Peeking through the trees

Guitar Shopping

December 11, 2019

Beind the scenes

With a little help

Tea for Two?

Photo by Linda McCartney 

Tuesday's on the phone to me

Vic and Paul

Photo by Linda McCartney 

Down on the Farm

All in the family

Who is next to Angie McCartney?  My guess is one of Paul's aunties. 

Bagpiper

Linda makes herself comfortable

Escaping fans in Chicago

Leaving on a jet plane....

spotted in the crowd

Yellow Sub contest ends soon!

Just a friendly reminder that the Yellow Submarine contest I am holding ends this Sunday.   I have gotten a great response from so many of you.  It makes me sad that there will only be 2 winners. 


There is a certain song from YS that is winning the contest by a landslide.   What do you think it is? There is another song from the movie that hasn't gotten ANY votes, which shocks me.    Wait and find out the winners of the contest and the songs this Sunday night.


If you want to enter send your favorite song that is featured in the Yellow Submarine movie to meetthebeatlesforreal@gmail.com 

Was it just a dream?

This information about the Beatles dreams was from the Summer 1966 issue of Louise's Beatle Fan club newsletter.


Recently, the boys were interviewed by an English paper and asked about their most unusual dreams -- here is a rundown:


Ringo:  "I used to have one where I was always running along this big cliff, and when I got to the end, I used to dive off into the river!  It was a fantastic jump.  I can't swim, you see, and it was terrifying.  I also used to have this eerie dream about being chased by a lion in my grandmother's house.  I ask you -- I mean it's not as if my grandmother kept lions.  Not after the war, anyway.  I also dream in colour, and about the films, I show on my projector at home.  I had a movie the other day, 'Lost City of Atlantis,' and it's kept me going on dreams for the past week.   I had one the other day about the weirdest ever -- about a yellow canary who had spiders' feet.  I don't dream much about things that happen in real life."


John:  "I mostly dream fantasies about everyday life, recording sessions, songwriting...  My most vivid dreams are about flying round and round over Liverpool and always higher and higher.   I figure this was a subconscious desire to get out of a rut.   Another dream I remember vividly was about finding lots and lots of money in an old house and trying to carry it away.  I don't have that dream anymore, so that's solved, doctor!"

Paul:  "I dream every time I sleep, but mostly I cannot remember them after I wake.  I had one not too long ago about shuffling along the line at an employment exchange waiting for my relief money.  I also dream about flying in bad weather and the plane is going to crash.   I have the embarrassing kind of dreams that people usually have once in a while about being caught in the street in my underwear.  Another one was about being rich and going on vaction- lying on a beach in the sun.  Some of my real-life best times were when George and I  used to go camping and hitchhiking together."

George:  "My most memorable dream was about a plane crash and the gas was spraying on me and my legs were on fire.   It was funny, though; my legs were burning, but they weren't hurting!  I was sort of shouting 'Oooh, ooh, ouch' and things, jumping about all over the place like I'd set down on a hot stove.  I often dream about people I know in real life and other times have weird dreams like houses with distorting mirrors in them, or people walking around with pan lids on top of their heads.  It is all a bit funny.    Like Paul, I like to dream about the days when we could go camping and hitchhiking and how we once camped for three weeks on about 2.20 and went camping with Mum and Dad.  It was always fun."

A day no one will ever forget

If you were a Beatle fan in Los Angeles on June 24, 1968 - it is a day that you will never forget.   I have posted many stories and photographs of what happened 50 years ago today on this blog, that I don't need to rehash it all.   However, I thought I would post a few and say thank you to the fans for sharing such amazing Paul photos over the years. 

We went into a dream

I am sure many of you are like me and have been to Liverpool and went on a Beatles tour.   If you haven't had the good fortune of doing that, it is something that is on your bucket list.    And if you have gone or will be going, you MUST book a tour with the best tour guide in Liverpool, Jackie Spencer.    I have told you all about Jackie before.    She is the greatest because she is a real, true Beatles fan.   George is her favorite.   There is nothing better than going a Beatles tour with someone that loves the band as much as you do.

Part of the tour includes going down to the dock and seeing the extra large Beatles statue.    No one ever thinks they will meet a Beatle on a Beatles tour in Liverpool.    But it never hurts to daydream about it    That dream came true to the wonderful fans that were on Jackie's tour the day Paul and James Corden came into town.    They just happened to have been at the Beatles statues at the right time.     I asked them to share a little bit about what they saw and thought while it all went down.

Hi Sara, it was an incredible moment of good luck for us all! Jackie was just finishing a tour with myself, my husband John (we are from Washington state), my sister in law and her husband (Susie and Nacho Ramirez from California). Since we were all there, here are all of our thoughts, if you don’t mind:

Myself:
I was thing about the statues and how they must’ve felt leaving their home town. We were leaving Liverpool the next day so Jackie really had us thinking about it. Paul came walking up, I saw all of the cameras and ran across the front of him to get some pictures! I just kept thinking I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it! And I’m pretty sure I squealed a little

John:
My initial thought when he hopped out of the car was that I couldn’t believe it and it took my breath away. This can’t be happening I said to myself several times.

Susie:
Our hearts and minds were completely immersed in Beatlemania having just done Jackie’s tour. Then to be standing at the statue of them leaving, and we were leaving, up walks Sir Paul larger than life! I thought wow! What a fulfilling moment.

Nacho:
It was unbelievable that he was there in his home town and so cool to be seeing him there in his home town!

We also felt like “somebody spoke and” we “went into a dream”!!

The family is ready for a day in the sun

A room with a view