George Harrison is resting his arm

This is nothing interesting to follow, just me liking the things I want to keep, like a collection for myself

[muzaktomyears]

“Horst Fascher gave me a bunch of flowers, and I threw them back because I thought that he was insinuating that I was a poof. It was hard to calm him down because he wanted to kill me. Apparently, giving flowers was one of the biggest compliments he could have paid me.” - Mark Peters (The Silhouettes)

The Beatles in Hamburg, Spencer Leigh (2011)

[hqbeatles]

[subaru-copilot]

[certifiedbeatlesposts]

certified beatles post

[muzaktomyears]

Most English schools taught French as the main foreign language, but some pupils had learned German. Fortunately, Paul McCartney, who had attended Liverpool Institute, was one of them, and this helped the Beatles to engage with the fans. Dicky Tarrach from the German band, the Rattles, recalls, “The Beatles were the first guys I had seen who talked to the audience. All the other bands said, “Thank you, the next song is…” The Beatles made jokes onstage, they were very intelligent, and they had German girlfriends and so they were learning the language, and they spoke a mixture of German and English to the audience. John Lennon had a toilet seat round his head once. They were laughing a lot and that inspired us to tell little stories and to talk to the audience.” Later, John brought a photograph of himself with that toilet seat back to Liverpool and gave it to Bill Harry for inclusion in Mersey Beat. A horrified Brian Epstein rushed to Harry’s office to reclaim it before publication. McCartney developed boundless self-confidence in those years, as illustrated by this anecdote from Bobby Thomson of the Dominoes. “Paul spoke fluent German and I saw him teaching the Germans to speak English. He said, ‘Here's a good word – banana.’ The whole crowd went ‘Banana.’ You can imagine what that sounded like. Then he said ‘Apple’ and they went ‘Apple.’ He said, ‘Here’s a very hard one—Orange.’ They all yelled ‘Orange,’ except for this one voice at the back which went ‘Banana.’”

The Beatles in Hamburg, Spencer Leigh (2011)

[fuckyeahpaulmccartney]

[hqbeatles]

[jonesbrianshining]

John Lennon

[menlove]

they're playing horse together I don't even care

[delightfullyatomicfest]

When We Was Fab: Inside the Beatles Australasian Tour 1964 by Andy Neill and Greg Armstrong

I’ve stolen this off a Facebook group but feel it needs to be seen on tumblr.

[robindotcom]

3 things:

1) only cooking for him and john. okay.

2) the apron??? its patterned so they must have bought it bc a hotel’s probably would be plain

3) john not denying the housewife thing???

[tboys4georgemartin]

[torchlitinthedesert]

I feel fans of 1968 hot mess Paul need to know about the Lamborghini incident, as told to Octane car magazine:

‘I decided I’d get a Lamborghini. I’m not exactly sure when, but it was towards the end of the ’60s. January ’68 sounds about right. It was red, I liked it, a flash motor. I went everywhere in it.

‘My main recollection is of breaking down in Soho, on one of those long streets leading down to Wardour Street. I’m tooling along and she breaks down, conks out… So, I’m on my own, out of the car, pushing it in broad daylight down the street, and I can hear the workmen: “Nice car, Paul! Bit of trouble?” Taking the piss something rotten, you know, but I suppose I deserved it.’

Mark Dixon, Was this Paul McCartney’s Lamborghini 400GT?, Octane

[draconym]

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

[draconym]

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

[subaru-copilot]

[prokopetz]

If you think about it, all these thinkpieces about how Millenials are “killing” various industries reveal a pretty colossal sense of entitlement.

Under normal circumstances, if a given industry finds itself unable to sell products to a given market demographic, we’d say it’s that industry’s fault for failing to offer products that that demographic is interested in buying.

It only makes sense to blame the target demographic itself is if we’re assuming that the established industries have some intrinsic right to that demographic’s disposable income that’s being denied - which is clearly nonsense.

And I thought Millennials were supposed to be the entitled ones?

[unicornempire]

Thank you for putting into words one of the factors that has rubbed me the wrong way about the litany of articles and quotes about how Millennials are Ruining Everything ™. 

Like, I have worked very hard to put out real, genuine quality stuff. The best that I can make while offering it at a reasonable price, because a business transaction should be fair; you get a good product, the business makes some profit, everyone walks away happy. I am not even that old, and I have already seen a significant decline in the quality, craftsmanship, materials and labor sources in almost all of my purchases compares to the items that my family bought when I was growing up- and I’m talking the expensive stuff, too! We have bought two Dysons from Costco in the last two years (returned both, thank god for Costco’s return policy!) and neither one functioned as well as Megan’s old parent’s Dyson that was made in the 80′s. My grandmother has an old metal sewing machine that has been kicking longer than I have but I’ve been through about four sewing machines in my lifetime, each one managed to last twoish years. And these are the things off the top of my head, and it goes all the way down. Like how they started manufacturing secretly-smaller containers for things with the bubble on the bottom so you don’t notice there’s less product inside, or how Charmin made their rolls ‘shorter’ than they used to be but they are still technically the same number of ‘sheets’- I mean, I know I sound a little crazy, but if you’re Charmin and you reduce the amount of paper material per-roll by even a single penny, even a fraction of a penny, it would add up to much bigger profits; and a bigger expense passed on to the consumer, who won’t notice that the rolls are an inch shorter (except me because I’m weird that way)

I see companies constantly finding ways to cut corners, pay employees less, and put out crappier merchandise, and then go “Why won’t anyone buy this stuff?!” and I just don’t get why they’re confused. 

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

I’m resurrecting an ancient post, because nothing here has changed in the intervening time. The recent post about “tech hoarding” because people aren’t buying new phones on a regular schedule reminded me.

The companies definitely now feel entitled to profit and business, rather than earning it.

[icereader12]

See now: “how dare Gen z not buy alcohol”

I’m sorry you priced people out of your product. That’s your fault, though.

[giveyourhearttosomebody]

[giveyourhearttosomebody]

[verkool]

weird to me that jim went to the premiere of how i won the war. just imagine him sitting there watching sweaty john in a tank top going “yeah maybe i had a reason to hate this kid” and paul prolly had a boner. just an after thought though