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Category: Beatles
Please Tease Me
Thirty years after the Beatles 3-part Anthology TV series, with companion CDs/LPs and a big book, TheBeatles.com is teasing the coming of Anthology 4.
Thirty years ago, the best way to see the Anthology TV series was an expanded edition on LaserDisc video.
Six months ago, Andrew at Parlogram suggested the need for A4.
The Merry Patreon Marching Society
A while ago, I trimmed back a couple of my Patreon subscriptions to focus on a few favorites; one about audio, one about comic book art, and one about the Beatles
- Audio Unleashed is a podcast with Brent Butterworth and Dennis Burger. Brent is a friend of a friend, from when they worked at Dolby Labs.
- Artist Colleen Doran I know well enough to say I consider her to be a friend.
- Andrew’s Parlogram videos are mostly about the Beatles. Another Andrew of impeccable quality and integrity, named Sandoval, who I have met, has given a thumbs-up to Andrew’s work.
What I’m Watching
Defunded PBS is fundraising with ‘Deconstructing the Beatles’.
HELP! Pythons!
When starting this bloggy, with its 19th anniversary coming up on 9/5, I added a gallery section that is no longer working. The first thing I put in there were scans of a fumetti (photo comic) from the May, 1965 issue of Harvey Kurtzman’s HELP! magazine.
Not to be confused with the 1965 Beatles movie HELP! that had not yet been named when the January, 1965 issue of HELP! was published.
“Christopher’s Punctured Romance” starred John Cleese as a man with an unhealthy interest in his daughter’s Barbie doll. It starts on page 17.
Terry Gilliam started at HELP! when Gloria Steinem — yes, her — was leaving. Gilliam was the art director at HELP! when he met John Cleese in New York, and “Christopher’s Punctured Romance” was the result.
When Gilliam followed Cleese to England, he recruited Robert Crumb to be his replacement. Crumb arrived just as HELP! publisher James Warren was shutting it down.
I first heard about this amazing sequence of events from Harvey Kurtzman at a Boston NewCon, in 1975 or ’76. Maybe Denro remembers better than I do.
Kat Claws Her Way In
I was fifteen when my friend Kathei Logue told me how, a mere seven years before then, she had met the Beatles.
You’ve read the blog post, now see the movie! 😉