6/3/2006

Made-in-Japan painting by the Beatles uncovered

Long-lost picture painted by Beatles obtained by gallery in Sapporo
Crisscross – News – Saturday, June 3, 2006 at 06:56 EDT, TOKYO … painted by the Beatles when the group visited Japan 40 years ago has been obtained by a gallery in Sapporo, Hokkaido…painted by all the four members of the band when they stayed at a hotel in Tokyo for their concert in the Nippon Budokan in 1966. The Beatles gave the abstract picture — 55 centimeters by 80 cm — drawn in pen and painted in watercolor to Rumiko Hoshika, 65, a music critic…more….

Yikes! The legend of the so-called “Beatles Typhoon” trip to Japan just gets more interesting. For the “real” scoop, check out the British Ambassador to Tokyo in 1966 wrote a confidential report on the visit.

More photos and info from the forum thread: Beatles At The Budokan

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1. "Mulboyne" via Taro Says:
   June 3rd, 2006 at 7:21 pm

   My friend Mulboyne -san just mentioned to me that:

   This [Beatles' painting] was mentioned in Japanese on this site. I don’t know how many they did but the one bought by the gallery looks different to the work-in-progress pictured.

2. Taro Says:
   June 3rd, 2006 at 7:28 pm

   That section by itself looks much better than either of completed paintings.

3. Taro Says:
   June 14th, 2006 at 4:51 am

   Ain’t it surreal that for a while Tokyo area had TWO—yes 2—full blown Beatles museaums? Sony used to have a complete Yellow Submarine exhibit in Sony’s Mega Web Mediage themepark in Odaiba, Tokyo.
   Refer to:
   http://tokyo-i.tripod.com/tokyo/odaiba_yellowsub.htm

   Also check out the middle of the industrial slums of Saitama (Tokyo area) the John Lennon Museum.
   Refer to:
   http://www.taisei.co.jp/museum/index_e.html

4. john kelly Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 11:16 pm

   Hi
   Just a few lines to let you know of an item that may be of interest to you – portrait of John Lennon –hand signed and dated open edition print by Liverpool artist ‘John Kelly’ – is presently for sale on Ebay. It is literally ‘going for a song’ (excuse the pun) but for a limited time only – so why not check it out!

   Hope you don’t me bringing this to your attention!!

   ebay.com/Beatles-art-John-Lennon-
   by-artist-JKelly-signed-art

   And a portrait of Ringo:
   ebay.com/Beatles-art-Ringo-Starr-by-
   artist-JKelly-signed-art

5. Taro Says:
   January 27th, 2007 at 10:53 am

   …let you know of an item that may be of interest to you – portrait of John Lennon –by John Kelly…

   Normally I would not approve a “commercial” message like this but in your rare case John you are on-topic and providing valuable info—THANKS!

   By the way, your ebay URL links that you posted are way to long for many blogs and website like this. I repaired your broken links.

   I strongly suggest that you a link shortening service like http://doiop.com/ to change your overly-long URLs like:

   http://cgi.ebay.com/Beatles-art-John-Lennon-by
-artist-JKelly-signed-art_W0QQitemZ2000715
87045QQihZ010QQcategoryZ20149QQss Pag
eNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

   Using doiop.com that same link will look like this:
   http://doiop.com/art-John-Lennon

   Sorry, I’m just offering a suggestion to help you to succeed with further PR of your fine artwork.

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