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A lot has been written and said over the years about how Decca failed to sign the Beatles in 1962, but was it as bad as that time The Beatles failed to sign David Bowie in 1968?

Destruction of the Furious Elephant at Exeter Change, by George Cruikshank – a contemporary print showing a row of soldiers and others firing rifles at a bloodied elephant which is breaking some of the bars of a stout wooden cage, but is still very much contained. A man standing closer carries a rifle with a bloodied bayonet, apparently from stabbing the animal

200 years ago today, an elephant died, and not in a dignified manner. The unfortunate ‘Chunee’ had been kept in an upstairs room on the Strand, and was killed because he finally got sick of his confinement and mistreatment and started kicking the shit out of the place 🧵

Happy Birthday!

The latest audiobook listen-I’m a big fan of Peter Doggett as a writer-his You Never Give Me Your Money is arguably the best book I’ve read about The Beatles-& this one is truly excellent-very balanced & revealing. Plus it does what all good music books do-it sends you back to those peerless records

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled viruses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the bacteria, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

You are doing missionary work - bringing music to Liverpool for the first time. God bless your endeavours!

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The Fall Curious Orange diorama

Fillmore west model

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Some little things from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com

Great job, intern

Good grief. And the rest is as pretentious and nauseating as you’d expect from the headline.

So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?

I’ve done some events with him and he is annoyingly talented!

The great and the good, and me, at the U.K. launch of Piers Hemmingsen’s second volume of ‘The #Beatles In Canada’.
I genuinely cannot recommend these two volumes highly enough.

'The Beatles In Canada - The Evolution 1964-1970' (Audio Companion Disc For The Book) [2025] is my disc of the day.
Here's a recent interview with the author Piers Hemmingsen:
youtu.be/JrRjpBx-Vxw?...
#thebeatles

You know what? Let’s not fact check the idiots who think Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader killed today, was the same guy as Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Let them believe he was 124 years old. In fact, persuade them he was kept alive as a head in a jar.

Well, as everyone else is doing it …

Singer songwriter Matt McGinn on stage. He is playing the guitar.

This is my lovely friend Matt in concert tonight in Rathfriland. He's an amazing songwriter not afraid to talk about genocide and the horrors of this world.

Top man, Matt!

Lessons of War 2020 [the original album], by Matt McGinn 10 track album

In 2020, Matt recorded this album, working with songwriters from Ireland, Palestine and Sierra Leone.
It's powerful without feeling heavy-handed.

Feels like we should listen to this tonight.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.

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This is the correct answer.

Only A Northern Song has often been dismissed as insubstantial (see below) but in this illuminating analysis, @stevenc63.bsky.social reveals hidden depths and provides many new insights. Have a listen!

Remembering BRIAN JONES — born 84yrs ago today.

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

The #Beatles, New York, Peppermint Lounge, February 9 1964

This should be a front-page scandal.

@stevenc63.bsky.social @beatlespod.bsky.social new evidence has emerged...

IT’S ALL CONNECTED!

literally peak. stanley tucci is amazing.