🍎 Penny Lane 🍎
Here it is ! My piece for ALL TOGETHER NOW , a riso tribute to the Beatles !
I chose one of my favourite Beatles song, Penny Lane, for its nostalgic vibe and evocative narrative lyrics. Those of you familiar with it might identify some of the song's characters in the crowd !
➡🍏 You can now preorder your copy of the All Together Now print sleeve on the project's crowdfunding page , so if you'd like to get your hands on a deliciously riso printed version of this piece and many more, please consider supporting us ! See you soon 🌞
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I wasn’t going to tell you, but I’m breaking the group up. It feels good. It feels like a divorce.
- John Lennon on quitting the Beatles, 20 Sept 1969.
Officially, the breakup of the Beatles never happened.
None of the Fab Four ever said they’d never work together again. In reality, though, the breakup took place on 10th April 1970, the day after Paul McCartney released a statement saying he didn’t miss the band and had no plans to record with John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
The long and winding road to that point began several years earlier. The Beatles were originally Lennon’s band, but McCartney took an increasingly dominant role as time went on. Retrospectively, the scene is often depicted as a man standing up for something he loved while his bandmates failed to act the same way, for a variety of personal reasons (in Lennon’s case, it was supposedly self-doubt). But at the time, McCartney was cast as the villain. Even though it was actually Lennon who left the group first, McCartney was the only member to ever officially quit.
But on 8th August 1969, the Beatles walked back and forth across a street they knew well: Abbey Road. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr lined up and crossed a few times, while a cop held up traffic, right outside the studio where they were already booked to show up for work that day. The whole photo session took only 10 minutes.
Yet this became their most iconic image: sky of blue, trees of green. It sums up the sunny confidence of the most popular album the Beatles ever made - which also turned out to be the last. Abbey Road turned a zebra-stripe crosswalk on an ordinary London street into holy ground.
It would also be the last record they would ever record together.
With their last Abbey Road studio session having taken place two days earlier, and a successful performance in Canada with the Plastic Ono Band five days before that, Lennon appeared to have decided that it was time to act on a feeling he’d had for some time. He later said he started thinking about the end of the band when the Beatles stopped playing live: “That’s when the seed was planted that I had to somehow get out … without being thrown out by the others. But I could never step out of the palace because it was too frightening.”
Lennon delivered the news at a group meeting that also included Ono and Klein, right after McCartney tried, once again, to persuade his bandmates to consider playing live. Lennon was asked to keep his decision quiet, because business deals including a new record contract could be compromised. He agreed.
Ono later told writer Philip Norman of the journey home from the meeting: “He turned to me and said, ‘That’s it with the Beatles. From now on, it’s just you - okay?’ I thought, ‘My God, those three guys were the ones entertaining him for so long. Now I have to be the one to take the load.'”
Photo: The Beatles, John, Ringo, Paul and George about to cross Abbey Road for that famous photograph, 8th August 1969.
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April 11, 1967
Los Angeles to London
Paul McCartney spent the early days of April touring the U.S. with Mal Evans, his bodyguard/assistant. On the trip, he hung out with the Jefferson Airplane in San Francisco; visited Jane Asher in Denver; flew to L.A. on Frank Sinatra's jet; and took in a Beach Boys record session.
On the flight back, Paul asked a stewardess for a notepad. By the time he arrived, he had written the lyrics to "Magical Mystery Tour" and sketched out an idea for the film.
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🌞 ALL TOGETHER NOW 🌞 A tribute to the Beatles
Here comes a project I'm ridiculously excited about ! I've been invited by the talented @stenopee and @annamaria.illustration to join on this awesome micro-edition project :
15 riso prints by 15 artists to illustrate 15 songs of the Beatles catalogue, all tucked away in a custom vinyl sleeve.
You can follow @alltogethernow_prints on instagram for more news on the project and to discover the other artists and their pieces !
The crowdfunding campaign is now LIVE ON Kisskissbankbank so we're counting on your support ! We’ll get by, with a little help from our friends 😉🍏
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Paul McCartney reunited with Ringo Starr during the Stella McCartney show at Paris Fashion Week💐🍀🍀
Via @mccartneysteam on Instagram💐
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