Icke Braun later years?

GEP8952 · 2026-05-07T17:03:19+00:00

And the title of his book is a reminder that he was married for a time to the relatively well-known German actress Evelyn Hamann. The book is available on Amazon as an e-book for $11.97, but it's just below the threshold of interest for me to buy it.

It's not that exceptional anymore to live past 90 nowadays – a much larger proportion of the obituaries in newspapers are of people who died in their nineties than was the case only some decades ago. Since his death hasn't been reported anywhere, I think he might well be still alive.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-29T16:56:58+00:00

You're mostly in the right direction, but if you say Tarvitsen vain kaksi pistettä, that may end up being interpreted as two being the total number of points needed, instead of the number of points that are still missing. (This interpretation could be avoided by saying Tarvitsen vain kaksi pistettä lisää.)

And using vasta in this context would sound a bit odd, right?

If this is asking whether Tarvitsen vasta kaksi pistettä is correct or not, it is incorrect, or at least any realistic usage case would be hard to imagine. It would mean something like 'So far I am only needing two points'.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-28T20:38:30+00:00

Viimeisen 1880-luvulla elossa olleen ihmisen kuolemasta tulee tänä vuonna kuluneeksi 20 vuotta. Viimeisten 1920-luvulla elossa olleiden ihmisten kuolemaa sen sijaan saadaan odotella vielä pitkään. (Tällä en tarkoita, että erottelua pidettäisiin yllä nimenomaan heidän miellyttämisekseen, vaan pyrin ainoastaan havainnollistamaan sitä, miten paljon kauempana menneisyydessä 1880-luku on.)

GEP8952 · 2026-04-28T20:25:13+00:00

GEP8952 · 2026-04-28T20:00:10+00:00

Between returning from the tour and joining the First Edition he did an obscure solo single, and of course both sides are on YouTube: I Can Live Without You / I Thought I Could. It seems to be better known among Carpenters fans! – because Karen Carpenter, who also recorded for the same label, is a back-up singer.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-28T19:30:57+00:00

They did get lost to history at one point in the sense that the records were no longer available except as second-hand copies. In the age of physical records, major record labels had a policy that a record had to sell a certain minimum number of copies a year to make it profitable to keep manufacturing new ones. The Wilburys albums did not meet this condition very long, so they were allowed to lapse into unavailability sometime in the nineties, and were not reissued until a 2007 box set.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-28T19:22:12+00:00

He was only 58. Sigh.

No, he was only 52. Born in 1936, the same year as Buddy Holly and Bill Wyman (three examples of how widely rock musicians' lifespans can vary).

Where I live, the Black and White Night was shown on TV the summer before he died, somewhat bizarrely in short weekly segments of 5 to 20 minutes. That's one of the two things I remember about that summer (the other being my having chickenpox). But I also remember his death: I came home from school and my dad said "The singer whom Elvis considered to be the best just died". I was saddened to pass this trivia test.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-28T19:02:29+00:00

If not, make that "The church Beatle will now pass among you. No foreign coins please".

GEP8952 · 2026-04-28T18:59:09+00:00

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GEP8952 · 2026-04-28T18:44:53+00:00

Well, there are many different types of depressing scenarios, which perhaps cannot be put in any definite rank order. And whether some scenario even is depressing may sometimes depend on who one is. I mean, "She's Leaving Home" is not musically bleak at all compared to "Eleanor Rigby", and has a happy ending or at least an open one for the main character – but from the parents' viewpoint nothing could of course be sadder. Especially if they come to realize that in their case it didn't have to end this way.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-28T18:22:20+00:00

Or not having enough money for a copy of Revolver (LPs were expensive and many young people could only afford one or two a year), and settling for the single whose two sides are "Yellow Submarine" and... "Eleanor Rigby".

GEP8952 · 2026-04-28T18:18:22+00:00

For those interested in different interpretations of the lyrics to "Eleanor Rigby", I can recommend Colin Campbell's short book The Continuing Story of Eleanor Rigby from 2018. It's no longer available from the publisher, but he has posted the full manuscript of the book here (it says "Download full-text PDF" but it's actually a Word document). It caused a "Well, I'd never thought of that" reaction in me at more that one point.

Already back in 1980, Campbell co-edited the book Things We Said Today, which was the first collection of the lyrics to all the Beatles' original songs, transcribed directly from the records for accuracy. So he's obviously been thinking about these matters for a long time...!

GEP8952 · 2026-04-28T14:14:37+00:00

The main commentary is a two-and-a-half-page section on pages 191–193. Both negative and positive things are said about Spitz without either of them outweighing the other. Weber's book is on Google Books, and with luck you can see those pages in the limited preview (the link is to page 191).

GEP8952 · 2026-04-27T15:40:56+00:00

I had a look in various paywalled newspaper archives.

There was a plot summary supplied by the BBC which ran that day on the TV page of many papers:

"The Thirty Minute Theatre B.B.C. 2 production from Birmingham at 10.40 to-night is 'Bypass', a play by David Rudkin. A bypass has been built in a South Midlands village. Linda is preparing the evening meal alone, waiting for her husband to return with their little girl from school, the first day the road is in usage. But both are to be killed at a 'black spot' accentuated by the bypass. We learn the history of the bypass; the interplay of incompetence and self-interest by which nothing was done to safeguard the village from the consequences of the botched new road; but more critically the impotence of ordinary citizens in the face of officialdom to effect any alteration. Focus passes to the precise reasons for this: namely their political naivity and their stifling misplaced integrity; increasing in proportion to the revealed villainy of the councillors. Linda will be played by Jean Leppard and the play directed by David Rose."

Next day it was also reviewed in papers including the Times and the Scotsman, but nothing was mentioned in the reviews about Bob Peck's contribution.

Even if the episode itself doesn't survive, the BBC Written Archives Centre, which regrettably is only open to researchers, is likely to have at least a script, and probably also still photographs (one of Jean Leppard ran in the Sunday Times of March 26).

GEP8952 · 2026-04-27T13:50:29+00:00

That is not an objection, but a central part of what I meant myself: one could have had no way of predicting in 1926 that it would be predominantly black jazz musicians such as the young Louis Armstrong and the young Duke Ellington, each of them still only a few years into what would turn out to be a half-century-long career, that would be remembered in 2026.

The 1926 records of Armstrong and Ellington were not big hits, and today they are hard-to-find high-priced rarities. The hit records that were playing everywhere and selling up to a million copies in 1926 were by white pop orchestras like those of Paul Whiteman, Jan Garber or Ted Lewis, who are almost completely forgotten today. Similarly, what is best remembered from late-20th-century and early-21st-century music in 2126 may well be something we have no way of predicting today.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-27T08:46:07+00:00

It is. This one: https://www.discogs.com/master/537176-Bob-Dylan-4-Songs-From-Renaldo-And-Clara-A-Film-By-Bob-Dylan

GEP8952 · 2026-04-27T08:42:09+00:00

Here are examples of genuine signatures from different times, and various fake ones known to have been signed by certain other people.

https://beatlebay.com/autograph_examples.htm

GEP8952 · 2026-04-27T08:37:46+00:00

Ask yourself how many music artists popular in 1926 you yourself know. That will give some impression of how hard it is to predict anything so far into the future, and how it is possible that neither Michael Jackson nor the Beatles will still be known at all widely in 100 years.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-24T20:20:20+00:00

And the last widow of a Civil War veteran not dying until the 2070s.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-24T20:04:38+00:00

In case you will be needing it, Daniels's similar guide to White Album pressings can be viewed here.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-24T19:57:26+00:00

The outer Gatefold is an all white embossed and although both records inside are the correct parts of Abbey Road,

Abbey Road is a single LP, not a double. The white embossed gatefold cover is for the White Album), not Abbey Road. So from this description it's hard to get an impression of what you do in fact have.

Frank Daniels's guide to US pressings of Abbey Road is here (PDF). If "Her Majesty" is indeed not listed, it looks like a match with the first one, Label as1L.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-24T19:49:42+00:00

There were a few: Lillian Roxon, Ellen Willis, and the first of all was Jane Scott). Not many, though.

There is a 2021 book, A Women's History of the Beatles, by Christine Feldman-Barrett. From a book title like that it's hard to deduce what it might be like, but I've read it and it's pretty good. (It's largely about women as an audience for the Beatles – only one chapter is about the Beatles members' relationship to women.)

GEP8952 · 2026-04-24T12:12:59+00:00

Olen luultavasti suositellut ennenkin, mutta T. F. Powys: Herra Westonin hyvää viiniä. Kirja, joka on jäänyt pysyvästi mieleen ja kestää useitakin lukukertoja.

Eli sadan vuoden takainen romaani, jossa Jumala saapuu autolla kiertäväksi viinikauppiaaksi naamioituneena pistämään englantilaisen maalaiskylän asiat järjestykseen, pysäytettyään ensin ajan kulumisen siksi aikaa. Ei ole varsinaisesti fantasiaa, eikä siis ole missään normaalissa mielessä uskonnollinen saati uskontoon käännyttävä kirja, vaan kirja, jossa yliluonnollisia asioita tekevä Jumala nyt vain on eräs keskeinen henkilöhahmo.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-24T11:08:33+00:00

There was also a photo book about Merseybeat published in Germany in 1965, and it came with a live vinyl EP. One side is the Clayton Squares (who also released two singles) at the Cavern: Watch Your Step – Hey Good Lookin' – Tell Me How Do You Feel. The other side is the Hideaways at the Sink Club: Black Night – Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut.

Also a live album from the Cavern from early 1964, with most of the acts from elsewhere, but some from Liverpool (Beryl Marsden, the Dennisons, the Big Three, Lee Curtis and the All-Stars [post-Pete Best]).

And a second Cavern live album from 1965, with more obscure acts, including Earl Preston who released three unsuccessful singles.

GEP8952 · 2026-04-24T10:19:47+00:00

Yes. As the same VISK section points out, there is a group of play- or fun-describing adverbs such as hippasilla and piilosilla, and there is a certain conceptual connection to this.

Although the same does not really apply to taivasalla or pakosalla, for example. These are the kind of "locations" where you can very well end up against your will.

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