In 1966 The Beatles arrived in Tokyo at the Nippon Budokan on their very first tour to Japan. Subarashii!!! Group Sounds is the exclusively Japanese music genre that was created in the wake of The Beatles’ first appearance in Tokyo. The Tigers were the seminal Group Sounds band who transformed, or watered-down, The Beatles’ sound [...]
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Tagged: 1966, 1967, Group Sounds, lasting impression, The Beatles, The Tigers, tour
Categories: 1977,The Beatles,art,music
Tagged: 1977, graphic design, The Beatles, Yokoo Tadanori
I Should Have Known Better from Nat Andreini on Vimeo.
Categories: Inner Beatle,The Beatles,music,things i like
The first time I heard The Beatles was in the living room of my friend’s house in San Mateo, CA, in 1983. I was in the 3rd grade and had made an unlikely friendship with a kid who had no other friends. He was a little different. I’ll just say that he was the only [...]
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Tagged: LP, memories, personal history, reel-to-reel, The Beatles, turntable, White Album