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John, Paul, George, Ringo and Will

Richard — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:08:34 +0000

The Beatles are now no less seminal than Shakespeare in English culture, and it was interesting to hear on the radio that someone has busied themselves setting Shakespeare’s sonnets to The Beatles’ music.Â Can’t find any links, but it made me wonder whether Wordle Word Clouds could bring out any synergies between The Beatles and Shakespeare. Here are two Word Clouds, one made from a complete text of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the other from the complete Beatles’ lyrics.

Apart from the inevitable LOVE, eyes, heart and time feature strongly. Might need to redo and remove the thees, thous and thys from Shakespeare’s text, since I think the algorithm has stripped “you” from the Beatles’ text. No “yeahs” or “yellow submarines”, obviously, in Shakespeare’s lyrics!

Shakespeare's Sonnets Word Cloud

Beatles Lyrics Word Cloud

Muchas acetatas

Richard — Thu, 10 May 2007 14:27:59 +0000

More acetates on Ebay, this time US 10 inch acetates from c. 1971-1972 of Lennon’s Power To The People, McCartney’s Another Day and Oh Woman Oh Why (one acetate for each side of Paul’s 1971 single), and Ringo’s 1972 glam-rock offering, Back Off Boogaloo. The seller claims the discs are 78 RPM: can that really be true?

I haven’t captured the images for them all as they’re pretty dull specimens (for one thing the “Broadway” acetate labels aren’t as special as the “Savile Row” labels), but you can see them for a limited time here.

Armour of Rod

Richard — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:54:59 +0000

Just too quiet here lately, so it’s nice to know, through the amazing power of the pingback, or somesuch, that “Dear Angie” is also favoured by Armour of Rod. Cheers, Rod!

There may have been a bit of confusion with Dear Angie over time, since I moved it from Blogger.com to here. Though all of the posts were successfully imported, I’m sure the place is littered with broken links. I also regret the loss of the earlier design, when DA moved into Relocution, and might do something about that, over time. Meanwhile here is the original Dear Angie logo (based on the scans sent by Han Schomaker).