
Today is Prue’s birthday, and I am hoping to arrange something very special for her. I’ve had a “Why didn’t I think of this before??” brainstorm.
There is something that I have promised to Prue, that’s long overdue, and I’m not quite ready to deliver. So I’m feeling very guilty about that, but Mary Quant’s passing requires me to contact Prue for a comment.
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.