There’s an alternate universe where John Lennon moved to New Zealand and never met Paul, George, and Ringo. It’s a small bit of the story in Nowhere Boy, where we spend a couple of years-more or less-in the life of a young John Lennon. We see flashes of genius and flashes of idiocy. We see signs that say Strawberry Fields and hear John’s Mum sing him a song about a hooker named Maggie May. We see the Quarrymen and John’s first flash of jealousy when he met Paul McCartney. For the most part, we see John Lennon as a normal…
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The Beatles The Candle Burns
I’ve been a Beatles fan since I first discovered the Fab Four in High School-about ten years after the band broke up. I bought reissues of all their albums and once in a while in a thrift store I would find an album I had never seen before. These unknown albums would often have the usual tracks of an LP I was familiar with, but with new cover art. Once in a while they had songs I had never heard of either. These, of course, were bootleg albums-records cranked out by companies that didn’t have the rights to release them…