EVERYTHING IS REAL
The paradox of Theseus’s ship (featuring Dr Feelgood, Pink Floyd, Yes, UB40, Boney M).
A trip to France, an encounter with a girl and various encounters with Tangerine Dream (also featuring Pink Floyd, Neil Young).
Festivals, classic albums, halls of fame, self-awareness, self-importance (featuring Patti Smith, David Bowie).
Music as solidified sound; the idea of schizophonia (featuring Glenn Gould); authenticity versus schizophonia on the Voyager LP.
Monuments versus middens (featuring 2001, Roadside Picnic); NASA wake-up calls, country music and music in space.
I visit a Beatle-themed visitor attraction in Liverpool: what it was like, and what happened there.
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...cultural exchange...
The six pairs of English and French students at Jean Michel’s secondary school. I am front row, first left; he is back row, second right. There is also a teacher present. Judy and Evelyn went to a different school.
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…this kind of thing happens all the time…
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…Bowie’s greatest triumph surely came when the song ‘Space Oddity’ was played in space by astronaut Chris Hadfield…
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…a red Tesla Roadster launched into space by Elon Musk’s SpaceX corporation in early 2018…
Photo from space, alongside a Lego cover version/remix/tribute/’hommage’.
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…into the bowels of the earth…
From Wikipedia:
The concept of an underworld is found in almost every civilization, and ‘may be as old as humanity itself’.
A common feature of underworld myths is the account of a living person making the journey to the underworld, often for some heroic purpose…
The descent to the underworld has been described as ‘the single most important myth for Modernist authors’.
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…a labyrinth isn’t the same as a maze…
Maze (left) and labyrinth (right).
To find your way through the maze, take GPS technology, or a notepad and plenty of time. To get from A to B and back in the labyrinth, just keep moving.
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…four Beatles dummies… maybe inspired by Kraftwerk…
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…I saw the Cavern…
The rope here is white instead of red, but apart from that it’s all the same.
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…the Yellow Submarine…
Exterior and interior.
Overground and underground/underwater.
John Lennon Airport and Albert Dock.