60 Years ago today!
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Renaissance-Man
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The only one lip-synching was George. No backing tracks or auto-tune. That was real. So was Ed Sullivan.
I never realized it was only 2-part harmony.
In Warsaw, Paul played through an Ampeg "refrigerator." I can't find the actual date of the performance.
I never realized it was only 2-part harmony.
In Warsaw, Paul played through an Ampeg "refrigerator." I can't find the actual date of the performance.
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If you don't have a TV, you can watch Ed Sullivan's Rock and Roll Revolution which documents the Beatles and other invasion acts on his show and the history of music at the time. All day long it will be featured on Pluto, free streaming site.
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Here is a great old performance of George singing with Paul Simon. Just lovely solo and harmony vocals
In 1965 when I was 15, I learned to play rhythm guitar because of The Beatles and the British Invasion. Played for almost 50 years when in mid 2013, I took up tenor reentrant ukulele, joined a uke group of 35 and never touched my guitars again. A year later I took up bass uke, which is now my primary instrument. We play a number of Beatles songs.
@EDW, I've never seen that George and Paul Simon performance, excellent in my opinion.
@EDW, I've never seen that George and Paul Simon performance, excellent in my opinion.
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I remember watching that clip live on SNL back in the day. I was a huge Beatles guy back then and it was very exciting to watch. It was as close to Beatlemania I'd experienced until I saw McCartney live around 2000.
Seventeen years before, wasn't it?
"It was twenty years ago today / Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play"
And one of the stars of that show is here with us tonight!
Tessie O'Shea's banjolele!
Tessie O'Shea's banjolele!
I’m so confused
I was finishing high school and was college bound* when Sgt. Pepper hit the scene in Des Moines, Iowa. “Mom, you’ve gotta hear this,” I said, and played it for my mother. She was blown away. We both cried over “She’s Leaving Home.”
*Yes, I’m 74! Hereby saving y’all from having to count on your fingers.
H.S. Class of '67, myself. I installed an 8-track player with dual 6x9s in the rear deck of my '63 Olds.
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Gift link for anyone who might want to read this:
How one man’s advance planning brought Beatlemania to America
Brian Epstein, the Beatles’s 29-year-old manager, spent months engineering “Operation U.S.A.,” a strategy for massive stateside success
How one man’s advance planning brought Beatlemania to America
Brian Epstein, the Beatles’s 29-year-old manager, spent months engineering “Operation U.S.A.,” a strategy for massive stateside success
This is a fabulous article—the author is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who’s writing a book about the Beatles. It underscores for me the stupidity of the US record companies. And the ingenuity of American radio disc jockeys in finding British records & tapes and putting them on the air when Capitol was too timid to get with the program.
Thank you, Murray the K!
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