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Hi folks!
This one will be a bit brief, as I am battling a touch of flu at the moment, but I wanted to get something out to you as soon as I could. Normally, a new show would’ve dropped by now, but I am hoping that taking a bit of rest will get me past this sooner rather than later. I expect it’ll be out by the weekend, so 🤞.
Boy, what a difference a week makes. To our west coast friends, the year has gotten off to a horrific start, and knowing that it has directly affected both SATB listeners and guests alike, I can only extend the deepest condolences for what you are going through. If anything emerges that I/we can do to help, count on us. In the meantime, maybe carrying on with the show can at least serve as some kind of pocket of respite from what will be an ongoing recovery. I am so sorry for what you are dealing with, and sincerely hope the show can be at least a momentary diversion.
Besides the Get Back project anniversary this month represents, it is also the anniversary of the first US broadcast of the Shea Stadium concert film, which came in early January 1967. It’s astonishing to consider the progress the group had made in the eighteen months since the show took place; a time when they were still playing “oldies” like “Twist and Shout” and “Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby” onstage. This broadcast arrived just as the “Penny Lane”/”Strawberry Fields Forever” single was about to be issued, a foretaste of what the end of touring meant for them creatively. Being as this will be the 60th anniversary year, it would be nice to think that Apple has plans for some kind of comprehensive Shea release. Until such time, this one will have to do. (Note the special added features!)
In the last newsletter, I’d mentioned the Magical Mystery Tour Revisited documentary and noted that it could probably be tracked down, at least in the states. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me in the moment that it was already in my holdings and I could easily share it here, which I just did!
In other news, Ringo is in Nashville, presenting Look Up, a follow-up almost 55 years in the making to Beaucoups of Blues. He will be the subject of an upcoming show. My book project with Jerry Hammack has hit a technical snag, which we are remedying as we speak – it won’t be out on the 21st but should be not long after. I’ll keep you posted. That’s about it for now, except to say I am extending the deadline for anyone wanting to contribute anything at all (audio or video) to the upcoming 300th episode, which I may push back a little if I need more time to prepare it. We’ll see.