The infamous Apple Christmas Party of 1968

 December 23, 1968

John and Yoko's first show together

 July 1, 1968 

All You Need Is Love - 55 years later

 June 25, 1967 

Best birthday wishes for Paul

 June 16, 2022

I hope you all had a nice time celebrating Paul McCartney's 80th birthday yesterday.  I know that I sure did.  More importantly, I hope that Sir Paul himself enjoyed his special day. 

Wings over Los Angeles

 

Celebration!

 

The Beatles join me in celebrating the last day of school for me.  It has been such a difficult year and I am more than ready for a nice break.   

One sleepy girl

Balloon Frolick

Yin and Yang

Two Virgins and Kevin

You Are Here

July 10, 1, 1968 -   John and Yoko have one of their exhibits -- their first big one called "You Are Here." 

Love snap

Photo from Tracks 

My beautiful balloon

Balloon Return

When I was a kid, we had this event at my elementary school where we wrote the title of our favorite book on a piece of paper with the school's address on it and tied that paper onto the string of a helium balloon.    Whoever found the balloon was supposed to mail the paper back to the school and we had a map where we marked where all the balloons were found.

Well John and Yoko did something like that in 1968.   During one of John and Yoko's art shows, on July 1st, they released 365 white balloons into the air.  Each one had a note attached that said if found to return to Robert Fraiser's gallery in London in care of John Lennon.

It would have been pretty awesome to find a white John and Yoko balloon caught in the tree of your front yard.   And if you actually sent the card back in, look at what you got!   A note signed by John and a pin from the art event--pretty cool prizes for just finding a white balloon!  

Nowadays people still do balloon releases for various events, but really they are terrible for the environment because animals choke on the deflated balloons and they litter the ground.    But still---it is a neat concept.  

Up up and away

Ring out the old Ring in the new

I hope you all have a very nice New Years Eve tomorrow and ring in the New Year in a very happy way!    Now you might be wondering why I posted these vintage New Years Eve party photos from most likely 1964.   If you look in the background of the photos there are Beatles glasses on the shelves.    I would have made a toast out of them if I was there!

Happy new Year my friends!

Balloon Paul

Isn't this Paul McCartney Balloon creation adorable?  Whoever made it for Paul is very talented in making thing out of balloons!   I have seen a Yellow Submarine made out of Balloons, but never a Paul McCartney.   Paul himself must have liked it!  

The Cavendish stairs (oops...1st photo only)

It isn't very often that us mere fans (the ones of us that don't go through the bathroom window that is) can see what it looks like inside Paul's London home on Cavendish Avenue. A few fans (Barb Fenrick and Leslie Samuels come to mind) have been inside, but most have met Paul at the outside gates. So here are some photos of the Cavendish staircase.