The Page Turns ... and Beatles Facts Found

You know, this genre of ours has lasted for over fifty years, and has gone through drugs, hugs, bugs and a few mugshots ... it's rocked, shocked, shlocked and socked-it-to more Rockaholics than we can count! We've seen Presidents die, those with broken dreams live, warafterwarafterwar, legends pass and new ones take their space (but never "place"), women get more rights (and throw a few "lefts"!), 18ers get to vote and drink, our brethren of other races finally get the props they so rightfully deserve, and so many other wild events! The vanguard was THE BEATLES ... and the musical marauding hasn't stopped since ... And it never will.

RARE BEATLEFACTS FOUND!! WOW!! Talk aboutcher luck! Found some olllllld notes I made about the Fab Four way back in 1979! Along with it (now, this is weird!) was a business receipt for some gas I got -- at the time, I was driving the public, stateside version of a Sherman Tank (aka straight-drive Plymouth Belvedere). The cost for the fill-up was just under (snif!) TEN DOLLARS!
Anyway, after drying my tears, I read the info:

Remember The Beatles' tune, Not A Second Time? 'Twas on their first American LP ... bit it wasn't really a "Beatles" song as such! The tune was actually recorded by John and Ringo, with George Martin sitting in on piano!
And then there was a report of the meeting between JPG&R ... and Elvis! Contrary to reports, he was still a bit skeptical about the "moptops", although John considered him to be the one who really got teenagers into rock-n-roll!
But, when they met, Presley and the lads jammed a bit, and Elvis tried to impress them by doing the lead-in to I Feel Fine (come on, '60s guitarists... who amongst us wasn't tempted to try that lead at least once?) At that point, according to the report, John finally realized that Presley wasn't an unreachable "rock god", per se, but a normal human, like the rest of us.

I also found a scripted note (intended for an early column, apparently, considering it was Smith-Coronaed [ie, "typed"] on onion-skin paper) on which I wrote about I Am The Walrus: "John knew that the headhunters were out in droves, looking for anything 'secret', like 'drug' messages or 'Paul Is Dead' or whatever. So he intentionally set the words in some of the fades to weird phrases that could be played backwards and lead these yokels on a wild goose chase!" Yep ... I actually used the word yokel. Forgive me. I won't do it again ... here ...

JIMMY PAGE ... SKIFFLER?? You bet! And here he is, at the ripe old age of fourteen, as part of a skiffle group. Ahhh, how times have changed:


Well, that's all I've got for this go'round, troops! But I'll be back tomorrow evening with a brand new episode! So stay tuned ...