The beautiful people!
Here they are - the In-crowd! The swingiest of people everybody is raving about. New things to do... New people to meet... New places to go... New fun to have...
Club members
These are the members of the webring. The hip people with their own table at the club. Why don't you pay them a visit and say hello?
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Fritzi's (that's me!) website is dedicated to the girl, the OF character in her Beatles RPF series Girl. |
Avery is a chick in the Midwest with a hyperfixation on the 60s and 70s, paired with a manic drive to write. |
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Wildcat runs a personal website with original stories set in the past! |
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Fritzi's (that's me!) personal website is a collection of all the things I like: books, films, games, music and everything nice. |
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Aïcha's site is a display cabinet for all of the (usually vintage) things I take joy in! |
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Pigeon! says, I post my (published) poetry there, but I don't have a lot of that yet. I plan to talk about pigeons, and scrap-booking, and the books I am reading and also inevitably phil ochs and chess the musical. I'm also making a shrine for the colour yellow! |
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Emmy's website is a fan shrine dedicated to Inspector Zenigata from Lupin III fame and my love for him! The site revolves around canon material, but also fan content I've created as well. |
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Felix' page is a personal website, including diary entries, stickers, and more! |
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Chloe's website is a space for creative liberty and freedom of expression!! And the vibe is heavily inspired by the psychedelic & hippie wave |
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Petey's website is where I put my art and also everything else! It has a blog, a concert log, and just about everything else I can think to put on there. |
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Joe Jenett's website is a remix of words and images, circa 1997-2004 plus other works (old and new) of the same spirit. |
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Jackson's website is a fansite for John Lennon. |
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Misty's website is sweet as peanut butter and just as nutty. |
Poll result
Attention, cats & kittens!
As you might remember, I asked you about your favourite Beatle when filling in your application form. This was not a trick question, you've all made it into the club!
Let me introduce to you the one and only club's current darling Beatle Paul McCartney!
Fabulous friends
Below you'll find marvellous resources for all Sixties lovers. Either hand-picked by me or suggested by you.
If you find that something or someone truly great is missing from that list, let me know via e-mail.
| Guitar Tutorials | |
| Mike Pachelli is a true Beatles expert. His YouTube channel provides excellent in-depth guitar lessons and background info for many songs of the Fab Four. | |
| Rob Swift is a professional guitarist and his YouTube channel is a magnificent source for all sorts of guitar lessons including music theory, Blues, Classic Rock and many Beatles songs. | |
Ivor is a retired semi-pro guitarist and provides acoustic guitar lessons for beginners and intermediate players on his YouTube channel. He does beautiful campfire versionsof lots of great 60s songs. |
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With a name like his, Jon is predestined to make excellent Beatles guitar tutorials and in fact he has the best video on how to play Blackbird. But that's not all; as Jon says he's helping guitarists escape the black hole of learning on the internet with step-by-step plans to unlock their inner rockstar.And if you're looking for e-guitar tutorials specifically, that's the place to go! |
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| Magazine Archives | |
The Fabulous magazine archive. Fabulous magazine was launched in January 1964 and was one of the top selling music magazines of the 60s and 70s, running for nearly 900 issues. It consisted of full colour shots of pop artists and groups, taken by top photographers, including David Steen and Robert Whitaker, which could be used as wall posters. Predominantly concentrating on Merseymaniaat the outset, it contained at least one pin-up of The Beatles in every issue for two years and some issues, such as 15th February 1964, were almost totally devoted to the group. |
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The RAVE magazine archive. RAVE was a fan magazine, filled with original photos and interviews and life stories of the great names of the beat generationin the UK. |
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| The Avant Garde magazine archive. Avant Garde, the brainchild of Ralph Ginzburg, was a magazine notable for graphic and logogram design by Herb Lubalin. It also featured John Lennon's Bag One litographs. | |
| The International Times magazine archive. International Times was an underground newspaper, founded in London in 1966. | |
| The IKEA catalouge archive. Contains every issue from 1950 to 2021. | |
| Past Print is an online archive with lots and lots of vintage magazines. It even has almost all issues of my beloved TWEN magazine. | |
| Miscellanea | |
| Enter the Day-Glo world of The Peculiar Manicule and explore an awe-inspiring archive of 60s and 70s graphic design. Witness mind-blowing displays of ink on paper by designers and illustrators, both known and unknown. | |
A website with lots of information about American songwriter, protest/topical singer and political activist Phil Ochs. This website was suggested by Pigeon!, who says, I feel like a big thing in his music (and a big way it stays relevant) is in it's depiction of overwhelm, of how to find courage and love in a world that seems to be getting increasingly scary and complicated. |
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| Information on the Woodstock Music Festival site for those who are lucky to have the chance to pay a visit. But that's not all. If you're interested in finding out more about nature and history in the many national parks in the United States, you should browse The National Park Service websites in its entirety. | |
| Great resource for the history behind all of The Beatles' songs. | |
| The go-to fan site for The Monkees with tons of information, photos and magazine scans. | |
| A collection of primarily found photos featuring everyday people and life from eras bygone. | |
| Personal Sites | |
Sirega is a writer who has a focus on Canadian historical fiction. She has always been interested in Creative Writing, History, and Vintage Fashion. A talkative Bulbul bird, she talks and writes in paragraphs about the wonderful memories of the past and the present. |
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| Emma Rosa Katharina's YouTube channel has videos surrounding topics such as vintage fashion, thrifting and all about the people that made the 60s & 70s so wonderful. So if you're looking for a little time travel back to the days of The Beatles, The Doors and The Rolling Stones, this is where to go. | |
| The Dissenters is the best Tumblr blog dedicated to the best band - The Beatles -, John Lennon and the 50s & 60s in general. | |