I heard Beatles play She Loves You on Jack Parr Show, Friday night, late December 1963, and was never the same. The next morning I ran out to record stores looking for Beatles records and could only find From Me to You, 45 rpm, which knocked me out. Ran right home and played it immediately. I was one of the first persons to hear the Beatles in the US, and the effect was overwhelming and life changing. It was like aliens landing on Earth in a space ship. Adults had no clue, but other kids got it right away.
INDEX TO THIS TALK 0.00 Interviewing Neil Aspinall (continued) 3.20 Interviewing Pattie Boyd 5.16 Do you still listen to the Beatles for pleasure? 6.45 Life's jigsaw puzzle. Ongoing appeal for more information 8.53 Tune In is a social history 10.38 Could the Beatles have come from anywhere other than Liverpool? 12.39 Keeping the Beatles in their musical context 16.02 The music in Two Virgins 17.57 New microphones for Revolver? 19.50 The Beatles' Melbourne concert on TV in 1964 23.42 Don't believe everything people tell you 26.58 Cynthia Lennon's passing 29.09 Why did the Beatles start Rubber Soul so late and be so rushed?
i wholeheartedly agree , what a great man . I've just managed to get a copy of this huge book, Tune In, he seems to be the foremost expert on the Beatles.
I bought "Tune In" because I was told that it's an academic, scholastic, work. I was disappointed. It's far from academic or scholastic. Mr Lewisohn seems to labour under the delusion that inundating his reader with irrelevant detail constitutes a scholastic project. There are too many trivial (and embarrassing) details especially about John which this writer should have spared the reader from. I daresay John would not have been impressed. Quite truthfully, I am not looking forward to his second or third volume. I will not buy them. I would prefer spending the time listening to and delighting in the albums instead.
I heard Beatles play She Loves You on Jack Parr Show, Friday night, late December 1963, and was never the same. The next morning I ran out to record stores looking for Beatles records and could only find From Me to You, 45 rpm, which knocked me out. Ran right home and played it immediately. I was one of the first persons to hear the Beatles in the US, and the effect was overwhelming and life changing. It was like aliens landing on Earth in a space ship. Adults had no clue, but other kids got it right away.
Great memory, thanks. What record store did you find From Me To You in? What label was it released on?
INDEX TO THIS TALK
0.00 Interviewing Neil Aspinall (continued)
3.20 Interviewing Pattie Boyd
5.16 Do you still listen to the Beatles for pleasure?
6.45 Life's jigsaw puzzle. Ongoing appeal for more information
8.53 Tune In is a social history
10.38 Could the Beatles have come from anywhere other than Liverpool?
12.39 Keeping the Beatles in their musical context
16.02 The music in Two Virgins
17.57 New microphones for Revolver?
19.50 The Beatles' Melbourne concert on TV in 1964
23.42 Don't believe everything people tell you
26.58 Cynthia Lennon's passing
29.09 Why did the Beatles start Rubber Soul so late and be so rushed?
*Bless you. ^_^*
Bravo! What a nice, intelligent, down-to-earth guy. 'Makes me want to sit with him all evening!
Great post, thanks.
i wholeheartedly agree , what a great man . I've just managed to get a copy of this huge book, Tune In, he seems to be the foremost expert on the Beatles.
Thank you Mark, for this important work. World history in the recording !
Great job capturing this Q&A. It has been great to listen to!
Thanks very much for this as I was sorry to have missed it on the day!
Wonderful stuff!
Thanks from France ; I'm sure your did you best the capture the sound. It's not perfect, but hey, it's worth it !
great post!
it's a shame as all Q & A sessions, we can't hear and make out the proper question 😵
5:35 “It’s impossible (to be tired of the Beatles) because it’s endlessy interesting”
I bought "Tune In" because I was told that it's an academic, scholastic, work. I was disappointed. It's far from academic or scholastic. Mr Lewisohn seems to labour under the delusion that inundating his reader with irrelevant detail constitutes a scholastic project. There are too many trivial (and embarrassing) details especially about John which this writer should have spared the reader from. I daresay John would not have been impressed. Quite truthfully, I am not looking forward to his second or third volume. I will not buy them. I would prefer spending the time listening to and delighting in the albums instead.