# lennon (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover lennon. Page: Feed: --- ## ["Love Me Do" Was Barely a Hit — and Everything You've Been Told About It Is Backwards](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/love-me-do-was-barely-a-hit-and-everything) _2026-08-19 · The News Today, Oh Boy · The News Today, Oh Boy_ Three drummers, a nicked harmonica, a borrowed Texan riff and a chart rumour that won't die. The Beatles' debut didn't beam in from another planet. ## [The Beatles Played Every Genre Under the Sun. For Some Listeners, That Was Unforgivable](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-beatles-played-every-genre-under) _2026-08-18 · The News Today, Oh Boy · The News Today, Oh Boy_ Proto-metal one minute, vaudeville the next, musique concrète after tea — the Fabs were a dozen bands wearing the one suit. It's exactly what put the purists off. ## [The Profound Treachery of Graffitied Glass](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/the-profound-treachery-of-graffitied) _2026-08-18 · Mr. Fish · THE INDEPENDENT INK_ “Forget artificial intelligence – in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.” —Tom Chatfield ## [Michael Jackson Told Paul McCartney "One Day I'll Own Your Songs" — Then He Went and Did It for $47.5 Million](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/michael-jackson-told-paul-mccartney) _2026-08-15 · The News Today, Oh Boy · The News Today, Oh Boy_ Forty-one years on from the afternoon the King of Pop swooped on the Beatles catalogue, we untangle the cosy sleepover that started it all ## [The Beatles Were Deported Over a Burning Condom — and That Was the Least Educational Thing That Happened in Hamburg](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-beatles-were-deported-over-a) _2026-08-14 · The News Today, Oh Boy · The News Today, Oh Boy_ Sent to Germany to have men made of them. What St Pauli actually taught the Beatles was how to spot a transvestite at forty paces, how to be deported in handcuffs, and how to set fire to a condom ## [He Kept a Locked "Beatle Bible" Tracking 1,920 Ways to Cash In on Their Songs — Then Sold the Boys Out for Millions](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/he-kept-a-locked-beatle-bible-tracking) _2026-08-13 · The News Today, Oh Boy · The News Today, Oh Boy_ In the spring of 1965 he was "Jamesy", the beaming Robin Hood man the Beatles trusted with every note they wrote. It didn't last. ## [The Beatles Have Just Told Montreal They're All Agnostics — And Nobody in the Room Even Blinks](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-beatles-have-just-told-montreal) _2026-08-11 · The News Today, Oh Boy · The News Today, Oh Boy_ Twenty months before John Lennon sets light to America with a single sentence about Jesus, the Fab Four hand a Forum press pack the whole confession — God, greed and a shrug ## [The Needle Drops: Ten Beatles Openings That Grab You By The Lapels](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-needle-drops-ten-beatles-openings) _2026-08-10 · The News Today, Oh Boy · The News Today, Oh Boy_ A cough, a squeal of feedback, a Mellotron dreaming to itself: ranking the ten openings with which the Beatles seized your attention before the first word was sung. ## [THE OTHER GREAT ROBBERY OF AUGUST '63: HOW THE BEATLES SKINNED THE CHANNEL ISLANDS FOR A GRAND](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-other-great-robbery-of-august) _2026-08-09 · The News Today, Oh Boy · The News Today, Oh Boy_ While a gang lifted £2.6m off the Glasgow mail train, four Scousers were pocketing £1,000 for five nights of screaming, one polythene night, and their last fortnight as human beings ## [The Filthiest Intake of Breath in Pop Is Sitting on Side One of a Record Your Nan Owns](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-filthiest-intake-of-breath-in) _2026-08-08 · The News Today, Oh Boy · The News Today, Oh Boy_ On the very last song they bothered to finish for Rubber Soul, the Beatles smuggled in a lecherous gasp, a whispered swear word, a counterfeit bouzouki and a theological grudge ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FSXMm1ey3nmU) _2026-08-08 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [A Dog Goes Into a Bar](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/a-dog-goes-into-a-bar) _2026-08-06 · Mr. Fish · THE INDEPENDENT INK_ "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." —Ludwig Wittgenstein ## [John Felt Guilty for Being Happy — So He Gave the Walrus to Paul](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/john-felt-guilty-for-being-happy) _2026-08-05 · The News Today, Oh Boy · The News Today, Oh Boy_ The three most misread seconds on the White Album weren't a coded death notice. They were a grown man apologising for falling in love. ## [The Beatles' First Great Cover-Up Wasn't Drugs. It Was a Wife](https://thenewstodayohboy.substack.com/p/the-beatles-first-great-cover-up) _2026-08-04 · The News Today, Oh Boy · The News Today, Oh Boy_ In August '62 John Lennon married Cynthia Powell in a rain-lashed register office with a pneumatic drill for a wedding march — then the pop machine spent the next 9 months pretending it never happened ## [I'll Shut Up Now](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/ill-shut-up-now) _2026-08-03 · Mr. Fish · THE INDEPENDENT INK_ “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.” —William H. Gass ## [Mr. Fish in Conversation with Paul Haeder](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/mr-fish-in-conversation-with-paul) _2026-07-18 · Mr. Fish · THE INDEPENDENT INK_ “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” ― George Bernard Shaw ## [We Don't Make Jokes Here](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/we-dont-make-jokes-here) _2026-07-10 · Mr. Fish · THE INDEPENDENT INK_ “A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.” ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ## [Mr. Fish on the DMZ America Podcast with Ted Rall](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/mr-fish-on-the-dmz-america-podcast) _2026-06-22 · Mr. Fish · THE INDEPENDENT INK_ With the targeted assassination of exiled Russian cartoonist Semyon Skrepetsky in Poland and the disenfranchisement of political artists everywhere, Fish and Rall discuss the future of the profession ## [Long Story Short](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/long-story-short) _2026-06-16 · Mr. Fish · THE INDEPENDENT INK_ “Art is anything you can get away with.” ― Marshall McLuhan ## [Mr. Fish's CATCH OF THE DAY](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/mr-fishs-catch-of-the-day-4c3) _2026-06-11 · Mr. Fish · THE INDEPENDENT INK_ Thursday June 11, 2026 ## [The Gag Reflex](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/the-gag-reflex) _2026-06-09 · Mr. Fish · THE INDEPENDENT INK_ “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” ―Henry Louis Gates Jr ## [Earn crypto from idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yZo6C4c98dfc) _2026-06-09 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI command, connect your GPU, and start receiving crypto payouts. ## [The Independent Ink in Conversation with Elliot Mintz](https://theindependentink.substack.com/p/the-independent-ink-in-conversation-171) _2026-06-07 · Mr. Fish · THE INDEPENDENT INK_ “I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.” ― Gustave Flaubert [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201010800/368a7d8f49bdaaa3ac80ba9cff47344b.mp3)