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.
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.
From a few weeks after “Love Me Do” was released in England, a Beatles interview. The lads are still sounding a bit uncertain about it all, and Ringo admits he’s been in the band “nine weeks now.”
Historian Mark Lewisohn described them as “whippet-thin under-nourished lads” following their tour to Germany.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-63110249
(They took a lot of uppers in Hamburg.)
A Hard Day’s Night
Star Wars
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.
Did I know that Phil Spector covered a Beatles-written song in 1964? Don’t think so, to my chagrin.*
“Hold Me Tight” is an early example of the unusual quality the Beatles had. John and Paul’s potential as song writers was, after all, why they were signed by EMI, as I explained here.
Even as a little kid, some of their songs sounded different to me, even strange. As heard from Paul…
… and from John.
* It can be inferred from the credit “Engineer: Larry Levine” that the record was produced at Gold Star Studios.
