The world is still waiting for the Trump Phone. There’s a T1 on the back with a meaning that, I’m sure, is lost on members of the Trump family. It refers to digital telephony technology.
But there’s something else about that tall “T” bringing something to mind. What could it be?
Oh, yeah. This.
An official Beatles holiday collection.
Curiously, it doesn’t include the UK fan club records.
https://www.beatlesagain.com/beatles-christmas-records.html
I’m about to start watching this extended interview with Sean. Incredibly, he’s now 50 years old.
Sean was a contributor to the Oscar-winning WAR IS OVER! animated short.
I’m a day late with this clip from Monday’s Jeopardy! That’s okay, because the clue is also late. It would have been more poignantly timed on December 8.
For multiple reasons, including watching the re-release of the Beatles Anthology on Disney+, I’ve been out of blogging mode. I’ll get back in the groove.
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, ‘The Beatles did’.” – Kurt Vonnegut, 1997
I’ve always been as much amazed as amused by the British comedic thread running from the Goon Show with Peter Sellers, to the Beatles, then to the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and Monty Python.
Michael Palin has said there wouldn’t have been Monty Python without the Bonzos. Would the comedy troupe have existed if the Beatles hadn’t first changed the world? Palin talks about what the Beatles made possible for others in their wake, in this 2012 interview.
