Ringo with his beautiful wife, Barbara!
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genuine question to all the hard core beatles fans out there, why do yous pretend like the beatles are your little underground indie band that you’d beg your friends to come to a basement show to and not possibly the biggest, most iconic band like.. ever???
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being a beatles fan in the 60s 🏵🛼🎀🌈
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Ode to 1963 Beatles
Having spent entirely too much of my life studying all matters Beatles-related, I sometimes like to play a parlor game with other fans. I ask them which year was the band’s best, before offering an answer of my own. Many people stump for 1967, when Sgt. Pepper came out, recasting the pop-culture zeitgeist. Others opt for 1964, the first year of stateside Beatlemania. A dark horse sometimes gets a vote, like 1965, the year the Beatles produced their first mature masterwork in Rubber Soul. But when I provide my answer—1963, all the way—I’m usually met with puzzled looks. It’s no wonder. Fifty years have passed since that magical and formative year for the band, yet most of the music the Beatles recorded throughout it remains commercially unavailable. But 1963 is the band’s annus mirabilis.
—Colin Fleming, 1963: The Year The Beatles Found Their Voice [x]
So why 1963?
Well, I think people like to focus on [Sgt.] Pepper from '67, maybe Rubber Soul from '65 or Revolver from '66. But if you wanted to know what The Beatles liked, what they listened to, what they were trying to become and, in large part, who they already were and who they would be, the '63 BBC recordings would be your one-stop shopping destination. When they tackled ... a crucial rock 'n' roll text like Elvis' "That's All Right, Mama," you can hear that they keep elements of the past — that burnished country tone that Elvis' band excelled at — but they've added a sort of stomping, northern soul element to it. So they're really overhauling the past.
—The Beatles Defining Moment (Hint: It's not Sgt Pepper) [x]
Listen to 1963 Beatles (BBC live recordings, other live performances, and studio recordings in chronological order of recording or writing date if known)
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I'd like to be a pirate a pirate’s life for me, all my friends are pirates and we sail the BB sea. I got a Jolly Roger it's black and white and fast so get out your skull and crossbones and run it up your mast.
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Stuart F.V. Sutcliffe 1940 - 1962
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John and George with two of the members of the Ronettes.
George had a close relationship with the young lady between him and John, Estelle Bennett. Sadly she passed away tragically.
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Some of my collection of books on THE BEATLES
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These are the very famous pictures about the AMAZING story of Barb Fenick ( in phot 1 with Paul, Linda and Stella), an American Beatles/Paul McCartney fan who, in August 1973, got indoor Paul’s Cavendish Avenue home 🏠 🌼💛
Via @maccalover66 on Instagram🌼
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