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December 13, 1963
So given Weiner's attention to detail, I'm assuming the date the four men vote to abandon Sterling Cooper to create their own new streamlined version must have some significance. Wasn't that the day the Beatles officially signed their deal with Capitol Records? If so, that could point to an auspicious beginning for the SCDP boys (at least until ...
Posted to TV Club by FootnotesFaulkner on November 9, 2009
Collaborative genius (Lennon, yes; McCartney, no?)
So who's a genius? Obviously: Lennon and McCartney, yes; Lennon or McCartney, no.
Posted to The Spectator by timappelo on September 9, 2009
MJ's place in history
As a historian, I must disagree with the author that Micheal Jackson made a bigger impact upon the world stage than the Beatles. In the context of the times, The Beatles ''revolution'' was a culturally seismic event that placed them, their music and their evolution as artists right smack in the middle of the coming of age of the Baby Boomers. ...
Posted to Obit by spacehistorian on June 26, 2009
The Beatles milquetoast by comparison?
Jody writes ''His music is the strangest and darkest ever to achieve blockbuster success; by comparison, Sinatra, Elvis, the Beatles, and Madonna are positively milquetoast.'' Are you serious? ''Tomorrow Never Knows'' off Revolver (1966) - to name one - is darker, more subversive and haunting than the entire Jackson catalogue. ''Helter ...
Posted to Obit by ecstasy426 on June 26, 2009
Wrong caption
Check out picture #17 from the Hard Day's Night collection.The caption says it's McCartney and Lennon, but that's clearly Harrison's guitar. (Compare it with #19.)
Posted to Today's Pictures by Science on July 3, 2007
Revisionist? Hardly...
Jody Rosen's article Everything You Know About Sgt. Pepper's Is Wrong calls itself 'revisionist,' but it really isn't. The excellent article is actually a much-appreciated refocussing. As she said, the context under which Sgt. Pepper was unleashed on an unsuspecting world, is missing now. She re-placed that context. As one who cut morning high ...
Posted to Music Box by Don The Drifter on June 20, 2007
Marketing + Time
Again, this is a matter in which our own subjectivity is quite obvious to us, but I still see Pepper as a high-water mark for the LP. Let me first reiterate that I don't see it as the FIRST great album (both you and myself have tossed off a cursory list of pre-existing masterpieces); yet, I do still see it as an album that probably did more for ...
Posted to Music Box by armchairperson on June 14, 2007
thank you ''beatles'
Sgt. peppers lonely hearts club band'';movie with peter frampton, and the bee-gees was my total first introduction to a cavalcade of greats in music and rock legends. i was probably 10 or 11 years old when the movie first hit theaters in Omaha, Nebraska, and my oldest sister took me to see it. it was legendary, and most memorable. what a ...
Posted to Music Box by bryan furlong on June 14, 2007
Not the Best at Anything in Particular?
The Beatles weren't the best popular music group of the 20th century because of the sexiness, beauty, anger, hope, depth or complexity of their music. It was bigger than that. They were the best because during a six-year period of rapid social change they consistently remained on the cutting edge as their music -- over the course of more than 200 ...
Posted to Music Box by Spike on June 11, 2007
Beatles bug you? Don't listen!
I have been listening to the Beatles all of my life. When my Dad brought Sgt. Pepper home in 1967, I was six years old. It was absolutely the most fantastic thing I had ever heard in my young life. It gave me an entirely new and brilliant way to understand the world-- a world torn by war, assasinations and riots-- in those days-- my formative ...
Posted to Music Box by rambler on June 11, 2007

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