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It’s the sins of humanity crying out to be known
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1. John Lennon’s pre-Beatles skiffle group, The Quarry Men, made a record in the summer of 1958 that features Paul McCartney and George Harrison and cost 17 and sixpence to make.
2. The 16-year-old Lennon sung lead on the four tracks they recorded, which included Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be the Day” and the McCartney-Harrison composition “In Spite of All the Danger”.
3. It was Stuart Sutcliffe, John’s art school friend who was drafted in as bass player, who came up with the name “The Beatals”.
4. The first proper recording the band made was “Cry for a Shadow”, a Lennon-Harrison instrumental number in the style of The Shadows. It was recorded in Hamburg on 22 June 1961 with Pete Best on drums, in the assembly hall of an infants’ school.
5. So keen were they to distinguish themselves from The Shadows that The Beatles didn’t use Fender guitars until 1965.
6. During their lengthy stints of playing to drunk sailors and prostitutes day and night in Hamburg between 1960 and 1962, The Beatles (unknowingly) once ate horse for their Christmas dinner.
7. When they first arrived in Hamburg in 1960, then still teenagers, The Beatles lived in a cinema. Lennon said: “We would go to bed late and be woken up the next day by the sound of the cinema show. We’d try to get into the ladies’ first, which was the cleanest of the cinema’s lavatories, but fat old German women would push past us.”
8. Harrison was deported from Germany for being underage.
9. During a 56-night residency in 1960 at Hamburg’s Kaiserkeller, the band played four sets every day – 7.30–9pm, 9.30–11pm, 11.30pm–1am, and 1.30–2am – seven days a week.
10. At their first Parlophone recording session at Abbey Road, on 6 June 1962, producer George Martin gave a long list of things wrong with the band’s performance, before asking to band to provide any of their own criticisms. “Well, for a start I don’t like your tie,” was Harrison’s response.
11. Ringo Starr didn’t play drums on “Love Me Do”, the group’s first hit, and instead tapped a tambourine while session player Andy White stood in. Martin thought Starr was rushing into the choruses too quickly. (Starr’s version, recorded a week before, was used on early pressings of the single, however.)
12. When the band had finished recording “Please Please Me”, Martin said via the studio’s intercom: “Congratulations, gentlemen, you’ve just made your first number one.” The song did go to the top of the BBC, NME, and Melody Maker charts (this is before there was a standardised chart).
13. Aside from the first two singles and their B-sides, the album of the same name was entirely recorded in three three-hour sessions on 11 February 1963. It took just one hour longer than expected, and they went straight out on tour the next day.
14. Beatles concerts – and even screenings of their films – often smelled of urine. As Bob Geldof reminisced to Q magazine: “I remember looking down at the cinema floor and seeing these rivulets of piss in the aisles. The girls were literally pissing themselves with excitement. So what I associate most with The Beatles is the smell of girls’ urine.”
15. The Beatles were famously turned down by the Decca record label and instead signed for Parlophone. The band’s publisher sent an anonymous tape from their later sessions to Decca to see if the label would be fooled into making the same mistake again (it wasn’t).
16. The poet Allen Ginsberg got up and danced excitedly when “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was played in a New York nightclub, confusing his intellectual friends.
17. The same song made Bob Dylan assume that The Beatles must have been on drugs in 1963. He read more into the innocent line “I can’t hide” than was intended, hearing it as “I get high”.
18. In the NME in early 1963, the boys listed their ambitions. Lennon: “To write a musical”; McCartney: “To have my picture in the Dandy”; Harrison: “To design a guitar”; and Starr: “To be happy.”
19. There was talk of a Beatles musical throughout their career. In 1963, Lennon told the NME that his idea was to write a musical “about Jesus coming back as an ordinary person”.
20. In the very early days of Beatlemania, screaming fans turned up to Harrison’s house in Liverpool and were greeted by the man himself – but they left when they were told, “No, Paul McCartney doesn’t live here.”
21. Having finally broken America, in April 1964 The Beatles had the top five places in the American singles chart with “Can’t Buy Me Love”, “Twist and Shout”, “She Loves You”, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, and “Please Please Me”.
22. The Beatles re-recorded “She Loves You” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand” for the German market as “Sie Liebt Dich” and “Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand” in Paris in January 1964.
23. Lennon once claimed that “Ticket to Ride” was “one of the first heavy metal records”, because of its use of loud amplified guitars and drum sound.
24. Beatles merchandise available at the height of Beatlemania included not just boots, sweaters, hats, and wigs, but also bubblebath, talcum powder, and women’s stockings.
25. Only two songs on Revolver are longer than three minutes: “Love You To” (3.01) and “I’m Only Sleeping” (3.02).
26. McCartney claimed “Yesterday” came to him in a dream as a finished melody, fully formed. He asked friends, “Is this by me or did someone else write it?”, almost as if he’d discovered it. It was originally called “Scrambled Eggs”.
27. McCartney played some of The Beatles’ most technically difficult guitar solos on songs including “Taxman”, “Back in the USSR” and “Good Morning, Good Morning”. Harrison would often be congratulated on them, and would reply, “No, that was Paul.”
28. Martin and his team at Abbey Road had made many comedy records in the 1950s, including ones by Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, and Rolf Harris. This perhaps explains why they were so willing to indulge The Beatles’ love of humour and occasional children’s songs.
29. His engineers found all manner of things in their sound effects department to add some colour to “Yellow Submarine”, including chains, whistles, handbells, hooters, and a tin bath.
30. The Beatles spent longer making “Yellow Submarine” than they took to record their entire debut album.
31. “She Said She Said” is inspired by the time Lennon took LSD with David Crosby and Roger McGuinn of The Byrds in August 1965, which sounds like one hell of a party. Allegedly, Peter Fonda turned up and spoke of having been through a near-death experience during an operation – hence Lennon’s lyric “I know what it’s like to be dead”.
32. Lennon really did say the line about being bigger than Jesus. He told the Evening Standard on 4 March 1966: “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. We’re more popular than Jesus now.”
33. “Strawberry Fields Forever”, which took 55 hours to record, is made up of two entirely different recordings, each with a differing mood and recorded at different speeds. You can hear a slight change at 1:00, where the two are edited together.
34. The piano sound on “Penny Lane” was achieved by layering three piano tracks on top of each other, recorded at different speeds, before each was speeded up or down to match the right key.
35. The trumpeter who played the piccolo trumpet solo at the end of “Penny Lane”., David Mason, claimed it’s not speeded up and that he can still play it perfectly.
36. Lennon and Harrison were first given LSD in coffee by their dentist without them knowing. Harrison said: “We’d just sat down and ordered our drinks when suddenly I felt the most incredible feeling come over me. It was something like a very concentrated version of the best feeling I’d ever had in my whole life.”
37. In 1967 the NME ran a series of interviews about The Beatles’ dreams. McCartney dreamed about being caught in the street in his underwear, while Harrison projected his fear of flying into vivid plane-crash dreams. “It was all funny though: me legs were burnin’ but they weren’t like hurtin’!”
38. When Lennon sang “I read the news today, oh boy” in “A Day in the Life”, he was referring to the death of Tara Browne, a millionaire member of the London counterculture movement and friend to The Beatles, who died in a car crash in 1966. The report of his inquest – including the observation that people “stood and stared” – was in the Daily Mail on 17 January 1967, as was a story about holes in Blackburn, Lancashire.
39. The famous final chord in “A Day in the Life” was played simultaneously by Lennon, McCartney, Starr, Martin, and the band’s road manager, Mal Evans, on three separate pianos.
40. For the opening title track of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, McCartney replaced a guitar solo from Harrison that took seven hours to record with his own guitar part, according to Martin in Summer of Love, his account of the making of the album.
41. Lennon saw the poster that inspired “Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite!” advertising a circus in Rochdale, Lancashire in 1843, in an antiques shop in Sevenoaks, Kent, while filming the video for “Strawberry Fields Forever”.
42. It reads: “Pablo Fanque’s Circus Royal, Town-Meadows, Rochdale. Grandest night of the season! And positively the LAST NIGHT BUT THREE! Being for the benefit of Mr Kite (late of Wells’ Circus) and MR J HENDERSON, the celebrated Somerset thrower! Wire dancer, vaulter, rider, etc.”
43. Lennon asked Martin to make “Mr Kite” sound like a fairground. But then he also once asked him to make a song sound like an orange.
44. “Lovely Rita” is allegedly based on a meeting between McCartney and a friendly parking warden called Meta Davies in St John’s Wood. McCartney says this was a coincidence.
45. Lennon wanted Hitler to be included in the sea of faces on the Sgt. Pepper album cover, but was overruled at the last minute.
46. “She’s Leaving Home” was inspired by a real story in the Daily Mirror on 27 February 1967 about a 17-year-old girl, Melanie Coe, who ran away from home. As Beatles writer Steve Turner put it, the song accurately guesses at some of the details of her life, completely accidentally.
47. While recording “All You Need Is Love”, Harrison played a violin despite having never touched one.
48. The Our World broadcast on 1 June 1967 was the world’s first satellite TV broadcast and was seen by an estimated 350 million people. The Beatles represented the UK, performing “All You Need Is Love” to close the show.
49. Lennon appeared in his first film without The Beatles in 1967’s How I Won the War (referenced in “A Day in the Life”), alongside Michael Crawford, who later found fame in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, and Roy Kinnear, who played Veruca Salt’s father in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
50. The front cover for the US-only album Yesterday and Today featured the band dressed as butchers, while holding cleavers, with disturbing dolls and pieces of meat surrounding them. There is a (lengthy) explanation but it appears to have been the photographer’s idea, which the band apparently found funny.
51. Among the bizarre things that The Beatles’ company, Apple, did was put out a single by the Black Dyke Mills Band, a well-respected brass band from West Yorkshire. The track was called “Thingummybob” and was written for a TV show of the same name. The B-side was their version of “Yellow Submarine”.
52. Among the abandoned Apple ideas, according to an NME report at the time, was a film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, something that wasn’t fully achieved by anyone until Peter Jackson’s epic series 35 years later.
53. The BBC banned “I Am the Walrus” not for its anti-establishment tone, but because it contains the word “knickers”.
54. The animated Yellow Submarine film isn’t voiced by the band, but by actors. McCartney was played by Geoffrey Hughes, who went on to star in The Royle Family, in which he played the slobbish Twiggy, and Keeping Up Appearances, in which he was Onslow.
55. “Hey Jude” was originally called “Hey Jules” and directed at Lennon’s 5-year-old son, Julian.
56. Lennon considered it to be McCartney’s greatest song, and persuaded him to keep the strange line “the movement you need is on your shoulder”.
57. Rumours that “Paul is dead” started after McCartney was injured in a moped accident in 1966 and grew a moustache to hide the cut on his lip.
58. People thought Lennon was mumbling “I buried Paul” at the end of “Strawberry Fields”, but it was actually “cranberry sauce”, for no apparent reason.
59. The “Paul is dead” meme became deeply enough ingrained in popular culture to be referenced on the front cover of a Batman comic in 1970.
60. McCartney played the drums on “Back in the USSR” and “Dear Prudence” from The Beatles, aka the White Album, after Starr stormed out of the band, only to return a week later.
61. “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window”, from the medley section of Abbey Road, really is based on a true story: A fan used a ladder in Paul’s back garden to climb in the bathroom window, before stealing a picture of his father, some clothes, and some slides of photos taken by Linda Eastman (who would soon become Linda McCartney).
62. Frank Sinatra called Harrison’s “Something”, which he often performed live, “the greatest love song of the last 50 years”. And he sang a few.
63. The band’s internal fights were often ridiculous. During the making of Abbey Road, Harrison was incensed when Yoko Ono took one his chocolate digestive biscuits without asking.
64. Lennon said many, many strange things during interviews. During the final days of the band he told the NME: “I regret that Yoko wasn’t my child. I don’t like the idea of her being born in someone else’s womb. That’s one of my great jealousies. It’s a drag that she was in somebody else’s womb, but I can’t do anything about it.”
65. From the same interview: “I like to play conceptual chess, rather than have the chess on the board.”
66. The Beatles’ split was acrimonious and messy but despite their public feuding, Lennon and McCartney did keep in touch. During Lennon’s 1973–74 separation from Ono, the two musicians jammed together in Los Angeles with Stevie Wonder on keyboards. There’s even a recording of it (it’s a complete druggy mess).
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The figure swinging the earth – The Force Of Nature by Lorenzo Quinn
The guy being dragged by a bird – part of an installation titled Hacienda Paradise – Utopia Experiment by Fredrik Raddum.
The balancing elephant – Balancing Elephant by Daniel Firman.
The tea splashes kissing – Kiss of Eternity by Johnson Tsang.
The figure emerging from the wall – Break Through From Your Mold by Zenos Frudakis
The meditating figure splitting apart – Expansion by Paige Bradley.
The horses running through water – Mustangs at Las Colinas by Robert Glen.
The giant peeking from under the lawn – Popped Up by Ervin Loránth Hervé
The man under the raining umbrella – L’uomo della Pioggia (The Rain Man) by Jean-Michel Folon.
The huge bearded guy – The Appennnine Colossus by Giambologna.
The impossibly balanced stones on a beach – Untitled by Adrian Gray
The dragons with an egg – The Dragons in Love or The Varna Dragons by Darin Lazarov.
The stairway to nowhere – Diminish And Ascend by David McCracken
The underwater circle – Vicissitudes by Jason deCaires Taylor.
The epic warrior guy – General Guan Yu by Han Meilin
The sinking library – Sinking Building Outside State Library, Melbourne, Australia. I couldn’t find an artist’s name.
The giant hand holding a tree – The Caring Hand by Eva Oertli and Beat Huber
notre dame is burning.
this is ok.
it has happened before. it will happen again. it has been lost before. it will be lost again. and again. and again. and again. art and architecture are transient, and temporary, and 850 years may seem like a lot to the individual, who will live maybe 100 if they are very lucky and very healthy, but even the pyramids at saqqara have only existed for about 6000 years and that’s still not all that much, if you consider the grand scheme of things.
yes, this is terrible. as someone who is deeply religious and literally a professional historian with a focus on art and architecture, this is terrible. im mourning. im gutted. im horrified and upset and miserable. but.
it’s not over.
victor hugo wrote hunchback because notre dame du paris was in the process of collapsing and falling apart, and revitalized the entire world’s focus and love for this church, and that was not even 200 years ago. it led to it being renovated.
the roof has fallen in. the scars of fires are on its buttresses. the rose window has fallen out. the beams and piers have collapsed. the spire has toppled. the stones have suffered, and will suffer again, but it is not gone.
renovation work is essential. sometimes things collapse and burn and break and have to come back. it’s not a terrorist attack, it’s renovation, an accident, but we have so much evidence, history, carefully documented everything on one of the most studied places in the world.
it’s not the end.
Hey so, French person here. And also an ex History student. I’m here to say: Please listen to o.p. above.
Obviously everyone is shocked but here’s a few important key facts:
The roof is completely gone. Part of it dated back from the 13th century but the rest was from the 19th. The stone arch roof under the top roof is fine.
One of the three main stained glass rose windows has fallen out. Most of the other stained glass windows are okay.
The spire has fallen down and that’s the saddest part. BUT! It was in the process of being restored and the 16 statues that were there were removed just four days ago! So they’re fine.
The main structure is still here and nothing has “burned down” unlike what some people have been saying.
The “treasure” (sacred objects) is safe.
Notre Dame is still there. It’s just damaged. Almost nothing was lost today, and nobody was wounded either. It’s scary, but it’s gonna be okay.
Reminder that a good deal of the cathedral is stone, so it isn’t going to burn to the ground. Part of the genius of medieval architecture before steel was the invention of the buttress… the arch that allows weight to be taken off walls so you could use more glass. Unfortunately the glass will melt but it’s easy to replace. It unquestionably will be massively damaged but not destroyed.
Don’t feed ducks bread
It’s bad for them
Bread can cause their crops to become impacted. This is only fixable with surgery which almost all ducks, being on a farm or in the wild, don’t get.
It’s also just junk food, fills them up with no nutritional value. This leads to malnutrition, which can cause a disorder called angel wing
This goose’s flight feathers are destroyed, leaving it open to predators, and preventing them from migrating.
Please don’t feed ducks bread.
Instead feed them something yummy and good for them! Like watermelon, peas, or halved grapes.
It’s fun to feed the ducks that will let you, but please don’t do it at the cost of their health!
Spring is coming, don’t give water fowl bread!
Apparently sometimes ducks will starve bc ppl who used to feed them stop, so do still feed them! Ducks living in urban areas that are accustomed to human interaction aren’t totally wild animals, and can be dependent on humans.
Frozen peas are less than $1 a bag, which is comparable to saltine crackers, let’s feed the ducks healthy yums!
yesterday for April Fool’s my workplace had a short training article on recognizing computer-generated faces from real ones and one of the tricks mentioned was “count the teeth” and I just wanted to say that it’s both ironic and kind of horrifying how society has unwittingly cycled right back to IF YE MEET A MAN ON THE ROAD, COUNT HIS FINGERS LEST YE DEAL UNKNOWING WITH A FAE
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not to be That Guy but nobody cried this much when brazils national museum burned down in september, just goes to show how much people favor white history!!!
to be fair, i didn’t hear squat about this. i would have been just as unhappy about that event as this
and theres a reason you didnt hear squat about it!
because people favor white history!
notre dame got immediate coverage and attention, even though notre dame will be okay. even though the art has been saved and spared, even though it has happened before and will happen again
when the national museum of brazil burned in september, there was hardly any coverage. even though the majority of what had taken hundreds of years to collect had burned. even though the national museum of brazil was home to art from pompeii and egypt as well.
am i saying that what has been burned and demolished at notre dame isnt devastating? no. absolutely not.
but its real fucking telling what people care about when MULTIPLE people now have responded saying they hadnt even HEARD of brazils national museum burning lol
Y'all… The Museu Nacional (National Museum) held the largest collection in LATIN AMERICA.
The fire destroyed over 20 million relics. You read that right. 20 MILLION. Dinosaur fossils, mummies, and indigenous artefacts. More than 90% of the items the museum held were destroyed.
Notre Dame can still be repaired. It was already renovated 2 centuries ago. Notre Dame can be rebuilt. The historical items the Museu Nacional held CANNOT be replaced. The museum was absolutely DESTROYED.
The Declaration of Independence of my country was signed at this very museum. Throughout the fire, museum employees ran inside to rescue as many items as they could.
A lot of Latin America’s history fully VANISHED in this fire. This was a huge hit for us. Y'all care so much about white history and are freaking out over Notre Dame, when an event that destroyed much more history got no attention whatsoever from the international community.
I rest my case.
I’m furious. Furious over the fact that I didn’t even hear about it. In fact I haven’t even heard of this museum in school or around the internet. It sounds so precious and even though the notre dame was very devastating and sad, MILLIONS of pieces of history was destroyed in this museum but not a peep about it on the news?!?!? That’s really just wack. Kids can you say colonizers.
You know what’s also horrible? This fire destroyed whole LANGUAGES. There were records of extinct indigenous languages inside this museum, and they were destroyed. This fire caused God knows how many languages to be completely lost to time.
Unfortunately, the native peoples who spoke these languages were mostly killed, meaning that when records of their languages were destroyed, their entire CULTURES were gone. Imagine that.
Not to mention the dinosaur fossils that were destroyed. The native American mummies.
The fact that so little people outside of Brazil ever heard of this fire blows my mind.
I heard about it, and now I’m depressed about it all over again.