1966 - Blog Posts
shuffle your last playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your mutuals <3
lets do this!
No Sleep Till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys
California Songs - Local H
Dream A Little Dream Of Me - The Mamas & The Papss
Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
yeah, it's quite 60s/70s/90s. kinds funny actually
Pattie Boyd & George Harrison on their wedding day, Jan 21 1966
1966 was one of their best eras fight me bout it
Finally watched this movie… and it was a thing… that I watched… tbh I’d need a lot of convincing before I’d touch the other Matt Helm movies
The matching yellow fits at the end of the movie were hella cute tho… they were a cute couple
To the batpoles! - Batman (1967)
"Quick, Robin to the Batcave!"
Batman (1966), “Scat! Darn Catwoman”
Batman (1966), "The Joker Goes to School"
Batman (1966), "Surf's Up! Joker's Under!"
Thank you for still remembering my request, Beatle fanartist friend, @helga-oko ! Groovy! & the other 3 mini Beatles sitting & chilling on the guitar neck like that… so cute😋
Really subtle but nice Johnny sketch you posted there! It kinda looks like Paulie too! Do you accept requests? Thanks!☺️👍
Thank you! Yes! That's like if Paul put on John's glasses, innit? Gimme ur request 😁 but I'll draw only if it's connected with musicians and if it's not smth hard
It would be so cool to be a fly on the wall & watch them back in 1966! They were defly the top rockers at that time!🤩also, i love their this Germany performance, that also inc the ballad ‘Yesterday’ w/o the orchestra but just them rocking with drumset & all (rly liked that version!) + the wonderful ‘Nowhereman’ performance too…☺️👍
Can the Baby’s In Black live in Munich 1966 aficionados please stand up.
I shld have known this is revolver! We can see the inspo fr the album on this art! Once again, groovy but w a tinge of sadness? Looking fr the members’ long faces☺️ #myfaveBeatlesalbum
Hello have some revolver art
Wow… meeting John back in mid ‘66 when he & the band were starting to record their psychedelic album, Revolver🤩🤩love such young teen/ specific memories
John Lennon at his home in Weybridge, England | April 1966 © Elizabeth Snead
The year was 1966. And I was 13 years old, visiting England for the first-time with my British-born mother. Did I want to meet the British side of my family? Of course I did. But was I dying to see the changing of the guard, the Tower of London, the Crown Jewels, Buckingham Palace and all the sights of London?. No, I most certainly was not. All I wanted to do was find - and meet --my idol, Beatle John Lennon. And that's exactly what I did.
Having obtained an address from a US Beatle fanzine, (yes, you could do that back then) I showed it to my British Uncle Vic, who surmised that the address (albeit a bit bungled) was in St. George's Hill Estate in Weybridge, an upscale residential area 19 miles outside London. Uncle Vic and my mother agreed to drive me around the woodsy neighborhood filled with ivy-covered Tudor-style mansions until we found what I was convinced was the right address. The signs left by fans that read, "I Love You, John!" at the gate were a pretty safe clue. Satisfied, the adults dropped me off to stand in the driveway and wait for in hopes of meeting John while they went off to play 18 holes of golf at the nearby country club.
I stood all alone in the driveway all morning - armed with my camera, a pen and a photo for him to sign -- wearing a black Beatle cap, a Beatles sweatshirt and short skirt. At one point, it started to rain but I was not deterred. I waved to the postman and the milkman when they opened the gate and made their deliveries to the sprawling house up the snaking driveway. I even saw John's Aunt Mimi, his wife Cynthia, with their son, Julian, drive out. Shortly afterwards, a long black limo with tinted windows rolled slowly down the drive. I expected it to keep going but instead the limo stopped and the rear window rolled down. Sitting inside, wearing black sunglasses, was... John Lennon.
John looked at me and asked, "What do you want, Luv?" It was then that I realized I had not prepared anything to say. I was speechless! I managed to stammer, "May I have your autograph?" and handed him the photo and a pen. Then I pointed my camera at him while he signed. Seconds later, John passed the photo and pen back to me and said, "Well, gotta go, Luv. Ta ra!" The tinted window rolled back up and the rolls slowly drove away. I thought to myself, 'Nothing will top this experience. Nothing. I can die happy,' I decided, so typical of a 13-year-old. But even now, some 40 very odd years later, I can safely say that really was the highlight of my entire life. And thank God the photo actually turned out.
The Photo that Captured the Highlight of My Life: Meeting John Lennon - Elizabeth Snead
My collage today…🤪🤪🤪imma keeping it real… its rly bc of him😋😋recently, i bought a pair of specs that i scoured so hard ard the neighbourhood to get those small round specs similar to John & M. Gandhi’s… the tinted round sunglasses are from 2013, a souvenir from Malaysia☺️note the cute dear cat specs casing☺️☺️☺️🐱🐈🐈⬛
How abt you guys, any fave or items you own/ like that are inspired by the band?😋
Also, John 1966 is my fave John!!!!!!!😻😻😻😻🔥🔥🔥🔥
And on this day (7 Sep), 56 yrs ago back in 1966, John had his hair cut short for the Gripweed role in the war movie, ‘How I Won The War’…
He went from rock-&-roller to soldier… he was a comedic character too in the story, which suits him😝and i dig his granny specs fashion accessory besides his teashade round tinted ones…💚
~ Paragraph taken from one of my fave Beatles book: ‘Beatles ‘66’ written by Steve Turner😝👍
This😋👍george w those weird shades (groovy), paul looking all tired (sup bro?), john looking shocked (wonder why...) & normal ringo but this was where the mini tragedy in their tour happened... to be famous and wanted... and how hard it is to live up to ppl's expectations...🙂😐
The Beatles in Manila, Philippines | July 1966
My fave (currently) era of them… and i love them looking all nerdy & annoyingly peculiarly funny with the shades😝😝esp John😝😝there is a short intro of them in these scene b4 launching their song ‘paperback writer‘ in a vid… george & paul sitting on the piano like that is cute too😝👍
The Beatles during the recording of Paperback Writer and Rain | April 1966 © Robert Whitaker
Yup, i have read Steve's book and its good👍also, 1966 is my fave era of the band🌸🌈💛🔥
THE BEATLES in 1966 》
By 1966, the Beatles had progressed to the point that if they could imagine a sound, they assumed it could be realized. They didn’t regard it as a hindrance that something had never been done before or that experienced technicians foresaw problems. Their imaginations were delightfully unbounded. The Beatles were able to think conceptually. They could imagine a type of song not already in existence and then work their way toward achieving it. Many acts were limited by what they already knew and couldn’t think beyond it. The Beatles, on the other hand, could envisage music that had yet to be made but which, in their view, needed to be made, even though it was at times indistinct and needed the interpretive abilities of George Martin to bring shape to it. As Ringo put it, “We finished touring in ’66 to go into the studio, where we could hear each other and create any fantasy that came out of anyone’s brain.” – Steve Turner, Beatles ‘66 With “Paperback Writer” in 1966 they turn into a rock band. They sort of invent overdriven rock. There’s no other band that’s actually playing like that at that point. – Elvis Costello Revolver comes along and every song is a new idea. This is the most extraordinary response to the life they’ve just lived, and it’s in these songs. When the Beatles moved from the stage into the studio they, in a sense, had the equivalent of the classic notated score. They had all this multi-tracking technology that’s just become available to them. They could put a line on, put a piano part on, and then try something else on top of that. They started to create these structures in music which couldn’t possibly have been created by just sitting and writing with a guitar. For example, I think most musicians, when they heard “Tomorrow Never Knows,” thought that the world actually wouldn’t be the same after that song. Every detail of what they did is of fascination to us because it’s so rich, it’s so layered, there’s so much going on underneath these straightforwardly beautiful melodies. – Howard Goodall, composer
My fave era of the band, 'enuf said.
The Beatles arrive at London Airport after their final concert tour of the United States | 31 August 1966
This could be from their Hamburg, Germany performance back in 1966... am currently obsessed with 1966 John... sigh... he just rocked shades...🌸🌈💙👓bcuz of him, i bought round tinted shades myself... John is indeed one of my fashion icons & inspo👍
Carry On Screaming - 1966 ☁🍷💋🥀 Fenella Fielding 𓂃 𓈒𓏸