Paul McCartney said many of his contemporaries used heroin, but he feels grateful that he never did. Throughout the 1960s, many musicians experimented with drugs. The Beatles were no different, writing whole albums inspired by their marijuana and LSD use. McCartney knew people who used heroin, including his own bandmate, but he never tried the drug. Looking back, he said he feels relieved he never used it.
Paul McCartney | Frank Tewkesbury/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Paul McCartney said he learned about heroin through The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones
One of the first people McCartney knew who used heroin was The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones.
“Brian was a nervous guy, very shy, quite serious and maybe into drugs a little more than he should have been, because he used to shake a bit,” McCartney said in The Beatles Anthology. “He was lovely, though. We knew he was on heroin.
Paul McCartney | Frank Tewkesbury/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Paul McCartney said he learned about heroin through The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones
One of the first people McCartney knew who used heroin was The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones.
“Brian was a nervous guy, very shy, quite serious and maybe into drugs a little more than he should have been, because he used to shake a bit,” McCartney said in The Beatles Anthology. “He was lovely, though. We knew he was on heroin.
- 6/12/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In the 1960s, a number of celebrated musicians were arrested by Detective Sergeant Norman Pilcher. He became so notorious in the music world that The Beatles included a jab at him in one of his songs. Here are six musicians who Pilcher arrested.
Victor Kelaher and Norman Pilcher | Roy Illingworth/Mirrorpix/Getty Images Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
In 1967, Pilcher led a team of police officers in a raid on Keith Richards’ home. A party was taking place, and Richards, Mick Jagger, and Marianne Faithfull were all on acid when the police arrived.
“There’s a knock at the door, I look through the window and there’s this whole lot of dwarves outside, but they’re all wearing the same clothes! They were policemen, but I didn’t know it,” Richards wrote in his memoir, Life. “They just looked like very small people wearing dark blue with shiny bits and helmets.
Victor Kelaher and Norman Pilcher | Roy Illingworth/Mirrorpix/Getty Images Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
In 1967, Pilcher led a team of police officers in a raid on Keith Richards’ home. A party was taking place, and Richards, Mick Jagger, and Marianne Faithfull were all on acid when the police arrived.
“There’s a knock at the door, I look through the window and there’s this whole lot of dwarves outside, but they’re all wearing the same clothes! They were policemen, but I didn’t know it,” Richards wrote in his memoir, Life. “They just looked like very small people wearing dark blue with shiny bits and helmets.
- 4/19/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Beatles have many iconic album covers, yet the most intriguing one is the artwork for 1967’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The artwork is a piece of colorful psychedelia that features The Beatles in flamboyant outfits surrounded by cutouts of various historical figures. 56 years ago today, The Beatles shot the album cover that has achieved legendary status.
‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ is The Beatles’ best-selling album ever Vinyl of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | Sspl/Getty Images
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of The Beatles’ most experimental albums. It experimented with surreal lyrics and unique instrumentations. For example, a few songs featured the sitar, like “Within You Without You”, while others, like “A Day in the Life”, utilized orchestras. The album is also distinct because the fab four took on alter egos, pretending to be fictional characters in a band.
Fortunately, the...
‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ is The Beatles’ best-selling album ever Vinyl of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | Sspl/Getty Images
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of The Beatles’ most experimental albums. It experimented with surreal lyrics and unique instrumentations. For example, a few songs featured the sitar, like “Within You Without You”, while others, like “A Day in the Life”, utilized orchestras. The album is also distinct because the fab four took on alter egos, pretending to be fictional characters in a band.
Fortunately, the...
- 3/30/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Paul McCartney calls one of his songs his “nod to comic books being high art.” The former Beatle loved reading comics and thought writing a song about them would be cool. Like other art, he felt comic book art deserved to be in galleries worldwide.
Paul McCartney | Evening Standard/Getty Images Paul McCartney said comic books were real art
In his book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote that he read many comic books around 1975. As far as he was concerned, they were real art. He appreciated the skill – not to mention the perspective and imagination – it took to make the illustrations.
Paul has always thought pop art and comic book art are “near to madness.” He studied John Dryden in school and has always been struck by his lines: “Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
Pop art reached its peak in the 1960s.
Paul McCartney | Evening Standard/Getty Images Paul McCartney said comic books were real art
In his book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote that he read many comic books around 1975. As far as he was concerned, they were real art. He appreciated the skill – not to mention the perspective and imagination – it took to make the illustrations.
Paul has always thought pop art and comic book art are “near to madness.” He studied John Dryden in school and has always been struck by his lines: “Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
Pop art reached its peak in the 1960s.
- 3/19/2023
- by Hannah Wigandt
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In this guest posting, Rob Fraser argues why most brands should not bother with social media.
For most marketers, social media is becoming decidedly antisocial. Looking at the ever-increasing speed and magnitude of so-called “brand fails” on Facebook and Twitter, it can’t be long until senior management starts saying enough is enough.
Social media has proven to be a revolution in communications and has become an essential tool for people to interact with each other. The desire of people to interact with brands or companies or advertising messages via social channels is less proven. Except when given an opportunity to slam them.
Marketers, sold on the (relatively cheap) hot new fad have turned up like the loud, uninvited gatecrasher at a party, who interrupts people chatting to each other and ends up being turned on and turfed out by the other guests.
I think many companies are coming to...
For most marketers, social media is becoming decidedly antisocial. Looking at the ever-increasing speed and magnitude of so-called “brand fails” on Facebook and Twitter, it can’t be long until senior management starts saying enough is enough.
Social media has proven to be a revolution in communications and has become an essential tool for people to interact with each other. The desire of people to interact with brands or companies or advertising messages via social channels is less proven. Except when given an opportunity to slam them.
Marketers, sold on the (relatively cheap) hot new fad have turned up like the loud, uninvited gatecrasher at a party, who interrupts people chatting to each other and ends up being turned on and turfed out by the other guests.
I think many companies are coming to...
- 8/16/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
A campaign for a Sydney dentists uses milk bottles, bowling pins and a clothing line to promote its cosmetic and implant dentistry services.
The campaign is running out-of-home on the corner of Victoria and Roberts Roads in Balmain, and print in the Inner West Courier as well as online.
It was created by Big River Creative. David Cozens, the agency’s creative director, said: “The campaign is designed to highlight the benefits of cosmetic and implant dentistry while avoiding the clichéd shots of happy people with gleaming white teeth, which is used extensively in the category.”
Credits:
Client: Balmain Dental Clinic, Dr. Saade Saade
Agency: Big River Creative
Creative Director: David Cozens
Business Director: Rob Fraser...
The campaign is running out-of-home on the corner of Victoria and Roberts Roads in Balmain, and print in the Inner West Courier as well as online.
It was created by Big River Creative. David Cozens, the agency’s creative director, said: “The campaign is designed to highlight the benefits of cosmetic and implant dentistry while avoiding the clichéd shots of happy people with gleaming white teeth, which is used extensively in the category.”
Credits:
Client: Balmain Dental Clinic, Dr. Saade Saade
Agency: Big River Creative
Creative Director: David Cozens
Business Director: Rob Fraser...
- 3/7/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
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