Grateful Dead

My first exposure to the Beatles was their first number 1 hit in the states, "I want to hold your hand". On February 9, 1964, I joined 77 million viewers watching the Beatles debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. Our family was eating dinner outside in the backyard, and I said I had to go inside to see the Beatles!

Last month my Mom had a stretch of iffy health and was bedridden. (She's much better now.)

Anyway, I sat bedside and played her a bunch of music, including "Beatles For Sale". She is from a different time and doesnt know Beatles music. But she listened and after "I'll Follow The Sun" she said, "I like that one."

That was a cool moment.

Shazam

"Your Mother Should Know", Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles. It's a live solo piano set, and the encore of Bowie's "Life on Mars?" will touch your soul. Next up, Al Di Meola, "All Your Life", a Tribute to the Beatles. Yes, I love interpretations of Beatles tunes, and, yes, I have preordered "We Can Work it Out", Covers of the Beatles 1962-1966.

George and the Beatles were not too keen on paying something like 90% tax on their millions in royalties. But they got a cool medal for being MBEs for bringing all that money to the coffers and fame for the empire I guess. "I buried Paul" was a reference to multitracking? See, conspiracy theories have been around forever.
My local record store owner (store long gone, got nothing now) had Tax Man cued up and dropped the needle when the county tax license agent came to inspect his books. He's not there anymore so hmm.... might have been a mistake. But likely not the cause of him closing up shop. Just too small a town? Besides that he ran for city council later after his teaching career (while owning the record store) and even got his turn at mayor which is cool here in a majority conservative area as a voice of progressive reason. City gov. cool, county the opposite here.
As a kid it was uncool to like the Beatles in the Rock early '70s. Too pop I guess even though I liked lots of their songs. Boy were we wrong on that one. Pretty sure I have all of their albums now, with some being later reissued compilations. Revolver gets the most play for some reason.
Cheers

EDIT: Wait, WHAT? Dolphins 70 Broncos 20? Vguy is right, how many times do you get the opportunity to set a record? Look in the dictionary for "blowout" and this will be there.

....and Paul is a dead man.
Beatles lore runs deep.
"Declare the pennies on your eyes" - Harrison with the opening track.
Pretty dark if you take into consideration the age and time.
Don't get me started.
George Martin was untouchable.
The Perfect Storm.
Fact.

29 years ago today ( 29 years doesn't seem that long ago) the Dead played their final acoustic show, and what a show it was! We started the day at the S.F Blues festival, Solomon Burke, Robbben Ford, Charlie Musslewhite and many more. After the show, we headed over to Berkeley to catch Phil & Friends ( Lesh, Garcia, Weir, & Welnick) put on a killer of a show! Acoustic Attics of My Life, they could have just played that and I would have been satisfied. What a fantastic day!

....circa 1978. I was ten. Found a box of records in the hallway closet. It was my dad's. Started flipping through it. The Early Beatles caught my eye.
"Dad! Who are these guys? They have cool haircuts and look serious."
"That's The Beatles. They are good."
Dad was correct.
Then I got Rubber Soul thanks to my mom taking me to record stores.
Norwegian Wood and In My Life were game changers.
They evolved a ton in like three years. Yay acid!
And here I am.
Dolphins 🐬 should have gone for the all-time scoring record btw.
Check out Phish covering The White Album. Halloween 1994. They pretty much nailed it.

Regarding that great band the Beatles, I've been enjoying the Sirius Beatles channel,where they randomly play lots of Beatles tunes.

We watched a insightful documentary about the actor Peter O'Toole called Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aquaba, then two great O'Toole movies where he played King Henry 11, "Becket" (with Richard Burton) and "A Lion in Winter" (with Katherine Hepburn). What a charismatic actor!