The ever wonderful Dangerous Minds have come up with a doozy here. Seemingly in 1976 a more misguided Beatles related film than the Bee Gees Sargent Pepper appeared.

It was called All This And World War II and it was archive footage of the war, spliced with war movies with various bands doing Beatles covers over the top. Oddly enough it’s never came out on video or DVD, but it’s on youtube now.

I have yet to watch this, I can only assume it’s awful, but there are Beatles heads here who may well be interested…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ4x_8IiZ90

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/all_you_need_is_war_the_beatles_vs._hitler

Other than Banjo’s post below, I’m a little surprised by the dearth of HJHs threads in the “New Place” (MkII). I’m even more surprised that I’m the one saying it! It was only recently I realized that despite owning thousands of LPs and CDs there was a gaping, mop-top shaped hole in my collection. The GLW kindly remedied the situation at Christmas with “The Beatles Remastered Stereo Boxset“, and I’ve been listening to almost nothing else since… fuck me they were good! But the strange thing is, why now? I was 10 when they broke up, and they had always just been there, in the background of all my childhood memories, supplying the soundtrack of my life until then. Around this time I bought one of my first real singles (with birthday record tokens), “Ride a White Swan“ by T. Rex. This was MY music! Well, that and “Back Home“ by the England World Cup Squad…! But the Beatles, nah, they were okay, but they were just part of the woodwork. By the mid seventies I’d bought several Wings and Lennon albums as well as the mandatory “Blue” and „Red“ albums, but never really played the latter two much because, » Continue Reading.