Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
05 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: john lennon, strawberry fields forever, the beatles
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: beatles, bungalow bill, john lennon, the continuing story of bungalow bill
(via Quora) Answered by Jon Pennington
The real life inspiration for Bungalow Bill was a 27-year-old American man named Richard A. Cooke III (known as “Rik” for short). In 1968, Rik was in Rishikesh visiting his mother, Nancy Cooke de Herrera, a publicist for the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. As the Maharishi’s publicist, Nancy would also serve as a liaison between the Maharishi and the Beatles, while the Beatles were learning Transcendental Meditation.
The actress Mia Farrow described Nancy’s arrival at the Maharishi’s ashram as follows:
A self-important middle-aged American woman arrived, moving a mountain of luggage into the brand-new private bungalow next to Maharishi’s…People fled this newcomer and no one was sorry when she left the ashram after a short time to go tiger hunting.
I can’t quite get a read on what the original motivation was for the tiger hunt. Some depictions I’ve read portray Nancy and Rik as two socialites who blithely jaunted off to go safari while in the middle of a shallow spiritual quest. Other depictions I’ve read say that an Indian guide, Avi Kohli, encouraged Rik to kill the tiger, because the tiger was endangering some elephants and might have even endangered some villagers too…
Read more: https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Bungalow-Bill-in-that-Beatles-song
19 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: john lennon
(via Quora) Answered by Matt Linden
Hypothetical questions about The Beatles! My favorite. What if John Lennon was not assasinated in 1980.
1: At the time of his death he was in the preliminary stages of planning a tour to support the album Double Fantasy. Lennon hadn’t embarked on a proper tour since 1966. A return to touring would have been interesting.
2: He would have hosted Saturday Night Live. By all accounts John Lennon was a frustrated comedian. He connected with George Martin because of the producer’s association with the British comedy troupe The Goons. He was on the record as saying he would have been happier being a member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus than The Beatles. As a NYC resident Lennon hosting Saturday Night Live would have been a near certainty…
Read more: https://www.quora.com/What-if-John-Lennon-were-still-alive
19 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: beatles, free as a bird, john lennon
(via Quora) Answered by George Paolini
It all started with a cassette version of the song recorded by John Lennon in his apartment in New York in 1977 …
To put a bit of context behind this time in his life, John was a homebody, taking care of Sean and baking bread. He was getting pretty good at the baking and apparently even thought about opening a bakery. Meanwhile, Yoko was investing John’s money in things like cattle ranches. Also, during this time, John and Paul had reconciled and had even considered, as a lark, taking up Lorne Michael’s farcical offer to pay the Beatles $1,000 each to reunite on Saturday Night Live.
So, given this period in his life, it is amazing he was still writing…
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https://www.quora.com/How-was-Free-as-a-Bird-by-The-Beatles-recorded
16 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in Did You Ever Realize, General Posts Tags: happy xmas (war is over), john lennon, stewball, the hollies
10 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: john lennon
(via CultureSonar)
With the Beatles’ catalog now available via streaming, it gives fans yet another opportunity to appreciate band’s prodigious output. As with any masterpiece, Beatles’ music opens a new door with each visit. No matter how many times (roughly a billion in this case) you hear the songs, there’s always something fresh to appreciate.
In this round of bingeing, it was John Lennon’s guitar playing that re-introduced itself. Paraphrasing Mr. Lennon himself, if George was The Beatles’ forgotten singer, John was their forgotten guitar player…
Every Moment Has A Song 