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Saturday Potpourri: The Beatles’ Rooftop Concert Turns 40

Apropos of just about nothing, other than I stumbled across the information, it turns out that it was 40 years ago that the Beatles went on top of the Apple (not that Apple , that one ) headquarters in Saville Row, in London, and performed a short set for the purpose of inclusion in the film Let it Be . There’s all sorts of drama surrounding this story; the Beatles broke up right around this time. I’m not out to get into that mess, I just wanted to share the rooftop footage. What speaks to me is that they sound exactly like themselves in this footage - how many bands have you heard live and discovered that something important, the bit you really love about them, is a product of electronic production? Not these tracks. Enjoy!

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31Jan2009 | John | Comments Off | Continued
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Lily Allen’s Preview Track - Now with Moving Pictures!

Sneaky me, I’ve got two different motives for this post. The second is to see if I’m able to embed a clip from YouTube; all signs point to it being so blindingly easy that failure will encourage me to seriously consider suicide. But, for all that, I’ve never tried it before. Voila!

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My first motivation is to share this really great preview from Lily Allen’s upcoming album, "It’s Not Me, It’s You",  although it’s now slated for release in February of 2009 soooo.. boo. Despite not being the likely target demographic (36YO suburban white male) I absolutely adore her first album, xxxxx , but kinda had her chalked up to a typical sophomore slump. If this track is any indication, it turns out I was full of shit. I’m genuinely looking forward to this - yum!

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DEAR LORD! For being the hoity-toity blog platform of choice, embedding video in Wordpress is a frickin’ pain. Seriously, it’s not that it’s super-hard , but when YouTube et al provide simple embed code next to their videos it shouldn’t be hours and a plug-in later before it works. That thing I said before? I’m considering, I’m considering…

Not really, mom. Put the phone down.

16Dec2008 | John | Comments Off | Continued