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That's great. On the subject of tea, in the Nowhere Boy film there's a scene where Julia and Mimi are in a cafe. Mimi asks the waitress for earl grey, and she snaps back: “I think you've got us confused with Buckingham Palace, love – it's easily done”. Great line!

Yes, you can add pictures. When posting, click on the little pic of a tree. That brings up a popup box.

There are two ways to post pics. The first is to point to one hosted on another website. To do this (depending on your browser) go to the picture in question, right click and choose properties, then copy the location of the picture (it will probably begin with http and end with .gif or .jpg, but shouldn't be .html). Add this link to the “Image URL” field in the popup box. This is probably the easiest way to do it.

The other option is to upload it to my server. I'm not entirely sure if this is enabled to anyone but me, so if someone could test it that'd be useful. Again, click on the tree icon, then on the little image of a camera on the right-hand side. You should then be able to browse to pics on your computer and upload them to the site, and they'll then appear in your forum messages.

It's probably harder to explain than it is to actually do! I really should sort out a forum user guide for things like this, though I'm still learning how to use some of the features myself.

EDIT user guide now here: https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..lp-guides/

Nowhere Boy is out here in the UK on 26 December, though I'm not sure about international dates. I went to a preview screening at Abbey Road on Monday (which I'm still on a high from). Here's an article with pictures from the screening: https://www.beatlesbible.com/2…..d-studios/

…and a review of the film: https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..where-boy/

…and of the soundtrack album: https://www.beatlesbible.com/a…..oundtrack/

Sorry, I've hijacked your thread! If you still have problems with the images let me know and I'll take a look (though maybe not for a couple of days, as I'll be offline)

This is from the Lennon Remembers, 1970, Rolling Stone interview Jann Wenner did with John:

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How did you meet Yoko?
There was a sort of underground clique in London; John Dunbar, who was married to Marianne Faithfull, had an art gallery in London called Indica, and I'd been going around to galleries a bit on me off days in between records, also to a few exhibitions in different galleries that showed sort of unknown artists or underground artists. I got the word that this amazing woman was putting on a show the next week, something about people in bags, in black bags, and it was going to be a bit of a happening and all that. So I went to a preview the night before it opened. I went in – she didn't know who I was or anything – and I was wandering around. There were a couple of artsy-type students who had been helping, lying around there in the gallery, and I was looking at it and was astounded. There was an apple on sale there for two hundred quid; I thought it was fantastic – I got the humor in her work immediately. I didn't have to have much knowledge about avant-garde or underground art, the humor got me straightaway. It was two hundred quid to watch the fresh apple decompose. But it was another piece that really decided me for or against the artist: a ladder that led to a painting, which was hung on the ceiling. It looked like a black canvas with a chain with a spyglass hanging on the end of it. I climbed the ladder, looked through the spyglass, and in tiny little letters it said, YES. So it was positive. I felt relieved. It's a great relief when you get up the ladder and you look through the spyglass and it doesn't say NO or F**K YOU or something. I was very impressed. John Dunbar introduced us – neither of us knew who the hell each other was. She didn't know who I was; she'd only heard of Ringo; I think it means apple in Japanese. And Dunbar had sort of been hustling her, saying, “That's a good patron; you must go and talk to him or do something.” Dunbar insisted she say hello to the millionaire – you know what I mean. And she came up and handed me a card that said BREATHE on it – one of her instructions – so I just went [pants]. This was our meeting.

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The McCartney thing is less certain, though I've read a few accounts of it. In brief, Ono knocked on his door asking for Beatles lyrics for a John Cage tribute. Here's Wikipedia's take on it:

There are two versions of how Lennon and Ono met: The first version says that on 9 November 1966, Lennon went to the Indica gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.^[123][124] Lennon was intrigued by Ono's “Hammer A Nail” Piece: patrons hammered a nail into a wooden board, creating the art piece. Lennon wanted to hammer a nail in the clean board, but Ono stopped him because the exhibit had not opened. Dunbar then said to Ono, “Don't you know who this is?” Ono had not heard of The Beatles but relented, on the condition that Lennon pay her five shillings. Lennon then said, “I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail.”^[38] The second version is that in late 1965, Ono was in London compiling original musical scores for a book that John Cage was working on.^[125] She knocked on McCartney's door, but he declined to give her any manuscripts as he kept all his originals, but suggested that Lennon might oblige. When asked, Lennon gave the original handwritten lyrics to “The Word ” from Rubber Soul to Ono. They were reproduced in Cage's book, Notations.^[126]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon

There's some more info here: http://www.beatlescience.com/ and a quiz example: http://www.beatlescience.com/quiz.html

I've been thinking of adding a 'Which Beatle are you?' personality quiz for this site, purely as a bit of fun. I'll have a think about possible questions. It looks like this book/site have already done something similar, though, so I'll try not to tread on their toes.