*REPOST OF THE ORIGINAL TROUBLE-STARTER.* “My personal standard is that If someone represents, ‘A Beatle said this,’ it better damn well be something a Beatle said.”
Tag: Beatles
Hi. Further study? (1–3)
Updated May 26. (22-5) Happy Sunday.
We find ourselves at a crossroads: The Mark Lewisohn Disaster
“The only obligation we owe to history is to rewrite it.” —Oscar Wilde
Making magic: “And all those people had to die” • Mark Lewisohn’s evolving story of Ringo and the Hamburg flood
LEWISOHN: “It was because of the flood that he was available for The Beatles again. … And all those people had to die for that- for that to happen. It was over three-hundred.” • Why?? Why would Ringo have stayed in Germany after his contract ended??
DESIGNING LEWISOHN: Where was Paul when John needed him? Who could know?
Mrs. Harrison is saying that she sent George to get John out of his house so they could all play together “in their group.” Not, where was Paul? “It could be they didn’t see much of each other”—but could it? It could be that Paul went ice skating in Sweden, EXCEPT HE FUCKING DIDN’T. Why are you lying to me in legalese in a Beatles biography?
The Evolving Story of Kim Bennett, Pt. 1: Before Lewisohn
Part I of Sharon’s deep investigation into the star witness of Tune In, and Mark Lewisohn’s seeming determination to pretend Kim Bennett’s previous stories away.
A basic Lewisohn fabrication: add a coke, a few requests, and shove a retrospective opinion into Paul McCartney’s mouth (Ch 20-Footnote 18)
While perhaps not a murder, this rewrite is still a felony and shows many of the hallmarks of both Lewisohn’s worst as well as his more seemingly-innocuous butcheries. Specifically, they usually begin or end with a wholly invented line that Lewisohn uses as a thesis statement. And they all show an unbelievable disregard for truth and a license to insert and represent his own words as those of a historical figure that cannot fail to shock the conscience of a scholar.
Lewisohn: rewriting history in the area where we trust him most – the songs performed
So, either they performed exactly four numbers —or— they performed at least eight numbers and “probably some others, too.” ‘The Best of Fellas’ version referenced in the footnote makes sense in ways that Lewisohn’s rewriting doesn’t. Lewisohn is telling us is that Paul took over the mic for three out of four numbers…
Call him “Epstein” – Wait, are you f— kidding me??
“…call him ‘Epstein’ for now” • I will never—NEVER— get over this one. This premeditated and purposeful OBSCENITY has been sitting there for ten years. Two ladies with a podcast found it.
Why was Ringo trying to sabotage Brian?? (Could it be because of Stu?) 🤔
“Inevitably, this wouldn’t be the only dispute to arise between Brian and a Beatle …but it is one of the few to be known, and its timing is telling. Brian devoted more than a page to it in his autobiography…”
One of the few to be known except the other two on the very next pages??
Exact Words 