My most treasured piece of vinyl

My 1966 , gold Parlophone label, mono pressing of Revolver by The Beatles (of course).
It still plays without a jump, bit scratchy though. Finest!

If you want it...The Badfinger Story

They were poised to be the 70's answer to the fab four. Their first hit was a Macca original, they penned the huge pop balled "Without You" later taken to the top by Harry Nillson and Mariah Carey. George Martin, Todd Rungren and George Harrison produced some of their finest work, they had the power pop world at their feet. So you may ask...what happened? The story is stranger and more tragic than you can begin to imagine. Dressed up here in the "Behind the Music" gloss, the story of Badfinger is gripping and poignant none the less...all this and they were Welsh!!




Money/Flying


"Here Cones the Sun". Pete Ham and George Harrison perform at the Concert for Bangladesh..really lovely version...

Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane & All You Need is Love...

Years from now, when we are all dust, these clips will still be three of the strangest bit's of music put to film, although All You Need is Love isn't really music put to film as they sang live in the studio, but it's still very odd.

There something so unreal about The Beatles at this time, that they were so huge globally, universally even, yet their music and themselves seem so personal and familiar, like they are singing and playing to us, each and everyone individually.

The movie clips themselves are noteworthy for their very oddness, strangeness and at times down right sinister quality. You have the fab four wandering around some God forsaken autumnal moor or heath, in balaclavas and furs, jumping from an impressive height, walking around backwards, drip painting and deconstructing some kind of butchered piano and all under a very witchy looking tree that I for one wouldn't hang around under after dark ..very strange.

John Lennon striding against the human traffic on a Liverpudlian high street and then the four of them meeting like some street gang, then even odder, The Beatles on horse back in some street which cuts to a decrepit ruin in the country, the four beatles decked out in red hunting jackets ride cryptically past a stage set up with drums and amps to a table where they are waited on by what look like four footmen before John Lennon upends the whole thing.

And the last clip...The Beatles elevated above a crowd made up of their musical peers including Keith Richards, Donovan, Marianne Faithful and Keith Moon, demi Gods in their own domain, Dons to the whole 60's pop gangster family, gazing down upon their minions and postulating about love and other weirdness while Mick Jagger sings and claps along looking like a sheepish schoolboy...what were these people on?

Strawberry Fields


Penny Lane


All You Need is Love

The greatest B-Side of all time...

Of course it's "Rain" by The Beatles.



and this version was recorded for the Ed Sullivan show. The Beatles look ghostly.It sounds massive, must be something to do with the re broadcast. It's sounds wildly distorted and much washier. Cool!!!

Dylan and Lennon get deep in the back of a limo...

The famous footage of Lennon and Dylan in the back of a limo, May 27th. 1966 in London. John looks fantastic and comes of sharp as a knife. Poor Bob seems to have been up for a couple of days drinking Buckfast or cough mixture or maybe both. Still, strange and fascinating in a voyeuristic kind of way...

Happy Birthday to "The Quiet Beatle"

Quiet? I never really got that but then again I wasn't born until 1970 so what do I know. Born incidentally on the same day George Harrison celebrated his 27th. birthday, 25th. February 1970. So here's to you George. As a kind of tribute I've listed my favourite tracks by the great man. Feel free to agree, disagree or add as you please...
1. I need you
2. You like me too much
3. If I needed someone
4. Think for yourself
5. Taxman
6. Love you too
7. I want to tell you
8. Within without you
9. Old brown shoe
10. It's all too much
11. Only a northern song
12. The inner light
13. Here comes the sun
14. Something
15. Long, long, long
16. While my guitar gently weeps
17. Badge (with Eric Clapton, performed by Cream)
18. Savoy Truffle
19. My Sweet Lord
20. All thing's must pass
21. Wah, Wah.
22. Bangladesh (live at the concert for Bangladesh)
23. I, me, mine.
24. Sour Milk Sea (Sung by Jackie Lomax)
25. Not Guilty (Beatles version, Anthology 3)
26. Give me love