest characters alex and ridge who belong to chocodile!#FINALLY done with this thing. it's been some form of WIP since last august...#was just meant as a simple quick (ha) comic to demonstrate how theo's “”“healing magic”“” works#and just how poorly he gets along with anyone who's not his mother or his idol#also some tags for the search engine#rat#bat#dark fantasy#blood magic#also maybe a body horror warning for... everything theo does
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