Authors: Bob Spitz
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography / General, #Music / Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal
The Beatles (195 page)
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The show itself was taped and seen on television the following week.
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She appeared regularly on the television show.
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Through Hofer, Brian had set up an American corporation, Beatles USA Ltd.
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The all-time entry record was set by Frank Sinatra’s 1956 album
, Songs for Swingin’ Lovers,
which popped onto the charts at number twelve.
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In 1986 a court decided that George’s 1970 solo hit “My Sweet Lord” infringed the copyright of the Chiffons’ “He’s So Fine” and awarded Bright Tunes $587,000 in a judgment against George.
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The songs included “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Misery,” “Anna,” “Chains,” “Boys,” “Love Me Do,” “P.S. I Love You,” “A Taste of Honey,” “There’s a Place,” and “Twist and Shout.”
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Donovan, who was in love with Jenny, wrote “Jennifer Juniper” about her.
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Seven shillings and sixpence (now 37.5 pence), the price of a good seat at the cinema.
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In fact, it wasn’t any fun for the Righteous Brothers, who begged off the tour after the eighth city and were replaced by Clarence “Frogman” Henry.
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Two years later the plane and many of the same crew members crashed in Kansas, killing ninety-five people.
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It was the creation of a team of American journalists for a
Time
magazine cover story, “You Can Walk Across It on the Grass,” April 15, 1966.
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Ringo had already recorded “If You’ve Got Trouble,” which John and Paul had written for him, but it was scrapped after several unsuccessful takes.
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“Blue” notes were John and Paul’s shorthand for sounds that fell somewhere between two notes, often the result of a minor note played against a major.
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On the American version, Capitol whittled the selections down to ten tracks, thus maximizing profits but substantially changing the character of the album.
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John took poetic license, adding the extra
s
to the name.
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“Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane,” originally intended for the album, were left off, following EMI’s practice, when they were chosen as the double-sided single.
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On December 18, 1966, Browne ran his Lotus Elan sports car through a red light in Earls Court, smashing into a van and killing himself.
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“There are 4,000 holes in the road in Blackburn, Lancashire, or one twenty-sixth of a hole per person, according to a council survey.” “The Holes in Our Roads,”
Daily Mail,
1/17/67, p. 2.
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Having made just pennies an album up to January 1967, their royalty rate ballooned to 10 percent of the album’s wholesale price.
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By contrast, the
Please Please Me
album wrapped in a spry 585 minutes.
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Only Henry Grossman,
LIFE
’s man on the scene, wasn’t British.
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Peter Brown reports a similar, though somewhat more sensational, version of these events in
The Love You Make.
While Cynthia may well have alienated herself from the others, Joan Taylor says she confessed years later that “
she hadn’t taken anything
herself that night but had gone along with everything so that we would be comfortable.”
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Of all the people interviewed for this book, not one suggested otherwise.
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They recorded for Parlophone as the Scaffold.
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In other accounts, she described them as a green-and-white-striped gown and black silk kimono.
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In a subsequent
Rolling Stone
interview, he asks Yoko: “Was it my idea or yours?”
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Also referred to as Apple Merchandising.
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The theme from a British TV sitcom of the same name.
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Cynthia settled for £100,000 and custody of their son, Julian.
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Actually, the letter read
: “Dear Sir Joe: I’ve asked Allen Klein to look after my things. Please give him any information he wants and full cooperation. Love, [signed: John Lennon].”
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Ray Connolly of the
Evening Standard
recalls that Paul cornered him at Apple, winked, and said: “If you don’t tell anybody, I’ll tell you all about it.”
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Jim McCartney had remarried in 1965.
CONTENTS19. A Touch of the Barnum & Bailey
24. Once Upon a Time in America
27. Lennon and McCartney to the Rescue
28. Into the Cosmic Consciousness
35. Good-bye to the Boys in the Band!
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