#beatles — Public Fediverse posts
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@MelissaBearTrix
"You say goodbye, and I say hello."
#Beatles #TheBeatles #FabFour
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If you are going to Electric Picnic (aka Ireland’s Glastonbury™️) this weekend, do come along on Sunday morning (always the most awake time of any festival) to see and hear Jason yakking about the Beatles on the Fifth Court podcast LIVE.
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🔴 Fascinating to hear the working tape for Day Tripper. Had no idea the riff didn’t come first. Lennon and McCartney worked on the track during the Rubber Soul sessions 👇Love the giggling at the end.
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New Beatles just dropped. Delicious.
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🔴 The rapid transformation of The Beatles from I Want To Hold Your Hand to Strawberry Fields Forever. Find out more 👇 #beatles #thebeatles #johnlennon #paulmccartney #1960s
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🍓’Let me take you down…’ Find out why John Lennon thought Paul McCartney had sabotaged the recording of his masterpiece Strawberry Fields Forever 👇
https://youtube.com/shorts/ToQ_Alavdcc?is=2p1uzydMs0nhFAJf
#beatles #thebeatles #johnlennon #paulmccartney #trivia #music
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“Nature alone is antique; and the oldest art, a mushroom”*…
Every August, Telluride hosts the Telluride Mushroom Festival—an event that brings fungal science, conservation, foraging, cultivation, psychedelic research, art, and community together in the Colorado mountains. Tamara MC reports…
… Nestled in the Colorado mountains, Telluride has long been a town of festivals: Bluegrass, Film, Mountainfilm, and Jazz. But for more than four decades, the Telluride Mushroom Festival has carved out its own niche as the largest gathering of its kind in North America.
The festival began as the Aspen Mushroom Conference before moving to Telluride in 1981. Its early circle included Dr. Emanuel “Manny” Salzman, a Denver radiologist and one of its founders, and his wife, Joanne Salzman, along with Gary Lincoff, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms; Dr. Andrew Weil, the integrative medicine pioneer; Paul Stamets, the mycologist and entrepreneur who founded Fungi Perfecti; and Goodtimes himself. Furci credits Goodtimes with helping bring the gathering from Aspen to Telluride. Today, the festival operates as a program of the Telluride Institute.
What began as a relatively intimate gathering focused on psychedelics and fungal science has grown considerably. More than 700 people attended in 2019; by 2025, [Guiliana] Furci [here] says, attendance had reached about 1,500. The growth accelerated in the pandemic years, when mushroom foraging and other outdoor pursuits drew new interest, part of what Furci calls “the mushroom hype.” Roughly 70 percent of recent attendees, she says, were experiencing the festival for the first time. Yet despite the influx of newcomers, the gathering retains what Furci describes as a “tribe or family feeling,” with regulars returning year after year and considering one another family…
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… Without fungi, everyday life would look radically different: no beer, wine, chocolate, coffee, or bread. No penicillin. Fungi decompose organic matter and return nutrients to ecosystems, while fungal partnerships with plants helped make life on land possible and remain essential to much of terrestrial plant life.
“They are a life form that is different than plants and animals,” Furci explains. “They are neither plant nor animal nor bacteria. They can live on land, in the air, in water, both oceans and fresh waters.”
The fungal kingdom is astonishingly diverse, encompassing yeasts, molds, and mushroom-forming fungi, including everything from morels and chanterelles to conks and puffballs. Fungi also form the structural basis of lichens. When Furci mentions that morels and chanterelles are both fungi, she quickly puts the distance between them in perspective: “They are as closely related as a whale and a flea.”
Both whales and fleas belong to the animal kingdom, she notes, yet occupy profoundly different branches of it. The same is true within the fungal kingdom. “There are more ways to be a fungus than there are ways to be an animal,” Furci says.
Some of those differences challenge familiar ideas about reproduction. Schizophyllum commune, a widespread wood-decaying fungus, has more than 23,000 mating types—a genetic system far removed from a simple male-female binary.
Are fungi gendered? “No,” Furci says flatly. But she cannot bring herself to call them “it,” either. “They’re definitely not things, so I can’t talk about them as things. And they definitely don’t have a he vibe.”
For Furci, the problem is partly one of language. Calling a living organism “it” can reduce it to an object, while “he” or “she” imposes a gender fungi do not have. That attention to words extends well beyond pronouns.
Furci is one of the driving forces behind the “3F proposal”: Fauna, Flora, and Funga. For generations, “flora and fauna” has served as shorthand for the living world while leaving fungi linguistically—and often institutionally—out of the picture. In 2018, Furci and mycologists Francisco Kuhar, Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, and Donald Pfister published a paper formally delimiting “funga” as the fungal equivalent of fauna and flora: the diversity of fungi within a particular place or region.
The idea has traveled far beyond the original paper. The Fauna Flora Funga Initiative now counts more than 2,500 signatories across 77 countries and documents adoption or use of mycologically inclusive language by conservation groups, universities, museums, and government agencies around the world. In 2021, the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Re:wild formally embraced the three-F framework, calling for fungi to be recognized alongside fauna and flora in conservation language…
Much more: “The Telluride Mushroom Festival: Where Fungal Love Runs Wild,” from @tamaramc.bsky.social
Still, we’d do well to remember (Sir) Terry Pratchett‘s wise reminder: “All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”
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As we celebrate shrooms, we might recall that it was on this date in 1965, on their second day off during their tour of North America, that The Beatles rented a house owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor in Beverly Hills. There, they were visited by Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds as well as English actress Eleanor Bron, who’d appeared in their film, Help. While young girls stood outside the gates, John Lennon and George Harrison had their second experience with LSD, and Ringo his first. (Paul did not partake.) It was here that McGuinn introduced Harrison to Indian music, particularly that of Ravi Shankar.
Actor Peter Fonda was also present, and helped comfort Harrison as he grew unsettled after taking LSD and thought he was dying. According to Fonda, Lennon overheard him saying to George, “I know what it’s like to be dead,” recalling a childhood incident in which his heart stopped beating several times due to blood loss after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach. Lennon then told Fonda “You’re making me feel like I’ve never been born,” words that were later included in the Revolver track “She Said She Said.”
The crowd at the gate (source) #Beatles #culture #fungi #fungus #GiulianaFurci #history #IndianMusic #LSD #mushrooms #PeterFonda #RaviShankar #revolver #RogerMcGuinn #SheSaidSheSaid #Telluride #TellurideMushroomFestival #TheByrds -
I've just finished this #painting of The Beatles' Sun Songs.
🌞 Sun King - from 'Abbey Road' (Lennon/McCartney), 1969
🌞 I'll Follow the Sun - from 'Beatles For Sale' (Lennon/McCartney), 1964
🌞 Here Comes the Sun - from 'Abbey Road' (Harrison), 1969
🌞 Good Day Sunshine - from 'Revolver' (Lennon/McCartney, but mostly Paul), 1966
Hope you like it! Thanks for looking 🙏
More info here... https://janetomlinson.com/products/beatles-sun-songs -
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Gives new meaning to George Harrison's #Taxman
https://greekreporter.com/2026/08/22/ancient-roman-tax-scandal-inscription/ #archaeology #beatles
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Four blokes and a zebra crossing: the banality and beauty of the Beatles’ Abbey Road cover.
The much-copied and parodied picture captures the dynamic between the individuals and the band with eerie perfection
#Beatles #Music #AbbeyRoad #JohnLennon #GeorgeHarrison #PaulMcCartney #RingoStarr #Culture #London #UK #Art #Photography
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🎸 Did Paul McCartney play bass on the Beatles’ brilliant ‘acidy’ Revolver song She Said She Said? Find out more 👇
https://youtube.com/shorts/dbIlzWdWRWE?is=K1Yc_fNz5pL7-yD7
#beatles #thebeatles #paulmccartney #johnlennon #music #trivia
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🔴 The story of the Beatles’ acid anthem Tomorrow Never Knows 👇 #beatles #thebeatles #music #johnlennon #paulmccartney
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New #review today: "#MarkWirtz remains one of pop's great outliers. Best known for the unfinished #ATeenageOpera project, he spent the late 60s pushing studio pop toward increasingly elaborate forms, then somehow carried that vision into 1973 long after the rest of popular music had moved on. #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords' new reissue pairs his two obscure Capitol albums, Balloon and Hothouse Smiles, restoring both LPs to their original configurations and adding the non-LP B-side "Nothing to Do." The first thing to know is that these albums don't sound much like 1973. They're rooted in #BaroquePop, music hall traditions, film-score orchestration, and #Beatles-inspired studio craft." #ExposeOnline #ArtPop #PsychedelicRock #PsychedelicMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/mark-wirtz-the-70s-albums-balloon-hothouse-smiles-6.html
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Today I was listening to some #Beatles music from 1963-64. I was 8 yo in 1964 when the Beatles burst onto the USA music scene. At 8 I did not understand poetic license or metaphor. When someone sang a song, I thought then that they literally meant what they sang. So back then I was totally confused when John sang "Money (That's What I Want)" while Paul sang "Can't Buy Me Love." You really can't have more antithetical lyrics released so close together. To me was Paul a better person than John?
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@Tecumseh An excellent version!
For many Finns, this George Harrison classic is perhaps better-known as the 1989 hit version recorded by a Finnish group, the Clifters:
The Clifters: Elekieltä (live version, 1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFCH-UQbcmUMusically, this version is closer to the original Beatles recording than Nina Simone's take, but the Finnish-language lyrics by Jaana Rinne are completely different.
The leader of the Clifters, Jiri Nikkinen, later formed his own Beatles tribute band, which does true-to-the-original versions of the whole Beatles repertoire.
#MondayCovers #Beatles #GeorgeHarrison #HereComestheSun #Clifters #JiriNikkinen #Finnishmusic
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The Humppaveikot version of "She Loves You" reminded me of another version of the tune. After she had left Motown in 1964, Mary Wells recorded an album of Beatles covers, "Love Songs to the Beatles", which surprisingly had big-band style arrangements for the songs:
Mary Wells: He Loves You (1965)
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Heard this one on the radio last night - one of the more esoteric Finnish-language Beatles covers:
Humppa-Veikot: Hän sinun on (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUJiTvNu-B4The group Humppaveikot was formed in 1958, first as a studio orchestra for a popular radio show. Most of the musicians were veterans, who had started their careers in the 1930s, playing in the legendary Dallapé orchestra. The vocalist Teijo Joutsela had been a member of a well-known singing group, Kipparikvartetti.
For some reason, their record company, Scandia, decided that they should record Finnish-language versions of two recent Lennon/McCartney compositions:
https://www.discogs.com/release/3640591-Humppa-Veikot-Kaikki-Rakkauteni-H%C3%A4n-Sinun-On
If you're curious about humppa as a musical style, the English language Wikipedia provides some basic information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa
#MondayCovers #TeijoJoutsela #Humppaveikot #Beatles #humppa #Finnishmusic
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Sie waren DIE BAND meines Teenager-Lebens. 1966 war ich 16 und musste mit Strafen rechnen, wenn mein Vater mich beim Hören dieser Mucke erwischte. Sowas hat mich nie gehindert - im Gegenteil 😜
Und ich find sie immer noch phänomenal😍😍😍
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Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan and Harris Dickinson Spotted Filming Beatles Biopic at Iconic Abbey Road Crosswalk
#Variety #News #BarryKeoghan #Beatles #HarrisDickinson #JosephQuinn #PaulMescal #SamMendes -
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Beatlemania ended 60 years ago.
So why are there more, better books about the #Beatles now than ever before?
Including at no extra cost: a never-too-late dig at the Rolling Stones 🇬🇧⤵️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Beatles Books Keep Getting Bet...
