Magic Alex was such a grifter. What a ridiculous person
@Vingul
4 күн бұрын
Yep. Emblematic of the shallowness and sinister undertones of the time.
@glenmorgan4597
3 күн бұрын
@@Vingulsounds like a character in a Monty Python sketch
@user-fu2mi1nd5l
3 күн бұрын
His daddy helped put in greek military in 1967
@stevenfunderburg1623
2 күн бұрын
As a person who has experimented with psychoactive drugs myself, and recommends intelligent people to do so (under pre controlled and guided circumstances) I feel Lennon's willingness to indulge Alex would not have been a factor without the influence of LSD🤣😂🤣🤣
@Vingul
2 күн бұрын
@@stevenfunderburg1623 Lol. That may be true. It's so weird, though -- you'd think he/they would pick up the bad vibes better with acid. I assume he did have a bad "aura" about him. P.S. I make a point of never outright recommending such things to anyone, preetty powerful stuff. Sounds like you're careful about it anyway.
@Fordham1969
2 күн бұрын
Just marveling at the pace of change and development in the 60s. The Sgt. Pepper album literally shook the music world at every level of brow. It would be understandable that an artist might be a bit daunted about what to follow up that kind of monumental success with. It took Fleetwood Mac 2 1/2 years to follow up Rumors, The Eagles took nearly 3 to follow Hotel California, and Stevie Wonder over 3 years to follow Songs in the Key of Life. And yet the Beatles just toss out the MMT project within about 6 months of Peppers release.
@Flerg3
4 күн бұрын
If john was blown away by a box with lights, imagine his reaction to a smart phone.
@erniericardo8140
3 күн бұрын
He would be on (Twitter) X all the time
@kabiam
3 күн бұрын
The smart phone evolved over time. it didn't just drop from outer space.
@nolcrayus
3 күн бұрын
@@kabiamWhat!!!!??!!
@doctorrobert1339
3 күн бұрын
@@erniericardo8140 He would be a great shitposter
@kabiam
3 күн бұрын
@@nolcrayus WWWHHHAAAATTTTTT!!!! Perhaps. I'm still waiting for the magic chip that get implanted in you brain. Connecting the Neurons directly instead of a smartphone. Magic Alex should of invented it by now.
@Dekoherence-ii8pw
3 күн бұрын
6:10 "Wallpaper speakers". Sounds like something out of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. "Wallpaper speakers appear on the shore, coming to take you awaaaaaaay..." 🎵🎵🎵🎵
@mpemberton7760
3 күн бұрын
Well done!
@mpemberton7760
2 күн бұрын
Or maybe "Wallpaer speakers...climbing up the Eiffel Tower..."
@gettinhungrig8806
3 күн бұрын
'Magical Mystery Tour' song co-written with John according to Paul (Many Years From Now book). Way more than 3 chords in it too.
@DrKrankeit
3 күн бұрын
Magic Alex, Gurus, Maharshi, etc ... what a bunch of grifters.
@jimcoleman598
3 күн бұрын
you forgot Yoko
@Agripapost
3 күн бұрын
Forget the Beatles, where’s our movie on Magic Alex? 😂
@user-lj8sp7zg1p
3 күн бұрын
Yes he did well for a television repair man 😂
@mpemberton7760
3 күн бұрын
Wouldn't he make for a fascinating character to explore on film?
@bobbystereo936
3 күн бұрын
He also forgot the Hells Angels story when George met them in San Francisco.
@mpemberton7760
3 күн бұрын
@@bobbystereo936 George invited them to visit Apple HQ if they were ever in London. They showed up a couple of months later, just in time for the office Christmas party, and it didn't take long for all hell to break loose. On top of disrupting the party and getting into a fight over the food, they ended up staying there for a few days until George demanded that they leave.
@Agripapost
3 күн бұрын
@@bobbystereo936 I don’t think he covers the same anecdotes twice
@Shadowboxing123
4 күн бұрын
Another great documentry, thanks 👍
@indigohammer5732
3 күн бұрын
Magic Alex: The Scrapmans best friend
@stevenfunderburg1623
3 күн бұрын
Thank you Film Retrospective, for following through on your promise to follow up on the Magic Alex storyline. I actually resisted the urge to Google it for a week and you made it worth my while, well done 🤘
@bucksdiaryfan
3 күн бұрын
The media was obsessed with hippies in the sixties… the vast majority of young people were not hippies
@fazole
11 сағат бұрын
Hendrix comes to London in 66 wearing a band leader's jacket. In 1967, the Beatles start dressing in band outfits....
@Ram-Nagi
3 күн бұрын
Yay a new video! I really look forward to your videos!
@ajaxfilms
3 күн бұрын
As a kid I loved the movie Magical Mystery Tour...and still do!
@stefanhamilton8713
4 күн бұрын
Great context, as always!
@georgelucas2571
3 күн бұрын
It’s funny how even to this day, people tend to put all the blame on Paul for the end of the Beatles. McCartney’s not the easiest person to work with (ask Harrison and Ringo) but almost all the big factors that led to the break up were all because of John Lennon’s foolishness. Forcing Yoko on the band and the engineers, believing Magic Alex’s bs, getting hooked on heroin, and getting the band involved with Alan Klein and Phil Spector etc…
@Vingul
3 күн бұрын
In my experience most people rather blame Yoko (that is to say Lennon, if we’re being honest) and credit McCartney for keeping the band going post-1966. Which I think is fair.
@BigSmiley0TV
3 күн бұрын
It would certainly appear that way, and he obviously carries a good deal of blame, but in his defense, george and ringo still came around and made music with lennon after the break up
@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh
2 күн бұрын
Who cares? No one is perfect and brilliant people generally less so. But sure you and your ilk can point out all the "flaws" from your banal insignificant lives.
@TheCliffandPhilShow
2 күн бұрын
@@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh In their mummies basement! :)
@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh
Күн бұрын
@@TheCliffandPhilShow Yes absolutely, and whilst chewing on their blankies and crying themselves to sleep ... ;-)
@KnialPiper
3 күн бұрын
Magic Alex… cracks me up that they thought he was legit
@killval849
3 күн бұрын
right? it amazes me the gullibility... haha.
@Dekoherence-ii8pw
3 күн бұрын
he's amazing, this guy, right, he can do ANYTHING! Really he can.
@CosmicMapping
3 күн бұрын
I think they always knew lmao. Their relationship gave big “keeping this guy around cause he’s hilarious” vibes.
@user-fu2mi1nd5l
3 күн бұрын
after taking over, Paul had to give John something
@BugRib
3 күн бұрын
@CosmicMapping - But they paid him the equivalent of like 5 million dollars in today's money to invent a bunch of implausible recording equipment for Apple Studios! They must have kind of believed in him--although, I think it was mostly John and George that made that happen. Pretty sure Paul was at least suspicious, and I suspect that Ringo was too.
@spooley
3 күн бұрын
Destination unknown. But 90% of the time the bus was headed for Blackpool to hear Paul tell it.
@briteness
2 күн бұрын
It is unsurprising that Magic Alex disliked the Maharishi. A con man knows another con man when he sees one. Alex was just defending his turf.
@jlovebirch
3 күн бұрын
The Monterey Pop Festival was held in Monterey, not San Francisco.
@canalesworks1247
3 күн бұрын
Big, big difference. I used to go up to the Monterery area all the time. San Francisco is another 2 hours north.
@fazole
11 сағат бұрын
It's not far away. Less than 2 hours.
@jlovebirch
5 сағат бұрын
@@fazole Yep, been there, done that. Lived in SF for 11 years -- but wouldn't move back there today.
@Bellmore1395
3 күн бұрын
I live the Mahical Mystery Tour movie. It’s one of my favorite ever
@samuelmiller7987
3 күн бұрын
"No director...no script." Uh oh.
@spacerockwizard
3 күн бұрын
I love Mystery Tour though.
@bobbystereo936
3 күн бұрын
You left out the George Harrison Hells Angels story when he went to San Francisco.
@BasilFomeen
3 күн бұрын
That Acid was a hell of a drug
@Agripapost
3 күн бұрын
gotta love the crack up at 13:08😂
@onazram1
2 күн бұрын
The Monterey Pop Festival happened at the Monterrey Fair grounds in Monterey a couple hours away from San Francisco.
@mnbv990
3 күн бұрын
Great film, as usual.
@user-up2rf4xx9t
3 күн бұрын
Thank you
@CineSolutions
Күн бұрын
Thanks!
@filmretrospective5334
Күн бұрын
Thank you. Every donation really helps!
@midnightrider7648
2 күн бұрын
I am the walrus was conceived about this time so it wasn't without it's creative excellence.
@airmark02
2 күн бұрын
Hilarious how everything that was wrong with America back in 1967 was blamed on LSD ...😉😆😅😂
@Yardbird68
3 күн бұрын
Beatles came down after REVOLVER!
@user-fu2mi1nd5l
3 күн бұрын
It was all fun until the payment came due....Paul's sacrifice in the "car crash"
@ThisBirdHasFlown
2 күн бұрын
Yet produced even better records. Interesting.
@glenmorgan4597
3 күн бұрын
Never trust a hippie
@grahamjarman
3 күн бұрын
😂
@PontiacS.
3 күн бұрын
Nobody ever talks about the Fact that Paul wore Glasses as well.
@Vingul
4 күн бұрын
The bongo/tabla-like drums in the beginning sound almost exactly like the Goron City music from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
@ThisBirdHasFlown
3 күн бұрын
Please do documentarys on the recordings of other Beatles albums.
@scrambaba
3 күн бұрын
Not only was Lennon abusive with big anger and drug problems, but he was gullible and easily conned. The other 3 should have put him on probation as soon as Magic Alex showed up. Incidentally, Lennon did more damage with his nonsense than Paul or the other 2 put together. (After I wrote this I imagined Mick and Keith getting a sales pitch from Magic Alex. For some reason I have to think that they would have ridiculed him mercilessly and thrown him out. But maybe they hired him too?)
@georgelucas2571
3 күн бұрын
Lennon was always the problematic Beatle. A musical genius, but a difficult person.
@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh
2 күн бұрын
scrambaba - Awwww poor baby. This isn't a management company and you honestly have no clue what you're talking about. A bunch of wasted emotion on people you never knew and will never know. Judgemental, faux-pious holier than thou and most of all - BORING. Sorry the PR on Lennon does not pan out for you like it does with your favorite milquetoast band (Hall and Oates? Backstreet Boys? Partridge Family?) - tosser.
@BeatlemaccaAR
2 күн бұрын
En buen criollo, ALTO CHANTA el Alex. Y prueba también de lo perdido que andaba John a partir de mediados del 67.
@yowzephyr
Күн бұрын
Sheesh. All this time I thought "mystery tour" was just a name the Beatles came up with. I never knew until right now that that's a British term for school kids taking surprise field trips.
@doctorrobert1339
3 күн бұрын
I love that around 13:08 you almost let out a chucke talking about Alex lmao, he was such a wackjob, I didn't know he was involved to SUCH extent with The Beatles, I thought he just wanted to build them a studio.
@Deepbluecat
3 күн бұрын
Another cool video! Was never a big Beatles fan, but am fascinated by these peeks into their shenanigans, ;-) plus, good style in presentation.
@johninflorida8634
5 сағат бұрын
We were on drugs and didn't know what we were doing.
@Vingul
4 күн бұрын
11:17 lol, the stock photo guy even looks like Magic Alex a bit
@erniericardo8140
3 күн бұрын
Another fantastic Video👍👍 -Magic Alex was a total Bull Sh*t artist, a charlatan, He had this rasputin type of personality that had a strange effect on The Beatles.
@glenmorgan4597
3 күн бұрын
Monty Python character played by John Cleese
@terry10tnj
2 күн бұрын
Nah they knew he was full of it you can see them making fun of him and his inventions behind his back in the get back documentary lmao the only one who really took him seriously was John.
@SmilingIbis
13 сағат бұрын
Surely, at some point, someone must have noticed that this "Magic Alex" was just a nut.
@grahamjarman
3 күн бұрын
paul n ringo hated it they werent the only ones 😆
@buttafan4010
3 күн бұрын
Paul's full name ... WAS ... James Paul McCartney. When did he change it? Only the Pepper Pots know for sure.
@user-fu2mi1nd5l
3 күн бұрын
After Sept 11 1966.....
@buttafan4010
2 күн бұрын
@@user-fu2mi1nd5l 9/11 ???
@buttafan4010
2 күн бұрын
@@user-fu2mi1nd5l shadow ban check?
@ivanconnolly7332
2 күн бұрын
Alex was their drug dealer, lied about the Maharishi ,and lied for John claiming Cynthia had been unfaithful with him, what a creep.
@CosmicMapping
3 күн бұрын
This movement so desperately needed organization, the ideas were beautiful and aspiring but without meaningful organization it just became a big drug party. Now since it failed once we’ve completely backslid into an individualist dystopia. We missed such an amazing opportunity.
@aisle_of_view
3 күн бұрын
He may have cost them money, but he probably saved them more by helping to expose the Maharishi as another kind of charlatan.
@craigbhill
10 сағат бұрын
A lot of the narration is simply wrong. The others were not in on the new project of Payl's. John was not jealous of Paul's leadership, he was slipping into things other than the Beatles but never meant anyone to believe Alex was "his guru". Very superficial gossip.
@henmat3000
3 күн бұрын
John was never the best judge of character once the Beatles got famous, hanging around with grifters like Magic Alex and Allan Klein.
@georgelucas2571
3 күн бұрын
Also Yoko
@BugRib
3 күн бұрын
@georgelucas2571 - I think Jar Jar was a grifter. I mean, he had absolutely no business being in the Galactic Senate. Ridiculous! Of course, Jar Jar was never one of John Lennon's gurus, so I may be just a tad off-topic. 🤷🏻♂️
@Vingul
3 күн бұрын
@@BugRib Yoko was about half as talented and productive as Jar Jar but you could always draw a parallel.
@jadentrez
41 минут бұрын
Magic Alex sounds like the world's first meth head. Taking apart random machines for days, weeks on end.
@disneyfamily5158
3 күн бұрын
@1:15 Dave and Nick 😎
@kmanthecoolest9304
Күн бұрын
love the 60s shit.
@Chrisdrumz
3 күн бұрын
1:15.......David Gilmour and Nick Mason. Hyde Park.
@goodbababadbaba6370
4 күн бұрын
Good video🙏 pretty much sums it up,,I did hear in Rishikesh that John would send someone down to the nearest town at the crossroads the was an English wine shop, for wine before magic Alex got to india,,but who knows😀I made the trip every couple of days Rishikesh being a dry town
@pilotpirx3321
3 күн бұрын
1:15 David Gilmour and Nick Mason from Pink Floyd 😉
@ianhill3446
3 күн бұрын
What’s the gig I wonder?
@alexthegordo
3 күн бұрын
13:09 even he broke
@adamfindlay7091
3 күн бұрын
I seriously doubt Lennon disliked Pauls press @ LSD.Hippies: not all praise drugs, okay. Some, are into peace/joy/nature/creativity/freedom from artificial. Blackbird, Dr Prudence, HelterSkelter, While My Guitar Gently, +23 massive tunez; not a come down at all.
@Aristipp-ng5fu
3 күн бұрын
I learned the word " grifter" here.
@PirateRadioPodcasts
Күн бұрын
Meh. Paul STOLE a page (or TWO) via Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters.
@russelljdj
3 күн бұрын
Another great video! Yucko is poison. Too bad Magic Alex couldn't have made her invisable.😅
@grahamjarman
3 күн бұрын
😂
@user-fu2mi1nd5l
3 күн бұрын
@@CosmicMapping Get Back JOJO......
@user-fu2mi1nd5l
3 күн бұрын
Ole Alex daddy was to do with Greek military coup in 1967
@vycter6899
4 күн бұрын
Noice
@mwmeier7677
4 күн бұрын
Quite.
@tyfrey_
21 сағат бұрын
1:15
@hurdygurdyguy1
3 күн бұрын
Magic Alex!! 🤣🤣🤣 World class bll$hitter!! Same with the Indian guru, the Maharishi....
@franktreppiedi2208
3 күн бұрын
Thank God George Martin didn't die.
@aunch3
2 күн бұрын
It’s an interesting study to see what happens when you have a generation of kids so spoiled and entitled. You get the Boomers; fake love, drugs, greed, selfishness, and narcissism
@mortimersnerd8044
Күн бұрын
That's the same for all youth culture, as true today as it was back then. Only the specific fads and outward styles have changed.
@orgenorotle
3 күн бұрын
As much of a grifter Alex was, a lot of his ideas have come to take place.
@ThisBirdHasFlown
2 күн бұрын
Through no thanks to his talents whatsoever. Flying cars were envisioned in the '50s. When we get them in 2082, we won't be giving credit to the visionaries of the '50s, will we?
@klausnordmeyer
11 сағат бұрын
Magic Alex comes across as an Owsley Stanley wannabe, who unfortunately lacked Stanley's considerable real talents.
@thunderbirdmcfly8657
Күн бұрын
Magic Alex said make a 🌞 that shines at night?? A better studio 🎙 Forest Gump would be embarrassed by Magic Alex's lies and promises 😂 how to waste money and be naive in hands of a crooked.
@alanh7247
3 күн бұрын
lol. 1967 beatles were old guard/passé... the doors, hendrix, cream, janis, pink floyd, etc were the new wave...
@Vingul
3 күн бұрын
Hendrix performed the Sgt. Pepper’s tune live about two days after it was released guy. Floyd recorded next door to the Beatles and inspiration probably went both ways between them.
@ThisBirdHasFlown
2 күн бұрын
That's such a load of bs lol. Sgt. Pepper's was a gargantuan seller - the biggest of the year - and the defacto boundary pushing rock/pop album of the year. A massive inspiration to multiple artists you just mentioned. You have no idea what you're talking about.
@alanh7247
2 күн бұрын
@@ThisBirdHasFlown what does sales have to do with anything? my guess is e.g. motley crue outsold talking heads but that hardly means the former is better or more influential than the latter. sgt peppers may have been innovative wrt production but musically it's really not all that substantial, and as bowie has pointed out in an interview, bands such as velvet underground have had much more influence on contemporary music than the beatles.
@alanh7247
2 күн бұрын
@@Vingul lol. hendrix played a beatles tune, therefore the beatles.
@Vingul
Күн бұрын
@@alanh7247 one of the hip dudes you mentioned instantly covered a Beatles track from 1967, do you not get the logic? How passé can they reasonably have been following your own logic? To use the word logic once more, your logic is disjointed and not really logical, it's illogical. Lolsz
@johninflorida8634
5 сағат бұрын
Oh Paul was taking over and it destroyed the band.
@user-ld2dl3wp5b
2 күн бұрын
The Beatles were amazing singers, musicians, and songwriters - but completely lost spiritually, which ultimately is ALL that matters. Many of us found Jesus Christ - and everything we'd been searching for. The Beatles, for all their creativity - found NOTHING. All these years later - I STILL love The Beatles music - but, in the end - what a tragic waste of 4 gifted lives.
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