― anthony, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― katie, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Laetitia, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― Ally, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I really wanted I HATE THE BEATLES today (obviously if anyone got offended I could say it's a typo and meant to say HEART, (thankyou ILE Department If Slang And Nonsense))
I do seriously want one actually, even if it does slowly turn me into Dave Q/DG Lite. Somebody must know.
― Graham, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally C, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I've been tempted to pop round the corner to Abbey Road studios - apparently they're playing his tunes out of the windows, but that'd mean leaving the flat and I'm feeling somewhat hermit-like today.
― ogden, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Bill, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nude Spock, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I am taken by this idea that instead of celebrities needing to be role models, celebrities themselves need one. ;-)
It's really cool down there atm - the studio have got music playing through the open windows and stuff - just seems to be an air of reflection rather than media-induced mourning.
That said, they've only had 24 hours or so to hype it up. Tomorrow will be another day entirely...
As I said on ILM, George had been my favourite Beatle as a kid because he seemed sad somehow, and (again as a kid) I loved the "Indian" tracks (and still like em). I can remember aged 10 watching the news (BBC I guess) about the Beatles splitting up, and thinking how silly it was for the Beatles to be split up — it was against nature and normality — and they must have misunderstood something and would soon not be split up again.
I find the blanket coverage quite strange: alienating certainly, though hardly surprising.
As I sit here thinking and writing, I realise that my null response to Lennon's and now Harrison's deaths is identical to my 10-yr-old response. How silly: that makes no sense. The Beatles are vast figures across my childhood cosmos, beyond like and dislike really: beyond youth and age and death and decay. Almost as if — for my small self — they had ALL died along with Paul in 1968 and were replaced with lookalikes until such time… and we live in unreal time until they are restored to full Beatleness.
I genuinely didn't until now realise that this utterly-believed myth-stuff was still churning round deep inside me. I'll be more gorunded about it tomorrow, when I phone my mum, and she tells me she cried.
― mark s, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Point being, news of this won't phase my parents any. They were there, they were in the time, they will probably reflect instead on how time goes on rather than weeping. Will I be like that in the future?
My mother saw the Beatles play Shea Stadium and remembers seeing Hard Day's Night at the theater six times in a single day. I don't know what happened to her LP collection. I've got some, my brother has a few but who knows what happened to her butcher cover. I don't think she even owns a turntable anymore.
*reads* Could be. But even if I don't have a turntable, I'll have something. "Oh yeah, the file with the Cure's one-time performance of "Ariel," I've got it here somewhere on the laptop..."
He did music too, I understand.
― Al, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kim, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nicole, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'm hearing "Something" burbling from the TV in the other room. Whee, I guess.
― Maria, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'm not sure my parents could recognize a Beatles song.
― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Bill, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
But she did also point out that the Beatles stadium tour failed to sell out in Minneapolis because the town had already gravitated towards the Rolling Stones.
― suzy, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― di, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― reggie, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Found one in Kendalls (= Housama bin Frazen) here. They had crap bloke's versions in the men's section, but I continued my cross dressing and got a girl's version, as they are wuvlier (called an Alpha-T if anyone is interested).
― Graham, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
McCartney is a copper-bottomed, gold-plated genius, a national - not to say global - treasure, and presumably the Greatest Living Englishman after, maybe, let's say, Tony Benn. If I haven't said that before, it might as well be said now.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Die Haterz.
― ahmed shagalampost, Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
RIP
― Capybara (big rat) @ Sea World, San Diego, California, USA (nakhchivan), Friday, 1 January 2016 00:50 (eight years ago) link
HhDH
― probably.tasteful.forever (imago), Friday, 1 January 2016 00:51 (eight years ago) link
20 years ago today
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
Live slide solo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI4xzwvaTWU
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 01:55 (two years ago) link
All things must pass? He nailed it!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 02:07 (two years ago) link
And 'Here comes the Sun' never fails to cheer me up.
yeah this
― Ste, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 11:17 (two years ago) link
It’s alright
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link