July 04, 2009

Mop Tops in Action #13


Ringo threatens to censure Paul mightily for giving expression to heretical thoughts

This was posted by Tom Sutpen

for the series:

8 comments so far:

Booksteve said...

Saw this in CREEM once. One of my favorite Beatles pics!

July 04, 2009 12:31 AM
Who Am Us Anyway? said...

"Take this, brother -- may it serve you well."

July 04, 2009 12:10 AM
Maureen said...

Rather prophetic, everything old is new again.

July 04, 2009 11:31 AM
Tommy O'C said...

There's also a photo of Paul grabbing John by the lapel and waving his fist at him. And the one of George holding nails that he's about to hammer in John's head. The dark side of the mop tops. :-)

July 04, 2009 2:46 PM
Robert Fiore said...

Excuse me for using this means to communicate, but shouldn't there be a So Loathsome I Could Cry for the late Allen Klein?

July 08, 2009 9:18 PM
Tom Sutpen said...

I honestly don't think Klein was all that loathsome. I've never bought any of that "He split The Beatles up" bidness; not about him, not even about Yoko Ono. Believe me, if the Fab Four didn't have Klein and Ono on their hands when they did, they'd have found something, someone, to use as a point of division.

You can see the malaise they were in rather starkly in 'Let It Be'; which is why the film is so depressing at times (the 3+ hours of bootlegged outtakes are even worse). These were four guys who, by 1969, had no clue who they were individually, collectively, in any sense; all they knew for certain was that, for whatever reason, they weren't going to be The Beatles (whatever that was) for very much longer.

Any rate, I don't think Klein deserves the bad rap he's gotten over the years (Yoko? That's another story).

July 08, 2009 10:18 PM
STARTOONZ said...

,... wonder what Mick & Keef would say to that?

July 11, 2009 8:14 PM
Gerard Saylor said...

Ringo looks to have a pretty big fist.

From what I've read of Klein he was a loathsome creature.

July 12, 2009 11:39 AM

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