Let Us Now Praise...

The hub for artist, musician and public figure commentary on the Beatles, Charlie Chaplin & more.

Also check out @BeatlesPraise by curator @PerryBGartner

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On this day in 1967, the Beatles’ landmark “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released in America.

#OnThisDay #OTD #SgtPepper #Beatles #DaveMatthews @davematthewsbnd

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"I think Blackbird is the most beautiful song possibly ever written."
--@samsmith

#SamSmith #Gloria #Blackbird #TheBeatles

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"The Beatles are the Shakespeare of popular music. There’s a quality and a longevity to what they did that will outlast all of them, and all of us."
--@David_Tennant

#DoctorWho #Broadchurch #DavidTennant #TheBeatles

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"If, in the year 3000, you know the music of the Beatles…you will like us MUCH better."
--@RichardDreyfuss

#Movies #RichardDreyfuss #TheBeatles

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"It is enough to shrivel the heart to see, and it is the
greatest piece of acting and the highest moment in
movies."
--James Agee on the final scene of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights

#Film #JamesAgee #CharlieChaplin #CityLights

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"If there was any influence on me, it was Chaplin’s 'City Lights'."
--Federico Fellini

#Fellini #CharlieChaplin #Film

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"He played by instinct, sheer instinct...he was like a damn animal."– Rube Bressler on Babe Ruth

#RubeBressler #BabeRuth #GOAT #Baseball #LetUsNowPraise

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The great director Alan J. Pakula started out in a small theater in Hollywood called The Circle Theater, run by Sydney Chaplin - Charlie Chaplin's son. As Pakula remembers, Charlie himself would sometimes come down and direct...

#Directors #Movies #CharlieChaplin

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Steve Smith (@SteveSmithDrums) on Buddy Rich: “The greatest drum-set virtuoso who ever lived.”

#SteveSmith #Drums #Journey #VitalInformation #BuddyRich #GOAT

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"Chaplin's reactions are as fresh, as authentically personal, as those of a poet."
--Edmund Wilson

#Film #CharlieChaplin

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"The entire music world owes something to Buddy Rich."
--Frank Sinatra

#Sinatra #Buddy #GOAT

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"Without Chaplin I would never have made a film. With Keaton he was the master of us all. His work was always contemporary, yet eternal, and what he brought to cinema and to his time is irreplaceable."
--Jacques Tati

#Playtime #Tati #Chaplin #Legends

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Babe Ruth barnstormed regularly with Negro League all-stars, playing against the best Black ballplayers of his era. Hall of Famer Judy Johnson recalled a 1929 exhibition game played in the old Baker Bowl in Philadelphia...

#JudyJohnson #BabeRuth #GOAT #Baseball #LetUsNowPraise

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#Groucho and #TheBeatles: When Hollywood made strange (but the best) bedfellows...

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"Whenever I can get a free drink I'll go anywhere" #GrouchoMarx video on meeting the #Beatles 1964

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The great filmmaker Sam Peckinpah, asked to name his ten favorite directors, held one name apart as its own category:

#CharlieChaplin #Chaplin #SamPeckinpah #Film #LetUsNowPraise

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Hank Greenberg on Babe Ruth: "In his prime, he could do anything"

#BabeRuth #GOAT #HankGreenberg #DetroitTigers

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Lemmy on the Beatles: "They changed everything"

#Lemmy #Motorhead #TheBeatles #LetUsNowPraise

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"Chaplin is more than a name; it is a word in a dictionary. Anyone who has ever seen a movie is in his debt."
--Douglas Fairbanks

#Film #DouglasFairbanks #Pickfair #CharlieChaplin

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"His overdrive was beyond human": @DannySeraphine on #BuddyRich

#Chicago #DannySeraphine #Buddy #Drums

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Lee Strasberg, legendary acting coach, discusses Chaplin's instinctive mastery of the form

#ActorsStudio #TheMethod #Stanislavski #CharlieChaplin