1964 - Blog Posts
fuck the order of songs on ur spotify wrapped, i wanna know what the oldest song (by release date) is in your top 100.
no longer than a sigh, anne philipe (1964) — english translation
until his death in 1959 gérard philipe was the greatest star of the french theatre and cinema. the death of someone so young, alive and brilliant shocked and grieved a large public, and in this book his widow, anne philipe, conveys with classic simplicity and economy the personal tragedy. no longer than a sigh can be read purely as a novel: it is the story of a woman who has loved her husband and who has lost him. his illness was sudden; after an operation she knew that he would die and let him believe he would recover. now that he is dead, truth again becomes all-important and it is only in trying to understand love, death, suffering that anne philipe sees the possibility of living again. the integrity and lucidity of this attempt to re-establish balance in her disrupted world are almost unbearably poignant. unable to accept the comfort of belief in life after death, too intellectually honest to take refuge in suicide, fantasy or misery, anne philipe looks at life itself, with all its memories, for a solution to grief which is worthy of her and gérard's life together. translated from the french by cornelia schaeffer
jacket photograph by agnès varda jacket design by madeleine dinkel
vintage topps beatles color cards trading card, 1964
59. beatles color cards question: how do you feel about the beatle souvenirs? ringo speaking: the beatle people are happy when they buy the souvenirs, so it's okay with us. brian epstein tells me that they are selling beatle wigs, beatle hats, beatle buttons, beatle shirts, beatle nightgowns, beatle wallpaper, beatle magazines and believe it or not, beatle nut ice cream. we have a special staff that makes certain a company is reliable if they want to put out a beatle souvenir.
vintage topps beatles diary trading cards, 1964
On the cover of Tan magazine, September 1965. (Featuring a photo of The Beatles with Mary Wells in October 1964.)
“I’d never really heard Marvin Gaye, The Miracles and all that until George played me the records up in their flat [on London’s Green Street] and they absolutely blew me away. I then went on a sort of crusade for Motown!” - Tony Hall, The Beatles: The BBC Archives
Cathy McGowan: “What records do you like, other than your own?” George Harrison: “All the Motown Tamla records, Mary Wells, Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Impressions, all that crowd.” - Ready, Steady, Go!, March 20, 1964
“[The music] that we play at home — like Mary Wells, Miracles and not to mention Marvin Gaye.” - George Harrison, BBC’s Public Ear, January 12, 1964
“Tamla Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles, The Impressions, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, The Exciters.” - George Harrison, The Beatles’ Detroit press conference, September 6, 1964
“That boy George — he’s very quiet, but he’s cute.” - Mary Wells, Melody Maker, November 7, 1964
“Labeling the various members of the Beatles, Mary [Wells] recalled that Paul McCartney is the ‘real life of any party; Ringo Starr is a complete clown; George Harrison is kind of on the quiet side; and John Lennon is more of a businessman than the other three and he’s the toughest one to get to know.’” - Tan, September 1965
“The Beatles — who were always among Mary’s very early fans — are now her own favorites. She thinks they are very adorable and feels dreadfully sorry for them. ‘You have no idea how surrounded they are. There’s always someone wanting them. Their lives are certainly not their own. You know sometimes Paul or George will come into my dressing room and play a couple of records and then leave again.’” - Disc, October 31, 1964 (x)
Ed Sullivan gives The Beatles a message from Richard Rodgers on The Ed Sullivan Show in Miami, 16th February 1964
The name's Starr, Ringo Starr, bang bang!😋👍🔫🔫💥💥
Ringo Starr at a rented house in Brown Canyon in Bel Air, CA | 25 August 1964 © Larry Sharkey
John looks 🔥😍heehee...
George Harrison & John Lennon during rehearsals for the The Ed Sullivan Show | February 1964
I say 'lennon', you say 'squeeze', 'lennon', 'squeeze', 'lennon', 'squeeze'!🍋🍹📸🖼
The Beatles | 1964 © Ringo Starr
“We were all so close, and not just when we squeezed together for photo opportunities.” ~ Ringo Starr
Woman in the Dunes by Hiroshi Teshigahara 1964