Sometime in the Spring of 2017, I had a crazy idea. What if I recorded versions of the songs that were written by The Beatles before they were famous? So I duped, er, asked some friends to help out and they started to do just that.
From there, the idea flowered into something very different. We're still recording songs, but I decided that it was fascinating studying the origins of the world's most famous band, and maybe it would be fun to celebrate the sixtieth anniversaries of major events in the lives and careers of The Beatles. Why sixtieth? No reason other than that it was coming up. I decided to name the project "Barmy Old Codger" and began posting on social media such as Facebook and Twitter on July 6, 2017, the sixtieth anniversary of the day that John and Paul met.
From the start through most of 2019, what was then called Barmy Old Codger posted just about every day and recorded about twenty songs that were written by the teenage Beatles (as well as some others). Towards the end of 2019 another idea took hold. Sixty years prior to that time, the lives of The Beatles became very busy, so there was a lot to talk about. Too much for simple Facebook and Twitter posts. So the Barmy Beatle Blog was started.
I have now moved on to the next stage, Synthesizing The Beatles. The basic idea is to collect all of the information available in thousands of books and articles about The Beatles, and synthesize them into one most accurate story of what really happened. Not like that's really possible, but I'm giving it a shot!
I hope you enjoy this archive of the posts from The Barmy Beatle Blog and I hope to see you at the Synthesizing the Beatles site. Thank you for being here!
- Andrew Martin Adamson
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