Category: The Beatles
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Ned Flanders’ Beatles Collection!!!
Ned Flanders, Homer Simpson’s highly religious next door neighbor, has got it going on with his secret Beatles collection! QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ If you like what you see, don’t forget to spread the word by hitting the “like” button on my Facebook page, Phil Maq!
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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: The Beatles Last Live Performance at Candlestick Park
After a tumultuous and crazy summer, The Beatles wrapped up what would be their third and final tour of the U.S. on August 29, 1966. So many events happened in the summer of 1966, some major ones that were unrelated to music, that the final tour stop at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park seemed anticlimactic. No…
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George Martin: The Fifth Beatle and Beyond
As I stayed up and waited for the final results of the Michigan State Primary, I received word from someone on Facebook that George Martin had passed. I have learned over time that one has to verify whether someone has really passed, but I knew in my heart that it was all too true. And…
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It Was 50 Years Ago Today: “Rubber Soul!!!”
When I was a wee lad, my family liked to go on “vacations.” It was an annual thing, like what a lot of people did by automobile. Since we didn’t have video games and I wasn’t into drawing, I was curious about the papers with the squiggly lines. Probably, to shut me up, someone took…
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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: “Help!” Premiere at The Warren Theater, Detroit, MI
https://youtu.be/1PWk3i9WT-8 I’m almost positive that this event didn’t happen fifty years ago today, but I know it was sometime in September. I was hanging around with a friend of mine who was several years older and lived in the Herman Gardens, a low income housing project on the west side of Detroit. I don’t remember…
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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: The Shea Stadium Concert, August 15, 1965!!!
https://youtu.be/Bt2d8JKtwiE Historically, The Beatles put together an unprecedented number of “firsts.” Many of which may never be duplicated again: The first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” the activity on the record charts in April 1964, the audience for the first performance of “All You Need Is Love,” and so on. In August 1965,…
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Paul Is Dead…Again??!!
There is an article on the internet that references Beatle drummer and soon to be Rock and Roll Hall of Fame solo artist Ringo Starr as having stated that the band actually did replace Paul McCartney with Billy Shears—a McCartney look-alike, after Paul died in a car crash. Since I have had some of my…
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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: Beatles ’65
As 1964 was coming to a close, I was well aware that The Beatles had a new album coming out on December 15th. AM radio was already crowded with airplay of “I Feel Fine” that was going to be included on “Beatles ’65.” I couldn’t wait! This was a time when things were changing for…
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“Blue Moon of Kentucky” by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr!!!
I was looking for “Blue Moon of Kentucky” by a different artist when I stumbled upon this little gem featuring three of The Beatles around the time of their Anthology sessions. Pretty cool!
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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: “A Hard Day’s Night!!!”
It may not have been exactly fifty years ago today, but it’s close enough. The weekend that The Beatles first movie, “A Hard Day’s Night” showed up in my local theater, The Warren Show, it was shown as a matinee starting at 10AM–which was very unusual back then. It didn’t matter to me, though. I…
