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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby Colin B » Wed Nov 23, 2022 11:34 pm

Richard wrote:But what's the cutoff point at which an amount becomes obscene?
If someone buys a car costing £150,000 should they have bought a cheaper one and given the difference to charity?
What about paying £2,500 for an autograph? £600 for a box of vinyl records? £200 for a book?
John wrote:All too much.
Yeah, each to his own and all that stuff, but it just seems crazy to me.


Something for sale is 'worth' the greater amount a buyer is prepared to pay for it.

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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby Yin Yang » Thu Nov 24, 2022 8:36 am

I offered some 600 LP's incuding Elvis ones (the cheap labels, no RCA-Victor) for sale on a selling site for € 1,00 each. Sold about 30 LP's and had the pleasure of people collecting a € 1,00 LP and having only 80 cents with them and one waving a € 500,00 banknote........
Then there were the people who did not show up, showed up at the wrong time or when I did not open the front door quick enough started to ring the doorbell of the neighbours.
So I decided to give them all to charity and they were happy with them as they sold out within a week!

I had more luck selling Suske & Wiske (Bob & Bobette) comics. I had a lot of special issues given away by all sorts of companies and products in the 70's and 80's. Offered some 120 for sale for € 1,00 each and sold them by the dozens. Have some 20 left which also will go to charity when the advertising time runs out.

So what one person does not sell,
someone else can sell without a problem.


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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby Mister Moon » Sat Nov 26, 2022 8:10 pm

Just a couple of days ago, Pete Best became a 81 year old Beatle.

By the way, here's a couple of cool images that have recently surfaced, showing the band playing at The Cavern in July 1961 :


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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby Mister Moon » Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:45 pm

This one is pretty rare too :


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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby Colin B » Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:49 am

From the UK Newspaper 'i' - 2nd March, 2023:

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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby Private Presley » Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:14 am

1964 - March 2
The Beatles began filming what would become their first feature film A Hard Day's Night at Marylebone train station in London.
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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby HillbillyCat » Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:15 pm

Ok, I didn't know exactly if and if so where to post the following, so I'll give it a try here. Right off the bat, I'm not a Beatles expert, certainly not when it comes to photos: I happened to stumble across an auction today offering 10 (shaky) pictures related to the guys' first flight to America on February 7, 1964. They seem to be rather rare:

https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/music- ... ion-071515

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There are clearly better photos of this flight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD8MaKYcCFk&t=1s

It seems that the images offered are rather leftovers... :lol:


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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby Mister Moon » Wed Aug 02, 2023 11:10 am

Very cool find, HC. Thanks !

Before they are removed or swallowed by www Maelstrom, here they are, all 10 photos, plus the signed Pan American menu.

It's interesting to see that the menu is signed by all four Beatles, plus by John's wife Cynthia, manager Brian Epstein, and the captain of the flight (top right). At the bottom, there's an intriguing signature that reads "George Harrison snr", or something like that. At first, I thought it could be George's father, but I have looked it up and he wasn't called George. Probably just a joke.

Finally, it's very cool to see that Phil Spector was also aboard that flight. He can clearly be seen, wearing a cap and sunglasses (inside the plane !), with Ringo Starr. I have found a fabulous photo online where he can be seen with John and Cynthia (notice Lennon has his feet up). Also including a couple of alternates of John and Cyn.

There's also an image where an unidentified (by me) man is holding a photo of the group. That photo would be used four months later as the front cover of their "Long Tall Sally" EP.

Dig it all :


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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby John » Wed Aug 02, 2023 1:13 pm

Was it a rough flight for so many of the photos to be oof? Was the photographer excited to be there?

Anyway, nice to see. Thanks HillbillyCat and Mister Moon for posting.


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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby Mister Moon » Wed Aug 02, 2023 1:26 pm

I wonder what Spector was doing there. Such a coincidence, right ?

Anyway, a couple of alternates, in case somebody need them :


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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby Colin B » Thu Aug 03, 2023 12:07 pm

From the UK Newspaper 'i' - 3rd August 2023:

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To me, the output from 'Wings' never seemed as consistently good as the 'Beatles'.
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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby John » Thu Aug 03, 2023 5:42 pm

Colin B wrote:From the UK Newspaper 'i' - 3rd August 2023:

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To me, the output from 'Wings' never seemed as consistently good as the 'Beatles'.

Maybe not, but nevertheless, there were some good albums, and some lovely songs. Wings At The Speed Of Sound is in my top 10 fave albums.


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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby Colin B » Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:32 pm

From the UK Newspaper 'i' - 11th August, 2023:

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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby Mister Moon » Fri Aug 11, 2023 2:12 pm

Colin B wrote:From the UK Newspaper 'i' - 11th August, 2023:

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It wasn't really an apology, but a clarification. Some US publication had published out of context quotes from an interview originally published in England in March that year, and all hell broke loose among Christian integrists.

Lennon was essentially right, by the way. The Beatles were more popular than Jesus in 1966. And 57 years later, they still are.

(...) ‘Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.(...)’



Here's the original Maureen Cleave article - cropped at the bottom, sorry :


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Re: A Beatles Anniversary

Postby Colin B » Fri Aug 11, 2023 6:17 pm

Mister Moon wrote:It wasn't really an apology, but a clarification.
Some US publication had published out of context quotes from an interview originally published in England in March that year,
and all hell broke loose among Christian integrists.
Lennon was essentially right, by the way.
The Beatles were more popular than Jesus in 1966. And 57 years later, they still are.

(...) ‘Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.(...)’


To claim a current pop group is "more popular" than a long-dead fictional character is no big deal really...
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