What’s happening right now at the most famous crosswalk in music history?
http://www.abbeyroad.com/visit/#
And click here to see Prue Bury’s favorite Beatles band, Los Brandys, working inside of the fabled Abbey Road recording studios.
Amazing Factoid
When “Star Wars” came out in 1977, Carrie Fisher’s mother, Debbie Reynolds — an eclipsed star from the bygone era of classic Hollywood — was 45.
Prue Bury à la TV Française
Kudos to Microsoft’s Bing for coming up with this link that Google missed, about the Beatles Weekend held in Ouistreham, Normandy, France back in November. But I wish there were more of Prue in the video.
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The Captain and Petula
According to PetulaClark.net, Pet appeared on “Captain Kangaroo” in 1976. I looked through a book about the program my sister Jeanie Beanie gave me for Christmas some years back, and I found this.
Petula was 43 in this picture, and looked 30, while Keeshan was only 48 or 49, but looked 65.
Españoles en las Obras
Prue Bury with Beatles band Los Brandys. Hold your mouse over the picture…
Chabon on Petula
Most serious comic book fans — that’s not a contradiction in terms — have read “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” by Michael Chabon, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel.
More recently, Chabon has a book of essays that I have not yet read, called “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son.” Terry Gross interviewed Chabon about the book a few months ago.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2010/JAN/FreshAirMichaelChabon.mp3]Most serious music fans know the name of critic Ben Fong-Torres, who was portrayed in the movie “Almost Famous.” Yesterday, he commented on something Chabon said in one of his essays.
He [Chabon] recalled a visit to a doctor’s office when he was 4, in downtown Phoenix. His mother promised a restaurant lunch afterward as a reward. He heard “Downtown” over the radio in the office. “Things will be great,” Petula Clark sang, and Chabon has never forgotten. “When I hear Petula Clark on the radio now,” he wrote, “I feel this wave of something old and powerful flowing through my chest and my belly, a bodily remembering of that crucial early-childhood compound of anxiety and the promise of a treat.”
