Further boosting Ringo's reputation as the comic relief of the Beatles, this is another song to put in the Beatles bad songs bin. Quite ironic really that it's become one of the most famous songs by the band. She Said She Said After the childrens nightmare song, we are faced with ...
no, since I was 17, since I became a musician. The only way to survive in Hamburg, to play eight hours a night, was to take pills. The waiters gave you them – the pills and drink. I was a fucking dropped-down drunk in art school.Helpwas where...
the United States Navy, American Christmas, and the Fourth of July.” Art itself. “Puce Moment” has images of courtainry (apparently Anger’s grandmother’s dresses) one after another, and an acoustic song that sounds like the Smashing Pumpkins or the Velvet Underground (when it was...
, the comic based on the animated series’ continuity, might have completely passed over the heads of the target audience of younger readers, but delighted this older Titans and Beatles fan. It’s a gentle and fond parody that puts the TV Titans in the shoes of the movie Beatles. Teen Ti...
The story goes that they had no intention of saving it but someone in the studio liked it so much they tacked in on the end and everyone ended up agreeing that it provided just the right amount of comic and emotional relief. The medley is clearly their crowning achievement, and a fitting...
doesn't understand, but it sure looks like a mess quote unquote, free the people of Bangla-Desh. The flip of the "Bangla-Desh" single, "Deep Blue," an unoverdubbed quickie that I consider George's most affecting piece since "Here Comes the Sun," amplifies his almost comic intellectual ...
John artfully tied all of these images together to complete the "I Need A Fix" segment. The phrase "Happiness is a warm gun" came from the cover of an American gun magazine shown to John by George Martin. (The NRA-inspired phrase was a takeoff on Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic-strip...
Genuinely a Beatles book with a difference – a comic strip that is both factually accurate and very funny.See my review by clicking this link. Over to you: Have I missed any? I mean, certainly I have. But are there any that are the equal of the ones mentioned above? If so – ple...
What no one expected was that a young, canny director named Richard Lester would make the resulting movie an unexpected classic, with any number of comic set pieces, ranging from the slapstick to the satirical, that remain invigorating and pointed to this day. (In one scene, George is taken...