Nice idea for a thread and personal recollections always more interesting than anything AI can come up with. Interesting about the demos, might have to check into those. _________________ Bluesky · Facebook · Spotify · X
Nice idea for a thread and personal recollections always more interesting than anything AI can come up with. Interesting about the demos, might have to check into those.
Thanks AM
I was thinking the same thing about the demos. Do they exist? Some investigation needed
Cheers man. I did a little search last night and cannot find the demos at the moment. I'm assuming that they didn't survive. maybe even recorded over. Who knows. Shame.
This has always been my favourite Beatles album and it's clear to me that this is a huge leap forward from Rubber Soul (an album I also like) and that Sgt. Peppers would not have happened without this album. I find Sgt. Peppers rather a hard listen TBH.
I can see why this is considered The Beatles' most experimental album. The song writing is more innovative and the use of a diverse array of instruments was ground-breaking at the time. I'm also pretty sure that they never played a live show after the release of Revolver so it marks the shift from a live group to a studio-focused one and the freedom in what they could recording that gave them. Love the use of Indian music and psychedelic music.
I cannot deny that there are some iconic tracks like "Eleanor Rigby" and "Tomorrow Never Knows," and "Taxman" is a banging opener. I could be wrong but was this also the first time that the Beatles had extensively used an orchestra when they did on "Eleanor Rigby".
This event from this day in 1964 has no significance for me at all, I just thought that it was interesting
the London Evening News reported that a 16 year-old Eltham Collage boy, introduced as Laurie Yarham, was the winner in a Mick Jagger look-a-like competition. Laurie looked like Mick Jagger and seemed to know his every action and the audience at Greenwich Town Hall were delighted, until the winner turned out to be Mick's younger brother Chris Jagger.
(probably my favourite CCR album). It stayed at No. 1 for nine-weeks.
In the US it sold over three million copies and six of the album's eleven tracks were released as singles in the same year. Quite extraordinary. What’s even more impressive is that they all reached the top five of the Billboard Hot 100. That’s some going.
Can’t believe this was 12 years ago however, in 2014 A life-size bronze statue of Amy Winehouse was unveiled in Camden, North London.
To be honest, I’m not a fan of the statue, I think that it’s a bit “naff”, so I’m just using this post to highlight a better tribute to the great singer.
Right next to the Hawley Arms (the best pub in Camden by the way) is a mural of Amy which is quite stunning.
NB – Amy used to “help out” behind the bar at the Hawley pulling pints and it’s a bit of a shrine to her. Visit if you are able
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