Ever been caught in a guetapens?
A what? Guetapens. It means ambush. As I'm sure most of us know... That was the winning word for 14 year old Snigdha Nandipati in the National Spelling Bee in the States. She won $30,000 and sundry...
View ArticleBook of Dreams
In a recent article in the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/04/obama-presidency-cru...) I read that when a student at Harvard, Barack Obama "carried around a dog-eared copy of...
View ArticleBeatles bootlegs - where did they come from?
Some years ago I worked with a (now) well-known film director who was/is an obsessive Beatles fan. He gave me a few duplicate copies of some vinyl bootlegs and made me cassettes of others. He told me...
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What was once cool...
I got the new Shawn Colvin album, All Fall Down last week. I was looking at the cover photo last night and was struck by something extraordinary about it: At first glance nothing unusual, but look in...
View ArticleBeatles, in book form.
Esteemed colleagues. I have recently read Brian Epstein's 'A Cellarful of Noise', and Derek Taylor's 'As Time Goes By' and they've put me in the mood, literary wise, for some serious Beatles history....
View ArticleBad Beatles Song ? No Such Thing...
Ok, yet another HJH thread, but please indulge me for just a little while. Like so many in the known universe, the HJH are the cornerstone of my musical world. I like to think it's a very varied world...
View ArticleJohn Lennon - THE VOICE of A Hard Day's Night
Random CD selection on a car trip - A Hard Day's Night. 1st 3 songs - Lennon lead vocal. Then a George. Then John again. And eventually on Track 5 we hear young Paul. Anyway I had forgotten how...
View ArticleSo Much So Young
Reading through a Rock Trivia book last night,I came across these facts about The Beatles which made me stop and re-read it a couple of times. When Sgt Pepper was released on 1st June 1967(their 8th...
View ArticleThis was always a good piece...
...but now it has even more resonance: http://skirky.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/how-mark-ellen-made-me-rock-dad.htm...
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