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Beatles Archive @beatlesarchive.bsky.social · 10h

John Lennon, Hamburg, 1960, The #Beatles
📷Astrid Kirchherr
Remembering #JohnLennon

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Jillian Reilly @jillianreilly.bsky.social · 7h

"We'd like to wish you all what you would wish yourself"
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George Harrison 'It's Johnny's Birthday' (Official Video)

YouTube video by George Harrison

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 6d

Happy birthday to PP Arnold. Here's her amazing version of To Love Somebody filmed in France in 1968

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 6d

Who wants to read a piece from a book buyer on their decision-making process?

fisherthebookseller.substack.com/p/who-decide...

Who decides what goes on bookstore shelves?

Well, at the indie bookshop where I work, it's me.

fisherthebookseller.substack.com

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 7d

'I hung it on me wall.'

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 7d

George's 'what a nice fella.' is one I say a lot from that episode.

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 9d

Can we just appreciate the majesty and the hilarity of these screams altogether! Magic.

Jillian Reilly @jillianreilly.bsky.social · 9d

This is great. I'm pretty sure I said every scream John does into a solo at the time. Which has reminded me of this video. Disturbing or magic? You decide!
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Beatles Medley of Screams

YouTube video by XKE

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 9d

Threads like this are the real reason social media was invented. 💕

TEATLES @teatles.bsky.social · 10d

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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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 9d

God, those screams are great. I think my favourite one is the Money one.

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 9d

I remember watching this in Modern Studies back in the day. Heartbreaking and Terrifying.

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 10d

When the Wind Blows: An Animated Tale of Nuclear Apocalypse With Music by Roger Waters & David Bowie (1986)

Humanity has few fascinations as enduring as that with apocalypse. We've been telling ourselves stories of civilization's destruction as long as we've had civilization to destroy.

www.openculture.com

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The Beatles Films Podcast @beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social · 10d

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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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 13d

This is it! Yer a star!!!

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 13d

Oh lordy! I can't remember! It might have been a Bookseller article last year, but it stuck with me! Sorry!

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 13d

It's my monthly BfS column! 👇👇👇
Special mentions for Black and White Publishing, Tor books, @scotstreetpress.bsky.social & @manchesterup.bsky.social!

BooksfromScotland.com @booksfromscotland.bsky.social · 13d

Our monthly column in @scotsman.com is now live on their website. Here are our Insider's Choices for October!

The column will also appear in the Scotland on Sunday this weekend if you want to #buyapaper

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Insider's Choice: New Scottish Books to look out for in October

Vikki Reilly of Publishing Scotland highlights some notable new releases for the month ahead

www.scotsman.com

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 13d

Oh, they can be. But not always! 🙂

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 13d

Depends on price point, print run, production costs...

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 13d

This is a really great piece about the reality of indie publishing. I read somewhere recently that if pbks followed inflation they should be selling for £20 a copy. But they are not, and it's the indies taking the margin hit.

Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social · 14d

An article on the pressures on publishing, rising costs, what can be done about it - and how readers can also help.

open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/w...

(This ran in the Society of Authors quarterly, The Author, earlier this year. They've kindly given me permission to reproduce it on my Substack.)

What does it cost to produce a book?

Why small presses in the UK are struggling - and what can be done about it.

open.substack.com

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 16d

Honestly, everyone should get to hang out with indie booksellers in a hotel in the middle of nowhere at least on weekend of their lives. They are the best of folk doing the best job! Thanks @gardnersbooks.bsky.social! Thanks Bookseller's Association!

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 18d

Ready for the booksellers to descend at the @gardnersbooks.bsky.social Trade Fair! Come one come all to the @publishingscotland.bsky.social stand in the London Room!

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Harrison Archive @harrisonarchive.bsky.social · 18d

“George Harrison showed up in 1968 as a surprise guest to offer moral support. ‘Whether you can say it or not,’ Harrison urged them on the air, ‘keep trying to say it.’” - Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” (2009)

More at www.instagram.com/reel/DO1Pntm...

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 18d

That looks like the day they posed for the four headed monster picture in my bio!

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 18d

Mornin'. 😊

Jillian Reilly @jillianreilly.bsky.social · 18d

There's this too
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My Sweet Lord

YouTube video by Edwin Starr - Topic

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D. V. Bishop's CARNIVAL OF LIES out now @dvbishop.com · 19d

Lovely to see Elaine Sinclair from Daydreams Bookshop celebrated as a bookshop hero in @thebookseller.com

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BooksfromScotland.com @booksfromscotland.bsky.social · 20d

What are your plans for the weekend? Why not travel round ancient Britain and Ireland with Peter Ross? But first head over to BfS for David Robinson's review!

booksfromscotland.com/2025/09/davi...

David Robinson Reviews: Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross - Books from Scotland

'Ross is always lucid, almost reverent, about the whole process of archaeological discovery.'

booksfromscotland.com

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Nemo @nemonihil1664.bsky.social · 20d

Beatles fan? Want to hear about new research from brilliant Beatles historian Obadiah Jones? You're in luck! 5 seasons his excellent podcast are available now covering everything from the Hard Day's Night chord to Greece '67, the 10,000 hours myth to the Sgt. Pepper medals. Enjoy!

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