Here’s a minute of what we were doing tonight… seeing Ringo! Hard to believe he’s about to turn 70.
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Category: Music
A Kink kicks
Since returning from North Carolina I’m trying to get caught up on things I missed, and I’ve just learned that the Kinks’ original bassist, Pete Quaife, has died. How did all of these guys who were in their 20’s in the 1960’s get to be in their 60’s?? Don’t answer that!
… But all I’ve got is a photograph…
Happy birthday to Paul McCartney. Denro has pointed out that Rolling Stone has some photos of the Beatles from their first American tour that you’ve never seen before. Will there ever be an end of newly-discovered and/or released Beatles material? Not in my lifetime, I hope.
Swift boating
Major eye & ear candy superstar Taylor Swift was in town yesterday, ending her tour. She filled Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA (home of the N.E. Patriots) with 56,000 fans, matching the attendance at Shea Stadium for the Beatles in 1965. Good thing she isn’t here today, because we are suddenly having the seriously bad rainy weather that hit the Midwest yesterday, that is undoubtedly affecting WUMB’s music festival right now.
(Wait! It’s sunny! No, it’s dark with downpours again! Now it’s clearing up….!)
Tuesday evening stuff
Turner Classic Movies is, at this moment, showing D.W. Griffith’s first version of The Squaw Man. Who else but TCM would show a silent movie from 1914 at 8 pm ET?
Fifty five years later, the Beatles recorded and filmed Let It Be, and that was, oh, only, uh, forty one years ago. Yikes! Who else but the BBC would have a radio documentary on the making of Let It Be? Click here to listen, but do it before next Monday.
BTW, Paul will be at the White House on July 2.
Hollywood Bowl Blow
We saw Paul McCartney at Fenway Park in Boston last August, and he’s still out there touring, doing clusters of cities. In April he was at the Hollywood Bowl, playing for nearly three hours. But back in ’64 and ’65, when the Beatles played the Hollywood Bowl they were on stage for a lot less time.
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(Audio from Beatles Source)