MIKE LOVE WANTS BRIAN WILSON BACK IN THE BEACH BOYS

[SMiLE Brian]

I think Mike is starting to look like gollum as well. OSD is on the quest to destroy the one ring....

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

I think Mike is starting to look like gollum as well. OSD is on the quest to destroy the one ring....

Didn't The Beatles wanna do their own movie version of Lord Of The Rings???

Maybe Mike brandished the ring to Paul in India and said "Back off, pal" ........ "after I help you write Back In The USSR"!

[ontor pertawst]

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!

Hey do-wop bam merry dol! ring a ding dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal down to Kokomo!
Tom Bom bam, jolly Tom-a-lang, Tom Bombadillo!

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!

Hey do-wop bam merry dol! ring a ding dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal down to Kokomo!
Tom Bom bam, jolly Tom-a-lang, Tom Bombadillo!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!

some tiny hobbit tries to put me down and says The Shire's great! I tell him right away, now what's the matter Frodo, ain't you hear of Mordor? It's number one in Middle Earth!

[Gertie J.]

 you guys are cookin'!!!!

[SMiLE Brian]

i think you're onto sumthin'......

Ah!!!!!

The reason he wears so many is so the ONE won't stand out!

The ONE ring also tells Mike lyrics for his beach songs. Watch for Love/One Ring credits on BBs albums.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

i think you're onto sumthin'......

Ah!!!!!

The reason he wears so many is so the ONE won't stand out!

The ONE ring also tells Mike lyrics for his beach songs. Watch for Love/One Ring credits on BBs albums.

I wonder if Sauraman would make Bruce put on some pants at the gig?

[SMiLE Brian]

i think you're onto sumthin'......

Ah!!!!!

The reason he wears so many is so the ONE won't stand out!

The ONE ring also tells Mike lyrics for his beach songs. Watch for Love/One Ring credits on BBs albums.

I wonder if Sauraman would make Bruce put on some pants at the gig?

Nah, Bruce was the general of his army that attacked Helm's Deep.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

i think you're onto sumthin'......

Ah!!!!!

The reason he wears so many is so the ONE won't stand out!

The ONE ring also tells Mike lyrics for his beach songs. Watch for Love/One Ring credits on BBs albums.

I wonder if Sauraman would make Bruce put on some pants at the gig?

Nah, Bruce was the general of his army that attacked Helm's Deep.

He showed them success hating Dwarfs, Hobbits, and Elves who wears thew shorts!!!!

[JohnMill]

I think Mike is starting to look like gollum as well. OSD is on the quest to destroy the one ring....

Didn't The Beatles wanna do their own movie version of Lord Of The Rings???

Yeah they did.  It was shortlisted as a potential follow-up to "Help!" and it even went so far as the decision being made to cast John Lennon as Frodo.  Another potential project was apparently a cowboy western entitled "A Talent For Loving" although little beyond the title is known about the project.  Neither of these proposed ideas obviously went very far and allegedly The Beatles hoped that "Yellow Submarine" would instead fulfill their obligations to United Artists for a 3rd feature.  Apparently despite the fact that YS featured The Beatles in a brief cameo at the end of the film, UA said "no dice" and therefore "Let It Be" ultimately became the means of fulfilling the contract to UA.*

* Strangely though and quite contrastingly, "Let It Be" was originally supposed to be a made for television special instead of a feature film so I don't know how that would've fulfilled the UA contract.  In the end it all obviously worked out well except for the band themselves of course.  

Edit: As for the two scrapped films:  My only guess as to why they never got underway (even though a potential 3rd film was much discussed in late 1965 by the band) is that they didn't want to box themselves into writing a bunch of country western tunes and as far as LOTR goes probably felt uncomfortable writing music for a book/screenplay that was obviously not written with them specifically in mind.

[Dudd]

I think Mike is starting to look like gollum as well. OSD is on the quest to destroy the one ring....

Didn't The Beatles wanna do their own movie version of Lord Of The Rings???

Yeah they did.  It was shortlisted as a potential follow-up to "Help!" and it even went so far as the decision being made to cast John Lennon as Frodo.  Another potential project was apparently a cowboy western entitled "A Talent For Loving" although little beyond the title is known about the project.  Neither of these proposed ideas obviously went very far and allegedly The Beatles hoped that "Yellow Submarine" would instead fulfill their obligations to United Artists for a 3rd feature.  Apparently despite the fact that YS featured The Beatles in a brief cameo at the end of the film, UA said "no dice" and therefore "Let It Be" ultimately became the means of fulfilling the contract to UA.*

* Strangely though and quite contrastingly, "Let It Be" was originally supposed to be a made for television special instead of a feature film so I don't know how that would've fulfilled the UA contract.  In the end it all obviously worked out well except for the band themselves of course.  

Edit: As for the two scrapped films:  My only guess as to why they never got underway (even though a potential 3rd film was much discussed in late 1965 by the band) is that they didn't want to box themselves into writing a bunch of country western tunes and as far as LOTR goes probably felt uncomfortable writing music for a book/screenplay that was obviously not written with them specifically in mind.

Legend has it that the director of the Beatles LOTR was going to be Stanley Kubrick!  

[AndrewHickey]

 Another potential project was apparently a cowboy western entitled "A Talent For Loving" although little beyond the title is known about the project.

Tons is known about it. It was based on the 1961 bestselling novel by Richard Condon, and was eventually made by Walter Shenson, the Beatles' film producer, in 1969 with Richard Widmark and Cesar Romero. It's not very good --
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065065/

Edit: As for the two scrapped films:  My only guess as to why they never got underway (even though a potential 3rd film was much discussed in late 1965 by the band) is that they didn't want to box themselves into writing a bunch of country western tunes and as far as LOTR goes probably felt uncomfortable writing music for a book/screenplay that was obviously not written with them specifically in mind.

With Lord Of The Rings they couldn't buy the rights to the book -- depending on who you believe, Tolkein either turned them down because he didn't like their music or the rights had been sold the day before they enquired about them, for what became the Ralph Bakshi animated version.

There were loads of other ideas that they talked about -- at one point they were going to do a version of The Three Musketeers (presumably at Richard Lester's instigation, since he filmed that himself later), and they also commissioned a script from Joe Orton, which was to have had the four of them as gay lovers. They turned that one down, and Richard Lester was going to make it starring Mick Jagger and Ian McKellan instead, but then Orton died and the project died with him.

[Andrew G. Doe]

I believe the Orton script was called something like "Prick Up Your Ears".

[ontor pertawst]

Nope. "Up Against It."

Orton:  "the boys, in my script, have been caught in-flagrante, become involved in dubious political activity, dressed as women, committed murder, been put in prison and committed adultery."

McCartney: "We didn't do it because it was gay."

[JohnMill]

McCartney was also shortlisted (and if fact offered) the role of Romeo in "Romeo And Juliet" (1968).  He turned it down.

Also for what it's worth there are at least three Wings related films that McCartney was in the process of putting together in the seventies none of which ever truly got off the ground.  In addition "Rupert & The Frog Song" was originally conceptualized as a full length feature with complete soundtrack.  Macca floated out "Rupert & The Frog Song" as a bit of a trailer attached to "Give My Regards To Broad Street" as to what a potential full length feature could be like and apparently back in the day there was enough interest to move forward with the project.  However, somehow along the way the project got entangled in all sorts of legal woes and well the full length Rupert Bear film never materialized.  Instead Macca got to working on "Tropic Island Hum" in the late eighties which finally saw release several years ago on DVD.

[Jonathan Blum]

Legend has it that the director of the Beatles LOTR was going to be Stanley Kubrick!  

I heard Patrick McGoohan was in the frame at one point, right after "The Prisoner".  *faints dead away*

Cheers,
Jon Blum

[Jay]

There was a book released sometime in the mid 1990's that listed every movie The Beatles did, plus a bunch of film ideas that never worked out. I was actually quite surprised with just how many aborted ideas and projects there were.

[Phoenix]

For Smile, the failure was modular recording and frankly, too much music to assemble.

Period.   
 


I don't know how people still can't see this.  Talk about perpetuating myths.

[Don Malcolm]

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!

Hey do-wop bam merry dol! ring a ding dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal down to Kokomo!
Tom Bom bam, jolly Tom-a-lang, Tom Bombadillo!

FINALLY...the last lost (along the riverun...) song by Syd Barrett has been exhumed from Middow Eart'...!! Ol' Tolkien was just a shoddy precursor to the man who wanted "to tell you a story...about a little man...if I can." (Ontor, I think you can seamlessly segue this one into "Bells of Madness" if you put on your thinkin' cap...)

Problem was that, when Syd went off to Kokomo...he never came back. 

[Tilt Araiza]

A radio version of Up Against It was made in 1997 (Damon Albarn was in it).  I don't know about the radio version, but I've heard that Orton's script had no part for Paul.