In 2007 british actor Peter Serafinowicz made some funny sketches about the Beatles for his “Peter Serafinowicz Show” on BBC, playing the role of all of them.
Here you are the ones you can watch on internet. They’re great, aren’t they? I laughed to death.
Look at this font: do you recognize it?
It’s the exact reproduction of the one used for the logo on Ringo Starr’s basedrum. You can donwload it for free here.
Beatles’ story it’s not just the one of a rock band: for more than a reason it’s the story of contemporary music itself and of its technical progress.
The years of activity of the band saw an autentic revolution of studio recording technics, passing soon from primitive overdubbing methods to modern multitrack machines.
One of the main problems Beatles’ fans are involved in is which is the best or “authentic” version of their records: mono or stereo? Nowadays you can buy only stereo albums, as we use to; but during the 60s you could choose between both formats.
A solution is suggested by Mark Lewisohn - what a great man! - in his famous book. Talking about “Sgt. Pepper”, Richard Lush, second engeneer for that album, told him drastically: “The one and only version of Sgt. Pepper is the mono one, ‘cause all the Beatles worked on mixing. We made the stereo version later, faster and without them”.
The Beatles used to choose accuratly in which order songs would be published in their albums. George Martin remembers their rule was to begin a side with a “strong” hit and end it with one hard to be followed by anything else.
By the way it doesn’t mean that songs were recorded in the same order as they would be put on record: this choise would be made later.
So we thought to give curious people a list of the first songs to be recorded for each album (for this and other similar informations we thank Mark Lewisohn’s and Ian MacDonald’s books).
Try to visit this Flickr page: a genius called Digger Digger Dogstar has reproduced some Beatles’ covers using Lego toys.
Don’t you think they’re beautiful?
Well, they’re not 20 yet, but it doesn’t take a lot.
I met the Beatles at about eleven years old. I used to say I liked them, but the thruth was I had never listened to nothing but Let it be and Imagine. But I was amused by John Lennon’s image. Those little glasses, that long hair, and all that attitude which seemed so intellectual to me.
So I received a birthday present from a cousin of mine: The Beatles - 20 Greatest Hits, on tape.
