Pepper's was first concieved by Paul and was intended to be a tribute to their heroes. As most modern novels come from Ulysses, most modern pop music comes from the Sgt. And this album revolutionized music in a way that none other ever did.

Rubber Soul had been great, but we were looking for revolution. It was truly a visionary breakthrough in pop music. So much happened in 1967, but this was one of the big things. On the other hand, just looking at the cover gave you a very good view of how the group had grown from what they were. However, aside from the quasi-military/band uniforms, the opening theme song and its reprise near the end, and Ringo's take as 'the one and only Billy Shears' in With a Little Help from My Friends, these alter egos really didn't mean a whole lot to the overall effort. Why don't we just make up some incredible alter egos and think, 'Now how would he sing it? How would he approach this track?' And it freed us. Every time I approach a ballad, it's gotta be like Paul would. Every time you approach a song, John, you gotta sing it like John would. 'It was my idea to say to the guys, 'Hey, how about disguising ourselves and getting an alter ego, because we're the Beatles and we're fed up. Returning to the memory of Selma, it was as if even the tumblers were a reminder of the greater beauty that is ours when we respect and enjoy all the colours of life’s grand picture.'Pepper was probably the one Beatle album I can say was my idea,' McCartney told an interviewer. I was so impressed with what my camera saw, I had to title that shot, “The Eye of the Rainbow.” I followed up a long shot of the tumblers with a close-up looking down into one of the tumblers from its rim. Obviously, my cell phone camera took an interest in them, too, as in the accompanying photos. Sure enough, the Taiwan-made set glowed with glorious colours, especially when the sun shone on them against the black surface on which they sat. Well, Mary Anna, who delights in serendipitous beauty, suggested I take a look at a display of iridescent acrylic tumblers that caught her eye. Kelly Joyner’s shop, located in Cochrane’s historic Old Town, features not only every variety of bulk tea you could ever hope for, but delightful gift items, from knick-knacks, tea pots and tea cups, to some very eye-catching glasses and pitcher sets, perfect for those memorable warm summer days on the patio. This particular memory segues quite nicely, I think, to a truly beautiful moment in colour diversity Mary Anna and I experienced the other day at Tea & Other Things. The film must rank among the ten most important I’ve ever seen – deeply moving in its depiction of justice-for-all triumphing over the discrimination of those days that failed to see the beauty in colour diversity. “Selma,” based on the Martin Luther King, Jr.-led death-defying march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, is set amidst the Selma Voting Rights Movement. Yes! Skipping ahead a few years to 1965 – in fact, 50 years ago next month – my wife Mary Anna and I recently viewed a cinematic commemoration of a turning point in American civil rights: this year’s Oscar-nominated film, “Selma.” (To check out Bob Hope and Shirley Ross’s original 1938 on-screen duet of what was to become Bob Hope’s theme song, go to YouTube.) “As Bob Hope used to say, ‘Thanks for the memory’!” “Oh my goodness, I feel so young!” she concluded. Then Colleen reminisced over the vocalists of that day, folks like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. “I also remember rushing home from school to listen to ‘Wild Bill Hickok’ and ‘The Lone Ranger’! My mother, quite naturally, listened to ‘Stella Dallas.’ That would have been 1952/53.” “On yo huskies! I loved that show,” she wrote. Here’s a response I received from Edmonton coffee companion, Colleen Chapman: Ah, such memories.Īnd it’s not just a “guy” thing, either. There they were, most in almost new condition, archivally protected – two sets, 29 in each: “Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted,” and the “Yukon King” series, also inspired by novelist of the Old West, Zane Grey.

He thought I’d like to see his treasured collection of comic-book memorabilia from the Sergeant Preston and Yukon King era. Within days of that column’s appearance, I was about to leave the A&W when Richard pulled me aside. One was from George’s A&W coffee companion, Old West aficionado Richard Benedictson, two-time winner of the title, 2nd, Top Gun in the World, at the Wild Bill Hickok Fast Draw Championship. Last week’s memory-lane column on George Rogers and the North-West Mounted Police, with allusions to that old-time radio program about Sergeant Preston of the NWMP and his wonder-dog Yukon King, sure drew some great responses.

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