A biography of the Beatles must be hard, so many people have strong opinions about them and we all have our favourites and feel as though we know them and Mark met 3? of them IRL. Maybe he fails to acknowledge his own biases. Anyway thanks for looking into those notes. - ThreadSky

kerijford.bsky.social • 63 days ago

A biography of the Beatles must be hard, so many people have strong opinions about them and we all have our favourites and feel as though we know them and Mark met 3? of them IRL. Maybe he fails to acknowledge his own biases. Anyway thanks for looking into those notes.

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mythserene.bsky.social•62 days ago

I do think a Beatles bio would be very difficult, but that's another reason to digitize literally everything we've got. All the relics. All the books. Because we need more biographers, more people to see different things, as we all do. It's the only way to get a more complete picture over time.

mythserene.bsky.social•63 days ago

The bias is better acknowledged, but all is fair if it's true. That's the only yardstick that matters.

kerijford.bsky.social•63 days ago

I have a question, I first came across this critique from a youtube video by Lars Land which referenced your work with Sharon and the podcast Another Kind of Mind by Daphne Mitchell and Phoebe Lorde. All of these sources are women, do you think there is a reason for that?

kerijford.bsky.social•63 days ago

I just wonder if in things like this, women are braver, it does take certain courage. Also it might have got less notice as men are less likely to credit women. It just seemed a strange coincidence.

mythserene.bsky.social•62 days ago

The weird thing is that it went off like a bomb at first, but so much of the immediate attention was from absolute haters that I just went dark. It was too much. I am inching up to going on SATB, if Robert still wants me, but almost immediately papers quit quoting him. (Google alerts let me know.)

mythserene.bsky.social•62 days ago

It went from 3 pages of this to 1 page of reruns. And probably, about the women, but a big part of it is probably because we were never really part of the adoration fan club. For me, I LOVED Tune In, but I am a citation miner. I want the primary sources more than anything. And so I found out.

mythserene.bsky.social•62 days ago

I do want to say that I never would have kept on with it at all after Fine Tuning finished if Sharon hadn't started going through the sources like a machine. She basically forced me into it by doing so much work, and making me laugh. I felt indebted to her and adore her, so I had to try.

kerijford.bsky.social•61 days ago

I have posted on a few forums now, referencing your work and the "Fine Tuning" podcasts. Some forums didn't seem aware of it, there was active discussion on reddit. So it is starting to permeate through the Beatles community. There is both backlash and appreciation of the arguments.

kerijford.bsky.social•63 days ago

I have been reading through your "a-tendency-to-fabricate-history" that's pretty damning what Mark did with John's quotes. Paul's antipathy for Brian comes through very strongly in the bio, but it is based on wildly manipulated quotes, that's not accidental.

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