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February 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Altered-Ego

My swimming coach called me by a different name for something close to two years. It was hard to correct him from the pool – so I never did. I just demonstrated the strokes as best I could when he asked ‘me’ to. “Everybody watch John”, he’d say. And the kids in the pool would […]
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November 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: The Bootleg Beatles (November 14, Wellington)

The Bootleg Beatles Opera House, Wellington Thursday, November 14 I’ve seen The Bootleg Beatles before – so they’re not the only repeat-offenders. They were very good. And I’m not (often) a fan of tribute acts. But a) it’s The Beatles. And b) this is a very good-natured, well-meaning, deftly executed tribute show. It’s about celebrating […]
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November 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Re-Righting The White Album: Choose Your Own Tracklisting

When Steve Gunn was in town last week I recorded a conversation with him for a future episode of Sweetman Podcast. You’ll get to hear that soon and it was a lovely chat. By the end of it we were geeking out over The Beatles and many other things to do with music. And then […]
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February 19, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Beatles Theory

A lot of people seem to think that Paul McCartney and John Lennon hated each other – were competitive, and the band broke up, and that Yoko was a pesky nuisance as well.  The Yoko thing? That’s mostly racism. And sexism too. Paul and John are on the record as having had a bit of […]
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October 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 490

John Lennon, Watching The Wheels [Single] (1981) The best solo song by John Lennon – well, up there anyway, my personal favourite. A song I’ve always loved, one I link to trying to process his death at a very young age, at knowing that it meant something, one I link to understanding him as something […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1981, Double Fantasy, Double Single, EP, John, John Lennon, Lennon, LP, Mr. Holland's Opus, Ono, Single, Split Single, The Vinyl Countdown # 490, Vinyl, Watching The Wheels, Yes I'm Your Angel, Yoko, Yoko Ono ·

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August 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 175 Epidural

It was John’s idea initially. He’s an old friend and drinking buddy and an excellent sound engineer and musician in his own right. He came to a Spines practice with his laptop and some good mics and tried to record us rehearsing. It was like a dry run. Our time in the practice space is […]
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