If this isn’t the best TV appearance the Beatles ever made, it’s the best one they did on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Category: Beatles
Beatles in colour
When Denro and I were at the Boston Super Megafest concert, we were given our choice of two photo prints, and these were my picks. The microphone in this one is from channel 7 in New York, and it looks like it was taken in ’65. I’ll see if I can get a fix on the exact date.
And this is a somewhat curious pic of Paul, maybe also from ’65, with his left eye looking like mine did after surgery.
How Do You Do It?
For Andrew Chapman: Following the steps I put on Facebook, here’s the extracted MP3 from the FLV downloaded from YouTube.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2010/NOV/The Beatles-Getting Better-Isolatedvocals.mp3]Here’s one I particularly like.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2010/NOV/HelloGoodbye_Instrumental.mp3]Astrid sight and sound
Astrid Kirchherr has a new book of photos. Fresh Air with Terry Gross repeats an interview with Astrid from a couple of years ago.
This is my favorite photograph taken by Astrid. I gave five glossy 8×10 prints of it to Prue when I saw her in New York.
Remembering Lennon
Reminder: American Masters on PBS has a documentary about John Lennon’s years in NYC. I guess that’s what makes it American.
Watch the full episode. See more American Masters.
A Washington rally for hysteria
Today, the concrete structure that had been the Washington D.C. Coliseum looks like this…
… but on February 11, 1964, it was the site of the first Beatles concert in America. The show was taped by CBS. Pieces of it are available on YouTube, but as part of Apple’s promotion of the Beatles catalog being available on iTunes, the complete concert can be seen at this link. Here’s a preview. The narrator isn’t credited, but it sounds like the BBC’s Paul Gambaccini.
The technical setup for the show was pitifully primitive, but the excitement and energy were incredible. Just three years later, there would be “Strawberry Fields Forever”.