Making home movies

Starting the White album

Apple announcement

Photo by Leslie Samuels 

Big Brother / Little Brother

Sandals

One of the saddest days in Beatles history

The top photo was taken earlier in the day.   The Beatles were carefree and happy and laughing about something.   Then the phone call that changed their lives came through:  Brian Epstein had died.   You can see the pain on their faces -- the guys and the ladies.   They loved Brian and saw him an a mentor and friend.    He was the best man at their weddings (except for Paul), and gave all of himself to them.    I am not sure if August 27, 1967 is the single saddest day in the history of the Beatles (finding out that Stu had died is up there as well), but it is one of the saddest and the day that began the ultimate break up of the Beatles.

Badges for the taking

I have read stories of fans that came to this art exhibit and took handfuls of those badges to keep and give out to other John Lennon fan friends.       Do any of you own one of these "you are here" badges?

I also find it funny that John has one of the balloon tags attached to his necklace.   Makes it look like John is for sale.

1968

The early days of John and Yoko

Floor seating

Learning with the Guru

Two unhappy Beatles

Photo taken June 23, 1967 and available right on from Tracks on ebay.

Meeting at the lecture

Premiere

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.  

Terry Doran for Real

There is a post from a long time ago that I mistakenly identified someone else as Terry Doran.   Even though I changed the information, that post still gets  a lot of activity with questions and comments about Terry.   So I thought it was about time to post a REAL photo of Terry Doran (with John Lennon) so that viewers can actually comment about Terry under a photo with Terry in it. 

White album snapshot

"I just like how he's always leaning. Against stuff"

Alright---so I had to use a quote from one of my top 5 favorite TV shows of all times.....

That smile

This photo just make me melt.   It isn't even in color and yet we know that John is wearing his "Walrus" multi-colored coat.    And he just looks so cute.   I am going to have to stop my professional act and go a little fan girl on you all for just a moment.   EEEEEEK!

Beautiful Lennon

I found this photo at Fab4info, one of my favorite places online.