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Beatles cover of the day #38. From 2011, in Brazil, Zé Ramalho...

Beatles cover of the day #37. From 1974, Jeff Beck...

Beatles cover of the day #36. From 1964, with Jimmy Page on guitar, the first single from Joe Cocker...

Beatles cover of the day #35. From 1967, Lulu...

Beatles cover of the day #34. From 1965, Marianne Faithfull…

Beatles cover of the day #33. From 1973, Bryan Ferry...

Beatles cover of the day #32. From 2004, Larry Coryell...

The Trump-Vance Oval Office tantrum explained. God damn.

Beatles cover of the day #31. From 1981, with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Gary U.S. Bonds...

Newton's Third Law of Motion on display in London.

Beatles cover of the day #30. From 1978, the Flamin' Groovies...

Beatles cover #29. From 1965, The Beach Boys…

Beatles cover of the day #28. From 1967, Vanilla Fudge...

Beatles cover of the day #27. From 1969, Chubby Checker...

Beatles cover of the day #26 (and yes this one got recorded before the Beatles). Brian Jones would have been 83 today. Here he is in 1963, on slide guitar and backing vocals, with the Rolling Stones...

Trump is too much of a coward to say a bad thing to Putin, yet he dares lecture Zelensky? Russia is on the verge of collapse and Trump/Vance are desperate to save them

Don’t buy today. Give the greedheads a taste of their own medicine.

Beatles cover of the day #25. From 2010 in Los Angeles, St. Vincent...

1930-2025

Beatles cover of the day #24. On what would have been his 95th birthday, here from 2002 is Johnny Cash...

London bus stop poster, displayed at Pollard Row in Bethnal Green.

Beatles cover of the day #23. Today would have been George Harrison's 82nd birthday. Here from 2002 (with me in the audience) is Bob Dylan..

Beatles cover of the day #22. From 2012, Roberta Flack... (Feb. 10, 1937 - Feb. 24, 2025)

Beatles cover of the day #21. Von 1970, das ist Mary Roos...

Beatles cover of the day #20. From 1983, when it reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart, Siouxie and the Banshees...

Beatles cover of the day #19. From 1980, The Feelies...

Saw Conclave last night. Wow. As the Guardian reviewer said: "You may think that being locked in a room with a bunch of pompous elderly men deviously attempting to shaft each other wouldn’t be a lot of fun. But trust me on this: Conclave is a blast."

Somehow I overlooked the film "Everything is Illuminated" when it was released in 2005. As best I can tell, everyone did. But I found it last night, and am glad. As this youtube review suggests, I encourage you to check it out too.

Beatles cover of the day #18, from a 1965 British TV special "The Music of Lennon & McCartney". Here's Dick Rivers (or as John says in his introduction with Paul, "Deek Reevairs") singing "Things We Said Today" - en français.

Beatles cover of the day #17. From 1980, The Jam...

"A band is only as good as its drummer." Amen and RIP.

Beatles cover of the day #16. From 1966, Nancy Sinatra, backed by members of the Wrecking Crew...

Mordechai thought he was killing Palestinians in Miami Beach. His Israeli victims thought they were being targeted in an antisemitic attack. What Gandhi said about an eye for an eye...

On this night in 1979, I saw the Clash play their first NYC show, at the Palladium. They opened their set with…

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

It's a rare thing for me to agree with the National Review. But today I (mostly) do.

Beatles cover of the day #15. Following Paul's show-closer performance at SNL's 50th anniversary show last night, here's Booker T. & the M.G.'s...

Beatles cover of the day #14. From 1999, The Church...

Beatles cover of the day #13. From 1970, Spooky Tooth's one-album-only line-up that includes three members of Joe Cocker's Grease band, doing what Joe & co did to to "A Little Help from My Friends" in this epic take on "I am the Walrus"...

Beatles cover of the day #12. As Paul is playing a third "and final" Bowery Ballroom show tonight, here's his encore staple, as done by Wilson Pickett with Duane Allman. Recorded in Muscle Shoals in November 1968...

Potential plot twist.

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Beatles cover of the day #11. The day after Paul's two Bowery Ballroom shows, this seem apt. Of the 1,000's of covers of "Yesterday", he's called this one his favorite.

This craven bullshit has me thinking it might be time to DuckDuckGo...

Beatles cover of the day #10. On this date in 1964, The Beatles had their first NYC concerts, two shows at Carnegie Hall. Commemorating that event from the same stage in 2011, here is Sting with a backing band including James Taylor and Steve Martin....

WalletHub just released its annual report on the most educated and east educated states in the USA. Compare it with the 2024 electoral college map. What a surprise he wants to destroy the Department of Education. It takes ignorance to breed MAGAts.

Beatles cover of the day #9. With Paul McCartney playing the Bowery Ballroom tonight, this seems right. From 2011,. Blondie....

Beatles cover of the day #8. From 1976, The Damned...

"The Sweet Relief Musicians Fund has now set up the David Johansen Fund to assist with the rock singer's mounting medical expenses, including physical therapy, round-the-clock care, and daily living costs."