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Monday, November 9, 2026
The First
November 9, 1981
Paul attends a preview of the musical called "The First" on Broadway. This was a musical about Jackie Robinson and it had a very short run of 33 previews and 37 performances. (BTW, David Alan Grier, who I remember from "In Living Color" in the 1990s, played Jackie Robinson in this musical). I discovered that this was directed by Martin Charnin, who was involved with Annie, one of MPL's musicals, so that tells us why Paul went to see this musical that sounds interesting but apparently was a flop.
Sunday, November 8, 2026
Breaking Up? (1966)
Breaking Up?
By Charles King
The Ottawa Citizen
November 8, 1966
There will be five minutes of silence on the jukebox while we mourn the passing of the Beatles, the world's most affluent trendsetters in the field of pop entertainment.
It's going to be a hard day's night for the mop-headed fans if the rumors are true and nobody is denying them. The Beatles are though.
"Nothing has been decided," their manager Brian Epstein crooned last night, but he sang on. "The Beatles have changed their thoughts as their career has been altered by their attitudes in the past. I'd be a fool to forecast exactly how it will be."
The four Liverpool pop stars, like their record hit, have been "Here, There, and Everywhere" in the last couple of months, but not together. John Lennon has been filming in Spain and Germany. George Harrison has been holidaying in India, learning how to play the sitar. Paul McCartney is working on a musical score for another movie, and Ringo Starr has just been on holiday.
At the moment, he told a London newspaper, "I have no idea what our future plans are."
Last night, a mob of teenagers demonstrated outside Epstein's house near Buckingham Palace, demanding a return tour by their hairy heroes. Nobody is crying "Help" but the fans. The Beatles certainly don't need any.
Thursday, November 5, 2026
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