A tip o’ the Dog Rat toupee to tastewar for catching a video tour, posted today, of Studio 2 at Abbey Road. The place was known as EMI studios when the Beatles were recording there. There’s a lot of tech talk about vintage gear.
Studio 2 is a huge room for pop music recording, and there’s discussion about the room’s acoustics. This early Beatles recording, engineered by Norman “Hurricane” Smith, is a good example of the effect of the room on the sound.
When the Beatles were close to landing in New York, 59 years ago today, DJ Bob “Bob-a-Loo” Lewis was on 77 Musicradio WABC.
The Word has returned!
Say The Word and you’ll be free.
Prue says that Ringo was the “snap-happy” Beatle, taking pictures on the set of A Hard Day’s Night. He took this one of her.
That was in March, 1964. Until that month it was Paul who had been the shutterbug.
A Beatles curiosity. Side 2 of Abbey Road has George’s “Here Comes the Sun.”
It’s followed by John’s “(Here Comes the) Sun King.”
A case of John influencing George, or perhaps it was George influencing John? Or was it just a coincidence?
Glass Onion the movie is, of course, a reference to the song “Glass Onion” on the Beatles’ so-called White Album. The movie is a lot of fun, with Daniel Craig reprising his role from Knives Out. A parallel between Craig’s character, consulting detective Benoit Blanc, and Sherlock Holmes, is revealed in a cameo appearance by another British actor.
The premise of the movie borrows from Agatha Christie’s famous story “Ten Little Indians,” which was retitled “And There Were None” in the United States. The reference to “Indians” was itself changed from something else, as explained in the Wikipedia entry for the story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None
The movie also borrows from the video game Myst, which is coming up on its 30th anniversary. The comparison is made explicit in a 3D tour of Glass Onion Island.
The island doesn’t exist, but the special effects making it seem like a real place are utterly convincing.
Taking the virtual island tour doesn’t require a Netflix account.
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/glass-onion-knives-out-island
