#beatlesbible.com

[tenderlady]

This Twitter account is so fucking funny to me. Like, you want me to pay real money for you to tell me about John Lennon performing on Top of the Pops when beatlesbible.com is free and right there and also probably more detailed and hyperlinked out to other relevant articles? Not on your life

#this is a beatlesbible.com stan account now i guess #im gonna be like those people who always post about jstor but for beatlesbible.com

[dateinthelife]

9 December 1961

In an effort to get the Beatles noticed by London labels, promoter Sam Leach books them for five Saturday nights at Palais Ballroom in Aldershot, Hampshire. Unfortunately, many factors contribute to this being an utter failure, including:

The venue actually being 37 miles from London

Leach's newspaper ad being rejected because, as a new advertiser, he was required to pay in cash and sent a check instead; without contact info, the paper could not reach him to explain

The band descending upon local coffee bars prior to the show failed to drum up the required interest

The record player used during the interval broke, so the Beatles barely got any break

The band played to about 18 people and while they did play the whole set, eventually found comfort in dancing with one another and playing football (with bingo balls) in the hall and drinking beer.

The police were called and upon exiting the boys were told to leave and never return

Oddly, this did not result in overnight fame and fortune, and after one more night with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Leach canceled the remaining rentals.

[More photos at Beatlesbible.com]

#today in the life #the beatles #sam leach #1961 #9 december

[mydaroga]

The Beatles at an in-store appearance at NEMS in Liverpool on January 24, 1963, complete with acoustic performance consisting of two guitars, an unplugged electric bass, and snare drum. [BeatlesBible.com]

#the beatles #NEMS #liverpool #paul mccartney #john lennon #ringo starr #george harrison

[beatlepaul4ever]

17th June 1966 - nice birthday present.

#the beatles #paul mccartney #1966 #Scotland #Paul’s farm

[beatlesonline-blog]

[idontwanttospoiltheparty]

Since you talked about fic ranting-

I wish I knew how to write well because all I've been thinking about recently is like. A fic idea I have set in the Paul Is Dead universe where paul (shock horror) dies and they get look-alike billy campbell/sheers to replace him, who is almost the opposite of Paul in terms of personality. And it's just all about Billy dealing with being a beatle and learning how to play, and John learning to grapple with Paul's death as he constantly gets reminded of it looking at Billy. At some point they start fancying eachother which causes another breakdown of "am I just replacing Paul here? Or is it genuine". I just want it to be the most harrowing thing imaginable.

I've tried writing it it but man. It's not that great.

................ Friendo I would read this.

It's dark as Hell and lowkey insane, but I LOVE the moral dilemma you've got going on for John tbh.

Also, in my own fic, I've actually LOVED working with the HOLE a person leaves behind, and how you can characterize someone simply by other people remembering them and the ambiguity of that. I don't know, it's riveting to me, and writing scenes where Paul or George or Ringo are missing or reminiscing about "their" John always fill me with a very specific ache. So that's something I see that would be a big part of your story, too. (they're actually generally kind of similar, in a bare bones way, though yours is freakier lol – but that explains why I find it compelling haha)

Anyways, the best advice I can give – since writing is different for everyone – is changing your approach, if your current one isn't working for you. Maybe you need to write out of order to get things down instead of chronologically, maybe you need to outline more. The way I started writing my story, after seeing the prompt (John loses memories) and deciding on my time frame, was just list everything I could think of that would have changed for him between 1962 and 1966.

Maybe something along those lines that could help you get ideas for how to plot the story. Also, USE THE REAL HISTORY for inspiration. Just scrolling through beatlesbible.com/history/2 for HOURS basically gave my story it's entire backbone and helped me focus on the character arcs rather than having to plot every detail.

That being said, maybe if you really like this idea but don't feel up for it yet (it does seem like it would be relatively long, by the sounds of it) it might help you to write some other things, maybe shorter or just very different, just to help you get confident with writing in general and develop a style you feel comfortable with, if you aren't used to it. Otherwise my general advice is always to take a look at stories/writing you enjoy or don't enjoy and figure out what made you have that opinion, which will help you achieve your goals later on and avoid what you want to avoid.

Hope you get around to writing it and if you do, as I've said, I'd love to read it <3

#ask #anon #fic

[rolloroberson]

The Beatles performing on BBC Radio One, circa 21 May 1963.

The Beatles recorded two radio sessions for different BBC shows on this day, both at the Playhouse Theatre in London. They arrived for a 2.30pm rehearsal for a bill-topping appearance on Saturday Club – the first time they were the headline act on the programme. The Beatles chatted to presenter Brian Matthew and performed six songs: ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, ‘Do You Want To Know A Secret’, ‘Boys’, ‘Long Tall Sally’, ‘From Me To You’ and ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’.

The Beatles took a 45-minute break after the recording, returning to the Playhouse at 7.15 to rehearse an appearance on a new Light Programme show, Steppin’ Out. The hour-long edition, first broadcast on 3 June from 10.30pm, was recorded from 10-11.15pm. Performing before a lively audience, The Beatles performed another six songs: ‘Please Please Me’, I Saw Her Standing There, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, ‘Twist And Shout’, ‘Thank You Girl’ and From Me To You. (www.beatlesbible.com)

Photos by Popperfoto / Getty Images

(http://www.gettyimages.com/)

#the beatles #george harrison #paul mccartney #ringo starr #john lennon #bbc radio 1 #beatlesbible.com

[queenfullofhystericalqueens]

For other fans that make fanfics… am I the only one that wants to know everything about the time frame I’m on? Like I’m doing this Beatles/queen fanfic and I want to know everything about that time? Like I’m at 1969-70 atm and for Beatles I have Beatlesbible.com but for queen/smile I have a handful of things. Like am I the only one who lost wishes there was this time travel type research method to like go back in time and get the info I need?

#brian may #queen #queen band #roger taylor #brian harold may #john deacon #farrokh bulsara #roger meddows taylor #john richard deacon #fanfic problems #time travel research #smile era help

[withthebeatlesgirls]

To add onto the Eastman vs Klein thing, I feel like the lawsuit should’ve been blamed on Joe Eastman if ppl rlly want to point fingers bc Paul even said he didn’t want to sue his family (George, John and Ringo) but Joe Eastman said it had to be done. The Eastman Vs  Klein thing had nothing to do with Linda and the only reason y ppl do is bc it is her family but Linda had nothing to do with it.

(In my opinion suing the Beatles was too extreme and Paul was right in the first place not wanting to bc in the quote I read from Beatlesbible.com, it clearly showed that Paul didn’t want to break up the family portion of the Beatles but Joe Eastman  persuaded him too which grew more anger from George, John and Ringo. I believe the lawsuit shouldn’t have happened at all)

I agree, the whole thing was a mess and no one was innocent tbh. I get Paul’s feelings, but I also get why the rest wouldn’t want Eastman since it was Paul’s father in law. So messy.

[nic-214]

In one of their more peculiar publicity stunts, John Lennon and Yoko Ono exchanged a bag of their shorn hair for a pair of Muhammad Ali’s bloodstained boxing shorts on this day in 1970.

The exchange happened on the rooftop of a single-storey workshop at the back of The Black Centre, situated at 95-99 Holloway Road, London. The centre was the headquarters of a number of committees and movements, headed by activist Michael X, born Michael de Freitas in Trinidad in 1933, and also known as Michael Abdul Malik and Abdul Malik.

Lennon and Ono had had their hair shorn in Denmark on 20 January 1970. Lennon had hoped that the haircuts would allow them to travel incognito for a time, but the news leaked within days.

Interviewed by journalists on the rooftop, the couple announced that the boxing shorts would be auctioned to raise money for their peace campaigning, although there is no evidence to suggest this ever happened. Similarly, the hair was to be auctioned to raise money for The Black Centre.

The Black House closed in autumn 1970. It later burnt down in mysterious circumstances. Michael X was convicted of murder in 1972, and was hanged in Trinidad three years later.

Source: BeatlesBible.com

#john ono lennon #john lennon #yoko ono #muhammad ali #1970 #70s #1970s

[appreciatingmclennon]

On This Day: September 30, 1961. John Lennon and Paul McCartney travel to Paris.

[source: beatlesbible.com]

It was 57 years ago today.

John Lennon was given £100 ahead of his 21st birthday on 9 October 1961. He and Paul McCartney decided to travel to Spain for a holiday. In the end they went no further than Paris.

“John and I went on a trip for his twenty-first birthday. John was from a very middle-class family, which really impressed me because everyone else was from working-class families. To us John was upper class. His relatives were teachers, dentists, even someone up in Edinburgh in the BBC. It's ironic, he was always very 'fuck you!' and he wrote the song Working Class Hero – in fact, he wasn't at all working class. Anyway, one of John's relatives gave him £100 I would be impressed. And I was his mate, enough said? 'Let's go on holiday.' 'You mean me too? With the hundred quid? Great! I'm part of this windfall."

Paul McCartney, Anthology

“We'd never been there before. We were a bit tired so we checked into a little hotel for the night, intending to go off hitchhiking the next morning. Of course, it was too nice a bed after having hitched so we said, 'We'll stay a little longer,' then we thought, 'God, Spain is a long way, and we'd have to work to get down there.' We ended up staying the week in Paris – John was funding it all with his hundred quid.We would walk miles from our hotel; you do in Paris. We'd go to a place near the Avenue des Anglais and we'd sit in the bars, looking good. I still have some classic photos from there. Linda loves one where I am sitting in a gendarme's mac as a cape and John has got his glasses on askew and his trousers down revealing a bit of Y-front. The photographs are so beautiful, we're really hamming it up. We're looking at the camera like, 'Hey, we are artsy guys, in a café: this is us in Paris,' and we felt like that.We went up to Montmartre because of all the artists, and the Folies Bergères, and we saw guys walking around in short leather jackets and very wide pantaloons. Talk about fashion! This was going to kill them when we got back. This was totally happening. They were tight to the knee and then they flared out; they must have been about fifty inches around the bottom and our drainpipe trousers were something like fifteen or sixteen inches. We saw these trousers and said, 'Excusez-moi, Monsieur, où did you get them?' It was a cheap little rack down the street so we bought a pair each, went back to the hotel, put them on, went out on the street – and we couldn't handle it: 'Do your feet feel like they are flapping? Feel more comfortable in me drainies, don't you?' So it was back to the hotel at a run, needle and cotton out and we took them in to a nice sixteen with which we were quite happy. And then we met Jürgen Vollmer on the street. He was still taking pictures.”

Paul McCartney, Anthology

#john lennon #paul mccartney #paris #history #mclennon #1961 #September 30

[tenderlady]

save me beatlesbible.com.......beatlesbible.com save me

#too many things happened to these dudes i s2g it is a nightmare trying to keep everything straight

[dateinthelife]

10 February 1972

On this date, Wings was supposed to play at Leeds University, but apparently there was too much publicity so they went to York instead. [Beatlesbible.com]

#today in the life #wings #1972 #10 February #paul mccartney #Beatles Bible

[mydaroga]

Not Only... But Also sketch starring John Lennon, which aired on BBC One on 26 December 1966. The club in the sketch, Ad Lav, is a play on the Ad Lib club he and the other Beatles were known to frequent. From the BeatlesBible.com: The 51-second sketch was filmed early in the morning on London’s Broadwick Street, beside the entrance to the underground men’s toilet on the corner of Hopkins Street. It also featured Peter Cook as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

#found during my researches #he is damned cute #note probable first 'public appearance' wearing granny glasses! #john lennon #not only... but also #peter cook #kris talks a lot

[peaceloveandstarrs]

Paul McCartney's postman, who often delivered large sacks of fan mail to his home address, was responsible for accidentally killing John Lennon's mother, Julia, in a car accident years earlier.

[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9438693/CRAIG-BROWN-connects-Paul-McCartneys-postman-John-Lennons-searing-tragedy.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9438693/CRAIG-BROWN-connects-Paul-McCartneys-postman-John-Lennons-searing-tragedy.html)

Assuming the Daily Mail can be believed, of course. This seemingly unlikely fact also appears on

[beatlesbible.com](https://www.beatlesbible.com/1958/07/15/julia-lennon-dies/) as well but I'm not sure the actual story has been verified outside of the original tabloid article.

Oh my!

That's really ironic if it is true.

#interesting facts from anon

[beatlesonline-blog]