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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
August 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman