Sunday Night Video – The Beatles, “Help!”

December 2, 2012 by Leave a comment

T. and I are about 2/3 of the way through The Beatles’ 1965 film Help!, which I haven’t watched since high school. Lord knows I love me some Beatles, who serve as the foundation of my sense of music, but Help! simply isn’t as strong a film as 1964′s A Hard Day’s Night. Sure, Help! has plenty of fun, and some extraordinary songs, but the larger framework of the ring which designates a sacrificial victim just doesn’t work as well A Hard Day’s Night, when their journey to putting on a concert served as a sufficient excuse to all of the shenanigans. Oh well, I still love the boys. Enough so that I’ll probably even re-watch 1967′s Magical Mystery Tour one of these days.

Here are the Beatles on August 14, 1965, singing Help! on The Ed Sullivan Show.

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Monday Night Video – Marianne Faithfull, “As Tears Go By”

June 11, 2012 by Leave a comment

Introducing Paul Anka introducing Brian Epstein introducing Marianne Faithfull.  I find Faithfull fascinating and spent a few minutes over the weekend looking up some of her earliest appearances. I know it was the style of the times, but I’m still struck by how so many of them keep her in just one or two still poses, which also fits the caged bird quality of her voice.

EPSTEIN: How did it all start?

FAITHFULL: I met Andrew Oldham at a party. And he asked me if I’d like to make a record because he thought I had a face that could sell.

EPSTEIN: And what did you think?

FAITHFULL: I thought, “This is fine. Perhaps I have — let’s sell it.”

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