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The Beatles: All These Years, Vol 1.
Exciting! For once! The Special Edition of Mark Lewisohn's Beatles' history can now be pre-ordered! (He's the one on the right, above.)(I think.)I don't need to to tell you, do I not, that this tome...
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Kenwood: June 29, 1967.
The Beatles' Book Monthly photo library is being digitised and put on-line, including, o' course, the Leslie Bryce session from Kenwood. As suspected, a few new 'uns have been lurking unused in the...
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57 Green Street: Flat L.
Despite lysergic dreams of communal living in 1967, the only time all 4 actually lived together was in the autumn of 1963, at number 57 Green Street in Mayfair, central London. And yes, you guessed it...
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Kenwood: July, 1966.
July, 1966: England is convulsed by World Cup "fever". (Or was it? The lack of an all-pervasive media at least seemed to mean that choreographed hysteria, a necessary adjunct to any major sporting...
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Kenwood: swimming pool, 1967.
Lizzie Bravo (who needs no introduction) has a large cache of previously unseen Kenwood pics, taken between January and the summer of 1967. Being the generous soul that she is, permission has been...
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Kenwood: 21/1/67.
Lizzie arrived in the UK mid-February 1967; shortly before that date, her friend Denise Werneck made the journey out to St George's Hill to take some photos, on a kind of Lizzie-related recce. Thus,...
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Kenwood: 19/2/1967.
Lizzie's first visit to Kenwood was on Sunday 19th February, 1967, and here are some of the photos from that very day. To begin at the back, garage/sunroom/dining room, above. Note the bird table/hat,...
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2, Strathearn Place: Flat 1.
...speaking of which, a small interlude before we get back to Lizzie.It's probably no exaggeration to say that, one way or another, the course of popular culture changed in these fairly non-descript...
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Kenwood: summer, 1967.
More Lizzie, and this time in colour. Most of these clearly taken in summer, and the gate remains open to all comers.Two of the caravan, the left by Lizzie, the right from her collection, but snapper...
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Kenwood: dubb owld boot.
Why did John get rid o' the boot? This pic probably gives the answer: not being designed to withstand the vicissitudes of a British winter, the thing was beginning to fall apart. But here the boot...
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Kenwood: autumn '66?
More Lizzie soon... but in the meantime...Regulah readahs will no doubt be familiah with the above; it's been on here before, though in nasty lo-res. Always having found it a fascinating little slice...
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Kenwood: 26/2/1967.
Four more from Lizzie's Kenwood file, and fer once none o' my yap.Above, the master bedroom en-suite at sunset. Below, psychedelic vomit on the front door:Kitchen window:Cattus:There are various other...
View ArticleThe Beatles: All These Years Volume 1.
The cover is oot! In related news, Amazon UK have cut the pre-order price on the standard edition, as expected, and it has also now appeared on the Amazon US site HERE.Nice!
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Kenwood: late 1990s.
There has been a veritable glut o' Kenwood shiznit turning up of late, and let's add to that glut with these, taken circa 1998 by Nick Cowburn. Above and below, so far, so familiar:However, round the...
View ArticleKenwood/Sunny Heights/Kinfauns: video footage, c. late 1990s.
Some "new" footage of Kenwood (up the drive and back again), a smidgeon of Sunny Heights, and a bit of Kinfauns, very shortly before it was demolished. Oh and a few obligatory "then unt nau"s, plus...
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Kinfauns: c. late 1990s.
Nick also got a few photos of Kinfauns, shortly before it was destroyed to make way for a carbuncle. Above, the drive (the only part that remains the same these days. The whole section of garden...
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Kenwood: the graffito also endures.
Above, 2 fans just inside the gate at Kenwood, circa February 1967, courtesy of Lizzie Bravo.Now, as ye are aware, this blog mainly concerns itself with rooting around in the muck, like an enormous...
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Kenwood/Tittenhurst: the caravan also endures...more or less.
The caravan, or what's left of it, has resurfaced! Apparently, Ringo had it restored in the early 1980s (hence the different colours), and then took it with him when he moved, only to then leave it...
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23 Mount Street: Robert Fraser.
As Miss Cyril "Cilla" Black might put it, there's been a lorra lorra history in these rooms. Plus a lorra lorra skag.For this was once the second floor flat cum "salon" of art dealer to the stars...
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