Saturday9: The incomparable Beatles Band.

Saturday 9: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 

... because Joy recommended it
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1) The Beatles recorded this after they had taken a three-month hiatus from working together as a band. Do you find you're sharp after taking time off? Or does it take you a while to get back into the swing of things in your day-to-day life?   I haven't worked outside the home for decades.  So, I don't really remember it very well.  All of my jobs where minimum wage, and part time.  My favorite job was as a classroom aide.  I would have, and did, work at that one for free (at first.)

2) During those three months off, John Lennon made a movie called How I Won the War. What's the last movie you watched? Did you view it at a theater, on TV, or from a device like a computer or tablet?  A couple weeks ago, we watched "Whale Rider".  It was a DVD on TV.  It is a lovely movie, and this is the second time we've ordered it to watch.  
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3) Paul McCartney and George Harrison both used their time off to make new and different music. Paul composed instrumentals for a movie soundtrack while George studied sitar with Ravi Shankar. Ringo Starr spent those three months with his wife and their two little boys. If you had three months to spend doing anything you wanted, and money was no object, would you try something new (like Paul and George) or just kick back and relax (like Ringo)?
Like Ringo, I would spend the time with my daughters.

4) Paul recalls what fun it was to dress up in Edwardian-era costumes for the album cover. When did you last attend a costume party? What did you wear?
 It was years ago.  I was about 30, and dressed up as an Airline pilot, complete with gray mustache and gray wig.  I used some airline pilot's wings that a pilot friend who was director at the AeroSpace Museum had given me, and a Navy Commander's blazer and pants from Goodwill.  I had long hair and it all went up inside that wig after being wound around my head.  Everyone was shocked when all my long, dark hair came out from under the wig when it was time to "take off the masks" and just dance.

5) Paul says he came up with the name "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" when Beatle friend Mal Evans told him about this great San Francisco band, Big Brother and the Holding Company. Paul hadn't heard their music yet, but he loved the sound of their six-word band name. Soon everyone would hear of Big Brother. Do you know who Big Brother's famous lead singer was?  I remember them well!  Big Brother and the Holding Company.  I really liked their sound!  Janis Joplin was their lead singer at the time.  Hot doggies!  That was a long time ago.

6) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band appeared on the Billboard charts for 175 weeks. Is this album in your collection?  Yes.  I like the Beatles, though they aren't my favorite group.  Sam, I understand why you do.  I'm just a lot older and the impact was not as great for me. heehee

7) The Beatles are among the top-selling artists of all time in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. Would you like to visit Africa?  Now I would.  Not so true back in the day before the peaceful turn around in South Africa.   

8) 50 years ago, when Sgt. Pepper was first released, the average price for gas was 33¢/gallon. When did you last fill up your gas tank? Do you remember how much it cost?
No, but I remember gas being 33¢ a gallon.  I was taking my Aunt grocery shopping all the time, and she would give me money for gas.  

9) Random question: Are most of your married friends happily married?  

Yes my Dears, a mini rant.....because I'm old and want to save the world of the sad and lonely some serious heart ache.

I'm old and have seen an awful lot.  Most of my friends who aren't dead, are on second marriages, some of which are good.  I guess a few are happy, but many others are not, or were not.  

I  see being a widow or widower as the Time of Life when the"Victim/Predator Period" can rear it's ugly head in human relationships.  If you have a house, and some cash in the bank, there is someone out there who will be intent on separating you from it. Some of these people didn't even wait for the spouse to die!  😧  (That happened in my mother's family, and to several of my friends.)  
Sad, I know, but true.  This is one of the seedier sides of humans.  And, these were friends who had been around the block a few times, and whom I never dreamed would be silly enough to fall for things like this - like some star-struck Teenager!  This thing is practically an industry!  I'd bet there is a handbook available on the Black Web.
Well, Dear, you did ask, and I'm never one to shrink from expressing an opinion.  This isn't talked about very much in Polite society, and actually, it should be!  Such nefariousness should never be taboo.  In my experience, there's only about about a 33% chance they aren't just after your possessions, good health insurance, or survivor benefits.  Watch your backs!