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5.47pm
27 May 2011
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Not sure if there's already a thread about this but I'd thought I'd like to share with you some of favourite weird Beatle facts. Ok, here goes:
- Jim McCartney had burst one of his eardrums when he fell off a wall when he was 10
- Every 15 seconds, a Beatle song is being played somewhere in the world. Or if you live with me, it will be every second.
- John was once suspened from school after he hit a girl for having a better bike than him (not sure if this is true, I heard it on Tumblr)
- While in Hamburg, George was sick and didn't bother to clean it up. They referred to it as a fiendish thingy. Sound familiar?
- The first non Beatle to appear on a album is Klaus Voorman. He is on Revolver just above George's head. (I don't blame him for wanting to be on there, if I designed the cover, I would put a sneaky sketch of myself somewhere)
I'm sure I can think of loads more but here are just a few. Hopefully these facts arn't mega rare. Please tell me if you've heard of them before! Thanks!
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10.05pm
23 October 2011
Offline Adding on to the one about George being sick, I read in either Fab: an intimate life of Paul McCartney or The Beatles: The Biography, that the others put their cigarette stubs in it and John and Paul hacked up the wall and left it for the next guests
I am very happy, and one reason is because I have The Beatles. Thank you!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3
11.56pm
20 September 2011
Offline dear god, that is nasty. Flaming condoms on the walls not enough, guys?
"Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that."
"What happens to them?" insisted Milo.
"Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I’ve heard that they walk among the stars."
–The Phantom Tollbooth
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1 May 2011
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That is utterly disgusting, the smell itself would be revolting. How bad must it have been if the cleaning lady refused to clean it up.
The mega [plastic] superstar Cher's first song was 'Ringo, I Love You' in 1964 under the name Bonnie Jo Mason (the song is dire).
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
6.30pm
14 December 2009
Offline meanmistermustard said:
The mega [plastic] superstar Cher
C’mon, Cher’s given lotsa great cinematic & musical performances over the years! As well as much to ridicule, of course (including “Ringo, I Love You”) but that doesn’t make her “plastic”. (More like platinum-coloured aluminum) It wasn’t her fault that “Believe” kicked off the most irritating musical gimmick of the last fifteen (and counting) years!
But anyways, 
another Oscar-winning singer/actress belongs on this thread: Sissy Spacek, who pre-dated her acting career with a 1968 single released under the name ‘Rainbo’ and entitled “John, You Went Too Far This Time”. Subject of the song was, well, THIS: 
(Specifically, the album cover. Presumably, she never got as far as actually LISTENING to the wretched album within. Yeah, I own it.)
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
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1 May 2011
Offline I was referring to all the work she has had done to her over the years, but since you mention it her films are terrible and there are few worse images in music then the turn back time video. How that can be screened freely on the tv and people complain about is just stupidity. I dont find Believe to be that bad, especially when compared to a whole load of the garbage thrown off the x-factor type treadmills.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
8.20pm
14 December 2009
Offline Hm. Well, I think that Silkwood, Come Back to the Five & Dime…, Moonstruck (and others) all have fine Cher performances; that “Believe” is indeed OK (tho i hate what it wrought); and have never seen that “Turn Back Time” video in question but will take your word that it’s horrible, since I hate 97% of music videos and ignore 100% of them. But I don’t wanna get further off topic so I’ll leave it at that and will speak no more of Cher.
Moving on…damn, those Beatles were a great band, amirite?! 
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
4.02am
4 December 2010
Offline I like the song “Believe”. That song was my childhood weirdly enough. Never an actual big fan of Cher however.
6 Degrees from Cher to the Beatles:
- Cher is a singer.
- Cher was married to guitarist Duane Allman for like 10 days.
- Duane Allman played lead guitar alongside Eric on the song “Layla”.
- Eric Clapton wrote the song “Layla” for Pattie Boyd.
- Pattie Boyd was married to George Harrison but divorced him after she cheated on him with Eric and thusly falling in love with Eric (as well as other matters leading to said divorce).
- I think George was in the Beatles. Maybe the quiet one.
Okay not really a weird fact, but I just thought I would add something somewhat relevant to this thread.
Well we all shine on like the moon, the stars, and the sun.
3.07pm
1 December 2009
Offline 3 degrees from Cher to the Beatles: Duane Allman also played guitar on Wilson Pickett's “Hey Jude ” cover! (As our man Zig could've no doubt told us.)
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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1 May 2011
Offline The Threetles (Paul, George and Ringo, no John) first played together in 1963 in a small number of concerts (3) when John got ill. They had to reallocate Johns vocal parts which must have been a strange for the fans, especially if you were a John nut.
I think that the only time concerts were postponed due to illness were for an ill Paul.
So much for needing to be all 4 for it to be the beatles.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
9.47pm
9 June 2010
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Von Bontee said:
Moving on…damn, those Beatles were a great band, amirite?!
LOL! That could be used to re-rail basically any off-topic thread ever.
If I seem to act unkind, it's only me, it's not my mind that is confusing things.
11.32pm
20 September 2011
Offline meanmistermustard said:
The Threetles (Paul, George and Ringo, no John) first played together in 1963 in a small number of concerts (3) when John got ill. They had to reallocate Johns vocal parts which must have been a strange for the fans, especially if you were a John nut.
I think that the only time concerts were postponed due to illness were for an ill Paul.
So much for needing to be all 4 for it to be the beatles.
I personally would have been SO pissed off if I had been at a Beatles concert with three Beatles. I would've wanted all four, anything else is….weird. Even worse would have been something like the tour they did when Ringo was sick with Jimmy Nicol as replacement. It's not the Beatles with somebody else. You can't just REPLACE a Beatle! Like if Eric Clapton had joined in place of George. It just wouldn't have been RIGHT somehow.
"Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that."
"What happens to them?" insisted Milo.
"Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I’ve heard that they walk among the stars."
–The Phantom Tollbooth
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1 May 2011
Offline I dont know how i would have felt, i mean the beatles, well 3, on stage!!! However i cant sit thru a beatles tribute band without getting seriously irritated. I was fuming when i saw The Bootleg Beatles on Blue Peter years ago, sounded terrible and didnt look anything like the beatles. Paul is left-handed, left-handed!! So dont use a right-handed guitar player.
I refused to go and see them in concert.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
4.21am
4 December 2010
Offline vonbontee said:
3 degrees from Cher to the Beatles: Duane Allman also played guitar on Wilson Pickett's “Hey Jude ” cover! (As our man Zig could've no doubt told us.)
Forgot about this cover! It's so good! I guess three degrees is an easier approach though.
Well we all shine on like the moon, the stars, and the sun.
12.00pm
19 April 2010
Offline Cher married Greg Allman not Duane
"She looks more like him than I do."
9.40pm
1 December 2009
Offline Ooh right, duh! I knew that…Make it four steps. 
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
9.49pm
4 December 2010
Offline robert said:
Cher married Greg Allman not Duane
Oops. Couldn't remember which brother it was. So I guess mine is 7 steps. Thanks for the correction.
Well we all shine on like the moon, the stars, and the sun.
10.54pm
10 August 2011
Offline Would you believe … 1 or 2 degrees of separation between Cher and the Beatles?
(Sonny and) Cher's #1 song “I Got You Babe” immediately followed “Help !” on the UK charts in the summer of '65.
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vonbontee"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
7.54am
12 January 2009
Offline meanmistermustard said:
The Threetles (Paul, George and Ringo, no John) first played together in 1963 in a small number of concerts (3) when John got ill. They had to reallocate Johns vocal parts which must have been a strange for the fans, especially if you were a John nut.
I think that the only time concerts were postponed due to illness were for an ill Paul.
So much for needing to be all 4 for it to be the beatles.
Shouldn't it be the Threatles. Just sayin'. 
