Archive for November, 2019
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Bonus Track: Our Lovely Young Queen
30 Nov 2019In the course of this one minute and thirty-three seconds you can hear all three takes of “Her Majesty” that…
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November 26, 1969
26 Nov 2019This day’s entry in Mark Lewisohn’s The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions — the only one for November 1969, as the…
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November 25, 1969
25 Nov 2019The Beatles had received their MBEs — which stands for “Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire” —…
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Bonus Track: Walnetto Sandwich
24 Nov 2019I am mainly interested in this alternate take — the last of the 36 takes of “You Never Give Me Your…
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Bonus Track: It’s a Ringalong-Singalong
21 Nov 2019As with “Oh! Darling,” everyone seems to have liked “Octopus’s Garden.” George, in particular, considered it a “cosmic song” and…
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Bonus Track: A Great One of Paul’s
19 Nov 2019In contrast to, say, “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” — which all the non-Paul Beatles bitched about and played grudgingly, if at…
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November 15, 1969
15 Nov 2019When presented with a piece of unlistenable dreck like John and Yoko’s Wedding Album, a critic has two choices. Either…
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November 14, 1969
14 Nov 2019Today saw the release in the UK of Wedding Album, the third installment of John and Yoko’s series of experimental…
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Bonus Track: Changing Faster than the Weather
11 Nov 2019As I write this snow is falling outside the window to my left. Yesterday Kansas City was 60 degrees and…
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Bonus Track: Un String Avec Kaput
09 Nov 2019When John and Paul recorded “The Ballad of John and Yoko” back on April 14, they’d done 11 takes of…