Archive for the '1960s' Category
This fly-on-the-wall documentary was one of about three programmes that made up the BBC Four so-called Beatles Week. It was filmed by Albert and David Maysles, and is a reworking of an 81-minute film they made in 1964 called What’s Happening! The Beatles in the USA.
Some of the footage is familiar from the Anthology series, [...]
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Mudcrutch by Mudcrutch
He says ‘I dont believe in money
But a man could make him a killin’
‘Cause some of that stuff don’t sound
Much different than Dylan
I hear down there it’s changed you see
They’re not as backward as they used to be
He’s gone country, look at them boots
He’s gone country, back to his roots
He’s gone country, a new kind [...]
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Fucking Hell! £200?
I see that the perfect christmas gift this year for a Guardian reader is The Beatles’ remastered box set in mono, a snip at just £200 (less 2p). That’s only £15.38 per disc, fact fans, a mere 200% of the standard price for an album on iTunes. For the privilege of hearing the mono versions [...]
Filed under: 1960s, Apple, Baby Boomers, Beatles, Entertainment, Music, Technology, marketing, sixties, weasels | 2 Comments
Tags: EMI
Apollo Talk
I enjoyed reading this long article by Tim Radford in the Guardian about the first moon landing.
What I *love* about our media industry is the way they can’t actually wait for the actual anniversary (20 July), probably because they’ll be going on holiday that weekend.
I was allowed to stay up to watch it on [...]
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Tags: 1969, apollo, moon landing
Roll Your Tapes
via BoingBoing, I came across this selection of recordings of Bob Dylan with that overrated charlatan Johnny Cash from 1968/69. Only one song from these sessions ended up on Nashville Skyline. There are also, so it goes, a few quadrophonic remixes of Nashville Skyline tracks – no Johnny Cash required. Regardless of my personal opinion [...]
Filed under: 1960s, Baby Boomers, Bob Dylan, Culture, Downloads, Entertainment, Music, Nostalgia, Songs, arts | 3 Comments
Tags: 1969, country music, johnny cash, nashville skyline, quadrophonic
Three Sacred Cows
1. There’s an interview with Phil Spector on TV tonight, being trailed as his first for three centuries. Ironically, one of the last he gave – for Tony Palmer’s All You Need is Love series – was on a couple of weeks ago. So not that long really.
Radio Times describes Phil as the greatest record [...]
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I think we know
A blast from the past
Residents of Buckingham were queuing up today outside the Tesco Express on the high street in order to spit in the doorway on their way to the new Waitrose, which has replaced the defunct Budgens in the Meadow Walk shopping centre.
Rumours had been rife for over a year that we’d be [...]
Filed under: 1960s, 1970s, Nostalgia, The Seventies, food, happiness, marketing, sixties | 5 Comments
Tags: shopping, Supermarkets, Tesco, Waitrose
Whoctor Do
Well, the plot was straight out of The Sarah Jane Chronicles (which is about RTD’s level, I think), but I haven’t laughed so much at anything on TV since I was watching my Seinfeld boxed set DVDs.
The scene where Catherine Tate and David Tenant mime and mug at each other through two sets of windows [...]
Filed under: 1960s, Arrested Development, BBC, Entertainment, SF, TV, Television, acting, sci-fi, science fiction | 5 Comments
Tags: Doctor Who
I’ve previously noted Shelby Lynne’s tendency to reinvent herself, so it’s not unexpected that when you visit ShelbyLynne.com at the moment, there is no mention of her previous record, Suit Yourself, or the one before that, or indeed any of the records she’s released since abandoning her short-lived country career and turning to blue eyed [...]
Filed under: 1960s, 1970s, Entertainment, Luvvies, Music, Nostalgia, TV, Television, The Seventies, heroes | 1 Comment
Pop on Trial – the verdict
It was kind of predictable, I think, that the BBC4 Pop on Trial jury would vote for the 1970s as the “most influential” decade of pop. There was an awful lot happening in the 70s; as to how much of it was really influential, I don’t know. Any programme that puts Paul Morley on the [...]
Filed under: 1960s, 1970s, BBC, Baby Boomers, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Culture, Entertainment, Music, Radio, TV, Television, The Seventies | 4 Comments
Tags: 1950s, fifties, pop, pop on trial
