The BEATLES

[njr]

Here’s a different interview:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/river-cafe-table-4/id1585413971?i=1000537579035

I’m trying to find the recent one he did with his daughters Mary & Stella.

[njr]

Recent photo of Paul with his 1964 Epiphone Casino:


Nancy

[njr]

Found the interview with Paul, Mary & Stella:

youtu.be/fsQ0oaK_y5U

[JH4HJ]

Oct 21, 2021 14:10:55 GMT -5 njr said:

Found the interview with Paul, Mary & Stella:

youtu.be/fsQ0oaK_y5U

Excellent interview. Lovely family. Thank you for posting this.

. . . which led to more Macca "suggestions" from YouTube and "wasted" an entire morning.

(I enjoyed every minute.)

[JH4HJ]

Oct 21, 2021 14:08:40 GMT -5 njr said:

Recent photo of Paul with his 1964 Epiphone Casino:


Nancy

As handsome as ever. I like that he's letting his hair go natural, but I'll always love the "mop top" do.

. . . and where's that Hofner "violin" bass? That's the one he should be hugging! 

[njr]

1962

[njr]

1963

[njr]

1965

[njr]

June 4, 2012 Special Hofner bass made for him for the Queen’s 60th Jubilee.

[njr]

Oct 22, 2021 13:05:13 GMT -5 JH4HJ said:

Oct 21, 2021 14:10:55 GMT -5 njr said:

Found the interview with Paul, Mary & Stella:

youtu.be/fsQ0oaK_y5U

Excellent interview. Lovely family. Thank you for posting this.

. . . which led to more Macca "suggestions" from YouTube and "wasted" an entire morning.

(I enjoyed every minute.)

Yeah, those You Tube videos can be addicting - you fall down a rabbit hole! 😂
Glad you liked it!

[njr]

Paul inducting The Foo Fighters into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, then singing Get Back with them.
youtu.be/UtUNEWBpVN0
The entire show will be on HBO MAX on Nov. 20th.

[JH4HJ]

The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney

Each song has a commentary drawn from chats with McCartney’s editor, the Irish poet Paul Muldoon, who was presumably the one introducing words such as “epistolary” and “intertextual” into the conversation. Macca rarely resists an upmarket comparison. If one Paul is keen to point out that the intermediary of She Loves You is like the hero of LP Hartley’s novel The Go-Between, the other Paul is quite happy to agree he may have been influenced by it. In the same commentary, he’s forever reaching back to the England of his boyhood: taking phone calls in the cupboard beneath the stairs, being dispatched into the street to collect horse shit for Dad’s roses, watching Bootsie and Snudge on TV, lifting an idea for Mrs Vandebilt from The Vamp of Baghdad by Charlie Chester.

Full article

Google for more. There's a lot of news about the book out there right now.

Cost is about $100. Guess I know what I'm getting ME for Christmas.

[JH4HJ]

Oct 22, 2021 14:53:47 GMT -5 njr said:

June 4, 2012 Special Hofner bass made for him for the Queen’s 60th Jubilee.

LOVE the "original" bass - but this one's great too.

Thanks for the pix!

[njr]

Valerie, Amazon has The Beatles Get Back book for $35.73 (I got the special edition at Target that comes with 4 additional separate photos, 5% off with my Red Card, so total was $42.29.) The Paul “The Lyrics” book is now $94.23. They had it marked down to $60 the other day. I didn’t buy it though. ETA: See my PM. A U.K. company has it for less than $90 and that includes shipping. Others on Amazon are less and have free shipping.

www.amazon.com/s?k=get+back+book+the+beatles+2021&i=stripbooks&crid=3HQQVB4DDTILR&sprefix=get+%2Caps%2C186&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_4

I don’t know why this link says unsafe! Just go to Amazon.com and look up the books.

Glad you liked the photos!

[njr]

www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/news/the-lyrics-is-the-2021-barnes-noble-book-of-the-year

[njr]

www.showbiz411.com/2021/11/17/paul-mccartneys-lyrics-earned-the-beatle-approximately-3-7-mil-in-first-four-days-of-publication

[njr]

I have watched the first 2 parts and today will watch part 3!

[JH4HJ]

Five Lingering Questions About ‘The Beatles: Get Back’

Nearly three weeks after the docu-series’ release, there are a few things we can’t shake:

What did ‘Get Back’ teach us about the Beatles? And should we lament the band’s breakup?

The intimate nature of the three-act epic, which director Peter Jackson presents without the distancing effects of 50-years-later talking heads or narration, deepened my parasocial bond with a band that broke up long before I was born. Watching Get Back is a passable facsimile of sitting in a studio with an engaging group of friends who happen to be some of the best songwriters ever. Spend enough time bathed in the incandescent creativity at the nexus of ’60s culture, and the present can’t help but seem drab by comparison. To trot out an overused expression, The Beatles: Get Back is a vibe, one that’s difficult to forget and impossible to replicate in real life.

Get Back showed me how memories are made. It reminded me that history is haphazard, and that the lyrics and tracklists and performances that seem preordained to those who came along later were actually in flux up until the second they were set in stone. (As George says, “You just go into something and it does it itself. Whatever it’s gonna be, it becomes that.”) It emphasized that the Beatles weren’t ahead of their time only as music makers but also as multimedia artists who made their mark from fashion and album art to movies. (Although they thought they were shooting a more conventional TV special and documentary, the Beatles composing and recording an album on camera was essentially reality TV before An American Family, or streaming 40-plus years before Twitch.) And it also drove home how aware at least some of the Beatles were of where they had been, where they were going, and how they would probably be remembered long after the fact. The interpersonal problems that fans and scholars still debate today aren’t subtext in Get Back; they’re discussed by the band in real time. But even though the Beatles were aware of what was pulling them apart, they couldn’t undo the damage. Life can be cruel like that.

Full article here.

[njr]

Thanks for posting Valerie! ❤️

[njr]

58 years ago tonight, the Beatles made their U.S. debut on The Ed Sullivan Show! I was 8 years old and glued to the TV set!

[chessie]

Watching The Beatles that night was one of those experiences that I will never forget. Such a thrill!

Carol

[JH4HJ]

Forgive me for straying Off Topic. SAME NIGHT on the Ed Sullivan Show -

Not only The Beatles, but a friend of mine from the neighborhood made his Broadway debut as one of Fagin's gang - and was David Jones' understudy for The Artful Dodger to boot. It was a thrilling night indeed!

It's hard to believe it was *that* long ago.

[njr]

^ Yes, I knew that - Davy Jones is also the reason David Jones had to change his professional name to David Bowie! 😉

[JH4HJ]

Julian Lennon Covers John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ for the First Time

Julian Lennon Performs 'IMAGINE' for Global Citizen's Stand Up For Ukraine w/Nuno Bettencourt

From press releases:

Julian Lennon has broken a musical vow to himself to help the people of Ukraine. The singer-songwriter, who is the son of John Lennon — performed “Imagine” publicly for the first time ever to help raise money for Ukrainian refugees during Global Citizen‘s Stand Up For Ukraine fundraising campaign April 8.

Full article  (much more coverage if you Google)

From Julian:

“The War on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy... As a human, and as an artist, I felt compelled to respond in the most significant way I could.

So today, for the first time ever, I publicly performed my Dad’s song, IMAGINE.

Why now, after all these years? - I had always said, that the only time I would ever consider singing ‘IMAGINE' would be if it was the ‘End of the World’…

But also because his lyrics reflect our collective desire for peace worldwide. Because within this song, we’re transported to a space, where love and togetherness become our reality, if but for a moment in time…

The song reflects the light at the end of the tunnel, that we are all hoping for...

As a result of the ongoing murderous violence, millions of innocent families, have been forced to leave the comfort of their homes, to seek asylum elsewhere.

I’m calling on world leaders and everyone who believes in the sentiment of IMAGINE, to stand up for refugees everywhere! Please advocate and donate from the heart. #StandUpForUkraine”

—Julian Lennon

May I suggest . . . ?

Click "Watch on YouTube" and when you play it a second time, read the comments. Bring a hankie.

Needless to say - it's definitely something his father would have done.

Thank you Julian. Your Dad would be so proud to see the man you have become.

[Julian is 59 year old . . . still trying to wrap my head around that]

[njr]

^ Yes, I saw that! So cool and thanks for posting! (I know, how is it that little Julian is now 59? I am only 8 years older than him, so kind of like John & Yoko!) 😂