Groovy Beatles pictures

[servant]

Miles Davis...

So it is! But who's the dude in the middle?

[brammy]

wow, never saw THAT one before

[johnnysain]

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http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs39/f/2008/ ... visual.jpg

Posted before... I think this is my favorite drawing of the Beatles.

[brammy]

http://www.mtmglobal.com/mtm004.htm

"THE BEATLES at the HAMBLETON HALL, St David's Road, Page Moss, Huyton, LIVERPOOL on 25 JANUARY 1961 where they performed together with Derry & the Seniors and Faron & the Tempest Tornadoes."

"17 February 1963 THE BEATLES were booked to appear on the TV Pop Music Show, 'THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS', at the ABC TELEVISION STUDIOS, Broom Road, Teddington Lock, Middlesex, London, England. 'The Fab Four' performed just ONE song at this rehearsal session - their NEW single 'PLEASE PLEASE ME'. The atmosphere was ELECTRIC, in front of this SMALL Invited audience. "

"This was a ONE OFF engagement for THE BEATLES, just as they were beginning to take off to stardom…. Held inside a huge marquee at the Annual URMSTON, South Manchester Event, at Abbotsfield Park, on Monday 5 August 1963. 'The Fab Four' headed a FOUR act bill, including their adversaries from the DECCA Auditions, Brian Poole and The Tremeloes, plus the Dennisons, Johnny Martin and the Tremors. The compere for this event was David Hamilton, who later became a major BBC Disc Jockey."

[brammy]

An interesting presage of things to come.....

"Beatles BANNER POSTER was issued in 1964 in collaboration with the UK DENTAL BOARD to raise awareness that eating an APPLE a day promotes good dental care. THE BEATLES were obviously chosen by The Dental Board due to their huge influence on the younger generation."

[kieran campbell]

If any body has a larger photo and better quality of this, please post it or let me know
-Thanks

[brammy]

http://pixdaus.com/pics/1235574066n2Gr5c3.jpg

your pix as large as I can find it.

...and a chorus of bass harmonicas played by John, George Harrison, Mal Evens and Neil Aspinal

Paul: “Mr. Kite was a poster that John had in his house in Weybridge. I arrived there for a session one day and he had it up on the wall in the living room. It was all there, the trampoline, the hoops, the garters, the horse. It was Pablo Fanques Fair, and it said ‘being for the benefit of Mr. Kite’; almost the whole song was written off that poster. We just sat down and wrote it. We pretty much took it down word for word and then just made up some little bits and pieces to glue it together.”

Geoff Emerick: “The backing track to “Mr. Kite” was quite simple: Paul on Bass, Ringo on drums, and John doing a guide vocal, with George Martin enlisted to play the harmonium. It did take quite a few takes to nail it down, which caused problems for George Martin, because the Harmonium required pedaling to get the air through the bellows, kind of like riding a bicycle. After playing it non-stop for hours on end, he finally collapsed in exhaustion, sprawling out on the floor like a snow angel, a sight that gave us all great amusement. “

John, as usual, was full of creative ideas but was having trouble expressing them in practical terms. “What I want is some kind of swirly music, you know?” George Martin did NOT know. John continued “I want the sound of a fairground around my voice; I want to be able to smell the sawdust and the animals. I want to feel like I’m at the circus with Mr. Kite, the Hendersons and all that”

George Martin: I knew we needed a backwash, a general mush of sound, like if you go to a fairground, shut your eyes and listen: rifle-shots, hurdy gurdy noises, people shouting and way in the distance, just a tremendous chaotic sound. In order to create the swirly background sounds we got together a lot of old recordings of Victorian steam organs, the type you hear on Carousels at county fairs, playing all traditional tunes, Sousa Marches and so on. I dubbed a few moments of them on to tape and gave it to Geoff Emerick, our engineer, and told him “take a half a minute of that one, a minute and a half of that one and another half from that and so on. Cut them up into little pieces about one foot long and then fling them up in the air. Then, pick them up in whatever order they come and stick them all back together again.” When I listened to them, they formed a chaotic mass of sound…it was unmistakably a steam organ. Perfect! There was the fairground atmosphere we had been looking for. John was thrilled to bits with it.

Geoff Emerick: “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” was embellished with all manner of overdubs: chromatic organ runs and glockenspiel (both recorded at half speed), normal speed oom-pah style organ (played by John), and a chorus of bass harmonicas (played by John, George Harrison, Mal Evens and Neil Aspinall). It turned into quite a production that stretched over many weeks.”

[FretlessOnly]

Thanks for that, Kent. I knew the story, but it's nice to see it all in print in one place. Great photos, too.

[just_bassics]

I knew a record producer in Chicago back in the 80's who said he refused to believe the story of the backing tracks being cut into pieces, thrown in the air and randomly spliced. He said it was a stupid myth. About a week later, I watched "The Compleat Beatles" which had B&W footage of George Martin telling the story while pointing to a tape recorder that was playing the tape, splices and all... I think I'll believe George on this one!

[brammy]

I once knew a guy who had met and chatted with Lennon at a party.
He said that one of the main things was that he was surprised at how red John's hair was.

[Soulsaman]

Here's a funny one!

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