It occurs to me, as I sit here drinking my morning coffee, that today is the Fifth of November. Guy Fawkes Day. The Gunpowder Plot isn’t something that Americans think of often, if ever. It’s a footnote in history books. I took a class in college on Stuart England, and Guy Fawkes got maybe aContinue reading “On Guy Fawkes Day”
Tag Archives: John-Lennon
On “Now and Then”
A week ago I came across this on a Beatles blog I read occasionally — someone has done a video for the John Lennon demo of “Now and Then,” the song the surviving Beatles worked on in the 1990s and left unfinished. The version of the song in the video is intriguing. It’s a decentContinue reading “On “Now and Then””
On Time and Music
I’ve recently added my John Lennon collection to the computer’s hard drive. How long is it? Try fourteen hours. It’ll be up to sixteen when/if I get the last two discs of the Lennon Anthology on the drive. When I do that, though, I’d then drop back to fifteen hours — there’s no need toContinue reading “On Time and Music”
On Today’s Exciting Find
Found today. Kinfauns. A CD of demoes the Beatles recorded prior to the White Album sessions. Some of these tracks appeared on Beatles Anthology 3, but there’s twenty-odd others that didn’t. I haven’t seen this CD in a year. A year! Ah, listening to “Child of Nature” now. There’s a flamenco style to John’s guitarContinue reading “On Today’s Exciting Find”
On Fifty Years Ago Today
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”
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 Green Day's "Working Class Hero"
I have a few John Lennon tribute albums. One came out about ten years ago, an album called Working Class Hero. Q did one in honor of John’s sixty-fifth birthday. Neither could I recommend. There’s something about John Lennon’s solo music that doesn’t lend itself to cover versions. Some have said that Lennon did theContinue reading “On Green Day's "Working Class Hero"”
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 Weird Concepts
So an idea came to me. An alternate history novel. An alternate history novel about the Beatles. There have been a few Beatles alternate histories. Larry Kirwan’s Liverpool Fantasy comes quickly to mind, as does Stephen Baxter’s “The Twelfth Album” and Ian McLeod’s “Snodgrass.” The concept is doable. It’s something that conceivably could have happened.Continue reading “On Weird Concepts”
On Music on My Computer
I shall blame Bill for this, a music meme! Have your music library ready. Choose one (1) song from your music library whose title starts with the first letter (or number) of your screen name. Repeat this process with each successive letter (or number) in your screen name until you run out of letters (orContinue reading “On Music on My Computer”