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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · Apr 18

🔥 SO WHERE IS GEORGE MARTIN'S TIE NOW?!🔥

Our long-term associate Solo Travel Expert @mikeprowsestp.bsky.social has been ON THE CASE.

Perfect Bank Holiday listening for the Beatle fan who KNOWS George Harrison owned a microscope.

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MIKE PROWSE SPECIAL: I DON'T LIKE YOUR TIE

During a crucial session in June 1962 George Harrison made a joke about George Martin's tie. It gave the EMI man a hint of the cheekily approachable sass which would beguile the world. And now - Marc

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 1d

New comic: "Super-smile beat combo" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

And a little nod to @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social

Super-smile beat combo - Bad Machinery

Have you ever seen the Beatles’ pop video for Help? It seemingly precedes all other pop videos by such a distance, and is so effortlessly good, that it’s very difficult to understand why they weren’t ...

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 1d

LOVE it!!!

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 2d

It's John Lennon's birthday. Here he is with The Beatles trying to get the opening of one of his songs right.

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 2d

Loving this ep. So glad you guys are back!

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 3d

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It was a bright cold day in June and the EMI clock was striking thirteen.
George Harrison, chin nuzzled into his breast, whipped by a vile wind, slipped through the glass doors of Victory Studios. The reception smelt of boiled cabbage and magnetic tape.
Enormous at the end of the foyer was a poster. It bore that thin, handsome face, hair slicked back, the eyes seemingly following you around the room. And the familiar words:
EMI IS WATCHING YOU.
On the telescreen, a prim young woman recited the latest record production figures. Harrison’s job was oiling the versificators, ensuring that the steady flow of automatically generated, unremarkable sentimental songs continued through the telescreens. He noticed McCartney in the line for the stairway. They had both attended the same indoctrination centre. Once, Harrison had heard him singing on the stairway. A great, catchy, sweeping melody about a girl. Dangerous. McCartney caught his eye cautiously. They quickly looked away.
From the telescreens, a great voice boomed:
TIES ARE PEACE.
OPEN COLLARS ARE SLAVERY
SARTORIAL UNITY IS STRENGTH
A cough behind him and George gasped to find himself face to face with Martin. His eyeline filled with a horse-patterned half Windsor, tightly knotted. “Harrison,” Martin said, speaking with a mild, almost regretful irony, “I’m aware that yesterday I gave you some very clear instructions on the maintenance of these versficators. I need your report.. Is there anything you’re not happy with?”
At sight of that face, so intelligent, his heart seemed to turn over. He almost stretched out a hand and laid it on Martin's arm. The old feeling, that at bottom it did not matter whether Martin was a friend or an enemy, had come back. Martin was a person who could be talked to.
In some sense that went deeper than friendship, they were intimates: somewhere or other, although the actual words might never be spoken, there was a place where they could meet and talk. O'Brien was looking down at him with a…

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 3d

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 3d

PG Wodehouse might have listened to Dark Side Of The Moon.

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 10d

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NORMAN SMITH: At the end of it all George Martin said to them ‘You’ve heard a lot from me. Is there anything you’re not happy with?’ After a pause George Harrison piped up. ‘Yes. I’m the youngest of four children which, while that’s meant I get the perks of being the ‘baby’ of the family, also means often feel ignored or side-lined.’
The other lads looked at each other, a little confused perhaps, but George Martin said ‘Go on?’
‘My sister moved abroad a few years back’ continued Harrison. ‘I wouldn’t say we were particularly close, but the sudden absence of a sibling during a crucial developmental period…that’s got to have an effect surely?’
By now Harrison was leaning back in his chair, reclining almost. George Martin had started taking notes on his studio notepad.
‘And what about your professional life?’ he asked.
‘That can be a challenge too’ said Harrison. ‘I got deported during our engagement in Germany a while ago and had to come back home by myself.’
‘So perhaps you felt…separated from your bandmates?’
‘Yes, but it’s not just that. When we were solely a gigging band, I was one of three frontmen. Now the emphasis is shifting to songwriting, I’m starting to feel shut out.’ George Martin was nodding now.
“Anything else coming to the surface?”
‘Yes’ Harrison said ‘I don’t like your tie.’

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Nemo @nemonihil1664.bsky.social · 10d

Wow! @marklewisohn.bsky.social and Obadiah Jones together on this week's episode of @gimmesometruthpod.bsky.social !
The two leading Beatles researchers in the world!
#Beatles

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 12d

Season 7 is officially GO.

First things first: George Harrison and John Lennon went on David Frost's show in 1967 to talk about their newfound practice of transcendental meditation, then came back next week and debated it with academics.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 11d

My new novel, The Heist Of Hollow London, is published TODAY. The hardback may not be out in the UK yet - it's listed for the end of October here - but the ebook is certainly available now. Here are some links but please feel free to buy wherever you can find it: amzn.to/3IOGJRw

The Heist of Hollow London

The Heist of Hollow London eBook : Robson, Eddie: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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TEATLES @teatles.bsky.social · 12d

Back when Twitter was just about bearable I sent out a hopeful
Tweet asking for Lovely Beatles Moments.

Not songs or albums - just shards of Beatleness that make people happy.

I turned the responses into a little zine.

Here it is. Hope you like it.

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 14d

NEW FROM OUR COLLEAGUE MIKE PROWSE!
In which he investigates THE WORST GUIDEBOOK IN THE WORLD: "How are things at walk? My lovely Lake District."

MIKE PROWSE @mikeprowsestp.bsky.social · 14d

NEW PODCAST!

I've been investigating THE WORST GUIDEBOOK IN THE WORLD.

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EP 22 MY LOVELY LAKE DISTRICT

In this episode, I investigate the worst guide book in the world. It's the Holy Grail of travel podcasts, and in a sense, the Gareth Bale of it as well - in that it underperformed internationally.

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 19d

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THE BEATLES REANIMATED COLLAB — PENNY LANE

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 23d

That's what I think will happen.

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 24d

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GEORGE MARTIN: It was a great honour of course to be asked to host a segment of 2002’s Party At The Palace for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. The organisers had booked a really first-rate line-up of acts, starting with Brian May playing his guitar up on the roof of the palace, an image I think no-one who saw it will ever forget! When it was time for me to make my appearance on stage, the ASM came up to me in the wings and said ‘Sir George…I don’t like your tie.’ Now, a lot of people have made this joke to me over the years, an awful lot of people in fact, but one tries to be tolerant so I smiled and did a little laugh. I turned to walk on stage but the fellow grabbed my arm and said it again. ‘I don’t like your tie.’ By this point I’d had just about enough of this, and ‘Handbags and Gladrags’ was finishing so I shrugged him off and strode out onto the stage. Only later did I learn that the fine-striped tie I’d chosen for the occasion strobed terribly on camera and the poor fellow had just been trying to warn me. Apparently the BBC received over eight hundred complaints about it, and two viewers reported that they’d been physically sick. I felt so bad for that poor ASM – I made enquiries and found out his name was Ben. In my next score, which turned out in fact to be my last, the string arrangement of While My Guitar Gently Weeps for the ‘Love’ show, I put in a little ostinato figure for the ‘cello, about two and a half minutes in. It’s Morse code, spelling out ‘S-O-R-R-Y-B-E-N’. I hope that made amends in some small way.

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 24d

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 25d

I wrote something for Rapper’s Delight’s 45th anniversary but got distracted and didn’t publish it until a few months back, so here it is again if you missed it… rentparty.substack.com/p/chapter-24...

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 26d

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 26d

I know exactly which bit you mean. He's phenomenal.

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I am the EggPod @eggpod.bsky.social · 26d

New Beatles info!

Why Don’t we do it in the Road?, which was recorded on 9 October 1968, also makes a brief appearance on another White Album song recorded more than four months earlier.

Have a listen to this isolated backing track from 20/31 May 1968:

(From the fade out of Revolution 1 take 18)

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · Jul 30

Copies of the book are once again available in Dig Vinyl on Liverpool's Bold Street, as of about an hour ago...

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 29d

This looks right up my street and I am going to buy it when I get paid...

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · Sep 11

Mind-blowing levels of research there. Love it.

I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is a great read - highly recommended.

Jonathan Knott @jonathanknott.bsky.social · Sep 11

John Lennon's father had an eventful war in the merchant navy – but it’s been hard to know how much of his extraordinary tales to believe. Based on ships’ records, I’ve now pieced together the full story of how Alf jumped ship in New York, was imprisoned in Algeria and then hospitalised in Italy:

Desertion, theft and a stay in hospital: Alf Lennon’s eventful war

Newly-discovered ships' records reveal how John Lennon’s father jumped ship in New York and was imprisoned in Algeria for stealing cargo, before being hospitalised in Italy with venereal disease.

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