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In which Richard and Robert trace the rather momentous events of February 11th (give or take) throughout the entirety of The Beatles’ career. As with their Christmas messages, each fixed date saw major developments, mostly positive ones. Songs include “There’s A Place,” “Woman” and “Instant Karma.”
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Let’s see, let’s see … Feb. 11 … Feb. 11 … 1964?!
It’s not fully registering but that particular one seems to stand out in my mind as one of the more significant ones. Not just for a “Feb. 11” but, I mean of course, as a date in American history.
Yeah, yeah, yeah … YEEEAAAAH (Major 6th!!)
Great fellas! Can’t wait to listen. Cheers!!
Richard make fake Yoko in surround sound!
Very interesting re: “Woman”; that was new to me
The drummer on “Cold Turkey” was Jim Gordon.
“The drummer on Cold Turkey was Jim Gordon.”
I noticed that this weblink below (and also the Wikipedia site) both say that it is Ringo on drums. (I assume these sources are correct, but I suppose they might not be. Dunno, not sure.)
https://www.beatlesbible.com/people/john-lennon/songs/cold-turkey/
Apparently Jim Gordon played Cold Turkey live Monday 15 December 1969.
I compared the single version with the one on Sometimes in NYC and the drumming in completely different, there are a lot more bass drum kicks.
It’s not a typical Ringo’s drumming, that’s noticeable, maybe it’s an improvement.
Another good one. I, for one, am really good they never did “What Goes On” live. Complete dog of a song, in their bottom 5 for sure.
really glad …
Surprised with your mentions of Sheryl Crow, Sarah Palin, and Jennifer Aniston, you left off mentioning one American female who literally grabbed a piece of Beatles history on Feb. 11, 1964, Beverly Markowitz of Silver Spring, MD, the original “Billie Shears” who famously snipped a lock of Ringo’s hair at the British Embassy function that day. Here’s a clip on her I found on the internet: http://www.donaldsauter.com/ringo-hair-embassy.htm
Good catch, Bill!
I’ve always thought they dropped Act Naturally because it is far trickier to pull off than I Wanna Be Your Man.
For a start, you have to detune the E string on all the guitars down to D in preparation then you’ve got the stop/start parts having to be coordinated as well as the tricky lead parts against a wall of screams. I Wanna Be Your Man by contrast is mostly a basic 3 chord stomp.
Before I’ve even listened to this I’m going 63 Please Please Me, 64 Washington Coliseum 65 Ringo’s wedding 68 Hey Bulldog recording/Lady Madonna promo film.