Category: Beatles

Brideshead Revisited Revisited

I greatly admire the superb television production of Brideshead Revisited, that I first watched on a 19-inch black & white TV when it originally aired in 1981. Brideshead is as far from British Kitchen Sink Realism as it gets, this side of Shakespeare.

The series was co-directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, whose name was heard often a year ago when Disney released The Beatles: Get Back. Lindsay-Hogg directed Let It Be, and his original reels of film were used by Peter Jackson for his project.

The complete Brideshead series is here, although the playlist has the eleven episodes out of order. I’ll leave it to you to sort them out from the drop-down menu.

They Said They Said

Click the pic to hear an interview with John and Paul from August ’66, upon the release of Revolver, although the album is not even mentioned by name. You’ll hear some cover versions of Beatles songs you probably haven’t heard before. The BBC will expire this link in one week.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon during rehearsal for “Saturday Club” on 21st December 1963.

P.S. The sound on this tape is in pristine condition. With headphones, even a clock ticking in the background at Paul’s house is clearly heard.

Lights! Camera! Magic!

Having watched part 2 of Light & Magic on Disney+…

… I could be completely happy seeing only the first two installments…

… because as familiar as I was with the story behind the making of Star Wars…

… this documentary really brings back the delighted amazement I felt…

… of seeing it in a movie theater in 1977.

Ralph McQuarrie’s paintings were, for George Lucas, what the Decca audition tape was for the Beatles — the thing that sold the Big Thing. Speaking of the Beatles, Light & Magic makes for quite a contrast with the other big multi-part documentary that’s on Disney+, Get Back. One shows the struggles at the beginning…

… and the other shows the struggles at the end.