'C' The Well

How 'Mad Men' Landed The Beatles: All You Need Is Love (and $250,000) | NY Times

So many interesting facts here (besides the fact that it cast a quarter of a million).

Weiner was told that this was the only time a Beatles song (read: original not cover) has been in a TV show, outside of the band’s live performances.

Weiner had to share his story line and pages to get approval.

Weiner also insists that he didn’t break the bank with the choice and that the cost should not be the talking point here.

“Mr. Weiner pointed to another “Mad Men” episode from earlier this season, in which a Beach Boys song is played during a character’s LSD trip. ‘No one ever asked, ‘What does it cost to have that song?’ he said. ‘You think that that’s free?’”

He should have said, ‘You think that shit’s free? ‘Cause it aint.’

beatlesworld:

Martin Scorsese’s documentary, George Harrison: Living in the Material World is coming this Fall! Using rare and unseen photos and footage (including unreleased Beatles footage), the Academy Award-winning director traces the life of George Harrison. Read the full announcement about the film, and the book of personal photographs, letters and diaries from George’s life, published to coincide with the documentary.

http://www.georgeharrison.com/#/news/archive/201107/george-harrison-documentary-and-book-announced

(Source: bottlecaprocketsmusic)

and this exists

“
I co-wrote Badge with Eric Clapton. The group Cream decided they were making one last album together and they all had to turn up on such and such a day with a new song each. Eric had some of the melody and I helped him finish the tune and then wrote the words. While writing the words we got to the middle part which I call the ‘bridge’, so I put that on the paper with the words. Eric was sitting opposite me and he looked at the paper - upside down to him - and cracked up: he said ‘what’s that - badge?’ and I said ‘it’s bridge’. So later Eric called the song ‘Badge’. Later Ringo came in - he was absolutely plastered - and we were up to the lines:

‘I told you not to drive around in the dark,
I told you …’

and Ringo said:

‘…about the swans that live in the park.’

It’s a bit silly, but that’s what happened, folks.
”

George Harrison, I Me Mine

Abbey Road is the best-selling vinyl for the second year in a row

and an extremely random top ten overall

Elvis hated Lennon

apparently

He had annoyed Presley by making his anti-war feelings known the moment he was invited into Elvis’s house and spotted that the rock n’ roll singer’s lamps were engraved with the words “All the way with LBJ”

coolest things i got for christmas:

beatles lamp

beatles pint glasses

ed sullivan dvd feat. four episodes with beatles appearances

ringo starr topps series 1 trading card

parents

Fun stuff I recently learned about my (new) favorite Muppet, SGT. Floyd Pepper:

- the name is a reference to both the Beatles and Pink Floyd, as is his…

- appearance, sporting a Sgt. Pepper’s outfit, and is literally a “pink” Floyd

- plays the bass lefty a la Sir Paul McCartney

The 60’s and 70’s In Black & White

im1004:

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bob Dylan

Eric Clapton and George Harrison

Brian Jones and Bob Dylan

Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger

Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin

Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix

Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Mitch Mitchell and Keith Richards

Mick Jagger and David Bowie

Pete Townsend and Eric Clapton

Mick Jagger, John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Bob Dylan and George Harrison

The Who and Jimi Hendrix

Bob Dylan and David Bowie

Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger

These are some of my favorites, check out the whole set here