Star Wars? A piffle, compared to the Beatles!
Category: Music
Still Real Intelligence
Only remastered, not remixed with AI behind it. Which explains why John’s voice sounds the same as it does in the original. The photo appears to not be real, but an assemblage of separate images.
Won’t Get Who’d Again
Last December, despite wearing earplugs, I came away from the Micky Dolenz show at Boston’s City Winery with a fairly persistent whistling sound in my left ear.
Could my sensitivity have been related to last year’s cancer treatments? Perhaps. What about the fact I’ve had sinus trouble in the past that temporarily affected my ears? I suppose that could be a factor.
But I’m not going to take any chances.
To preserve my hearing as much as possible, I will no longer attend live concerts. The loudest of them ever was fifty years ago, seeing the Who with Denro, in December, 1975. I saw the two Who who are left, Pete and Roger, at Fenway Park in 2019. So, I was able to resist the urge to see them there again last night.
https://www.boston.com/culture/concert-reviews/2025/08/27/the-who-fenway-park/
From Yesterday to Tomorrow
There were only about ten months between Paul recording his sweet and safe ‘Yesterday’…
… and John recording his strange and unsettling ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’.
That cartoon offers at least a suggestion of what came later from the same producer, Al Brodax, with the fabtabulous animated feature Yellow Submarine.
The Wonder of it Wall
Obscure to all but the more than merely casual Beatles fans, is George Harrison’s Wonderwall Music, from 1968.
It’s actually the soundtrack album to an obscure movie.
Wonderwall the movie is now less obscure, being available for free streaming on Tubi.
33+45=78
Debbie Daughtry says Boss Radio 66 DJ Tom Hanks is back with a new “Songs From the Back of the Station Wagon.” According to Debbie, he’ll be spinning the tables at 78 rpm!
Here’s the show schedule:
https://www.bossradio66.com/2025/08/78s-from-back-of-station-wagon.html
Here’s a player:
Get listening!