HAPPY OPENING DAY! Let's indulge in the very best things: The Beatles and baseball. Sure, we all know about Shea, but there are far more connections than you may think! From a piece I assigned myself a few years back for MLB.com (my day job) #LGM ⚾🎸🎸🎸🥁 www.mlb.com/news/top-bea...

New Macca, let’s go!

It’s March 20, and OTD in 1969, Jock & Yono wed in Gibraltar (near Spain) 💍 youtu.be/v-1OgNqBkVE?...

So it would be a monumental hassle to get out there, and the odds of being picked are slim, but gotta be in it to win it 🙏

Happy birthday, Pattie Boyd! 🎂

Linda Eastman and Paul McCartney wed 57 years ago today, March 12, 1969, after months of rumors. It was a lovely romance, and a marriage that lasted nearly three decades. Here's a tiny thread on the day, starting with a segment from the Wingspan doc💍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2w3...

Whiffed on a link, doing that post again!

PSA: The new Squeeze album is dynamite, even beyond my lofty expectations. Try Trixies today!

Today would have been George Harrison's 83rd birthday in the material world (or maybe it was yesterday). From the archives, here's my birthday card to George, revisiting his deeply vibrant period between his 25th & 26th birthdays, from February 1968-69 🎂🎸🕉 theymaybeparted.com/2016/02/25/t...

ICYMI!

Everybody's trying to be my baby now #TheBeatles

Watching that woman perform with the guitar on the Verona Arena stage during the Olympic closing ceremonies, it struck me to wonder if Michael Lindsay-Hogg knew of this place. Could have been an easier sell to have the Beatles play Italy in January 1969 instead of traveling to Tunisia

Charge your earbuds and fire up your fave podcast app as I join The Beatles: Note By Note to dig into “Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby,” tying Carl Perkins’ influence & inspiration from the band’s outset to final song (and beyond). A blast of a discussion! 🎧 www.notebynoteseries.com/episodes/083...

It’s February 22 and 57 years ago - about 3 weeks post-Roof - the Beatles & Billy (and minus George's tonsils) were marvelously loud at Trident in their 1st proper stab at "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", the blurry line between the Get Back & Abbey Road sessions youtu.be/BvT4BUFauqc?...

The mighty Squeeze covering "Junior's Farm" this morning. Let's go! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJN6...

New McCartney & Wings exhibit coming to Rock Hall in Cleveland in May! This just hit my inbox

Happy 93rd birthday to Yoko Ono! 🎂 (For age context: That's 1 1/2 years older than Brian Epstein would have been, almost 2 years older than Elvis and more than 3 years than Buddy Holly & Roy Orbison. She was more than 7 1/2 years older than John, who she spent about 13 years with, now 45 without)

Happy 84th to Glyn Johns! 🎂

Happy Valentine’s Day, with love from me (and my candy jar) to you and with some help from the solo Beatles catalog (and a little imagination). 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙

"They sing close harmony, stomp their feet and play electric guitars, but so do a lot of crew-cut American boys in slacks and sweaters, and they cause no riots." (From Cynthia Lowry's widely syndicated TV column, Feb 10, 1964, the day after the Beatles' Ed Sullivan appearance)

Happy Super Bowl Sunday to those who celebrate! 🏈

57 years ago today - February 7, 1969, just a week after the Beatles' Get Back sessions concluded - George Harrison broke up with his tonsils. This hospital photo was published in his 1980 memoir, I Me Mine. Extensive annual tonsillectomy thread starts here ✂👅🧵

It's also the 57th anniversary of February 3, 1969, only four days after the Get Back sessions wrapped. Today the Beatles "asked Mr. Allen Klein of New York to look into their affairs and Mr. Klein has accepted," per Derek Taylor at Apple. The news made a few headlines the next day. Short thread 🧵

It's the 67th anniversary of February 3, 1959, the Day the Music Died. From the most cavernous depths of the They May Be Parted archives, a mini-post marking the day with a few Beatle memories of Buddy and a string of Holly covers during the Get Back sessions: theymaybeparted.com/2012/02/03/t...

It's the 57th anniversary of February 1, 1969, and the Beatles were still together! January got a little dicey a few times, but they made it through, and with indicators seemingly pointing up📈 Let's get into the day again, just like we did in December and January. 🧵

Good morning! It's the 57th anniversary of January 31, 1969, the day after the rooftop performance and final day of the Beatles' Get Back sessions. Great news! The Beatles passed their audition! Now what?? Daily context and rewatch notes now:

Good morning! It's the 57th anniversary of January 31, 1969, the day after the rooftop performance and final day of the Beatles' Get Back sessions. Great news! The Beatles passed their audition! Now what?? Daily context and rewatch notes now:

The rooftop was about 1/4 of the Let It Be film. Of all things in Beatles lore, the rooftop is one of the few that never changed in the narrative. Never bashed, never misrepresented or downplayed. The rooftop was always lionized. And deservedly! Let's brighten the day: Rewatch notes start now 🧵

Gutted to hear the Catherine O'Hara news. What an icon. RIP.

The Beatles didn’t need a roof to be on top. But there they were Jan. 30, 1969 - 57 years ago today - playing without a gimmick atop 3 Savile Row, a venue needing no fabrication, ending a film and adding an iconic image to their legacy. Happy Rooftop Day, everybody! Context now, rewatch notes later🧵

It's the 57th anniversary of the antepenultimate day of the Beatles' Get Back sessions, January 29, 1969. Context and rewatch notes begin here - I'm trying to get it up earlier in our day. Their day at Apple was relatively short, clocking in at just 4 1/2 hours on the Nagras.

Reposting every time we get biopic news.

Greetings and welcome to 57th anniversary of January 28, 1969, as the Beatles' Get Back sessions continue at 3 Savile Row. This was, in parts, a stupid bloody Tuesday, with some bad moves bookending the good work in the Apple basement. Daily context and notes coming now 🧵

January 27, 1969 - 57 years ago today - marked the start of the final week of the Beatles' Get Back sessions. Combo daily context and rewatch notes start here 🧵

It’s 57th anniversary of January 26, 1969, so let's Dig It with the Beatles as the Get Back sessions roll on. Combo context and rewatch notes starts here 🧵

Let's climb down into that basement, where on January 25, 1969 - 57 years ago today - the Beatles worked their only Saturday of the Get Back sessions. We begin with a virtual trip back to their journey to India, which was less than a year earlier but seemed like a lifetime ago.

The working weekend got underway for the Beatles 57 years ago today, on January 25, 1969, the last Saturday of the Get Back sessions, which would continue uninterrupted. Here's some context behind the day, with rewatch notes to come later 🧵

The 57th anniversary of January 24, 1969, as the Beatles charge ahead at Apple. Brief context notes to be followed by rewatch notes, starting now!

It's January 24, Jools Holland's birthday, and as a lifelong Squeeze superfan, I’m happy to excuse to tie together a Jools-Beatles thread. The most important link came via Anthology: Jools was hired to interview the surviving Beatles for the documentary 🎂🧵

January 23, 1969, Get Back rewatch notes start at Apple, where we join the Freakout in progress. In reality, this happens midday (though it's true Ringo & George missed it). John mentions Billy Preston, but we don't see him nor does he get songwriting credit in 2021, even if John mentioned him 1st🧵

It's the 57th anniversary of January 23, 1969, and as the Beatles’ Get Back sessions breeze along at Apple, there is no end to what they can do together. Daily context notes arriving now, with rewatch notes to come later 🧵

Happy January 22, the 57th anniversary of the Beatles' Get Back sessions and smiles abound. Billy Preston gives us a lift on a day where it's easy being green. Combo daily context and rewatch notes begin here 🧵

January 21, 1969, Get Back rewatch notes starts now. As George said at the outset, there were good vibes at 3 Saville Row. You can hear it on the tapes, and the visual makes it even more clear. Terrific, loose day. They're back! 🧵

There were "good vibes, man!" 57 years ago today, January 21, 1969, the resumption of the Beatles' Get Back sessions. Daily context starts here, rewatch notes later.🧵

January 20, 1969, Get Back rewatch notes begin outside 3 Savile Row. I’ve posted before and will again: I like to watch the arrival of the Beatles and think of it like it’s a '70s/'80s sitcom intro, everyone has a trademark entry. So like: STARRING: Ringo Starr (pokes head, smiles)

Congrats on making the Hall of Fame to Carlos Beltran, whose family dressed as Help-era Beatles for Halloween 2019 www.instagram.com/p/B4Sp4TSFdq...

Going to ICYMI again with this one. Putting it down for the record: opinions, thoughts and suggestions on Anthology, then and now. I didn't realize I had so many until I had to start severely editing myself down ...

Great news! 57 years ago today - January 20, 1969 - the Beatles got back together in the recording studio, and not some board room or divisive house meeting. Let’s get into the daily context before tonight’s requisite rewatch, starting here 🧵

ICYMI! New post with several thoughts on the Anthology doc

It’s the 57th anniversary of January 19, 1969, and the final day off for the Beatles before they resumed Monday and sprinted to complete the Get Back sessions before the end of the month. Beatle time, moving at incomprehensible speed yet again. Context thread starts here 🧵