Mike Haskins
@mikehaskins.bsky.social
Wrote for lots of comedy people. Still works with Griff Rhys Jones. Author of over 60 books including Beatles' Liverpool. Beatles' Liverpool tours bookable through www.liverpoolfamouswalkingtours.com/
Farage's grinning response says it all. Every day Reform and its supporters reveal themselves for who they are and yet the media continues to treat them as just another normal political party.
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last mo.Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
Louis CK announced to play Captain Mainwaring in forthcoming Dad's Army reboot
4 September 1962 The Beatles fly from Speke Airport to London to record Love Me Do at Abbey Road with newly added drummer Ringo. George has a black eye from an encounter with Denny Flynn when the band had been filmed at the Cavern Club on 22 August
29:25 into the YouTube vid Liverpool Trams - Green Goddesses Remembered. Who do you think that is at the back? The boy and his mother are literally in this dark shadowy shot for about 2 seconds www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbMP...
New Podcast! I’m joined by Steve Taylor to talk about his book ‘Across The Universe’. Steve’s book looks at psychological, cultural, and spiritual forces behind the Beatles’ genius - how much of their success was pre ordained? What made them stand out from their peers?
It is a lot to take in in one sitting... #Tolstoy #WarAndPeace #books #bookworms #diningout Unpublished #cartoon
Duck food available from Cosmic News. Presumably to try and stave off an invasion of cosmic ducks
pca.st/episode/771a.... Fantastic interview on always great pod. Listen to the end. Jimi Hendrix was a Goons fan! And of course his drummer, when he was a child actor, was quoted in one of the interviews in the first Goon Show Scripts book @goonpod.bsky.social
Maureen O'Grady - RAVE magazine September 1965
RAVE journalist Maureen O'Grady discusses the September 1965 issue of the magazine - along with a million wonderful anecdotes. Hosted by Chris Shaw. To read along with Maureen and Chris click…
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29 August 1966 The Beatles at Candlestick Park - their final live show in front of a paying audience. Seven years to the day after they began playing at the Casbah Club, West Derby, Liverpool. Their final song was Long Tall Sally - one of the songs Paul had played on 6 July 1957, the day he met John
Mike Haskins@mikehaskins.bsky.social · 2mo ago29 August 1959 the day after John was sacked from his summer job and bought his Hofner Club 40 guitar from Frank Hessy's, The Quarrymen made their debut at the opening night of The Casbah Club - a club run by future Beatles drummer Pete Best's mum Mona in the basement of the Best family home
29 August 1959 the day after John was sacked from his summer job and bought his Hofner Club 40 guitar from Frank Hessy's, The Quarrymen made their debut at the opening night of The Casbah Club - a club run by future Beatles drummer Pete Best's mum Mona in the basement of the Best family home
Mike Haskins@mikehaskins.bsky.social · 2mo agoMill Brow Water Treatment Centre ion Southport Road, Scarisbrick near Ormskirk where John Lennon worked in the summer of 1959 raising the money to buy his Hofner Club 40 guitar at Frank Hessy's shop in Liverpool only to be sacked from the job the same day he put down his deposit
Mill Brow Water Treatment Centre ion Southport Road, Scarisbrick near Ormskirk where John Lennon worked in the summer of 1959 raising the money to buy his Hofner Club 40 guitar at Frank Hessy's shop in Liverpool only to be sacked from the job the same day he put down his deposit
Mike Haskins@mikehaskins.bsky.social · 2mo ago28 August 1959 John Lennon purchased his Hofner Club 40 guitar from Frank Hessy's Music Centre on Stanley Street, Liverpool - £17 down then 5 shillings (25p) a week for the next 53 weeks. That day was the 752nd anniversary of King John's charter in 1207 creating Liverpool as a town or borough!
28 August 1959 John Lennon purchased his Hofner Club 40 guitar from Frank Hessy's Music Centre on Stanley Street, Liverpool - £17 down then 5 shillings (25p) a week for the next 53 weeks. That day was the 752nd anniversary of King John's charter in 1207 creating Liverpool as a town or borough!
Two of my favourite podcasts of all time combined - Goon Pod and Nothing Is Real. Thanks so much to Tyler and Steven for the mention early on in this episode. Beatles walking and car tours, Liverpool history tours and more available via www.liverpoolfamouswalkingtours.com
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Goon Pod@goonpod.bsky.social · 2mo agoTHE 1963 ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE With Steven Cockcroft @stevenc63.bsky.social Listen: pod.link/1569929507 This was the British equivalent of the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show as John encouraged the audience to rattle their jewellery, while Secombe quipped, Steptoe moaned and Sykes strummed.
You'll have to trust me on this one. I took this picture in Morrisons 3 weeks ago and if I'd posted it then it would have been absolutely incredible. But now it's 23 August so who cares!
23 August 1962 John Lennon and Cynthia Powell get married at Liverpool Register Office on Mount Pleasant. Brian Epstein is best man. Paul, George and Cynthia's brother and sister in law are there and a man who looked like Noddy Holder from Slade was using a pneumatic drill just outside the window
New EggPod Express online! Available anywhere you pod! This, then, is Maureen O’Grady discussing her time at Boyfriend magazine in the 1960s; her friendship with The Beatles; and more…
Speaking of #gardening here's a Spectator #cartoon (You won't be surprised to learn that I despise #ArtificialLawns)
Spencer's piece in the Liverpool Echo today re Brian Epstein's NEMS shop plaque that was unveiled by Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram yesterday
At the unveiling of the Liverpool Music Heritage trail plaque for the site of Brian Epstein's NEMS shop on Whitechapel, Liverpool with legendary Beatles Fan Club secretary Freda Kelly, Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram and the great Spencer Leigh
New! SOFT BEDS, HARD BATTLES (1974) With @paullitchfield.bsky.social & @jlimb.bsky.social Peter Sellers got to cosplay as Hitler & 5 other characters in this ill-judged wartime comedy. Stand by for farting Nazis, himself in yellowface & a whirlwind romance with Liza Minnelli! pod.link/1569929507
shows.acast.com/word-in-your... Liked story in the Word pod of Brian Epstein taking The Beatles to see The Shadows at the Liverpool Empire in 1962 to show them a proper professional group but Bruce Welch was replaced by Peter Carter of the Checkmates and Jet Harris and Tony Meehan had left the band
18 August 1962 first appearance of The Beatles with their new official line up including Ringo for the local Horticultural Society at Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight. Paul was always keen on horticulture
From the current @privateeyenews.bsky.social New issue out tomorrow. #heatwave #weather #thebritishmindset #cartoon
The Beatles 17 August 1960. The day they arrived for their first stint playing in the clubs of Hamburg. Pete Best had only joined the band a few days earlier and had not received the memo re the colour of jacket required
New! THE SILENT BUGLER With Chas Early pod.link/1569929507 A Cold War thriller, Goon Show style. So, not a thriller at all. There's a Russian time machine involved, so could it be Cold War sci-fi? No, not really. We look at two versions of the show plus reveal how Ray Ellington was a hero motorist!
31 July 1957 Ringo makes his debut at the Cavern Club one week before The Quarrymen (from Spencer Leigh's book The Cavern Club)
