{"id":908,"date":"2010-02-07T11:19:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2010-02-07T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:23:19","slug":"it-was-46-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/07\/it-was-46-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"It was 46 years ago Today….."},"content":{"rendered":"

…..That the band who would become “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”<\/strong> set foot on American soil for the first time….. February 7, 1964<\/strong>, The Beatles<\/strong> started their first American tour, which, changed American pop music forever…… John, Paul, George, and Ringo<\/em> – the Moptops<\/em> who became the guru’s of music<\/em> in my generation, and, I believe, will be considered rock icons by many more generations to come…..<\/p>\n

This ties-in with my previous Post on Buddy Holly<\/strong>, as Paul<\/strong> owns the publishing rights to the Holly<\/strong> catalog….. He lost the rights to The Beatles<\/strong> catalog thanks to one “Yoko Oh-No”<\/em><\/strong>….. The music business is rough around the edges (it has a black hole<\/em> at the center)…..<\/p>\n

This is strange and weird – I’ve been listening to my I-Pod<\/strong> set on shuffle play since I haven’t got my main music system setup yet…. As I started this post, I clicked on my I-Pod<\/strong>….. It was on the last two seconds of silence on the song I stopped it on the last time I used it…. Here’s what came screaming though the speakers, out of 555 choices I have on the I-Pod<\/strong> – “That’ll be the Day”<\/em>, a Buddy Holly<\/strong> hit, performed by The Beatles<\/strong> from the Anthology I<\/em> album cranked up….. I’m bettin’ it’s going to be a good day….. Dig out some early Beatles<\/strong> and “Rock Out, Citizens of MR Land”<\/em><\/strong> (That is an order signed by MR<\/strong>, and approved by PD Bob<\/strong>)……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…..That the band who would become “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” set foot on American soil for the first time….. February 7, 1964, The Beatles started their first American tour, which, changed American pop music forever…… John, Paul, George, and Ringo – the Moptops who became the guru’s of music in my generation, and, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}