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Celebrating 56th Anniversary of George Harrison's Electronic Sound (May 9, 1969)!


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Celebrating 55th Anniversary of Let It Be (May 8, 1970)!


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Happy 93rd spiritual birthday to Derek Taylor! 🥳🎉🎂🎈🎊🎁

Derek Wyn Taylor (7 May 1932 – 8 September 1997) was a British journalist, writer, publicist and record producer. He is best known for his role as press officer to the Beatles, with whom he worked in 1964 and then from 1968 to 1970, and was one of several associates to earn the moniker "the Fifth Beatle". Before returning to London to head the publicity for the Beatles' Apple Corps organisation in 1968, he worked as the publicist for California-based bands such as the Byrds, the Beach Boys and the Mamas and the Papas. Taylor was known for his forward-thinking and extravagant promotional campaigns, exemplified in taglines such as "The Beatles Are Coming" and "Brian Wilson Is a Genius". He was equally dedicated to the 1967 Summer of Love ethos and helped stage that year's Monterey Pop Festival.

Taylor started his career as a local journalist on the Wirral, now part of Merseyside, aged 17 working for the Hoylake and West Kirby Advertiser followed by the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo. He then became a North England-based writer for national British newspapers that included the News Chronicle, the Sunday Dispatch and the Sunday Express. He also served as a regular columnist and theatre critic for the Daily Express from 1952. During the 1970s, Taylor worked for Warner Bros. Records and then HandMade Films. The term "pocket symphony" is generally attributed to Taylor for his description of the Beach Boys' 1966 single "Good Vibrations".

A trusted confidant of the Beatles, Taylor remained particularly close to George Harrison long after the band's break-up and maintained a friendship with John Lennon until the latter's murder in 1980. In addition to working as editor on Harrison's 1980 autobiography, I, Me, Mine, Taylor authored books such as As Time Goes By, The Making of Raiders of The Lost Ark, Fifty Years Adrift (In An Open Necked Shirt) and It Was Twenty Years Ago Today. Having returned to Apple in the early 1990s, Taylor died of cancer in September 1997 while working on the Beatles Anthology book.


Photo sources: Meet the Beatles for Real (First & Second Images), Pinterest (Third Image), Tumblr (Fourth Image).

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Hello, everyone. I'm still on break from YouTube, but I just wanted to check in and see how you all have been doing. I can only be present on this post for today and going over the comments to give a like and a heart to any of you who made them on my posts. I may not be here on YouTube full time but can only be here to talk to all of you if you have anything you'd like to say.

About me, I've been doing pretty well while I'm away and have been busy doing chores around the house lately. I got sick to my stomach for a few days but recovered from it quickly by getting plenty of rest, eating soup and drinking water and hot tea. Aside from that, my family and I had gone to road trips on the weekends, including going to Cracker Barrel on my father's birthday on the final day of April. Overall, I enjoyed my experience while I'm on break so far.

Anyway, you all will continue seeing the upcoming posts that I made and scheduled for their respective dates about the Beatles group and solo album anniversaries, parts of the Beatles history, and birthdays for the members of the Beatles and their associates and others who were involved in the Beatles music and history and even referred to as the "Fifth Beatle". After this post alone, I'll be going away after I finish talking to you all (only if you have anything you want to say) to continue on my break since there'll be so much work to do for me. My time away from here will be longer because of this reason. But anyway, I'm only here for today just to let all of you know about this, but I'll eventually be back here full time and have some new things in my mind that I'll be posting on here. In the meantime, you won't see your comments getting a like and a heart from me as I'm away, but keep a lookout for the upcoming posts that I made, and whenever I return, you'll see your comments getting liked and hearted and my welcome back post to let you all know that I'll be back to YouTube full time. Thank you for taking your time reading this post and your understanding, and I'll see you all when I come back.

To those of you who celebrate Star Wars Day today, I love to say Happy Star Wars Day and May the Fourth be with you! ⭐️


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Celebrating 52nd Anniversary of Paul McCartney & Wings' Red Rose Speedway (May 4, 1973)!


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Celebrating 55th Anniversary of Paul McCartney's McCartney (April 17, 1970)!


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It was 63 years ago today when Stuart Sutcliffe died of brain haemorrhage in Hamburg, West Germany at age 21.

While studying in Germany, Sutcliffe began experiencing severe headaches and acute sensitivity to light. According to Kirchherr, some of the headaches left him temporarily blind. In February 1962, Sutcliffe collapsed during an art class in Hamburg. Kirchherr's mother had German doctors examine him, but they were unable to determine the exact cause of his headaches. They suggested he return to the UK and have himself admitted to a hospital with better facilities; however, after arriving, Sutcliffe was told nothing was wrong and returned to Hamburg. He continued living with the Kirchherrs, but his condition soon worsened. After he collapsed again on 10 April 1962, Kirchherr took him to hospital, riding with him in the ambulance, but he died before they arrived. The cause of death was a cerebral haemorrhage, specifically a ruptured aneurysm resulting in cerebral paralysis due to severe bleeding into the right ventricle of the brain. He was 21 years old.

On 13 April 1962, Kirchherr met the Beatles at Hamburg Airport, telling them Sutcliffe had died a few days earlier. Sutcliffe's mother flew to Hamburg with Beatles manager Brian Epstein and returned to Liverpool with her son's body. Sutcliffe's father did not hear of Stuart's death for three weeks, as he was sailing to South America on a cruise ship, although the family arranged for a padre, a military chaplain, to give him the news as soon as the ship docked in Buenos Aires. After Sutcliffe's death, Kirchherr wrote a letter to his mother, apologising for being too ill to attend his funeral in Liverpool and saying how much she and Lennon missed him: "Oh, Mum, he (Lennon) is in a terrible mood now, he just can't believe that darling Stuart never comes back. [He's] just crying his eyes out ... John is marvellous to me, he says that he knows Stuart so much and he loves him so much that he can understand me."

The cause of Sutcliffe's aneurysm is unknown, although authors of books on the Beatles have speculated it was caused by an earlier head injury. He may have been either kicked in the head, or thrown head first against a brick wall during an attack outside Lathom Hall after a performance in January 1961. According to booking agent Allan Williams, Lennon and Best went to Sutcliffe's aid, fighting off his attackers before dragging him to safety. Sutcliffe sustained a fractured skull in the fight and Lennon's little finger was broken. Sutcliffe refused medical attention at the time and failed to keep an X-ray appointment at Sefton General Hospital.

Although Lennon did not attend nor send flowers to Sutcliffe's funeral, his second wife, Yoko Ono, recalled that Lennon mentioned Sutcliffe's name often, saying he was "[My] alter ego ... a spirit in his world ... a guiding force".

Sutcliffe is buried in Huyton Parish Church Cemetery (also known as St. Michael's) in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside in North West England.


Photo sources: Liverpool John Moores University (First Image), Rolling Stone (Second Image), The New Yorker (Third Image), Wikipedia (Fourth Image).

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It was 55 years ago today when the Beatles broke up, resulting with Paul McCartney saying in a press release that he was no longer working with the band.


ABOUT THE BEATLES' BREAKUP:

The Beatles were an English rock band, active from 1960 until 1970. From 1962 onwards, the band's members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Their break-up is attributed to numerous factors, including the 1967 death of their manager Brian Epstein, bandmates' resentment of McCartney's perceived domineering behaviour, Lennon's heroin use and his relationship with Yoko Ono, Harrison's increasingly prolific songwriting, the floundering of Apple Corps, the Get Back project (renamed Let It Be in 1970) and managerial disputes.

During the latter half of the 1960s, each of the band's members began to assert individual artistic agendas. Their disunity became most evident on 1968's The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"), and quarrels and disharmony over musical matters soon permeated their business discussions. Starr left the group for two weeks during the White Album sessions, and Harrison quit for five days during the Get Back rehearsals. Starting in the fall of 1968, the group quarrelled regarding who should handle their business affairs. McCartney lobbied for the entertainment lawyers Lee and John Eastman but was outvoted by his bandmates in favour of the businessman Allen Klein.

The final time that the four members recorded together was the session for Abbey Road's "The End" on 20 August 1969, a date which also saw further mixing and editing for "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"; their final meeting with all four present was two days later at a photo session held at Lennon's Tittenhurst estate. On 20 September, Lennon privately informed his bandmates at a meeting at Apple, without Harrison present, that he was leaving the Beatles, although it was unclear to the other members whether his departure was permanent. On 10 April 1970, McCartney said in a press release that he was no longer working with the group, which sparked a widespread media reaction and worsened the tensions between him and his bandmates. Legal disputes continued long after his announcement, and the dissolution was not formalised until 29 December 1974.

Rumours of a full-fledged reunion persisted throughout the 1970s, as the members occasionally reunited for collaboration, but never with all four simultaneously. Starr's "I'm the Greatest" (1973) and Harrison's "All Those Years Ago" (1981) are the only tracks that feature three ex-Beatles. After Lennon's murder in 1980, the surviving members reunited for the Anthology project in 1994, using the unfinished Lennon demos "Free as a Bird", "Real Love" and "Now and Then" as the basis for new songs recorded and released as the Beatles material, though the latter remained unreleased until 2023.


COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN EX-BEATLES:

After the break-up of the Beatles in April 1970, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr enjoyed success as solo artists and collaborated with each other on numerous occasions, including on both studio and live recordings. However, only three of these collaborations included all four members: "Free as a Bird" (1995), "Real Love" (1996) and "Now and Then" (2023).

In the early 1970s, collaborations were common between Harrison and Starr, and between Lennon and either Harrison or Starr, but none of the three worked with McCartney over that time. The only album released during Lennon's lifetime that included compositions and performances by all four ex-Beatles, albeit on separate songs, was Starr's 1973 album Ringo. Starr's Ringo's Rotogravure (1976) also included compositions by all his bandmates (although Harrison did not play on the album), and the 1996 Carl Perkins album Go Cat Go! contained individual contributions by McCartney, Harrison and Starr, together with a Lennon recording from 1969. With Starr's participation, Harrison staged the Concert for Bangladesh in New York City in August 1971. Other than an unreleased jam session on March 28, 1974, later bootlegged as A Toot and a Snore in '74, Lennon and McCartney never recorded together again. Starr and McCartney have performed and recorded together on several occasions since Harrison's death in 2001.


Photo sources: The New Yorker (First Image), Visual and Data Journalism - Financial Times (Second Image), Billboard (Third Image), Reddit (Fourth Image), Forever Bermuda (Fifth Image).

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Celebrating 52nd Anniversary of 1962—1966 ("The Red Album") and 1967—1970 ("The Blue Album") (April 2, 1973)!

1962—1966 ("The Red Album"):

1962–1966, also known as the Red Album, is a compilation album of songs by the English rock band the Beatles, spanning the years indicated in the title. Released with its counterpart 1967–1970 (the "Blue Album") in 1973, the double LP peaked at number 3 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it topped the Cash Box albums chart and peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart while 1967–1970 reached the top spot. The album was re-released in September 1993 on compact disc, charting at number 3 in the UK.

The album was instigated by Apple Records manager Allen Klein shortly before he was dismissed from his position. Even though the group had success with cover versions of songs, particularly "Twist and Shout", 1962–1966 contains only songs composed by the Beatles. The album omits any George Harrison compositions from the era, such as "Taxman", as the content is entirely Lennon–McCartney originals.

As with 1967–1970, the compilation was created by Apple and EMI/Capitol Records in response to a bootleg collection titled Alpha Omega, which had been sold on television the previous year. Print advertising for the two records made a point of declaring them "the only authorized collection of the Beatles". The success of the two official double LP compilations inspired Capitol's repackaging of the Beach Boys' 1960s hits, starting with the 1974 album Endless Summer.


1967—1970 ("The Blue Album"):

1967–1970, also known as the Blue Album, is a compilation album of songs by the English rock band the Beatles, spanning the years indicated in the title. A double LP, it was released with 1962–1966 (the "Red Album") in April 1973. 1967–1970 topped the Billboard albums chart in the United States and peaked at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. It was re-released in September 1993 on CD, charting at number 4 in the United Kingdom.

The album was instigated by Apple Records manager Allen Klein during his final months before being dismissed from that position. As with 1962–1966, the compilation was created by Apple and EMI/Capitol Records in response to a bootleg collection titled Alpha Omega, which had been sold on television the previous year. Print advertising for the two records made a point of declaring them "the only authorized collection of the Beatles". The success of the two official double LP compilations inspired Capitol's repackaging of the Beach Boys' 1960s hits, starting with the 1974 album Endless Summer.


Album Covers of 1962—1966 & 1967—1970:

For the group's 1963 debut LP Please Please Me, photographer Angus McBean took the distinctive colour photograph of the group looking down over the stairwell inside EMI House (EMI's London headquarters in Manchester Square, demolished in 1995). The cover for the 1963 EP The Beatles (No. 1) used a picture from the same shoot.

In 1969, the Beatles asked McBean to recreate this shot. Although a photograph from the 1969 photo shoot was originally intended for the then-planned Get Back album, it was not used when that project saw eventual release in 1970 as Let It Be. Instead, another photograph from the 1969 shoot, along with an unused photograph from the 1963 photo shoot, were used for both of these LPs.

The inner gatefold photo for both LPs has been attributed to both Stephen Goldblatt and Don McCullin, and is from the "Mad Day Out" photo session in London on Sunday 28 July 1968. The album covers were designed by Tom Wilkes.


Photo sources: The Beatles Wiki - Fandom (First & Second Images).

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Hello, everyone. I'm going to be away from YouTube for a while after everything what's going on and happening to me. I'm just wanting to make it clear to all of you how serious this situation has gotten for me all from last week and this past Monday, and I don't deserve this kind of treatment happening on Lisette's channel. I have already been harassed three times on there, and I just really can't take it anymore. To be honest with all of you, I've never experienced this kind of situation before, but I'm hurt by that too.

To any of you who are reading this post, if you decided to make any comments on my posts, please understand that you may not see your comments getting a like and a heart from me while I'm away. The upcoming posts you all will see are the Beatles group and solo albums anniversaries and possibly the main events highlight from the Beatles history. On this post alone, I can only be here to respond to any of your questions and comments as soon as I can before I go, but only if you have anything you want to say. Also, keep in mind that I'll eventually be back here after everything is settled, done and over with whenever it's possible for me. Thank you.


To quote the opening line from Badfinger's 1973 song "Apple of My Eye":

"Oh, I'm sorry, but it's time to move away
Though inside my heart, I really want to stay"


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