I honestly thought Paul and Linda’s matching mullets were the be all and end all of bad hair, but George Harrison and Pattie Boyd’s matching perms totally give them a run for their money.
What say you? Which couple chose the most unfortunate coordinated coif?
Bowie’s Aladdin Sane cover artwork with X-Man Cyclops.
German artist Ewe de Witt re-imagines iconic albums with superheroes.
I think the Grace Jones cover with Luke Cage is my favorite.
Check out more of Ewe de Witt‘s superhero album covers at his Cover Parodies section on DeviantART.
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon cover artwork with Dr. Strange.
Grace Jones’ Living My Life cover artwork with Luke Cage.
More photos after the jump…
I posted this video here a few years back of cartoon Beatles singing Dead Kennedys’ California Über Alles. Almost as soon as I did, it was promptly yanked from YouTube for unknown reasons.
Well, here it is again in all of its wacky glory. Enjoy!
Animation by Kota Ezawa.
It might be Macca’s birthday today, but “the quiet one,” George Harrison, is getting some DM love, too.
Here’s a plush Mr. Harrison titled “Rishikesh George” by Felt Mistress for an upcoming Beatles-themed tribute show at Gallery Nucleus.
Via Super Punch
Macca turns 70 today.
There are only two Beatles left, celebrate them while you still can.
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
The William S. Burroughs/Beatles Connection
Below, from One Hand Clapping, Wings perform an absolutely astonishing “Live and Let Die” in rehearsal, during the Red Rose Speedway recording sessions:
“Once upon a time…or maybe twice…there was an unearthly paradise called Pepperland…”
The Beatles’ classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, has been restored in 4K digital resolution for the first time by Paul Rutan Jr. and his team at Triage Motion Picture Services. No automated software was used in the clean-up of the film’s restored photochemical elements. This was a job painstakingly done by hand, a single frame at a time. The absolutely stunning Yellow Submarine restoration premiered last weekend at the SXSW festival and will be coming on Blu-Ray DVD at the end of May with a new 5.1 multi-channel audio soundtrack. Seeing the film unspool on the big screen of Austin’s historic Paramount Theatre was like watching a series of moving stained glass windows.
Directed by George Dunning, and written by Lee Minoff, Al Brodax, Jack Mendelsohn and future best-selling Love Story novelist Erich Segal, Yellow Submarine, based upon the song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, is a basically incomprehensible series of musical vignettes, groan-worthy puns and lysergically-inspired kaleidoscopic eye-candy that sees John, Paul, George and Ringo saving the world from the evil Blue Meanies.
When Yellow Submarine originally premiered in 1968, the film was regarded as an artistic marvel. With its innovative animation techniques, it represented the most technologically advanced animation work since Disney’s masterpiece, Fantasia. Inspired by the Pop Art of Andy Warhol, Peter Max and Peter Blake, art director Heinz Edelmann’s work on Yellow Submarine is now considered among the classics of animated cinema. Yellow Submarine also showcases the creative work of animation directors Robert Balser and Jack Stokes along with a team of the best animators and technical artists that money could hire. The ground-breaking animation styles included 3-D sequences and the highly detailed “rotoscoping” (tracing film frame by frame) of the celebrated “Eleanor Rigby” sequence. The production process took nearly two years and employed 40 animators and 140 technical artists.
I must say, though, as happy as I was to be one of the first people to see the restored Yellow Submarine, I couldn’t help be to think that—with all of its merits—the film is just a little bit boring. If you responded negatively to the news of the (now shelved) Yellow Submarine 3-D remake, consider that not only did the Fab Four have precious little to do with the actual making of the original film (it’s not even their own voices) but that today’s kids—your kids—won’t have the patience to sit through it. Nor will they even understand what’s being said onscreen. Yellow Submarine, I hate to say it, was ripe for a remake. Sacrilege, I know, but it’s not like I’m suggesting that they remake A Hard Day’s Night or anything!
Below, a decidedly low res version of Yellow Submarine in its entirety. This isn’t really the way to watch it, of course…
For just this once I’m going to break my long-standing Beatles veto. I really didn’t think the world needed yet another Beatles blog post, but then this is just so ridiculously adorable it had to go up. Not only that it’s factually accurate! I’m pretty certain not many four-year-olds are aware that Ringo was not the original Beatles drummer:
With thanks to Wallace Wylie!
Imagine that...
(via reddit)
Apparently the Fab Four consisted of John Legend, George Michael, George Lennon and Larry.
(via Nerdcore)
Super Punch is currently holding a bizarre art-mashup contest of the Beatles meets Stanley Kubrick meets Lord of the Rings. There are some pretty humorous entries in the lot. Here’s a taste:
Go visit Super Punch to view more entries and vote.
Here’s a stylish limted edition print by Argentinean-based artist Maxim Dalton. You can order “Ten Great Years” for $55.99 here.
See close-ups of the print after the jump…
A 1964 appearance on I’ve Got A Secret by Pete Best, the hapless fellow unfortunate enough to have left the Beatles just two years before.
Pete Best turns 69 today!
iTunes who?
(via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk)
He says, “I’ve seen the Beatles on television and have heard of few of their songs. It’s not my kind of thing. I prefer classical music.”
Seniors!
