The Beatles

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7xr3gu

^^ Documentary from BBC Radio 2's 'The Producers' series about George Martin, m4a format

Note item number 5:
http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/imagecache/750x970/documents/0418051beatles3_0.gif

The Beatles rule.

Maybe they wouldn't perform before segregated audiences, but that didn't stop them from demanding a bowl of jelly babies in their dressing room with all the brown ones removed.

You don't get brown ones.

Jacko did have brown M&Ms removed from his rider, though - friend of mine did the catering when Uri Geller took him to an Exeter City match a few years ago.

read Crazy From The Heat nick

You don't get brown ones.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 09:52 (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Boy, did the Beatles have clout in those days!

It was Mal Evans who had the job of separating them

wonder what flavour a brown jelly baby would be? Something kind of disturbing about the concept

i'm thinking gravy

Coffee jelly baby, anyone?

Lewisohn book finally ready for October.

http://www.thebeatlesbiography.com/images/packshot2.jpg

http://www.thebeatlesbiography.com/

holding out for vol 3 drop out

such a terrible cover, it's making me really mad

yeah innit awful. also the title 'All These Years' is dull too.

it's a mess i hate it raagh

also it looks like a cross between a new Singstar and Now That's What I Call Beatles

He should've called it "Fuck you, pay me." You know we're all going to.

;_; true

Let's just buy one (1) copy and pass it amongst ILXors. Think of the anticipation for the inevitable thread.

oh whoa that's a cool idea

i vote you buy it

:D

£120 for the deluxe edition 0__o

DO NOT TEMPT ME VG I AM DRUNK AND WILL PRE ORDER.

cmon phil do it we'll be yr best friend

Like I'm gonna fall for THAT again.

http://blogs.menshealth.com/health-headlines/files/2011/04/105754331.jpg

more complicated bollocks about the book

Also, the U.S. regular edition will be longer than the U.K. regular edition by 50,000 words (it's not clear if that is just due to endnotes, which are included in the U.S. edition but not the U.K. edition -- 50,000 words sounds like A LOT of endnotes). But the extended "author's cut" will be available only from the U.K. "for at least this year" because the U.S. publisher hasn't decided to take it yet.

http://www.examiner.com/article/mark-lewisohn-reveals-major-details-on-first-volume-of-his-beatles-bio-trilogy?CID=examiner_alerts_article

the U.S. regular edition will be longer than the U.K. regular edition by 50,000 words

30,000 word footnote on Albert Stubbins

Is there a mistake on the graph upthread? It says Julia has a collaborator and far as I know it's pretty much a Lennon solo track.

I think he borrowed a line from a Japanese poet or someone.

Or Lebanese, you know, same thing as Japanese.

http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/julia/

i just pre-ordered the big kahuna....do we projected years for the other vols to come out?

"have" projected years

i think the lateness of this one suggests that the next 2 vols are coming out much sooner/ closer together than first anticipated.

OK thanks, Piscesx

Wow, so it turns out my favorite line in Julia is borrowed and not only that but the original line is way deeper 'Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you'.

Thats a beautiful thought. Kind of ruins Julia for me now, though.

http://www.openculture.com/2013/05/eric_claptons_isolated_guitar_track_from_the_classic_beatles_song_while_my_guitar_gently_weeps_1968.html

So many ilx Beatles threads, so I may have missed this being posted elsewhere (on a Clapton thread maybe).

The acoustic White Album demo tape link is nice here as well

I wish people would be more interested in picking apart recordings by bands that aren't The Beatles.

haha yeah it is pretty funny -- we were driving somewhere last Sunday, and listening to one of those breakfast with the beatles things on the radio, and the DJ was listing off all of these obscure facts/dates etc. and i was wondering if there was any other pop cultural phenomenon that allowed for such deep nerdiness.

A friend of mine recently gave me a CD set of the "Let it Be" sessions, complete with in-studio chatter, rehearsals, false starts, etc. I turned it off after five minutes and returned it to him. I don't get the fascination with listening to famous musicians tune guitars.

I understand not wanting to hear the tuning stuff, but I did like hearing John Lennon's early version of "Jealous Guy" (with some different words) on that openculture site I posted.

It's just that... after 51 years since 'Love Me Do' came out, is there really anything else that can be said about this band and their output? There's no doubt in my mind that all of us here know the entire story of their history from front-to-back: the amount of documentaries and books that have been written are already staggering. It's at the point now where if you want to know when something was recorded, what takes were used for the final masters, what the Beatles did on what day of their existence, when John Lennon curled a shit out on the toilet... I mean, it can all be found pretty easily. Even the vaults have already been more than well-mined, and a lot of the stuff that didn't make it onto the Anthologies can be found on the internet somewhere. How many more times is George Martin going to sit in a studio going through the master tapes saying "...and John introduces it by saying 'Sugarplum Fairy'" and suchlike. I suspect there's next-to-no minutiae left, and part of me is frustrated that other bands haven't inspired this level of geeky fandom in the 40+ years since the band broke up... I mean, Radiohead are pretty damn massive (regardless of how one feels about their music), but you don't see them being dissected in anywhere near the same way. Maybe the wacky fuckers in their audience will cook up a conspiracy theory or two a la 'Paul Is Dead', and maybe they keep their gigography stats mega up-to-date, but that's about it.

Don't get me wrong, folks, I like The Beatles and their output as much as anyone, but I think mining for more stuff at this stage is just incredibly fruitless. It would be even great to read something that documents their solo work with the same level of analytical detail and insight... now that would be far more interesting to me than reading about tape-loops on 'Tomorrow Never Knows' or the orchestra on 'A Day In The Life' for the billionth time.

lol @ "this doesn't sound enough like the Beatles... let's run it through an ADT!"

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part of me is frustrated that other bands haven't inspired this level of geeky fandom

Just ignore the Beatlemania then. Believe me, as someone who posts on the Chitlin Circuit southern soul thread with just XChuckxx I also know about music that does not inspire geeky fandom (or at least not here on ilx). I also read a Yahoo soul thread by folks digging up obscure 60s soul minutia--every city in America seemingly had soul artists then.

and the DJ was listing off all of these obscure facts/dates etc. and i was wondering if there was any other pop cultural phenomenon that allowed for such deep nerdiness.

You have perhaps heard of this new thing, "Science fiction?"

Listen to Phil Schaap's radio show sometime. His Charlie Parker talk puts Beatles nerds to shame.