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Tag Archives: The Beatles
“I’m trying to get people to see that we are our brother’s keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.” — B.B. King
WHAT a performance. And WHAT an audience. The mood – the back and forth – the communication going on – not just from up on the stage, but coming back at him from the crowd – is what live performance … Continue reading
Posted in Music, On This Day
Tagged B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Elvis Presley, Howlin' Wolf, Little Richard, Merle Haggard, Robert Johnson, Sam Phillips, The Beatles, Willie Nelson
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“That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!” — Harry Nilsson
My introduction, as shallow as this may seem, was through Reservoir Dogs. “You put the lime in the coconut”, etc. My brother said to me, “It’s a stupid song, and a little bit racist, and you think it’s just a … Continue reading
“Listen, I never meant to make money. I never wanted it. I’m a singer, man.” — Gene Vincent
The problem with Elvis is like the problem of, say, the sun. The sun blots out stars. The sun creates heat waves. The sun is a good thing but there’s a hell of a lot else going on besides the … Continue reading
Posted in Music, On This Day
Tagged Carl Perkins, Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent, The Beatles
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“Here I was, stuck in the middle of a dying nation with all these funny looking children who didn’t even realize the world was coming to an end, and now on top of everything else they expected me to turn my room into a hippie crash pad!” — Lester Bangs
It’s his birthday today. A lot of ink has been spilled on Lester Bangs, including on this site. My feelings for him are as chaotic as his writing style. There are times I read him and I think, almost wildly, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Music, On This Day, writers
Tagged David Bowie, Lester Bangs, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones
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2022 Books Read
Some re-reads this year, but a lot of new-to-me authors as well. New novels written by faves. Been a year of upheaval and transitions. I’ve managed to keep up my regular reading schedule. I just don’t feel right if I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Alfred Hitchcock, Anne Fadiman, art, Australia, Biography, books read, Canada, Christopher Hitchens, culture, Edmund Burke, Elinor Lipman, England, entertainment biography, essays, Eve Babitz, fiction, friends, Germany, Greece, history, Hitler, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Joseph Cornell, Lorrie Moore, Machiavelli, Master and Margarita, Memoirs, Michael Curtiz, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mitfords, nonfiction, novel, Paul Zindel, politics, Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro, Russia, Ryszard Kapuściński, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, The Beatles, Tom Wolfe, true crime, Victor Klemperer, Victor Serge, war, William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth, WWII, YA fiction
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Dynamic Duo #32
Paul McCartney and John Lennon, writing “I Saw Her Standing There” together, Nov. 1962, at the McCartney home in Liverpool. Taken by Paul’s brother Mike.
Stuff I’ve been reading
— This L.A. Times essay about Covid brain fog – and so much more – by Mary McNamara is a WILD ride, but it said a lot of the things I’ve been feeling about … everything, everywhere, all at once. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Personal
Tagged Australia, Christopher Hitchens, England, Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, stuff I've been reading, The Beatles
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Dynamic Duo #31
Stu Sutcliffe and Astrid Kirchherr
George Harrison on Eddie Cochran
George Harrison, on seeing Eddie Cochran live in Liverpool, March 1960, a month before Cochran was killed: Eddie blew me away. He had his unwound 3rd string, looked good and sang good and he was really getting to be a … Continue reading