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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

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…

Back in December 2020, M. Frank, a longtime friend of mine who I met at the University of Dayton back in the 70's, emailed me and revealed that he had been working on a book called Becoming Sgt.…

1964

"The Beatles were one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands of all time. They also had one of the fiercest, most intensely loyal fandoms of all time. Beatles fans — mainly teenage girls —…

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

“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder

as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Over the…

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…

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…