Lee Quick

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.

And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

I’ll start writing one… give me a month or so

Grrreat!

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

I’ve seen it dozens of times, it has too many questionable takes and mischaracterizations, and too much input from Pete Best… it doesn’t deserve anything other than curio status.

YouTube video by Joe Wisbey The Best of The Beatles Books Podcast

To celebrate my 100 episodes, I’ve collated together a short video of clips from some of my favourite conversations.

“Music can do so many different things. But in the end, I don’t know if it can change the world. I think people have to make the change themselves.” - George Harrison, Swedish interview (1987)

Read more at www.instagram.com/p/DTigawbjFa...

Photo by Aaron Rapoport

A chart outlining the RIP BOZO Readiness Condition (RIPCON), which is a riff off of DEFCON. There are 5 levels, with 5 being lowest and 1 being the highest. The chart details descriptions of these levels, examples and actions to take in the event something occurs.

Today is a great reminder that we can never be too ready.

Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

Bandcamp tells AI music to just fuck off

blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...

i expect they had rather a lot of spam and only so many petabytes of disk

How unhappy can one be
With a full cup of tea
☕️

In the last 5 years I have realized so many notable musicians are neurodivergent and I see them differently now (most of all Lennon and Elvis)

George Harrison, early 1980s; photo by Brian Aris.

“The planet is in the hands of very greedy people. The people in power and the people in big business, they are the people who control our fate and it’s all done with so much greed.” - George Harrison, Daily Express (July 1989)

More at www.instagram.com/p/DTLUn3BDD8....

Let’s hope its a good one. Without any fear.

we had podcasts done by nobodies for about 10yrs and it was great, before out of work tv presenters started doing them and then it just became tv again

The ironclad law of podcasts is that if it was sold to Spotify for 300 million dollars it is unlistenable within the first 15 seconds but if the three people are sharing one meal from Wendy’s you can listen for hours

We will still love you tomorrow 🎶

Creative people: streaming is not your future. Disposable, ephemeral, intangible digital media is not your future. Books, records, CDs, Blu-rays, theatrical screenings, live performance...these will be the way your art will exist in the world beyond a temporary mad scramble for views and listens.

We can do even more.

😆

George Answers The Door (at Kinfauns)

This is the best thing I’ve ever seen 🏆

I’d wake up that day with a mysterious sore throat and stay in bed

George and John in the studio, May 1967. Photo from The Beatles Monthly.

Remembering John.

“They can kill the man, but they can’t kill the spirit. They can’t kill what he meant to you.’” - George Harrison, Musician (March 1990)

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Did you know there’s Christmas bonus episodes for backers, still waiting to be opened? 🎅🎁

Today we’re travelling back to “Christmas Time is Here Again”, in which Andrew offers a suitably festive run-through of the Beatles’ Christmas records.

Available on Patreon only: 500songs.com/podcast/xmas...

Remembering George on the 24th anniversary of his passing. Sending thoughts to Olivia and Dhani and all of George’s nearest & dearest.

“We who love music, we love the people who make it, we love the sound of it, and we love what it does to us, how it makes us feel, how it helps *us* love.” - George

Celebrate Anthology 4 release by enjoying this clip of Paul McCartney aggressively and accurately cutting a giant cake at the 20th anniversary celebration of Sgt Pepper at Abbey Road.

BERT KAEMPFERT: After the session they came over to where the recording machine had been situated. I can still see them now, sitting around on those rickety chairs they always have in schools; Tony at the front, John and Paul behind him, George behind them and poor little Pete at the back. I gave them a bit of a talking to I must admit. I told them it was unprofessional to turn up to a recording session looking like you hadn’t slept, their drummer had been so unsure of himself I’d had to take half his kit away, and that instrumental of theirs hadn’t been up to much. At the end of it all I said ‘You’ve heard a lot from me. Is there anything you’re not happy with?’ George leaned round the side of John so he was looking me in the eye and said ‘Yes. I don’t like your tie.’ I thought this was a great joke and started to laugh but Tony glared at me and I stopped. Tony had…a reputation. Apparently in one fight he tied John Lennon’s legs in a knot. An actual knot.

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No @andrewhickey.500songs.com nomination, award invalid (possibly illegal)

And they sat in proper order too