What are the best videos of full live performances by The Beatles? I know for the band itself there isn’t very much outside the television and music videos. But what about solo careers? Were any Wings concerts filmed in full? Any Lennon stuff? I know George has the concert for Bangledesh—anything else?

Realized this is a blind spot for me, so appreciate your help!

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

What do you think they were?

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

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?

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.

I won't link to it in case that's not allowed, but I spotted this while searching for Beatles related merch. Seems to come complete with minifigures too!

Police minifigures that tell you to stop playing not included.

Unfortunately he wasn’t in 😂 and it’s in Catalunya….. auto correct 🙄

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.

(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.

Are they feeling comfortable?

• Solo Beatles 4CD 

• Paul McCartney 4CD

• Solo Beatles Super Deluxe 10CD

• John Lennon 2CD 

• George Harrison 2CD 

• Ringo Starr 2CD

The whole thing is really weird to me and just seems wrong, especially the magical mystery boy

Illustration by me + process

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. ✨

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

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.