I noticed this slightly unusual (and heartwarming) report this morning. It is especially fascinating to read what the Vatican now thinks of the White Album on its 40th anniversary :
The accompanying video clip (from 1966) is really interesting as well - featuring a young looking Charles Wheeler. He went on to become one of the greatest ever news reporters ....working right up to his death this last July - he was 85.
I noticed this slightly unusual (and heartwarming) report this morning. It is especially fascinating to read what the Vatican now thinks of the White Album on its 40th anniversary :
The accompanying video clip (from 1966) is really interesting as well - featuring a young looking Charles Wheeler. He went on to become one of the greatest ever news reporters ....working right up to his death this last July - he was 85.
Pretty cool, J9. I remember the controversy. Couldn't figure out what the big deal was. It WAS true, after all. Glad to see the Vatican lightening up....a little. Was it in North Carolina where a priest said he won't grant absolution (or some, obscure to me, Catholic rite) to any church member that had voted for Obama! Geeze! Get a life.
____________________________________________________________ Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. ---- William Saroyan
wow..better late than never over that row, eh? When that happened I came to see how pop stars and celebrities' opinions impinge on the culture. Oh man all those albums that got destroyed if we can recall..they were dumping beatles records in bonfires!...it was like they were consigned to hell and damnation for the remarks!....
Further to all this, I have just heard an amazing Radio 2 documentary on the 'White Album'. You can find it here - although you have to listen to 60 seconds of last Saturday's travel news first:
I think that along with Forever Changes, the 'White Album' provides an eerily effective soundtrack to the chaos, uncertainty and excitement that was 1968.
The Vatican on the White Album
Posted - 23/11/2008 : 12:34:59
