Monthly Archives: July 2009

Music, Pop Culture

The Beatles’ Yesterday and Today First Charted On This Day in 1965!

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Beatles Butcher Cover
Original Butcher Cover: Sells Today For Up To $10,000

On This Date, July 30th in 1965: The Beatles’ 10th album Yesterday and Today went to number one on the Billboard 200 album chart for the first of five consecutive weeks. Of course, this album is most famous for its original raw-meat-and-dismembered-baby-doll-flaunting Butcher Cover, which was soon recalled and replaced with a very bland image depicting the Beatles looking very bored and stoned (seriously, check out Paul’s nose). Controversy!

Beatles Y and T cover
Replacement Cover:  Sells for Around $10.00

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Bacon Thing Of The Day: Bacon Wikizine on Zimbio

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Bacon Wiki

If, like me, you write a fabulous blog that everyone loves wildly, you’ve probably registered that blog on the blog aggregator Zimbio. Because Zimbio is a great tool for promoting individual stories on your blog, and everybody wants to get as much love as possible, am I right? Well, just this morning I decided I was fed up with Zimbio not having a Bacon Wiki  on which to post my many Bacon Thing of The Day posts, so I created my own Bacon Wikizine: For Devotees of Bacon – aka “Meat Candy” – In All Of Its Forms! To all of you rabid bacon bloggers out there, please feel free to contribute content to my Bacon Wiki and by all means spread the word!

Update: Since Zimbio Has Gone Offline, I’m Afraid the Bacon Wikizine has as Well!

Music, Pop Culture

On This Day In Music: July 29th

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Beatles_help__movie_image

Here are a  few interesting events that happened on this date in Music, July 29th!

1965: The Beatles’ second movie Help! premiered at the Pavilion Theatre in London.

Led Zeppelin 1973

1973: Led Zeppelin lost $180,000 in cash, income from two concerts at Madison Square Garden, when a thief  stole the band’s safe deposit box from their hotel. The thief was never apprehended nor the money recovered.

Rush 1973

1974: Neil Peart joined Rush, replacing drummer John Rutsey, who left the band due to health problems.

Cass Elliot

1974: Mama Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen) of The Mamas & The Papas died in London of a heart attack shortly after she performed two sold out concerts at the London Palladium. She was 33 years old.

Pop Culture, Toys and Collectibles

Bacon Thing of The Day: Mr. Bacon’s Big Adventure Board Game!

Mr Bacon Game
“Let’s Play!”

Mr. Bacon’s Big Adventure is by far the most mouth-watering, meat-centric board game ever created! As you move your bacon character along the path through Meatland you’ll have to navigate your way through areas like the Mustard Marsh, the Wiener Wasteland and the Sausage Sea. The first one to make it to the frying pan at the end of the trail wins! Includes gameboard with spinner, four game pieces with plastic stands, twenty-four game cards and alternate rules that turn the game into a gluttonous meat feast! Available from Archie McPhee for just $19.95!

Thanks to Skulls and Bacon For The Tip!

Mr Bacon Board

Music, Pop Culture

Flashback Single of The Day: The Boomtown Rats’ “I Don’t Like Mondays”

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Boomtown Rats
“I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down”

On This Date, July 28th  in 1979: The Boomtown Rats had the #1 single in the UK with “I Don’t Like Mondays,” which appeared on their album, The Fine Art Of Surfacing. Boomtown Rats’ vocalist Bob Geldoff was inspired to write the song after hearing about the 1979 shooting spree at  Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California which was perpetrated by then 16-year old Brenda Ann Spencer. Continue reading Flashback Single of The Day: The Boomtown Rats’ “I Don’t Like Mondays” →