From the eyes of a child-Yellow Submarine

I live in Rockland County,NY.I moved up to New City when I
was about 5 years old. I remember Yellow Submarine coming to the movie theatres ( back when movie theatres were full sized theatres, not a regular theatre split in 2 or 3). The weekend finally came and we went to see it. How different it looked back then compared to when they released it on DVD. Isn't it weird how different things
looked and smelled and tasted back when we were all kids. From an adult point of view George came out with 2 of my favorite songs on the album-" It's All Too Much " & " Only A Northern Song " . John & Paul came out with one of the best Beatle songs ever- " Nowhere Man " & if you listen to a good recording on a good stereo of " Hey BullDog " and turn the balance all the way to the right you can actually make out what John and Paul are babbyling about near the end of the song. One other point, only the U.K. release has the words " NOTHING IS REAL ", on the front of the album cover under the word " Submarine ".

Who other artists listen to?

I wanted to include this picture of another of my favorite guitarists-Jimi Hendrix. I include this in my Beatles blog because of a story I read that John and Paul were very suprised and delighted they had heard that Jimi had played a cover version of " Day Tripper " at one of his concerts only a day or two after the Beatles had released the song as a single in the U.K.

Let It Be

Let It Be was originally produced by Phil Spector ( the one responsible for the reverb on most of John Lennon's vocal tracks ) It was the only Beatle Album released to the public with the characteristic red apple. As stated on the back of the album cover quote " this is a new phase BEATLES album. . . LET IT BE was that they performed live for many of the tracks; in comes the warmth and the freshness of a live performance; as reproduced for disc by Phil Spector. I don't know about any of the other Beatle fans throughout the world, but this Let It Be was electronically trashed by Phil Spector. All you have to do is listen to Let It Be. . . Naked, and that's the album that should have been originally released as a live studio album. The album with the Red Apple is merely the sound track for the concert they gave on top of what was the Apple Boutique. There wasn't any warmth or spontaneity; it was a live recording that was electronically remastered.If you haven't listened to Let It Be. . .Naked, you don't know what your missing.

A new Beatles Photo

This is a Beatles photo that I found on another site on the web. I always delight in coming across a phtograph of the Beatles I've never seen before. With all the different books on the market ( and I own quite a few ) it's hard to find something you haven't seen before. This picture again looks to be about circa 1967-68. John's wearing that necklace around his neck ( the one with the 2 eyes and smiling mouth) that's in alot of other Beatle photographs.In fact I think it's the only thing besides his birthday suit that he's wearing on the Nude album with Yoko.