La llama se extiende
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El 10 de Noviembre: Un Director de escuela se negó a cortarse el pelo que llevaba al estilo Beatle: Fue el primer mártirEl 18 de noviembre: Un párroco invocaba su nombre para que grabaran un villancico Come All Ye Faithfull, Yeah Yeah Yeah para sus fieles asistieran a su iglesia.
El 20 El Parlamento británico menciona la conveniencia de que se movilice tanta policia por ellos (A petición de los laboralistas)
En la Editorial del D. Express aparece un chiste:
El Primer ministro de Rodillas, les preguntaba:
Caballeros ... ¿Podríamos persuadirles que aceptaran ser candidatos del partido Consevador?
Los periódicos muy serios empezaba a tenerlos en cuenta y sobretodo su influencia.
El Sunday Times: Elogiaba a los Beatles por enriquecer el idioma con palabras del argot juvenil.
El Now (News of the World) trataba de descubrir porque los Beatles provocaban histeria entre las jovencitas.
(Una actitud, según ellos, inocente e inofensiva)
With ... Portada
Emi se apresuró a lanzar el disco, su segundo disco que estaba siendo incubado desde Julio, y el otoño.
Nunca se había editado un LP de música Pop que fuera para dar cabida a singles exitosos, este fue creado como un disco LP.
Y nacido para superar al LP de Elvis Blue Hawaii.
La portada, como ya ha contado el creador de este post:
Fue una de las portadas con más garra de la historia:
Brian se dedicó durante mucho tiempo a preguntar a sus amigos que pensaba de esa portada.
Uno de los fotografos de más éxito entonces había retratado a los Beatles hasta los hombros, en blanco y negro.
La mitad de las caras en sombras, jerseys de cuello alto, como un cuarteto estudiantes de bellas artes.
Al más puro estilo Astrid.
Wikipedia:
Robert Freeman hizo la fotografía de la portada el 22 de agosto de 1963.
Ya era famoso por haber trabajado con modelos en el primer calendario de Pirelli, y por haber fotografiado al político soviético Nikita Jrushchov en el Kremlin.
Pero fueron sus fotos en blanco y negro de la leyenda del jazz John Coltrane las que llamaron la atención de los Beatles.
Paul: "Nos dispuso en el pasillo de un hotel, muy poco parecido a un estudio.
El pasillo estaba bastante oscuro y había una ventana al final.
Usando la fuente natural de luz de esta ventana que venía desde la derecha, tomó cada una de esas fotos malhumoradas.
La mayoría de la gente cree que tuvo que trabajar en ellas un montón de tiempo. Pero fue sólo una hora.
Se sentó, tomó un par de rollos, y eso fue todo."
Freeman "Tenían que encajar en el formato cuadrado de la portada, así que en lugar de ponerlos en línea,
preferí poner a Ringo en la esquina inferior derecha ya que era el último que había entrado en el grupo.
También era el más bajo."
La idea original era que la foto ocupara la portada completa, sin título ni sangría,
pero el estudio la vetó; en realidad no creían que los Beatles fuesen lo suficientemente famosos como para poder sacar una portada sin el nombre de la banda en ella
El estudio también trató de rechazar la portada porque los Beatles no estaban sonriendo, y sólo fue por la intercesión de George Martin por lo que siguieron adelante con ella.
De hecho, a Freeman se le pagaron 75 libras esterlinas (tres veces su tarifa normal) por los problemas que hubo que afrontar.
Y...
Jamás la música POPular volvería a considerarse música de proletarios.
With The Beatles, era cosa de ricos y de pobres, de señoritas finas y educadas y de granjeros rudos
y la gente celebró esas navidades al sonido de los Beatles.
Navidad triunfal Beatle: 1963
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HO !
GOOD KING WENCELAS LOOKED OUT
ON THE FEAST OF STEPHEN, HO !
AS THE SLOW RAY ROUND ABOUT
DEEP AND CRISP AND CRISPY.
BRIGHTLY SHOW THE BOOT LAST NIGHT
ON THE MOSSTY CRUEL.
HENRY HALL AND DAVID LLOYD,
BETTY GRABLE TOO-OO-OO.
Hello. This is John speaking, with his voice. We are all very happy to be able to talk to you like this, on this little bit of plastic.
This record reaches you at the end of a really gear year for us, and it's all due to you.
When we made our first record on Parlophone, towards the end of 1962,
we hoped everybody would like what had already been our type of music for several years,
but we had no idea of all the gear things in store for us.
It all happened, really, when Please Please me became a No.1 hit and after all that well...
Our biggest thrill of the year? Topping the bill at the London Palladium,
and then a couple of days later being invited to take part in the Royal Variety Show.
This time last year we were all dead chuffed as Love Me Do got in the charts,
and we can't believe really that so many things have happened in between, already!
Just before I pass you over to Paul I'd like to say thank you to all the Beatle People who have written to me during the year,
and everyone who send me gifts and cards for my birthday - which I am trying to forget - in October.
Id love to reply personally to everyone, but I just haven't enough pens!
In the meantime... Garry Crimble to you/Garry Crimble to you/Garry Bable, Dear Christmas/Happy birthday me too!
This is Paul here. Everything that John said goes for me, too. Specially the bit about birthday cards and parcels,
'cause all our way homes and offices got stacks of mail last June, when it was my birthday.
We're all dead pleased by the way you've treated us in 1963,
and we'll try to do everything we can to please you with the type of songs we write and record next year.
Oh yes! Somebody asked if we still like jelly babies. Well, we used to like them. In fact we loved them and we said so, you see.
Ever since then, we've been getting them in boxes, packets and crates.
Anyway we've gone right off jelly babies! But we still like peppermint cream, chocolate drops,
dolly mixtures and all sort of things, dont we? (Chorus of the rest of the Beatles!)
Well, lots of people asked us what we enjoy best - concerts and television or recording.
We like doing stage shows because, you know, it's great to hear au audience enjoying themselves.
But the thing we like best is going in to the recording studio to make new records -
which is what we've been doing all day before we started on this message.
i'll finish by wishing everybody Happy Crimble and a Merry New Year, and especially all the ones who have paid their subscriptions!
(''Good King Wenceslas'' sung in mock German by John)
JA, DAS WIRD UNS DANKE SCHON
UND DENN GRUSS VON EVEN.
JA, DENN GRUSS VON EVEN SCHON
JA, DAS WIRD WUNDERSCHON, BOY,
DANKE SCHON.
JA, RINGO !
Hello, Ringo here. As you know, I was the last member to join the Beatles.
I started to play drums in the group in 1962 but I've been with a lot of other groups. Merry Happy New Year, folks.
(Oh, just wish the people a merry, happy, go on, for Christmas, Christmas)
Merry, Happy New Year, and folks, Happy Christmas and may, may everything you wish be granted.
(Sing, sing us Wenceslas, King Wenceslas)
KING WENCESLAS :
WELL, GOOD KING WENCESLAS LOOKED OUT (oh ho !)
ON THE FEAST OF STEPHEN. (hey !)
WHEN THE SNOW WAS ON THE GROUND, (yeah !)
DEEP AND CRISP AND EVEN. (oh yeah !)
George : Nobody else has said anything yet about our fan club secretaries,
Anne Collingham and Bettina Rose, not to mention Freda Kelly in Liverpool (Everybody shouts 'Good old Freda!'),
so on behalf of us all I'd to say a big thank you for the hard work the've done.
We just hope we can go on pleasing you for a long time, because it's your reaction to our records that really matters.
George launches into : ''Brightly was the shone that night/Through the winter cruel/When a pork pie came in sight/Gathering winter gru-oo-el''.
The next item is Ricky The Red-Nosed Ringo - which ends in a chaos of laughter and then a warm,
sincere message from all The Beatles : ''Merry Christmas, everybody!''
GOOD KING WENCELAS LOOKED OUT
ON THE FEAST OF STEPHEN, HO !
AS THE SLOW RAY ROUND ABOUT
DEEP AND CRISP AND CRISPY.
BRIGHTLY SHOW THE BOOT LAST NIGHT
ON THE MOSSTY CRUEL.
HENRY HALL AND DAVID LLOYD,
BETTY GRABLE TOO-OO-OO.
Hello. This is John speaking, with his voice. We are all very happy to be able to talk to you like this, on this little bit of plastic.
This record reaches you at the end of a really gear year for us, and it's all due to you.
When we made our first record on Parlophone, towards the end of 1962,
we hoped everybody would like what had already been our type of music for several years,
but we had no idea of all the gear things in store for us.
It all happened, really, when Please Please me became a No.1 hit and after all that well...
Our biggest thrill of the year? Topping the bill at the London Palladium,
and then a couple of days later being invited to take part in the Royal Variety Show.
This time last year we were all dead chuffed as Love Me Do got in the charts,
and we can't believe really that so many things have happened in between, already!
Just before I pass you over to Paul I'd like to say thank you to all the Beatle People who have written to me during the year,
and everyone who send me gifts and cards for my birthday - which I am trying to forget - in October.
Id love to reply personally to everyone, but I just haven't enough pens!
In the meantime... Garry Crimble to you/Garry Crimble to you/Garry Bable, Dear Christmas/Happy birthday me too!
This is Paul here. Everything that John said goes for me, too. Specially the bit about birthday cards and parcels,
'cause all our way homes and offices got stacks of mail last June, when it was my birthday.
We're all dead pleased by the way you've treated us in 1963,
and we'll try to do everything we can to please you with the type of songs we write and record next year.
Oh yes! Somebody asked if we still like jelly babies. Well, we used to like them. In fact we loved them and we said so, you see.
Ever since then, we've been getting them in boxes, packets and crates.
Anyway we've gone right off jelly babies! But we still like peppermint cream, chocolate drops,
dolly mixtures and all sort of things, dont we? (Chorus of the rest of the Beatles!)
Well, lots of people asked us what we enjoy best - concerts and television or recording.
We like doing stage shows because, you know, it's great to hear au audience enjoying themselves.
But the thing we like best is going in to the recording studio to make new records -
which is what we've been doing all day before we started on this message.
i'll finish by wishing everybody Happy Crimble and a Merry New Year, and especially all the ones who have paid their subscriptions!
(''Good King Wenceslas'' sung in mock German by John)
JA, DAS WIRD UNS DANKE SCHON
UND DENN GRUSS VON EVEN.
JA, DENN GRUSS VON EVEN SCHON
JA, DAS WIRD WUNDERSCHON, BOY,
DANKE SCHON.
JA, RINGO !
Hello, Ringo here. As you know, I was the last member to join the Beatles.
I started to play drums in the group in 1962 but I've been with a lot of other groups. Merry Happy New Year, folks.
(Oh, just wish the people a merry, happy, go on, for Christmas, Christmas)
Merry, Happy New Year, and folks, Happy Christmas and may, may everything you wish be granted.
(Sing, sing us Wenceslas, King Wenceslas)
KING WENCESLAS :
WELL, GOOD KING WENCESLAS LOOKED OUT (oh ho !)
ON THE FEAST OF STEPHEN. (hey !)
WHEN THE SNOW WAS ON THE GROUND, (yeah !)
DEEP AND CRISP AND EVEN. (oh yeah !)
George : Nobody else has said anything yet about our fan club secretaries,
Anne Collingham and Bettina Rose, not to mention Freda Kelly in Liverpool (Everybody shouts 'Good old Freda!'),
so on behalf of us all I'd to say a big thank you for the hard work the've done.
We just hope we can go on pleasing you for a long time, because it's your reaction to our records that really matters.
George launches into : ''Brightly was the shone that night/Through the winter cruel/When a pork pie came in sight/Gathering winter gru-oo-el''.
The next item is Ricky The Red-Nosed Ringo - which ends in a chaos of laughter and then a warm,
sincere message from all The Beatles : ''Merry Christmas, everybody!''
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