Did anyone else watch The Beatles Marathon on New Year’s Eve? As Mick Jagger says at the end of All You Need Is Cash, the spoof movie about a Beatles-type band called The Rutles [pronounced Ruttles], in answer to the question,

Do you think The Rutles will ever get back together again?

I ‘ope not!

I’ve been a fan since 1964, but had not seen Help! for many years and now I know why: What a mind-numbingly boring movie! The plot is pathetic, the acting is worse. What was Leo McKern thinking?

The music is great, and the staged performances for the musical segments are fine, but doesn’t it go on! A Hard Day’s Night eats it, I think.

The first part of the so-called marathon [2 films doth not a marathon make, I trow] was about the making of the Cirque du Soleil’s LOVE, which is crazy acrobatics with Beatles music remixed, mashed up and made into Twenty First Century fun, courtesy of George Martin’s son, Giles [who sounds exactly like a younger Martin].
This was interesting, though irritating. McCartney, Starr, and Ms Ono and Ms Harrison are so reverential! You’d think The Beatles were perfect and wrote nothing but classics. They wrote a lot of good stuff, but they were pretty arrogant [as revealed so clearly in The Beatles Anthology dvds] and not particularly nice chaps to know, as far as I can see.

I would have purchased the Help! fillum now it is available on dvd, but the showing on Monday night has saved me a few dollars. Definitely surplus to requirements.

Was a few weeks ago now, there was a Beatles documentary on, I was quite surprised at how mean and unkind John Lennon was, just goes to show that when a person dies they don’t just bury the body, but the personality and character as well.

Still, I enjoy there music, with a few exceptions.