beatles sideblog

Somewhere to reblog my new obsession, The Beatles. Likes/follows from magog83 aka Sally

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What's this?? Not me making a Beatles fan edit in the year of our lord 2026 😲

So I heard this song 'Bittersweet' a while ago and could not rest until I had used the chorus to make a little video about the early giddy Beatles days - even though it has been SOME YEARS since I have dusted off the old video editor.

If you find yourself wanting to hear the whole song (and you should because it's brilliant) it's on YouTube and all the usual streaming services. Rachel's an independent artist so every listen helps!

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Supremes & friend

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John reminding us his favourite city is Paris in this May 1964 issue of Jackie Magazine 👀

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One of next year's holiday brochures for Barbados is certainly something to look out for, the reason being that Paul McCartney and his family appear in some of the snaps.

"We were lying sunbathing," Paul told us, "when a photographer arrived with a model to do some photographs. He didn't recognise me and asked us all to move along the beach a bit. Then, when he realised who we were, he was really apologetic. We thought it'd be a great idea if we got in on the pictures as well. I mean, it always looks much nicer if there's a family in the brochure. So we all dived in the water and fooled around!"

No doubt there'll be a rush on at your travel agents for copies of the brochure, so you'd better get there quick.

Jackie Magazine, 12 July 1980

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What awful news. I don't know her as an actor but i remember thinking how great she looked as Astrid in the promo shots for Hamburg Days.

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*as if there's been a single interview in the last 50 years where paul didn't speak about john* guys paul has an interview with bbc radio 2 in two weeks and one of the songs he's gonna talk about is imagine

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We requested, and got, access to the Beatles' dressing room. We accepted ciggies and sat chatting to four very likeable young lads who were getting extremely bored with being imprisoned in tatty backstage rooms. They sent Neil Aspinall, their roadie, out to buy a Scalextric car racing set, and assembled it on the floor with whoops of joy.

John talked about his new house in Surrey. He was very excited about having a gardener, but not remotely interested in the garden.

Outside, the schoolgirls kept up non-stop screaming and chanting. Eventually we went into the cinema for the show and the screams multiplied into an ear-splitting gale of sound. And despite myself, as a son of New Orleans, I found it all very exciting.

Later, in the lounge of the Imperial Hotel, Eddie and I looked at each other and laughed. "Mon," said Eddie. "I quite enjoyed it."

Paul McCartney wandered in, looking for a cup of cocoa. "Which number did you like best?" he asked.

"Twist and Shout," I said without hesitation.

"Thanks very much," said Paul. "That's the only one we didn't write."

Jazz musician Roger Bennett remembers the time he and photographer Eddie Wood were dispatched to Exeter to report on the Beatles for the Bristol Evening Post. Published 27 November 1989.

Unfortunately i haven't been able to find their original 1960s coverage and they don't specify which year this is either, although it has to be a year they played Exeter but not Bristol!

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getting a george tshirt made that says “but I don’t want to go on the roof” for this

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Have you thoughts on the new Beatles movies coming in 2028

Hello! My main thought is that I am probably more excited for this upcoming Hamburg series HOWEVER I'm sure everyone is working very hard on them and they will look and sound great. On the one hand, I presume they will be the Approved Beatles Narratives (although if they went full Rocketman that would actually be amazing) and I think biopics are better made when the subjects aren't around anymore to interfere. On the other hand, if it brings people into the fandom and gives us more gifs and fic and art that would be v cool and I would welcome it :)

(and on my third hand, I think the actors look way too old considering the bulk of 'The Beatles' story takes place when they're all in their late teens and 20s).

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hello!!! i just wanted to pop in and tell you that i’ve spent the last week reading through your “i need you darlin’” series and i had an absolute BLAST!!! thank you so much for sharing this incredible piece of art ❤️❤️ (if you ever decide to write more i am 100% seated!!!)

Late reply is late but THANK YOU <3 You are very kind and I'm so chuffed their shenanigans kept you entertained. I am still working on the next installment with all the speed of an elderly snail going up a mountain, but the word count keeps on creeping upwards so that has to count for something. I feel like I have to try and get it out before Hamburg Days airs and everyone starts shipping John/Klaus or something XD

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cast for Hamburg Days!!!!

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Last-minute mystery benefactor saves Liverpool's oldest cinema

Woolton Picture House closed during the Covid-19 pandemic before a campaign was launched to save it.

A mystery benefactor has stepped in to save Liverpool's oldest surviving cinema at the last minute.

The anonymous donor has bought the Woolton Picture House outright and has given the 99-year-old building to Woolton Cinema Community Interest Company (CIC) on a "peppercorn rent" leasing arrangement that will run until the venue's 200th anniversary.

The deadline was imminent to raise the £450,000 needed to reopen the cinema's doors after a six-year break.

Kevin Fearon, one half of the couple who fought to save the venue, said: "We always believed in this project, but to see it come together in this way - right at the very last moment - is something truly special."

Good news on the Beeb tonight!

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I need this for my professional work meetings.

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The politicisation of rock ‘n’ roll performers, so familiar today, was very slow to emerge. I remember being surprised to hear the Beatles boo Los Angeles police restraining a fan at Dodger Stadium in 1966 - it seemed out of character, a Symbolic Statement more Stones than Beatles. As for domestic politics, I never heard them mentioned except in ad hominem terms, subjectively, as they related to personal taxation and suchlike. The Lennon with the Power to the People salute of 1969 and later was quite unknown in 1967. In fact, I remember my delight and surprise not long before the release of Sgt Pepper at hearing him praise a British television play based on Robert Tressell’s book, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. It so impressed him with its skilful interweaving of debate, plot and characterisation that he watched a recording of it over and over again on his ‘new fangled machine’. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a celebrated narrative of the British left which attacks the deceit, corruption and naivety among bosses and workers in the jerrybuilding trade, arising out of Tressell’s own experience before the First World War. Nothing less ‘Beatle’ than this book could have been imagined before the awakenings of 1967. After that, all John’s thinking-roads led to ‘Working-Class Hero’ and other songs of social concern that became such a hallmark of his last decade, though I don’t think he ever voted in an election subsequent to 1967, and had never voted in any of the preceding years. Brian Epstein, it’s worth noting, had always been a socialist and made a point of voting Labour. I never met another rock ‘n’ roll manager who took such a position. They were all too keen on their personal fortunes to find attractive the high taxation inevitable under a Labour government.

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today, Derek Taylor (1987)

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There are so many reasons i wish my dad was still alive but damn it I could have blown his MIND with this fact. Dad's favourite book in the whole world was Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. He could quote whole sections of it. We discovered after his death that it was his online password for just about everything that needed one (computer security?? What's that? says dad). Also the only Beatles related record dad bought was Working Class Hero so he would have appreciated the symmetry 😄

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Man on the Farm

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A little obsessed with this 1964 poster for A Hard Day's Night i just came across on ebay. Ringo looks like he's about to order a hit on someone and Paul looks like a femme fatale.

Google translate informs me 'Quatre garcons dans le vent' is 'Four boys in the wind' in French.

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