At Milwaukee’s Boswell Books, May 21, 2013, Pepperland book launch, The Paperback Writers thrash through a classic Beatles tune. Click above.
Posts Tagged ‘Beatles’
You can’t do that in a bookstore!
Friday, June 14th, 2013Think the Marvelettes meet Thomas De Quincey meets net technology…
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011“Please mister postman, look and see, if there’s a card in your bag for me.” Marvellettes, 1961. Big hit. Also fourth song, side two, the Beatles’ Second Album, spring of 1964—a bouncy bit of Beatlemania. A sprig of middle of the century sunshine, youthful optimism, teenagers in love. And we waited so patiently for that […]
Birds of the British Isles – 1964, Swinging London and all that
Monday, November 15th, 2010What kind of screwed up world do we live in where American kids don’t care about Swinging London? Kids of my g-g-generation marked the beginning of Modern Cultural Life in 1964—specifically February—Beatles on Ed Sullivan and the subsequent glorious British Invasion of Sixties bands, fashion and…the gorgeous girls—Jane Asher, Jean Shrimpton, Vanessa Redgrave, Patti Boyd, […]
