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John & George at Kinfauns in May of 1968 taken by then 19 year old fan, Michael Herring who had earlier stopped by John’s home, was invited in and then accompanied John to see George at KInfauns. Photo Source: Facebook

“George looked up and said, “Who’s this, then?”’ Mr Herring, 67, recalled. ‘John said, “This is Michael. He’s an artist. I found him in me garden.” - Daily Mail, 7 March 2015

#gotta love how they all just found strays #and kinda let them tag along for a bit #the beatles #John Lennon #George Harrison

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Gotta say, the mixed messages here were intense.

#dogs #Kris talks a lot

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podcast rec

My BFF has made a podcast!!!! It's amazing and probably sometime I'd want to make if I was making a podcast. I'm not just advertising it because my friend made it but because it's a very cool project.

The podcast is called Re:Adapted. Each season is about a canon that has been adapted in many ways (mostly into film, but also stage and beyond). One thing that's cool about the podcast is that you don't have to know the canon to listen to the season; she provides pretty good summaries of the original and the adaptations. The other thing that's cool is it's not really about what plot or characters got changed from iteration to iteration so much a it is about how adaptation evolves as we as a society evolve, and what a new adaptation says about the time in which it's made. She looks at cultural context and film technologies and how the themes of a story change as the people who consume that story change.

The first season is about Phantom of the Opera. You can find it here!

#aww yeah my best person likes it!! #so you should too

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PAUL MCCARTNEY THE BEATLES: GET BACK (2021) episode 3: day 21 → the rooftop concert

The greatest revelation, to a casual like me, is young Paul McCartney. My perception of him coming in was almost certainly a product of not studying the subject deeply enough, but I thought of McCartney as a sort of happy puppy dog figure, a la Mr. Peanut Butter in Bojack Horseman, a poppy contrast to the brooding, poetic/psychedelic genius of John Lennon. (…) In Get Back, I realized within minutes exactly how wrong I’ve always been. Above all, the two things that struck me most were McCartney’s sheer intensity and his ridiculous, irrepressible talent. The latter might sound awfully obvious — this is Paul McCartney, idiot, of course he’s an otherworldly talent — but watching him rehearse, riff off his fellow Beatles, and invent melody from thin air makes it clear that I never came close to understanding the scope of it. (…)

But McCartney’s intensity is something else entirely, and totally unexpected. Far from an innocent, he’s infused with pure energy; in ways subtle and overt, he can’t help imposing himself on everyone around him. Even when he’s in his “unfailingly polite” mode (…) he’s brimming with hidden force, the biggest person in the room. (…)  

What’s so compelling about Paul McCartney is that more than any of the others, he seemed to want to break free. (…) He’s a one-man army, a force of nature, pick any term you want — they’re all true.

#i have never seen this article! #but this is what happened to me exactly!!! #Paul McCartney #get back #radicalized by an eight hour documentary after all these years

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Okay Beatle People

Now that my two favorite podcasts are pulling up stakes, and I am now an expert at making podcasts, having put out four whole episodes of one, what should my Beatles podcast be about and who wants to do it with me?

#i do have an idea #but does the world ACTUALLY need another Beatles pod? #and do *I* need yet another activity to avoid earning money by doing? #beatles fandom #beatles podcasts #kris talks a lot

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 10 highlights from the 2015 induction ceremony

Paul McCartney Shouting “Oi!” During “American Idiot” 

Green Day’s three songs were all pretty great (“When I Come Around” remains one of the five best songs written in the entirety of the ’90s), but there was a particularly charming moment   during “American Idiot” when Armstrong encouraged the crowd to shout “Oi!,” a classic punk rock exclamation. They cut to the crowd, and while not a whole lot of people were actually participating, Paul McCartney was not only doing it, but he was also encouraging other people to do it, proving Paul McCartney should be invited to every party.

#oh my goooood look at him #paul mccartney #green day

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Episode 4 is out! Contains references to some relatively graphic content, just FYI. Today I get pretentious and talk about post-modernism, the zeitgeist, and just what this circus has to to with Phantom!

#still me hey look at that #phantom of the opera #phantom of the paradise #brian de palma #film podcast

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15 April 2012

Two year old Argentinian native Ichiro makes his stage debut in Uruguay on McCartney's On the Run tour. It is unknown how Ichiro is doing today, but we hope he has retained the "Macca bounce" he has already perfected.

#paul mccartney #fans

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The thing is, living in Seattle this could be the same street on the same day. You just never know what other people are going to feel about the weather.

#ok this is better than my caption

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pete best joining the beatles in 1960

#Beatles crack

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The thing is, living in Seattle this could be the same street on the same day. You just never know what other people are going to feel about the weather.

#life in Seattle #Kris talks a lot

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Adam Gustavson’s Artwork for Susanna Reich‘s ‘Fab Four Friends: The Boys Who Became The Beatles’

“It’s worth mentioning that visual documentation on the Beatles is abundant. So, yes, that is Paul McCartney’s mum’s couch, yes, the anti-macassars were white, and yes, she really had that lamp. In other cases, anecdotal evidence is necessary to fill in gaps or inconsistencies. For example, the red dyes used in the 1940s and ‘50s on budget model guitar finishes were often fugitive, causing what was once a warm sunburst finish to fade into an almost greenish hue when viewed today. The goal of this minutia level research is to seem invisible, to hopefully give a veneer of plausibility to imagined scenes in a way that doesn’t seem self conscious or gratuitous.”  Adam Gustavson

#lovely! #beatles art #the beatles

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13 April 1963

The Beatles met Cliff Richard for the first time at a house party given by Shadows' guitarist Bruce Welch. They did not immediately explode into a rivalry, though in later years both Cliff and Paul would claim that they never got to record in studio 2 of Abbey Road because the other one was always in there. (Somehow they still made records.)

I want to make a Ric from The Young Ones joke but no one will get it.

#the beatles #Cliff Richard #the shadows

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Dropping next Tuesday! We talk about the 1974 Brian de Palma extravaganza, Phantom of the Paradise, and just what it has to add to the Phantom's story. Hear the rest on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts!

#hey it me #listen to me talk about phantom of the opera #FOR FREE #phantom of the opera #film podcasts #podcasts #phantom of the paradise #brian de palma

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McCartney 1966

#smug little so and so #Paul McCartney

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#the McCartney Legacy

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The only photograph of Jimi Hendrix and Paul McCartney together (1967)

#oh my heart #jimi hendrix #paul mccartney