Shots of John Lennon and Paul McCartney taken by TV Times photographers during a recording at Granada TV studios in 1965 (but never published).
Part of a massive cache of nearly half a million images from the worlds of sport, music and entertainment recently discovered stored in boxes at the British Film Institute in London.
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He shot the wrong Beatle.
happiness is a warm gun..
Why are people still celebrating that twit John Lennon…. beggars belief really…
Imagine!
Strange days indeed!
most peculiar, momma.
Ono!
Because even if you think (and you wouldn’t be the only one) that he was an over-venerated, junkie, misogynistic asshat, he was, for a significant part, a driving force in a pop group that by any yardstick rewrote the rules.
In April 1964, they were recording the track A Hard Days Night.
24 months later, they were recording Tomorrow Never Knows, which was fairly feckin’ amazing at the time.
In those 24 months they toured plenty, found time to shoot the Help movie, recorded the soundtrack for it and also Rubber bloody Soul. That level of progression really doesn’t happen any more.
Even if you don’t give credit to Lennon for driving all those things (and by the way, I don’t) the rivalry – or call it what you will – with McCartney meant that the band *still* delivered that much.
So that’s probably why.
Celebrate the band then. Not the asshat out in front :)
I think most people *do* nowadays, actually Clampers. There was a time when the received wisdom, per your average lazy music hack, was knock Macca and lionise Lennon, and chuck in a reference to Frog Choruses or remote Scottish islands for good measure.
I think Lennon was a dick but I’m also loathe to judge *anybody* who did things at a certain time that are considered more ‘wrong’ nowadays, if you get my drift. Mores and morals change…as do our perceptions.
Actually – here’s larks…it’s twenty years (1995) since i saw The Rolling Stones play in Wembley in London, here’s a picture of a t-shirt that I could well have bought on the day. Could you IMAGINE the uproar if they tried that today. :)
http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/stones-udner-age.jpg
Anyway – yeah – Lennon. Flawed.
Just out of curiosity…
are you the Ivan from The Afterword?
Nice post Ivan :)
hello Bertie.
Yes.
Howayeh Ivan, your knowledge gave you away.
Leave poor Lennon alone; he didn’t deserve to be shot, no matter what your opinion might be.
Their music was all that mattered and it was truly fab.
What’s your beef with Lennon? And are you perfect? Doubt it. And i doubt you have an ounce of his talent.
Listened to The White Album today.
Fantastic.
It’s become increasingly fashionable to slag Lennon off (using the PC mores of today) for being an egotistical, chauvinistic asshole. News flash: most rock superstars were, and are, egotistical chauvinistic assholes. Why does Lennon have to take all the flak? Yes, he was a flawed human being (though in any event his appallingly tragic early life undoubtedly had a lot to do with that) but so were Dylan, Lou Reed, Hendrix, Bowie, Iggy, Keith Richards etc etc and they’re all still widely hero-worshipped. Like most people, Lennon mellowed as he aged and by the time of his death – when he was still a young man – he had matured significantly.
Anyway, surely his enormous contributions to the development of popular music are what really matter?