In yesterday’s post I mentioned Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Released on June 1, 1967, it was the Beatles eighth and perhaps best album. Sgt. Pepper’s was made possible by the time the group had for studio work once they decided to stop touring in 1966. Between November of 1966 and April of 1967, they spent [...]
My pick for the song I’d like to feature for today’s Throwback Thursday is The Ballad of John and Yoko. Now it may surprise you to learn that it’s one of my favorite songs from the Beatles’ catalogue. I know. I know. Many people, even today, blame Yoko Ono for breaking up the Beatles - even [...]
There’s a reason I paint celebrities and entertainers like The Beatles, Johnny Depp and Steven Tyler, as well as flags, hearts and images like that. Simply put, it’s because I’m interested, just like you, in popular culture and classical brands like flags and celebrities. Pop art has been around since the 1950s. You remember Andy Warhol, right? [...]
