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Post by BeatlePaul on Jan 20, 2005 23:44:08 GMT
your mother should know was filmed in Spain or England? ROLL UP FOR THE MYSTERY TOUR!
QUOTES FROM THE FILM THE ALBUM
Brian Epstein had just died, and the Beatles had been taking part in the Maharishi's meditating sessions...it was a strange time for all of them. Some say that the film Magical Mystery Tour is the result of it all. While Paul McCartney was off in Denver, Colorado to celebrate Jane Asher's birthday, he had a whim...to gather a group of friends, midgets, bizarre actors and freaks and travel the countryside in a bus coach...just to see what happened, and...film it! Since Epstein had died, Paul had pretty much tried to fill the shoes, telling the boys when they would make records and so forth. It was flying home on Tuesday April 11, 1967 that Paul had thought up the lyrics to the title song of his proposed film, Magical Mystery Tour. He was inspired by American Novelist Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, who toured the United States in a psychedelically painted bus, served drinks laced with LSD and filmed whatever happend. On a borrowed napkin, he sketched out the film's content; ready to present it to his bandmates when he arrived in London. Supervised by Paul, on September 11 at 10:45 am The Beatles and their 39 member entourage began their 5 day tour, (although the bus was late because the logo had to be painted at the last minute.) starting from Central London and heading for Cornwall, filming...without a script and without knowing where exactly they were going, or what might happen. As luck would have it, nothing did. They filmed in several towns and villages. It was at Paul Raymond's Revuebar in London, a month later, that they filmed the Jan Carson strip scene, with Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's "Death Cab For Cutie". "Your Mother Should Know " was filmed in a former US Army Airforce base in an aircraft hanger that was magically transformed into a glittering ballroom, in which The Beatles Danced through. Policemen, Eggmen in bathing caps and John filmed "I Am The Walrus" near the 32 concrete anti-blast walls that protected aircrafts in World War II. Other locations they filmed at were Widcome on Dartmoor, Taunton, Bodmin, Newquay, Watergate Bay and Porth. Perhaps the most endearing scene, "The Fool on the Hill" sequence also has a story to it. Filmed in Nice, France, it apparently started off as a fiasco, when Paul upon arriving in Nice, realized he hadn't had his passport. Oops! Fear not...call the lads at home and they'll rush it to him airfreight in a couple of hours. After finally receiving his documents...oops! No money was sent with them!!! Ring, ring... Lennon and Harrison directed a scene with "Happy Nat the Rubber Man" around a hotel pool. Scrapped on the cutting room floor was 90% of the film's 10 hours worth of shots, including a scene of Traffic (Steve Winwood) singing "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush". Slated for an hour long TV special, it was thought of by most as "the most expensive home movie." Shown on Boxing Day, 1967, 8:35 pm, it was seen in 3,930,000 homes. "Witless", "Colossal Conceit", "Rubbish", were some of the comments. Unfortunately, the film was shown in black and white...so even those with color TV's weren't able to experience the splendor that is Magical Mystery Tour. Let's face it...I couldn't imagine seeing "Flying" in black and White, there is just no point. Even though, later, the film was rerun in color, it was too late. The damage had already been done by the critics. Paul immediately came to it's defense, but to no avail. Critics called the film a disaster. But, today it is shown in college classes, film classes as well as studied furvously by Beatles Fans. I, for one, am a fan of it. Interesting notes found at: www.angelfire.com/ab4/cavern/mmt.html
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Post by Perplexed on Jan 21, 2005 2:03:18 GMT
Valis, thanks for posting. Eye-opening.
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Post by Jilli on Jan 25, 2005 1:41:42 GMT
check this out www.beatlesource.com/bs/od-futo.htmlOn the red vinyl the part number is LMW 281F the photo on the record is a picture of someone holding a gun to the dog. the bottom picture it has "THE BEATLES" going down the left side. Below the LE is LMW 281F is Ruthless Rhymes Ltd a boot leg company?
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Post by abbey on Jan 25, 2005 15:24:09 GMT
Jilli - in the photos on those two record jackets the boys look sweet. Strange that someone is holding a gun to that dog's head. I have seen at least 3 photos where someone is holding a gun to PAUL'S head What do you suppose it could signify ? That PAUL was shot in the head like a dog
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Post by Jilli on Feb 1, 2005 6:47:06 GMT
What I was thinking was about the pictures where the guys are holding guns to Paul's head and the part number LMW-281F.
Could it be that this copy of their songs is different. Perhaps real clues? Ones that havent been changed with time and/or by Faul rerecording over old masters?
It was printed in Germany. Maybe this was one that Faul couldnt get to so that he could change it.
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Post by abbey on Feb 1, 2005 21:39:27 GMT
That is very interesting Jilli. Do you know anyone who has a copy of this record ? Anyone ?
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Post by Mollymalone on Feb 27, 2005 4:15:52 GMT
Whilst posting about Michael Jackson elsewhere, I remembered watching a documentary about him, where he hired a whole top floor of a hotel, and in each room he had giant cardboard cut outs of god knows who, that he would 'visit' and spend time with....it reminded me of the cut outs on the Pepper album - odd coincidence?
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Post by abbey on Feb 28, 2005 14:01:19 GMT
Maybe or just "ODD" Michael ;D
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Post by unrepentant on May 26, 2006 19:33:47 GMT
is now a good time to bring up paul singing "i die" at the end of LOVELY RITA?
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Post by unrepentant on May 27, 2006 6:45:45 GMT
at the end of LOVELY RITA paul spends a few bars going, "i die i die i die" but it's something you've got to listen for. it first sounds like "duh".
as for the album cover.......i still think there is a big message contained in the color matching on it [who's wearing yellow, ect.]. lennon's thing was to put something in front of the masses and have them go deeper into it [like mentioning pablo fanque]....john knew SOMEONE out there would have nothing better to do and would uncover his PID message.
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Post by plastic paul on May 27, 2006 12:30:34 GMT
Thanks for bumping this byrds, I feel i've got something to think about again now, it's a good read.
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Post by lalalalalaaaa on Feb 22, 2013 17:10:04 GMT
the above image was made after researching several things; in aestethic terms, the sgt pepper cover in many ways doesn't follow it's complex reputation - the two sides are clearly disbalanced, making the excess (with or with-out help from mr apollo c) exactly the part on the right side, that seems more like a peek into the set than the rest. with using diana dors's elbow, we can set a clear vertical reference at around where that area begins/ends exactly. by slicing the image, in order to keep the amount of slices equal, it would have to be split into 13 identical pieces. what's interesting is, when I attempted to recreate the image by the echo it's fraction made in the same space, I found that in order for the image to RHYME, that is, have both left and right ends resonate having a core and thus making the image not visibly 'faulty', one must add the fourteenth piece. example: 14 pieces by using 1/13 number 13 amounts to 4 by 1+3, thus making the two numbers related since doing that with each of the 13 pieces would be a little boring, i decided to try a variation before i move on, this is two thirteenths repeated eight times, that halves the original 13 but keeps it at number 8 (rather than 7) times of repetition again by adding the one piece from the 13/14 dilemma. two odd notes concerning the first picture - en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leš- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRTthe most interesting thing that comes up by slicing the original into 13, is that we also get a line straight through pauls heart. this, put together with the diana definite, gives us 5 pieces to play with (which makes sense, 1+4). what a keen old man!
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Post by lalalalalaaaa on Feb 22, 2013 18:00:05 GMT
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Post by lalalalalaaaa on Mar 2, 2013 10:09:32 GMT
another one (from top to bottom) I see; -a three-eyed lions head with the thumbs of the hand above pauls head forming the nostrils, -another cat feature in the red on pauls suit, -ringo's hand, forming what seem like eyes of an owl, -letters PPER* and below it BAD 8 BAD, -Y indicating a central heart shape, -strange looking head in the yellow flowers (seems to have many eyes, so I'm gonna say spider-like) compared to the previous image of penguin george watched over by walrus standing<->under snow white, these become more and more interesting. *edit: ah, repper!
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Post by LUCY on Mar 3, 2013 2:35:20 GMT
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Post by LUCY on Mar 4, 2013 3:02:14 GMT
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Post by lalalalalaaaa on Mar 7, 2013 12:49:28 GMT
meerkat???
just kidding, what does it mean?
abba - baba-tata - ata
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Post by lalalalalaaaa on Mar 8, 2013 15:27:11 GMT
lalala en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_RecordsOn July 1 (1942), Capitol Records released its first nine records:
101 – "I Found a New Baby"/"The General Jumped at Dawn" – Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra 102 – "Cow-Cow Boogie" with Ella Mae Morse and Freddy Slack and His Orchestra/ "Here You Are" – Freddy Slack and His Orchestra 103 – "Strip Polka"/"Air-Minded Executive" – both with vocals by Johnny Mercer 104 – "Johnny Doughboy Found A Rose In Ireland"/ "Phil, The Fluters Ball" – both with vocals by Dennis Day 105 – "The Angels Cried" – vocal Martha Tilton and The Mellowaires/I'll Remember April" – vocal Martha Tilton with Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra 106 – "He Wears A Pair Of Silver Wings" – vocal Connie Haines/"I’m Always Chasing Rainbows" – Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra 107 – "Elk's Parade"/"I Don't Know Why" – Bobby Sherwood and his Orchestra 108 – "Serenade In Blue" – Martha Tilton with Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra/"(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo" – The Mellowaires with Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra 109 – "Windmill Under The Stars"/"Conchita Lopez" – Johnnie Johnston By July 25, "Cow Cow Boogie" had gone to #1 on the hit parade. (see dates at #[2]
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By 1946, Capitol had sold 42 million records and was established as one of the Big Six record labels. It was also that year that writer-producer Alan W. Livingston created Bozo the Clown for their new children's record library. Some notable music appreciation albums for children by Capitol during that era included Sparky's Magic Piano and Rusty in Orchestraville.
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It was announced in November 2012 that Steve Barnett would become Chairman & CEO of Capitol Music Group and would be based at the Capitol Records Building.[6]
well isn't that a ... mess
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Post by lalalalalaaaa on Mar 8, 2013 15:36:50 GMT
wicked logo though
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Post by lalalalalaaaa on Mar 10, 2013 0:07:09 GMT
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Post by LUCY on Apr 4, 2013 10:41:10 GMT
www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/04/01/beatles-album-sgt-pepper-lonely-hearts-club-band-sold-at-auction-for-290500/2042459/?morestories=obinsiteA signed copy of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sold at auction for $290,500 on Saturday. The final sale price far exceeded the $30,000 originally estimated for the item and broke the previous record for similar sales.
The U.K. Parlophone copy of the album, with high-gloss cover and gatefold, was autographed by all four Beatles in 1967, the year the album was issued. Bidding on the album began at $15,000. Early bidding had already pushed the price past $110,000 a week before the auction date, and the number just kept climbing. Gary Shrum, consignment director of Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, which ran the sale, said that the bidding had "taken on a life of its own," perhaps because of the particularly high quality of the autographs.What if I signed it? lol ;D
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