Hard Days Flight

Let it Be, album cover

      Today 1964, the band the Beatles, arrived in New York City for their first US. appearance.  If you have never heard of or listened to the Beatles, you should check them out.  I think they have finally gotten their music on I tunes recently so you might be able to find them there. Always a good sign for an up and coming band to get on iTunes. I think they will be a success. 

       The US tour would take them from the highly successful and famous appearance on the Ed Sullivan show to Washington DC.  The first Sullivan show was so successful, Ed would book them for two more occasions that month. The tour was an overall success for the band, who had scored with, " I want to hold your hand", as a #1, a few weeks before.  The rest is Beatlemania history...
Admittedly, it would be very interesting to hear any stories of people that seen them live, or just general stories about them. Maybe where you were when you first heard them or your thoughts and take on Lennon's death for example.  So go break out that old '45  of "Hard Day's Night" or dust off the copy of "Let it Be", and enjoy your day, trapped in Beatle history.

"Got to Get You Into My Life"

    Beatle's classic for today's archive...today, January 25th 1980, Sir Paul McCartney is released from a Tokyo jail after being jailed for nine days, after a customs agent finds the hippy lettuce in his luggage.  He will be deported, after his first trip back since a Beatle in 1966, and not allowed to return to Japan until 1990.
     Before a scheduled week long concert tour with Wings, Sir Paul was visiting the fine city of New York when he came across a half pound of marijuana that apparently was really good. He claimed, "We were about to fly to Japan and I knew I wouldn't be able to get anything to smoke over there. This stuff was too good to flush down the toilet, so I'd thought I'd take it with me."  Somewhere Snoop Dog is surely smiling!!
     McCartney apparently hooked up with some fine New York kush  and boarded the plane to Tokyo, landed, and as a Japanese customs agent pulled out the block of hooch, he sat there calmly.  That is until he realized that the Japanese have a pretty strict penal code concerning drugs. The half pound was enough to warrant a drug trafficking charge, which included a seven year sentence, and Sir Paul was ushered to a Tokyo Jail and was then referred to as prisoner #22.  The tour, needless to say was cancelled and he spent the next nine days in jail.  He was finally released today in 1980 avoiding any court appearance.