On this day in 1976: Lorne Michaels came on the air during “Saturday Night Live” (Season 1, episode 18; Raquel Welch and John Sebastian) and offered $3,000 for the Beatles to reunite at the studio and do three songs.
Today’s quote: “You divide it up any way you want… If you want to give less to Ringo, that’s up to you.”
Today’s lame old men: John and Paul, who were at the Dakota and decided it was too late and they were too tired
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/cwogjlu
On this day in 1969: John marries Yoko in Gibraltar.
Today’s soundtrack: “The Ballad of John and Yoko”
Today’s quote: “Yoko and I are quite willing to be the world’s clowns, if by doing it we do some good. For reasons known only to themselves, people to print what I say. And I’m saying peace. We’re not pointing a finger at anybody. There are no-good guys and bad guys. The struggle is in the mind. We must bury our own monsters and stop condemning people. We are all Christ and Hitler. We want Christ to win. We’re trying to make Christ’s message contemporary. What would he have done if he had advertisements, records, films, TV and newspapers! Christ made miracles to tell his message. Well, the miracle today is communications, so let’s use it.”
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/6wnhkwg
On this day in 1966: “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first - rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.” -John Lennon
Today’s disciples: Thick and Ordinary
On this day in 1987: Andy Warhol died of a post-gall bladder surgery heart attack.
Today’s screening: “Kiss,” the screen tests, “Blow Job,”Eat,” “Chelsea Girls,” “Vinyl,” and all 8 hours, 5 minutes of “Empire.”
Today’s soundtrack: The Velvet Underground and Nico and Reed/Cale’s “Songs for Drella”
Today’s wallpaper: cows
Today’s balloons: silver Mylar
Today’s bookclub: “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B & Back Again” and “Interview” magazine
Today’s cameo (from Wikipedia): Besides his own shows he regularly made guest appearances on other programs, including The Love Boat wherein a Midwestern wife (Marion Ross) fears Andy Warhol will reveal to her husband (Tom Bosley, who starred alongside Ross in sitcom Happy Days) her secret past as a Warhol superstar named Marina del Rey. AWESOME!
Today’s quote: “I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”
Today’s lucky Pierre: Andy, between John and Yoko
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/7aulcdv
On this day in 1969: The Beatles with Billy Preston played their lunchtime rooftop gig on top of the Apple building, #3 Savile Row in London. Lasting for just over 40 minutes, it was the last time The Beatles performed live.
Today’s screening: http://tinyurl.com/bm3rlg for the concert
Today’s quote: “I’d like to say ‘thank you’ on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition!” —John Lennon
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/7rfscns
