Obama

This article claims that Obama is now bigger than The Beatles. I'd take it seriously if it's reasoning wasn't flawed. It also wants us to believe Obama is bigger than God.

I've seen many articles over the years claiming that everyone from "Wings", "Hannah Montana" "Nsync" "Batman" to "Twilight The Movie" as "bigger than the Beatles".

First of all, when you claim to be "bigger than the Beatles", that is just showing how big the Beatles are in the first place. The statement itself is a contradiction. If you are bigger than the Beatles, prove it.

Decades later we still have thousands of books being published by associates of them, albums being released with their music being recorded in different genres.

Can we say this about any other phenomenons?

Obama might wind up being "bigger than the Beatles" though. Whether you agree or disagree with his politics, it's hard to argue the presence of Obamamania.

Bigger than the Beatles? Let's see what people are saying in a few decades...

Laurence Juber interview

The interview with former Wings member Laurence Juber is now posted. The breakup with Wings was always very ambiguous and I was always very curious about what went down. Laurence helped clear up some myths. Also turns out he is Sherwood Schwartz's son-in-law. I also find out about an unmade Wings movie that I had never heard of.

This interview had some issues. For one I had a sore throat, and the recording program kept malfunctioning. When I went to edit the sound stuff it turned out the interview was deleted from my computer! I was horrified but luckily I was able to recover it. Laurence was great to have on and his body of work is awesome. I hope you all enjoy the interview.

Whoops

Wow. Been a while since the last blog post. On the upside, I have been pretty good about putting new episodes out this month. Even have a new feature called the "Monday Report". Let's see if we that will be as "regular" as Wednesdays With Wings.

Speaking of Wings, I interviewed Laurence Juber earlier this week. Podcast should be up later this weekend when I get time.

Also getting ready to put the picture and lyrics databases on the site. Rick is working on the lyrics and I am currently organizing the picture database on Flickr. Tagging and naming is tedious when it's over 1000 pics! Thank you Alex for donating the pics!

Like I said it's been a busy month. Hopefully the blog won't lapse!

Work has been keeping me busy lately. Like I've said before, 2009 is proving to be a really busy year.

Eric is back from his Beatlequest overseas and we should see, or hear, him back on the show soon.

I haven't been able to keep up with all the news due to my schedule, but apparently Decca Records is ending it's existence in the next few weeks. I wonder how different things would've been had they signed The Beatles.....

Well we would've had a Beatles history with no George Martin and less creativity control and possibly Pete Best over Ringo.

Hmmmm

I've also heard (but no article that I've seen has given a direct source yet...or I haven't found one) that Paul is cancelling his upcoming tour to stay home with his daughter Beatrice. If it's true good for him. In the 70's he dragged Heather, Mary, Stella and James everywhere but I suppose he wants to do things differently now. Wings tours were different anyway, especially the early ones.

At least it's not another "PAUL IS GETTING MARRIED" rumor. Can we stop with those? Please?

Still catching up on all my new Beatles books. Reading Julia Baird's (John's half sister) new book, but decided to read her old one first to do a compare. So far her new one is better as it's more in depth. Like Pauline Sutcliffe's book (Stu's sis), the author (also a sister of a deceased Beatle) seems to have some issues they are working through using the book.

Not that it's a bad thing. Julia seems like a nice person and her childhood was nothing short of tragic.

I'll try and post a new show soon.

Meantime some big stuff are coming up for the website.