
03/06/09 2:55pm
by Steve McLean (CHARTattack)

Except the Marcos regime really DID try and ruin The Beatles. They made life MISERABLE for them while they were in the Phillippines, to the point of getting airport staff to refuse to carry the Beatles' luggage and kick them while they were waiting to get on their airplane. No one would do anything for them in the Phillippines, and they could barely eat there because all their food showed up as either a) garbage or b) inedible rotten bits.
If you read the new John Lennon Philip Norman bio, there's a huge bit in there about it, including something about how they thought they were going to be taken out by snipers on the tarmac while they went back to the plane to leave the country!
Plus, John had brought a huge stash of pot with him and had someone tell him he wasn't who he said he was. Remarkably, no one went through his luggage!
/end nerd ramble 2009
haha yeah i read that epic book as well! i was disappointed with the lack of stuff about phil spector (every book i've read about him paints john and he as best pals), but otherwise it had some great, in depth stories.
music nerd rambling is the best kind!
I love how sycophantic the DJs are. "Radiohead? Who's Radiohead? They're a crappy band anyways!" Makes me sick.
Also, if I were the kid who was dragged in to meet Miley Cyrus, I'd probably be crying for a whole different reason.

WOW this is just like when the Beatles snubbed Imelda Marcos and she went on Filipino television and cried that the fab four didn't come to her dinner party.
Except that Miley Cyrus is an idiot and thinks everything is entitled to her, and Imelda just liked shoes. AND Fake Plastic Trees is nowhere near as good a song as The Ballad of John and Yoko.
That's all.