Is Tie Guy still a fixture?

Quite striking that the lyric of She Loves You features a man telling another man to apologise to a woman.

Quite striking that the lyric of She Loves You features a man telling another man to apologise to a woman.

[67] PEBBLE MILL AT ONE 12th October, 1981 - transcript PAM AYRES: [ctd]The Beatles didn’t get properly famous until 1963 but some of us had had our eyes on them a while before that. I’d heard them on Teenagers’ Turn in March ’62 and been bowled over. I heard from a cousin who worked at EMI that they were coming in for a recording session. So I made my way down to London on the day. Looking back I understand, amid that Beatle clamour Paul didn’t want to hold my hand, and make his world a little… Pammer. She couldn’t know it on the day, this would-be Beatle wife That the man who asked “Are you OK?” played keys on ‘In My Life’. “Move it grandad! Out the way!” I’d spent a mint to get there. And now I learn there was that day a slur upon his neckwear. Did George’s joke disturb him? Loosen this knot of class? Did the ageing tie unnerve him? And become a looking glass? Now? I love George Martin. And the reason is because The “One thing I can tell you is…” He asked me how I was.

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Hamburg: Bambi Kino. For the first time ever, a guest contributor to Kenwood. Thorsten Knublauch contacted me to ask if he could contribute some of his research ...

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Alan Cumming in the Josie And The Pussycats movie.

And of course…

Murray and Flight of the Conchords, New Zealand Consulate office.

Ian Faith (This Is Spinal Tap) demonstrating a straight drive with a cricket bat, at the expense of a hotel television.

Murray isn't as aggressively proactive as an Ian Faith for example, but does offer limited Consulate services.

Michael Kitchen as John Farrow, the manager of Thotch in the Brian Pern series

That John Farrow is still willing to open himself up to the mental torture of handling Thotch despite all of Brian Pern's foibles suggests he's either doing it for the love, or is robbing them blind.

Leggy Mountbatten, fictional manager of The Rutles.

Not forgetting, of course...

Clifford gets 5% but thats only after playing damage control for the incident on the Thames and nearly fighting that director in Milan

"Josie and the Pussycats" has two competing examples-- Alexander and Wyatt!

[22] GEORGE MARTIN: We met up in the control room. I remember John and Paul sat on a matchbox on the mixing console, while George and Pete sat on the edge of Norman’s glasses case. I told them their little instruments weren’t up to scratch – you can make a guitar out of a cotton reel and a few matchsticks, but it’s never going to sound good. They didn’t really react, just smoked their tiny cigarettes. I said ‘You’ve heard a lot from me; is there anything you’re not happy about?’ George lowered a length of magnetic tape to the floor and slid down it before making his way across the floor and scrambling up the side of my shoe. From there he started to climb up the outside of my trousers and then my shirtfront. Once he got to my tie the going seemed to get much harder. It must have been the silk. There was a terrible moment when it looked as if he was going to fall, but he didn't. In the end I set him on my shoulder. He edged along to my ear. ‘Well for starters I don’t like your tie.'

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a group of people are standing on top of a wall and playing instruments . ALT: a group of people are standing on top of a wall and playing instruments .

Showed a couple of Rutles clips to a German friend in Berlin at the weekend and they nailed exactly what’s so funny about the project: it’s a COMPLETE waste of time, because there is already The Beatles. Nobody needs to do this; but they’ve worked SO hard. Somehow that’s made it all so much funnier.

Butcher Cover Promo " Top Of Pop's "7" 45 Ep Record &sleeve Valdosta, Georgia

Butcher Cover Promo " Top Of Pop's "7" 45 Ep Record &sleeve #ad

Tom Hanks as Mr White in the film "That Thing You Do"

You get the sense Mr White was getting more than the band but worked ruddy hard for it.

For starters, Bobby is on 3% commission from Huntrix. Surely Norm's on more than that? On the other hand, Bobby doesn't seem to actually /do/ anything.

Clifford, fictional manager of The Spice Girls in Spice World.

Norm, fictional manager of The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night.

Bobby, fictional manager of Huntrix in KPop Demon Hunters

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I missed this at the time but am delighted to discover that, back in 1999, Roger Scruton came at the kings - and absolutely missed, by a fucking mile!
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A screenshot from the Give Peace A Chance bed-in video, featuring what I now know to be a shirtless Timothy Leary.

CONFESSION: As a young Beatle fan in 1989, armed with only a few books about the band and Imagine: John Lennon on VHS, for a long time I (Marc) thought the shirtless man at 5:08 in the Give Peace A Chance scene was...George Martin.

Melody Maker 31st August 1974 MELODY MAKER: Tell us about Splinter signing to Dark Horse. BOBBY PURVIS: We were delighted, of course. George is a really hands-on producer, which meant we got to record at his house, Friar Park – what a dream! We had our first session up there…must be about two years ago, working up some of the material we’d demo’d up to that point. At the end of the session we’re sitting around the mixing desk, listening back to what we’ve done so far. When the tape finishes George gives us a bit of a talking to – nothing terrible you know; we need more material and so on. At the end of it all he says ‘You’ve heard a lot from me. Anything you don’t like?’ I don’t know what possessed me, but George was wearing this funny t-shirt that day, it was blue and it had a drawing of a tie printed on it. I don’t know what possessed me. I just blurted it out. ‘Yeah – I don’t like your tie’ There was a bit of a pause, then George just smiled and said ‘You won’t get very far in this business with an attitude like that.’ Bill asked him if he had any other advice for us and the rest of the session was just a stream of instructions. ‘Keep a good-natured working relationship with your producer.’ ‘Never wear clothes whose flamboyance might distract your bandmates.’ ‘If you get an electric shock from studio equipment, never make a member of studio staff get a shock from the same equipment just to prove it happened.’ Some of it was weirdly specific, looking back.

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Dungeon Lane, looking towards the Mersey. 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛
#PaulMcCartney

Melody Maker 31st August 1974 MELODY MAKER: Tell us about Splinter signing to Dark Horse. BOBBY PURVIS: We were delighted, of course. George is a really hands-on producer, which meant we got to record at his house, Friar Park – what a dream! We had our first session up there…must be about two years ago, working up some of the material we’d demo’d up to that point. At the end of the session we’re sitting around the mixing desk, listening back to what we’ve done so far. When the tape finishes George gives us a bit of a talking to – nothing terrible you know; we need more material and so on. At the end of it all he says ‘You’ve heard a lot from me. Anything you don’t like?’ I don’t know what possessed me, but George was wearing this funny t-shirt that day, it was blue and it had a drawing of a tie printed on it. I don’t know what possessed me. I just blurted it out. ‘Yeah – I don’t like your tie’ There was a bit of a pause, then George just smiled and said ‘You won’t get very far in this business with an attitude like that.’ Bill asked him if he had any other advice for us and the rest of the session was just a stream of instructions. ‘Keep a good-natured working relationship with your producer.’ ‘Never wear clothes whose flamboyance might distract your bandmates.’ ‘If you get an electric shock from studio equipment, never make a member of studio staff get a shock from the same equipment just to prove it happened.’ Some of it was weirdly specific, looking back.

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Robert Valley’s Teatle drawings for the Beatles Rock Band game art. Rather nice!

The Beatles’ Craziest Drum Moment SOLVED YouTube video by Beatles Reconstructed

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[60] Harrison said nothing. The man in front of him looked older than his years. Tall. Refined. He’d seen service. Harrison had developed a knack of spotting Brits who had done their duty. Underestimate those guys? Your funeral. “So,” said the tall man “I’ve laid into you for quite a while. Is there anything you don’t like?” There’s a moment in every negotiation when it could go either way. And it’s in these moments that you find out if the guy by your side is running for the door or staying put. Harrison knew the guys next to him were the latter. From left to right, there was McCartney. A leader, ex-SAS. Best, who had once sat motionless for 15 hours during a rehearsal - and John. Thin as a rake but with a streak of crazy wide enough to land a Hercules on. Harrison knew his team inside out. Might as well test the waters. “I don’t like your tie.” The tall man did not smile. In that moment, Harrison knew. Things Things were about to head south. “DIE FOR A SHADOW” by Lee Child

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XTC Anniversary: 25 O'Clock (The Dukes of Stratosphear) Track by track musings on the six Dukes of Stratosphear songs which make up the 25 O'Clock EP.

Latest blog post is up, taking a look at the first Dukes of Stratosphear release on its 41st anniversary
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So funny to click on the first image and see 'Neston'. I was organist at St Winefride's for many years.