I haven’t written anything for a week, which is a rather sorry lead-in to today, being five years since I started this weblog. Five years was the time between the Beatles coming to America and the Let It Be rooftop concert. This past week I’ve been reading and running and thinking and ripping CD’s in WMA lossless format, to be played on the super-sounding Logitech Touch. This screenshot is from the free Windows application that works with the free Logitech music server software.
Here’s a photo Rolling Stone magazine posted that really knocks me out, man.
There’s George Harrison, in his Beatle suit, September 1963 (possibly early October), at the height of Beatlemania in England, but he was in New York, unknown and anonymous! I wonder if anybody who saw George that day at the Empire State Building recognized him 4-5 months later when the Beatles arrived in New York?
I would suppose his family has the film, if it exists. George and his brother Peter were in Benton, Illinois for most of the visit, to see their sister Louise.
Of equal interest would be the 8 mm film he took that day. Wonder if it still exists somewhere.