Dan Rivkin
@rivkin.bsky.social
Half of what I say is meaningless. But I say it just to reach you. Also here, there and everywhere @theymaybeparted
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I absolutely loved writing and researching this a couple years ago, and it really lifted the veil on the many Beatle moods and motivations in the lead-up to the Get Back period.
Start here, with the entry on 57 years ago today, December 9, 1968: theymaybeparted.com/december-9-1...
Start here, with the entry on 57 years ago today, December 9, 1968: theymaybeparted.com/december-9-1...
December 9, 1968: Countdown to the Get Back sessions
24 days until the start of the Get Back sessions: Setting the scene This was a really good time to be a Beatles fan. Pick up any of the big music papers, and you could read about the tantalizing pr…
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December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I absolutely loved writing and researching this a couple years ago, and it really lifted the veil on the many Beatle moods and motivations in the lead-up to the Get Back period.
Start here, with the entry on 57 years ago today, December 9, 1968: theymaybeparted.com/december-9-1...
Start here, with the entry on 57 years ago today, December 9, 1968: theymaybeparted.com/december-9-1...
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🗓️The annual Get Back Advent Calendar is back! It's Dec. 9, precisely 25 days (today included), til Jan 2. Every day I'll count down to the Beatles' 1st day at Twickenham, deep diving into what the Fabs did every day leading up to the Get Back/Let It Be sessions. theymaybeparted.com/2023/12/09/g...
Get Back advent calendar: Countdown to the sessions
The Beatles, as depicted by John Lennon in November 1968, as published in the December 7, 1968, issue of New Music Express. In my faith, we count down the 25 days to the start of the Get Back/Let …
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December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🗓️The annual Get Back Advent Calendar is back! It's Dec. 9, precisely 25 days (today included), til Jan 2. Every day I'll count down to the Beatles' 1st day at Twickenham, deep diving into what the Fabs did every day leading up to the Get Back/Let It Be sessions. theymaybeparted.com/2023/12/09/g...
Marking this one down as fab,
I poured a lot into writing this one, and am very happy how it turned out.
I poured a lot into writing this one, and am very happy how it turned out.
Good morning early risers, and good evening fellow night owls. Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Beatles’ landmark 1965 concert at Shea Stadium, and I researched and wrote the hell out out it for MLB.com. An assignment I couldn’t refuse (and gave to myself). Enjoy!
www.mlb.com/news/feature...
www.mlb.com/news/feature...
History of the Beatles' 1965 concert at Shea Stadium
The Official Site of Major League Baseball
www.mlb.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Marking this one down as fab,
I poured a lot into writing this one, and am very happy how it turned out.
I poured a lot into writing this one, and am very happy how it turned out.
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He's the greatest, and you better believe it, baby! To celebrate Ringo’s 85th, here's my annual birthday card - delivered with peace & love - looking at his life as it straddled 1968 & '69 and the profound effect the period had on his life since ✌🏽💜🥁🎂🥦 theymaybeparted.com/2017/07/07/t...
TMBP Extra: Oh what joy
With birthday posts previously produced for Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison, it’s about time we righted a wrong, and completed the set with the man born as Richard Starkey. Like the…
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July 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
He's the greatest, and you better believe it, baby! To celebrate Ringo’s 85th, here's my annual birthday card - delivered with peace & love - looking at his life as it straddled 1968 & '69 and the profound effect the period had on his life since ✌🏽💜🥁🎂🥦 theymaybeparted.com/2017/07/07/t...
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Appropriate for today. From the entry of the outstanding Liverpool Beatles Museum.
July 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Appropriate for today. From the entry of the outstanding Liverpool Beatles Museum.
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Happy birthday, Paul McCartney! We are truly blessed to live in the same timeline as this man. Throw on anything from the *seven decades* he's been recording, and celebrate through his song! 🎂
June 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Happy birthday, Paul McCartney! We are truly blessed to live in the same timeline as this man. Throw on anything from the *seven decades* he's been recording, and celebrate through his song! 🎂
At last, a new post. A long read for a long weekend, on last year’s trip to England 🇬🇧
NEW POST!! TMBP Extra: You are here. Finding meaning in the people and things that went before - and are here today - on a pilgrimage to the Beatles’ England. theymaybeparted.com/2025/05/23/t...
TMBP Extra: You are here
Gazing at 20 Manchester Square in London, I squinted trying to visualize the Beatles hanging over the stairwell, flashing their grins. They did it in 1963. They did it again in 1969. What a backdro…
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May 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
At last, a new post. A long read for a long weekend, on last year’s trip to England 🇬🇧
Bluesky exclusive post: I like Israel, Sweden and Estonia. #eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Bluesky exclusive post: I like Israel, Sweden and Estonia. #eurovision
Crossed the @brimleyline.bsky.social earlier today. I’m an old man now 👴
March 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Crossed the @brimleyline.bsky.social earlier today. I’m an old man now 👴
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HAPPY OPENING DAY! Let's indulge in the two very best things: The Beatles and baseball. There are more connections than you may think! From a piece I wrote a couple years back for MLB.com (my day job) www.mlb.com/news/top-bea... #LFGM ⚾🎸🎸🎸🥁
All you need is glove: The Beatles and baseball
During their first extensive tour of the United States in late summer 1964, while hosting a press conference before playing at Municipal Stadium – the home of the Kansas City A’s -- the Beatles were a...
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March 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
HAPPY OPENING DAY! Let's indulge in the two very best things: The Beatles and baseball. There are more connections than you may think! From a piece I wrote a couple years back for MLB.com (my day job) www.mlb.com/news/top-bea... #LFGM ⚾🎸🎸🎸🥁
Saw the moon, I hope the moon saw me 🩸🌕
March 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Saw the moon, I hope the moon saw me 🩸🌕
Got to be in both of these today. What a time to be alive!
February 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Got to be in both of these today. What a time to be alive!
America the Beautiful sucks but that was a *great* rendition.
February 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
America the Beautiful sucks but that was a *great* rendition.
Annual Super Bowl Sunday rewatch. I swear to you it somehow gets better every year. 💜🏈☔️
February 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Annual Super Bowl Sunday rewatch. I swear to you it somehow gets better every year. 💜🏈☔️
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Happy Super Bowl Sunday to those who celebrate! 🏈
February 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Happy Super Bowl Sunday to those who celebrate! 🏈
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The Beatles didn’t need a roof to be on top. But there they were Jan. 30, 1969 - 56 years ago today - playing without a gimmick atop 3 Savile Row, a venue needing no fabrication, ending a film and adding an iconic image to their legacy. Happy Rooftop Day, everybody! Context now, rewatch notes later
January 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The Beatles didn’t need a roof to be on top. But there they were Jan. 30, 1969 - 56 years ago today - playing without a gimmick atop 3 Savile Row, a venue needing no fabrication, ending a film and adding an iconic image to their legacy. Happy Rooftop Day, everybody! Context now, rewatch notes later
It’s just the normal noises in here
January 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
It’s just the normal noises in here
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It's January 24, Jools Holland's birthday, and as a lifelong Squeeze superfan, I’m happy to excuse to tie together a Jools-Beatles thread, starting w/something Get Back-related, a 2005 interview w/Billy Preston (who performs, too). Some Beatles talk 🎂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=US0Z...
Jools Holland interviews Billy Preston
YouTube video by Cool Britannia
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January 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It's January 24, Jools Holland's birthday, and as a lifelong Squeeze superfan, I’m happy to excuse to tie together a Jools-Beatles thread, starting w/something Get Back-related, a 2005 interview w/Billy Preston (who performs, too). Some Beatles talk 🎂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=US0Z...
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One of my most favorite moments in all of Get Back and something you'd never know only listening to the tapes (as rewarding an experience that is, especially in other ways), is when Ringo hangs up his kid's drawing by his drums. Bravo to Michael Lindsay-Hogg for capturing this. Deeply humanizing
January 23, 2025 at 5:23 AM
One of my most favorite moments in all of Get Back and something you'd never know only listening to the tapes (as rewarding an experience that is, especially in other ways), is when Ringo hangs up his kid's drawing by his drums. Bravo to Michael Lindsay-Hogg for capturing this. Deeply humanizing
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Here's George Harrison describing the situation in Anthology #chaos #toiletradio 🚽📻
January 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Here's George Harrison describing the situation in Anthology #chaos #toiletradio 🚽📻
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RIP David Lynch (1946-
You know about death, that it's just a change—
not an end.
Never, never! Nothing will die.
The stream flows, the wind blows,
the cloud fleets, the heart beats.
Nothing will die.
You know about death, that it's just a change—
not an end.
Never, never! Nothing will die.
The stream flows, the wind blows,
the cloud fleets, the heart beats.
Nothing will die.
January 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
RIP David Lynch (1946-
You know about death, that it's just a change—
not an end.
Never, never! Nothing will die.
The stream flows, the wind blows,
the cloud fleets, the heart beats.
Nothing will die.
You know about death, that it's just a change—
not an end.
Never, never! Nothing will die.
The stream flows, the wind blows,
the cloud fleets, the heart beats.
Nothing will die.
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I wrote more than 20,000 words about January 13, 1969. Franz Kafka wrote about the same number of words in The Metamorphosis — mostly about a bug, but not a single one about a Beatle or a bugged conversation 🐞
January 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I wrote more than 20,000 words about January 13, 1969. Franz Kafka wrote about the same number of words in The Metamorphosis — mostly about a bug, but not a single one about a Beatle or a bugged conversation 🐞
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(And then) there were two Beatles at Twickenham 56 years ago today - January 13, 1969 - until there were three not much later. It's critically important and fascinating day in Get Back sessions - and Beatles - history. Read on, and the non-thread starts here.
theymaybeparted.com/2024/01/13/t...
theymaybeparted.com/2024/01/13/t...
TMBP Extra: Jan. 13, 1969 recap
The Beatles’ January 13, 1969, happened in history and it was portrayed in the 2021 docuseries Get Back, and the two aren’t necessarily the same.The canteen discussion stands at the cor…
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January 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
(And then) there were two Beatles at Twickenham 56 years ago today - January 13, 1969 - until there were three not much later. It's critically important and fascinating day in Get Back sessions - and Beatles - history. Read on, and the non-thread starts here.
theymaybeparted.com/2024/01/13/t...
theymaybeparted.com/2024/01/13/t...
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No more than a day simply existing on the calendar in the Get Back docuseries, we actually know enough details of the Beatles' January 11, 1969, to paint a rough picture of the day, even if no tapes were rolling. We start at George's breakfast: theymaybeparted.com/2021/04/20/j...
Jan. 11: How he was diverted
Daylight is good at arriving at the right time, but January 11, 1969, was always going to be that gray. London was rainy that Saturday morning, a desperately needed day off for the Beatles, who fin…
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January 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
No more than a day simply existing on the calendar in the Get Back docuseries, we actually know enough details of the Beatles' January 11, 1969, to paint a rough picture of the day, even if no tapes were rolling. We start at George's breakfast: theymaybeparted.com/2021/04/20/j...