Lew Bundles Posted May 21 Report Share Posted May 21 If you’ve never heard this...from the lp Pussy Cats... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susie b Posted May 24 Report Share Posted May 24 ❤️ this album!!! Harry & John were fabulous together. 🐈🐾 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted May 24 Report Share Posted May 24 Raspberries were recording at the Record Plant in NYC the same time Lennon and Nilsson were recording “Pussycats.” They were enlisted to hand-clap on “Loop De Loop.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie B Trask Posted May 24 Report Share Posted May 24 Too much booze going around as well as cocaine. These guys had a good time together but were quite reckless. This was the time of Johnnys lost weekend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew Bundles Posted May 24 Author Report Share Posted May 24 Bernie...is that indeed true?...I thought Eric said once that he didn’t actually remember that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted May 24 Report Share Posted May 24 I wasn't there, Lew. But that's what I heard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie B Trask Posted May 24 Report Share Posted May 24 1 hour ago, Lew Bundles said: Bernie...is that indeed true?...I thought Eric said once that he didn’t actually remember that... Yeah the clap out of the left speaker is definitely Eric. Can't you tell? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie B Trask Posted May 24 Report Share Posted May 24 John and Harry were best friends in 1974, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew Bundles Posted May 24 Author Report Share Posted May 24 If you’ve never read any of Levinson’s books, they are kind of cool in the way he weaves fiction in and out of historical events... If I remember correctly, the opening chapter had Harry Nilsson, alone In his thoughts, as he rides in the back of a cab in NYC, on his way to the Dakota, to visit Yoko, shortly after Lennon’s murder... THE JOHN LENNON AFFAIR Robert S. Levinson, Author . Forge $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-87902-0 Levinson's long experience in music public relations, the handling of rock stars, and writing and producing has provided him with material and styles enough for three novels, but not enough of substance for any one novel. Following hot on the heels of The James Dean Affair and The Elvis and Marilyn Affair, his latest eulogizes the murdered Beatle, the story split between Lennon's own time and a huge, mob-inspired John Lennon Imagine That! Memorial Rock Festival in 2001. Making their third appearance are Levinson's series protagonists, newspaperman Neil Gulliver and TV actress Stevie Marriner, known as the "Sex Queen of the Soaps." Gulliver covered Lennon's death, and now he and Stevie find themselves appearing in the massive festival in his honor. Someone doesn't want them around, though, and will kill to keep them away. Ironically, among the parade of stock supporting characters—crooks, assassins, drunken Indians, politicians, actors, sinister Treasury agents and "Feebies" (FBI agents)—Lennon himself is only peripheral. He is given occasional lines, once at an earlier festival: "They have a bloody foogin' concert in me honor to raise money to wipe out weapons, and it brings on one gun going off after the bleeding next." It may be news that Mark David Chapman, who shot him, had been hired to shoot President-elect "Dutch" Reagan instead. Enough names are dropped to fill an agent's Rolodex (including those in a lengthy author's note), and gags abound, but more attention to plot would have been helpful for the bewildered reader. Readers who pick this up hoping for all Beatles all the time will be disappointed—what they'll get is a mediocre mystery with the musician as hook and the rock scene as background décor. (Aug.) https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780312879020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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