Musings on the byways of popular culture
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Ralph McLean and Steven C talk about the bloody Beatles´ bloody White Album for two bloody hours on bloody Radio bloody Ulster. Of course you want to hear it. And no cheek about “it would have been better as a single hour”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001bt2
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Just when you think you’ve seen all the Beatles footage there is, and I’ve seen more than yer average, you find this strange film of a Krishna-d up George and a clearly wounded Paul signing the documents to finally dissolve the Beatles at Saville Row in 1971
Seems strange that they would allow this to be filmed. Note the sarky arsed Yank reporter sign off at the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnmNg86jiyI
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So it was 6th July 1957 when it all began as John Lennon from Menlove Avenue played with his band, The Quarrymen at St Peter’s Church, Woolton . His friend and the band’s occasional tea chest bass player Ivan Vaughan bought along Paul McCartney of Forthlin Road to see them in action and introduce him to Lennon.
We can probably all quote the story by heart (“Twenty Flight Rock” blah di blah) and there are books, radio shows and TV programmes devoted to those 24 hours. Reading Mark Lewisohn’s recent Part One doorstop he suggests that they actually first met outside a paper shop but let’s not spoil the magic. It’s incredible how much of 20th century culture flows from this meeting and all through Mark’s book all 4 Fabs are in similar orbits but not intersecting & you actually fear that somehow they won’t even though you know they do. Life really is a patchwork of chance encounters.
