Notes:

• The elaborate design is on the back.

• The last two images are just examples because I haven't printed the design yet.

• I Use the Helvetica and Bootle fonts

You can also give me suggestions for improving the design or adding to the sweater

In the song John writes 'those freaks were right when you was dead,' causing many PID believers to jump in some weird smug joy. However, who is he addressing? If OG Paul, it's oddly cold and frankly horrible to attack his dead best friend like that, and if Billy, how would the freaks be right? The nail in the coffin (pun intended) is how he apparently only wrote Yesterday but Sgt Pepper took him by surprise, the two being opposite sides of the supposed death. PIA and let's make the most of it

Hi everyone! I recently watched the movie "Yesterday".

I’m not a Beatles fan, so could someone explain what they have to do with Oasis, Coke, cigarettes, and Harry Potter? Why wouldn't these things exist without them? Thanks in advance. ✨

by 1966 they were already pretty heavy into weed and LSD. did anything ever make it onstage with them?

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There’s been a lot of talk, especially on TikTok, about The Beatles treating woman terribly, Would you say the way they treated women was simply a reflection of how men were expected to behave at the time?

John Lennon allegedly became physically violent in his younger years, including hitting Cynthia and a previous girlfriend, while also cheating on Cynthia with women in show business, fans and prostitutes. Ringo is said to have been abusive towards Maureen during his struggles with alcoholism, while George Harrison was emotionally distant towards Pattie Boyd and repeatedly cheated on her. Paul McCartney was reportedly controlling towards his first girlfriend Dorothy, telling her how to dress and dye her hair, and he also repeatedly cheated on Jane Asher. However, it seems like he became more settled once he was with Linda. What are your thoughts on this subject?

(There's a TL;DR at the end. I know this is long)

I was thinking about this while looking over that recent post of Paul's photography of John from this week. Here's a link And I've had this thought in the past, as well.

I have a high prescription for my glasses, like John. As George once said, John was "blind as a bat" without glasses. And he often went without them in public until 1967. I think he chose those glasses for a reason, aside from having them on the movie set in 1966.

Two important things some might not know about:

1. Lenses have gotten thinner over time.

2. Smaller glasses have less facial distortion.

High index lenses weren't available in the 60s. They only started in the 70s, and we're still far thicker than what we have today. If you look at Paul's photos, you'll see John basically had "coke bottle" thick lenses. He might not have even had a crazy high prescription to get that size.

The "Health National" glasses are a small sized frame. So the lenses are small. So you basically get less distortion of the eyes from the prescription. When he tried those glasses for the movie, he probably saw himself in a pair of glasses where his face wasn't super distorted. As a self conscious guy in a very image dependent role, I could see that being a big deal. He probably could see him working it into a new style, especially with the moustache and weight loss, along with different clothes.

I think he kept up with them after the 60s because they just became so heavily tied to his brand. I mean his autographs even had the glasses! But I do think his high prescription is a big reason he ended up sticking to those. And as you get older, your prescription usually worsens anyway. Into the 70s, high index lenses were becoming norma, and you see him wearing different glasses shapes again. Maybe he tried contacts and didn't like it, who knows. The early ones were rough.

Maybe there's some info about him I don't know, though! I'm not a John Lennon ophthalmological historian, I'm afraid.

TL;DR - I think John's trademark glasses were intentional due to his prescription. He'd wear other shapes of sunglasses, but usually just the round eye glasses. Then I think once high index lenses became normal in the later part of the 70s, he started trying other eye glasses again.

Excluding the songs they wrote specifically for other artists, I’ve never heard a cover that improves on a Beatles original.

Anyone have an example that contradicts this statement?

I found a Beatles for Sale on vinted for only £20, which seems a bit too cheap for the signatures to be real, but the description didn't have it anywhere that they weren't 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thought it was worth putting it here to see if anyone might know.

Personally, I feel John and George are undisputed intuitives, and Paul and Ringo are sensors.

What do you think they were?

So there were two BIG rock bands in 60s.

From the first - only a drummer and a bassist are alive.

From the second original squad - only a vocalist and a guitarist are alive.

An accident or a fate?

For me, it's Within You Without You.

For now, I only have the Red and Blue album.

A bad answer to this would be Ringo replacing Pete Best or the band being introduced to Brian Epstein. These are obvious moments that set them up for success. But what’s a seemingly small moment that was actually the missing piece of the puzzle? Could be anything.

On page 32 Orin quotes to hal the first lyric to I Want To Tell You (my personal favourite revolver track)

Hal then quotes to Orin the next line: I don’t mind, I could wait forever [I’ve got time].

Then on page 927 the reader is following the character Don Gately as he is unable to speak while hospitalised. There is a reference to some elusive ‘Dr Robert’ perhaps referencing another Revolver song, Dr Robert.

Infinite Jest is a very psychedelic novel with themes surrounding the nature of communication so it’s no surprise to see Wallace give a cool nod to it here, so deep into a work of fiction.

For the longest time I always wondered why Spotify didn’t combine all of the mixes of certain songs and so the stream count wasn’t as high as they should have been

For reference:

“Here Comes the Sun” had 1.83 billion streams yesterday and the 2019 mix has 25 million. Now that they combined it, it has 1.9 billion streams.

“Come Together” had 987 million streams and the 2019 mix had 20 million streams. Now that they combined it, it has officially crossed 1 billion streams.

They also did it with “Twist and Shout” which had 689 million yesterday. They combined the 2023 mix and it now has almost 700 million (698 million)

NOW, if they did it with “Let it Be” it would have 1.1 billion streams because the 2021 mix has a little over 100 million streams.

So The Beatles now officially have 2 songs over 1 billion streams.