Bill Wyman seems to have got a free pass. Different times etc.

Good spot - he seems to imply he expects to be free for the 70th anniversaries from 2033 onwards. He'll be 75 by then...

I disagree with the annoying/cringe part but the rest is spot on. We owe those girls a huge debt.

Was fortunate enough to see this via Doc NYC. It’s really good and well worth the wait.

I completely take the commissioning point. Do the coming movies make stuff like this even more likely? Free publicity? There is a streaming version of Lewisohns Evolver 62 due very soon, mere weeks after anthology 25.

Be interesting to see a German take on Hamburg though, no? Plus Klaus’ perspective. Very rare that we get an actual participant’s input to a film let alone the inspiration. Can only think of MLH in 2 of us and Pete in Birth (and maybe Yoko in that awful J+Y TV movie)

Timing very curious. Administratively this is not easy, but it’s not so hard as to need 3.5 years. Also - Not everyone will reclaim their higher rate relief so they’ll make savings there

On the way, we debated what Paul would sing and agreed no way he’d tackle Wah Wah! The Joe Brown finale was perfection on the night and I still have the petals.

A wonderful listen. I was also fortunate enough to attend on the night - in the 8th row - close enough to see Tom Hanks. I’d got through to the booking office on the phone and asked for the 4 best tx they had, at an exorbitant £150 each. (1/2)

I saw this recently and really enjoyed it. Partway through you realise how it’s going to have to end but they still manage a twist and even a smile. Deserves to be better known.

World Soccer (magazine) - Wikipedia

And on the latter point, always worth directing people to the oldest British football magazine, World Soccer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_S...

Paul Isad YouTube video by CUTCODE

Can I commend this for your viewing pleasure? A charming way of using the PID story. They even manage to wring a wry smile out of the inevitable ending www.youtube.com/watch?v=98yl...

Give My Regards To Broad Street (Full Movie in Full HD, 1984) YouTube video by Kitsu Beatles

Very much looking forward to hearing what you make of GMRTBS. The fact it's been up on YT for 4 years is a clue as to its commercial value. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1a...

I read this as an indication that Man On The Run film will be out at the same time and it’d be a shame not to have some accompanying merch available. But what surprises me more is this comes out _before_ anthology.

That suggests the next volume is still a way off! Well, full marks to Mark for not compromising on quality for volume 2.

Not sure how I feel about this. I’ll definitely watch because the original show was fantastic, but does this mean the next book is still a way off?

Is Jimmy still around? If memory serves, nobody is entirely sure he is.

It was only last week I sprang on 12 discs of Lennon!

I take no pleasure in noting that Woman Is… was one of the few John songs omitted from the One To One film.

It’s an excellent series. The reduced opinion might be to do with reduced access? Anyway, I’d like to see a refreshed version with better quality visuals - those do need updating.

Suggest you google Lump of labour fallacy.

What if there already is but we can’t tell them apart?

The only possible good outcome from this game is that one side has 5 players sent off (ideally Tottenham) and the game has to be abandoned. Yes, I am a West Ham fan.

Thank you

Was at the same showing. It’s a genuinely brilliant film - can’t think of many better Beatles documentaries. Great to hear that a video version of the whole concert will come out.

Donate to Ukraine’s defenders The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/

Slava Ukraini.

This is not the lovable moptops of AHDN. (You could even read it as them actively seeking to push a restrictive audience away, like the Monkees Head).
Which is why in the US it aired on the student circuit and not network tv. Still love it though!

Given the vast majority of the population didn’t have colour set, making a film that demanded to be seen in colour was foolhardy at best, no? For me, MMTs problem is not that it was shown in b&w but that it was shown in a peak viewing slot on Boxing Day. Completely the wrong film for that audience.

Fun fact about Auntie Jessie. She and Happy Nat are also in the Herman’s Hermits film Mrs Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter, made at about the same time. #FabFeb

So John’s comments are actually a rare example of his wealth detaching him from reality. We can be pretty sure he had a colour TV but his fans did not. And c) the colour/b&w debate doesn’t explain why the Beatles, the biggest act ever, couldn’t get _any_ US network to pick it up.