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The Beatles Mad Days Out: Leaving The Past, Moving Like Butterflies

Tick Tock!  Tick Tock! On December 20th back in 2020, M Frank, a longtime friend of mine from my college days, emailed me and …Read more

As I've stated many times on this blog, I really like collecting all sorts of songs and that includes cover songs!  When The Beatles were just starting out, they recorded cover songs by other artists; among some of the…

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An Interview with M. Frank & Johnny Pierre

 

Ed Yipsilanti (Mind Smoke Staff Writer)

 

M. Frank (Author) Johnny Pierre (Editor)

 

Ed: Greetings to one and all.  I'm very excited …Read more

Merchandising The Beatles (Expanded Edition)

Merchandising among today's music artists is quite common.  I first became aware of this type of thing when I saw some Elvis Presley comic books in the late 50's.  After Elvis came…

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Worried that no-one would understand their Liverpool accents in 1964 film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, US music execs considered dubbing them over with American actors. McCartney harrumphed: “We can understand a fucking…

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Today's blog post is about Swinging London; a moment in time that reconfigured the music, fashion, movies and books of the youth culture.

“There came a moment when London first shook off the coils of hidebound British…

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Merchandising among today's music artists is quite common.  I first became aware of this type of thing when I saw some Elvis Presley comic books in the late 50's.  After Elvis came the British Invasion and the musical…

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