To mark the 60th anniversary of the Fabs making their landmark debut LP in 24 hours (Feb 11 1963) Peacock’s Tale old married woke folk indie duo have made a 14 track EP of Beatles stories, covers and pastiches charting that real life rags to riches fairy story 1960-1970 and its impact on Factory girl Cindy. “It Was 60 Years Ago Today.” https://peacocks-tale.bandcamp.com/album/it-was-60-years-ago-today-ep
Essentially it's a 60s kitchen sink magical-realist rags to riches real life fairytale in which Factory Girl (expelled from Grammar School at 14) Cindy gets to the Beatle Ball (a ticket to ride, leaving home, getting the word Love, going to India etc).
The gay colours; the sumptuous costumes; the irreverent majesty. The moment Cinders got to the ball and became Lucy. In the Sky. With Diamonds. The moment khaki became satin; Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali; Van became the Man; frogs became princes; pumpkins turned to bubble cars; guitars became wands; school became art school; Satan became Santa; guns became flowers; the artisan became the artist; George Eastham became George Best; the Black GI wielding his Master’s axe became Jimi Hendrix; the Stone Age came in colours; Brian Epstein came as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; the Hollies became King Midas (on their way to becoming Crosby, Stills, Nash and Jung); the Wurzels became Jeff Beck; the council estate got through the generation gap in the barbed wire and up up and into the Milky Way, heading like that “they think it’s all over, it is now” Geoff Hurst counter-attack over the Gates and into Heeeeeevennnnn!.
...until the 60s midnight knell tolls (At the end of Abbey Road was a crossroads. John turned left; Paul turned right; Ringo turned back and George...kept going.) A bucket of cold water over her Sixties bed. Paul’s lyrics stop meaning anything. John cuts off a decade of Beatle growth, gets a short, back and B sides, and stops being funny. England lose the World Cup. Wales never have it. Pan’s People become Legs and Co. The Stones emigrate. Legs disappear. The Mersey Sound and the Internationale become Standard English and National Service. Jesus Christ Superstar becomes Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Johnny went West. And Cindy went East. And maybe she is still there. Will her baby brother James, armed with her old copy of 'Pepper' clutched like a Cinderella slipper, be able to find her again?
This YouTube of one of the tracks (She’s Leaving Home) is proving popular. https://youtu.be/Z9p9tpucPnc
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