Something monumental happened on July 6th, 1957. John Lennon met Paul McCartney. It was at the Woolton Church fete. Wikipedia has the story: On Saturday 6 July 1957 [The Quarrymen] played at St. Peter’s Church garden fête. In the afternoon they played on a stage in a field behind the church. After the set, IvanContinue reading “On Fifty Years Ago Today”
Tag Archives: The-Beatles
On Aches and Pains
Yesterday. Oh, yesterday. I was in pain. I had a minor migraine. I was drowsy. My foot was killing me. Mid-afternoon, I went for a cup of coffee. I’d been hobbling all day. The pain had almost worked itself out. I’d been listening to some John Lennon on my computer while I wrote short featuresContinue reading “On Aches and Pains”
On a Whole Lotta Beatles
This may be excessive. I have twenty-seven hours of the Beatles on my computer’s hard drive. Twenty-seven hours. That’s more than a day! A day of Beatles! And then some! The thirteen albums they released between Please Please Me and Let It Be, plus the assorted singles, only total twelve hours. The albums of theContinue reading “On a Whole Lotta Beatles”
On a Cool Judge
When I was in college I’d play a little game with the papers I’d write–I’d sneak in Beatles lyrics. Sometimes it was a little challenging to find the right lyric to fit a paper on, say, the SDI ballistic missile defense program. Sometimes it would work. Sometimes it wouldn’t. But it was a game, andContinue reading “On a Cool Judge”
On the Sgt Pepper Anniversary
Yesterday, in honor of the 40th-anniversary of the release of Sgt Pepper, I listened to the album, both the original and two cover versions, several times. I listened to it before I went to work. 🙂 I wore my Sgt Pepper tie to work. I listened to it again when I got home from work.Continue reading “On the Sgt Pepper Anniversary”
On Forty Years Ago Today
It was forty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play They’ve been going in and out of style But they’re guaranteed to raise a smile So may me introduce to you The act you’ve known for all these years Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Forty years ago today the Beatles releasedContinue reading “On Forty Years Ago Today”
On Being a Beatles Song
Looking for something completely unrelated I stumbled across this quiz. Isn’t Google grand? 🙂 And the questions aren’t obvious. One thing with a lot of these ‘net quizzes is that the questions are rather… limited. You can tell, generally, how your result will turn out. These questions? Completely random. Honestly, they’ve nothing to do withContinue reading “On Being a Beatles Song”
On Across the Universe
Before Spider-Man 3 there was a trailer for a film I’d never heard of before–Across the Universe. The trailer started to unspool–a young man, shaggy hair, sitting on a beach, a wry smile on his face, singing a Beatles song. “Girl,” from Rubber Soul. I love that song. Five seconds. The trailer had me. “Girl.”Continue reading “On Across the Universe”
On The Beatles in Doctor Who
I was browsing the forums at Outpost Gallifrey the other day and came across a thread that asked, “Should Doctor Who do a Beatles episode?” That caught my attention. 🙂 A clip of the Beatles appears in “The Chase” — and had the scheduling worked out the Beatles might’ve appeared in the story. Ian’s familiarContinue reading “On The Beatles in Doctor Who”
On More WordPress Work
It’s a Sunday, so that means “Let’s mess around with WordPress!” Today was no exception. Changes were made, but they’re nothing that you, readers, would see. Rather, I installed two new plug-ins that make changes on the backend that I see when I write posts, approve comments, and the like. The one front-end change IContinue reading “On More WordPress Work”