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Kenwood, Kinfauns & Sunny Heights: summer, 1967.
Way back in the summer o''67, had you made your way to St George's Hill and utilised the naughty knocker at Kenwood, this might have been what shambled forth as a result - a fabulously dishevelled...
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Kenwood: summer, 1967.
These have been on here before, in sub-standard quality. Here they are again, much bigger unt better...Thanks to Joe Baiardi.
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Sunny Heights: demolition.
Sad news to report. Elmbridge Council, in their infinite wisdom, have waived through planning permission to demolish Sunny Heights. A Russian oligarch is about to flatten it in order to build the...
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Lennonology: Book of the Year.
Friends, we are living through a golden age of Beatles research. Mr Lewisohn's magisterial All These Years is at the top of the heap, but there's going to have to be some room made up there because...
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Shaftsbury Avenue: ...If Ye Want It.
A seasonal quickie... unt why not? Then unt now. Funnily enough, what now abuts the "War Is Over" wall is The Japan Centre.
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Kenwood: November 26th, 1968.
Sara over at MTBFR has posted a great (mainly "new") set of Kenwood pics. No point in me posting them all again here, but a couple of them can be used to further our flagrantly trivial ends. The above...
View ArticleApril 4th 1974: 434 East 52nd Street - UFO quickie.
On the above date, in the apartment recently vacated by John and May, French journo Jean-Francois Vallee interviewed 'imself. I've got most of it on various dodgy DVDs, but hadn't seen this bit...
View ArticleWalls & Bridges etc.: Bob Mercer interview.
I've read it through once but remain engrossed in Lennonology, not least because it is full of little leads to follow. Here, for example, is an interview John did in L.A. in September 1974, conducted...
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Dorinish: Dot Jarlett archive.
From the pages of the Irish Independent, dated (errr... I'll get back to you on that one), found amongst Dot Jarlett's clippings archive (presumably that's her writing next to the headline), here is...
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George Martin.
Were ye to offer a wager that in, say, 1000 years time, the world will not have been burned to a crisp by religious fanatics/asteroids/Brexiters/ etc., I wouldn't take it. Spread betting may be all...
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Kenwood: June, 1967.
Yet more out-takes from the 29th of June 1967 session at Kenwood, and these two will be up for grabs at the Tracks auction in April. Nice!In other news, I note that the page hit count round these parts...
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5 Somers Crescent, London W2: George Martin.
Here it was, at 5 Somers Crescent, that George Martin lived for around 20 years, from 1966 on. According to the Beatles' London, "it's likely that all the Beatles came here and certain that Paul did on...
View ArticleJohn & Mimi: June, 1964.
A small bit of John and a slightly bigger bit of Mimi, on the plane to Oz, June 1964.
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120a Allerton Road, Woolton: Dairy Cottage.
Regular readahs will know of my fondness for Pete Shotton's tome "In My Life", and so I am always interested to track down a locale featured therein; in this case the corner cupboard in the living room...
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Kinfauns: 1969.
Sara over at MTBFR has posted this great pic of George in 1969, and asks which house it is. It's the living room at Kinfauns: George is picking up a cutout of Sri Mahavatar Babaji...: ...the very one...
View ArticleKenwood: On film, June 1968.
Some of this is on the blog already - but the real find comes around half-way through: the kitchen at Kenwood, on film! Yoko prepares something macrobiotic whilst John hugs a feline. For the first...
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Listen To This Balloon: 19th December, 1974.
I am back up in the auld ancestral home at the moment, struttin' aboot in mi tither, etc.. Occasional downtime vis-a-vis the aforementioned "struttin'" allows one the opportunity to peruse the...
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V&A: Psychedelic Eye On Display.
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has a major new exhibition in the works: "You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-70" runs from 10 September-26 February 2017 and will, as one...
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Marrakesh: New Year 1967.
Sotheby's is currently selling a few candid snaps at a ludicrous price. Still, one or two interesting ones including this; almost certainly taken in Marrakesh during John, Cyn and Victor Spinetti's...
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Kenwood: garden, ca. March/April 1967.
Wot a splendid pic. Just yer average psychedelic family, friend unt felines out for a stroll on a spring afternoon. I'd guess this was taken around the time of the Pepper photo shoot (30th March,...
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More Marrakesh: New Year, 1967.
You wait 50 years for a photo of John's sojourn in Marrakesh and then 2 turn up at once... so here's the second.On a theme of new year, a belated happy one to all readahs.Less happily, ye will no doubt...
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Rishikesh: then unt now.
Hello everybody. Firstly, thank you to all who have written/commented over the last 3 years, and apologies for the lack of response. I remain extant. The blog was blown off course by what might be...
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Kenwood: bush - then unt now.
Did I mention that I have been to etc.?One of the 3 areas I was most interested in seeing was bush related - specifically an attempt to clear up the "silly bother" about where the Rubber Soul cover...
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William Leslie Anthony (Les Anthony): 30 April 1933 - 21 May 2020.
Les Anthony, John's driver from 1965-1971, has died. The story goes that John was having problems finding a suitable chauffeur, and so Brian Epstein, upon visiting Kenwood one day and noticing Les...
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