Looking forward to getting the latest, and presumably greatest, remastering of the Beatles’ cartoon feature Yellow Submarine on Blu-ray, available in America on May 29.
I assume it will include the exquisite remixes done for the original DVD release, that are available on the Yellow Submarine Songtrack.
It’s always a treat seeing pictures of Prue Bury for the first time. This one came from The Gilly on Tumblr. Prue was waiting for hairdresser Betty Glasow to take the pins out of her hair, and John pretended to cut it himself.
It’s interesting that John did that, in light of these comments by Prue:
John threw me by saying, “I hear you don’t like our singing!” Oops, what do I say to that? It is true that in one of the newspaper interviews I had said that I was impressed by their sharp repartee more than their singing! On reflection, a dumb thing to say. I plead nerves! Naturally I denied it and said the obvious, that one could never believe what one read in the press and wiggled out of it.
The boys were great fun on the train and kept Pattie and I laughing with their jokes. They were easy to get on with and natural in their behaviour, although John was the most reserved, and so when we were not shooting we sat and joked and smoked a lot… just cigarettes!! !! Ringo was mad about taking photos and snapped everything in sight, including me.
So even though John was the most reserved Beatle on that occasion, he was comfortable enough with Prue to play with her hair. But he didn’t get as silly as George did, wearing one of the hats the girls had — I assume it was Pattie’s. This picture is from the Yahoo group, Pattie Boyd’s Sixties Style.
All of these pictures were taken by Astrid Kirchherr, who signed this gallery print.
And here’s one of the snapshots that was taken by Ringo. I used it on Prue’s birthday last year. Lynn at Pattie Boyd’s Sixties Style did a great job of image editing to hide the page seam.
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Davy Jones has died. That’s all I know at the moment. Follow-up: Heart attack.
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Mike Nesmith has released this remembrance:
All the lovely people. Where do they all come from?
So many lovely and heartfelt messages of condolence and sympathy, I don’t know what to say, except my sincere thank you to all. I share and appreciate your feelings.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.
While it is jarring, and sometimes seems unjust, or strange, this transition we call dying and death is a constant in the mortal experience that we know almost nothing about. I am of the mind that it is a transition and I carry with me a certainty of the continuity of existence. While I don’t exactly know what happens in these times, there is an ongoing sense of life that reaches in my mind out far beyond the near horizons of mortality and into the reaches of infinity.
That David has stepped beyond my view causes me the sadness that it does many of you. I will miss him, but I won’t abandon him to mortality. I will think of him as existing within the animating life that insures existence. I will think of him and his family with that gentle regard in spite of all the contrary appearances on the mortal plane.
David’s spirit and soul live well in my heart, among all the lovely people, who remember with me the good times, and the healing times, that were created for so many, including us.
I have fond memories. I wish him safe travels.
I used this cool video a year ago yesterday, when it had 5.2 million hits. It’s now up to almost 7.8 million hits.
http://youtu.be/QEY6_jcrzI8
The first brand-new car I ever bought was a 1988 Mazda 323. It was okay for the first few years, but then it started having problems. I kept if for ten years, sold it with 125,000 miles on it, and I haven’t bought a Mazda since then. With gas prices headed back over four bucks per gallon, I don’t see performance as being a big selling point, but I sure do like Mazda’s new commercial with Bo Diddley doing Road Runner.
http://youtu.be/aAwnN8n2_-E
Here’s the complete original performance by Diddley. I don’t know where this was filmed, but I’d say it was in England or Europe.
http://youtu.be/WOOFx9c6qyA
On my Logitech Media Server network I’m listening to Barnes Newberry’s online radio show, My Back Pages. Barnes played a couple of songs by Emitt Rhodes, who’s one of those musicians that seemed to have all of the ingredients needed to be a big name, and yet superstardom eluded him. Rhodes did some excellent stuff, and I remember alternative FM station WBCN in Boston playing his solo album, with the song Fresh As a Daisy.
Emitt was only seventeen when his band The Merry-Go-Round had a minor hit with She’s a Very Lovely Woman, and it holds up very well today.
