The Beatles Archives
The Beatles' Movies Let's face it, the lives of Boomer kids of the 60's were ruled by four lads from Liverpool that none of us ever hoped to meet in person. Whether it was singing their songs on the way to school, carrying their faces plastered all over our lunchboxes, or buying their...
The Beatles Are Bigger than WHO? An adoring horde can be a very fickle thing. Witness the crowds at press time clamoring for the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series. They're cheering loudly now, but Philly fans are notorious for turning on their beloved team very quickly when mistakes are made. Or witness Jesus of...
Growing Up Alongside the Beatles I have vague memories of nursery-rhyme-type records played on our portable player. When the Beatles arrived in February, 1964, I was primed and ready to get into their music. It was lightweight, fun, and easily remembered for later singing in the side yard. My favorite early Beatles songs were "She...
The Rooftop Concert In 1969, the dream wasn't over, but the closing credits were playing. However, as is frequently the case in the movie theater, the music that was playing during the closing credits was pretty wonderful stuff. The 1967 death of Brian Epstein was the beginning of the end of the incredible...
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles were at a critical point in the summer of 1966. An offhand quip by John to a reporter friend about how the Beatles were more popular than Jesus had drawn the ire of conservative self-titled Christians all over the world, but particularly in the US Bible Belt. Their...
The Beatles Cartoon When the Beatles stepped off of that plane so many years ago, the entertainment industry changed permanently. The never-before-seen deluge of fan adoration was a bottomless well ready to be tapped. And no time was wasted in producing everything from little plastic guitars to Beatle-painted automobiles. Little ABC, the perennial...
When the Beatles Broke Up What a wild, crazy, turbulent, jubilant, tragic decade was the 1960's. It began with lingering communist paranoia and ended with man walking on the moon. However, nothing symbolized the end of the 60's quite as effectively as the breakup of the group that we listened to and whose albums and...
Beatle Haircuts It's impossible to overstate the influence the Beatles had on us Baby Boomers. Well, I guess it IS possible, if you mention a certain Son of God ;-). But much more than their mere music affected us. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and within weeks of their arrival...
Paul Is Dead John Lennon made an infamous remark that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. They weren't that big, but this rumor which spread across the world like wildfire in the late 60's showed that they were pretty darned big anyway. The originator of the Paul Is Dead rumor (big enough that...
The Beatles on Sullivan Ladies and gentlemen, THE BEATLES! If your family had a TV that could pick up a CBS channel in the 60's (or 50's and early 70's for that matter), you likely had Ed Sullivan on every Sunday night. The show was aimed at entertainment for the whole family. And Ed...
You may use any images you find on my site on your own personal site. COPY the images to your own server, PLEASE. If you link directly, you will likely get a logo encouraging others to visit I Remember JFK instead of the graphic that you expected. In return, I request that you include a link back to I Remember JFK. Fair enough?
When the Seven Deadly Words Were Really Deadly:
The year was 1972. George Carlin, brilliant comedian best known at the time for his portrayal of the "Hippy Dippy Weatherman" on Johnny Carson and Flip Wilson Show appearances, released an album called Class Clown. The album, which appeared without parental advisory labels way back then, contained a brilliant, highly...
Recent Posts
Recent Comments