From: edc@evolution.bchs.uh.edu (edward s. chen)
Subject: Re: "Not only...but also...."
Organization: Little to none, or maybe not......
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 06:07:22 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.175726.12260@mic.ucla.edu> dmaclaug@agsm.ucla.edu (saki) writes:
>In article <1992Apr5.081707.14036@syma.sussex.ac.uk> stevedc@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Stephen Carter) writes:
>>[Re: connections between the Beatles and Cook & Moore]
>>There is a MUCH better one in that Dud & Pete did a show called 'Not
>>Only But Also' and John appeared on it to plug his first (?) book and
>>to appear in a few sketches.
>
>That must have been Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's radio version of
>their revue, not the stage version. My sources say that John appeared
>as a guest with Cook and Moore on BBC radio on 9 January 1965. He was
>probably plugging his first book, "In His Own Write", though his 
>second, "A Spaniard In The Works", was in process and was published
>a mere six months later, so he could conceivably have read some poetry
>from the upcoming book. John did make a TV appearance for "A Spaniard..."
>later that year, on a BBC TV show called "Tonight"; he was also active
>in promoting it by radio.
>

John did indeed appear in "Not Only...But Also" in 1965, reading excerpts
for "In His Own Write".  Also on that show was Mr. Norman Rossington, familar
to Beatlefans everywhere as Norm from "A Hard Day's Night".  I even have 
Moore's introductions for you all, thanks to the wonder of VHS tape:

Moore (looking very studious with IHOW under arm): Poetry, and Music.  This
uneasy marriage of the arts has caused a lot of controversy for a long time.
Many opinions are for, many against.  We leave you to judge for yourselves.
What we are going to show you is a visualization and musification of a poem
of a young poet: John Lennon  -- and the poem is called quite simply
"Deaf Ted, Danoota (and me)" [short film]

Cook reads the poem over "Running, Jumping, Standing Still"-ish scenes of
Lennon, Cook and Moore play out.  Additionally,, an unnamed classical piece
is playing in the background.

Now before the film, that is, after it, or to put it another way, during it,
let us hear a few words about the awful.

[John reads "About the Awful"]

As you can see, diction is very important.  And the awful has several
interesting, or conversely uninteresting hints to offer.

(Lennon, Moore and Cook alternate reading lines)

[All Abord Speeching]
[Good Dog Nigel, while Cook and Lennon hold a writhing bassett hound]

Thank you for that performance, Nigel.  and now, "Unhappy Frank"

[Unhappy Frank]

Finally, the awful himself with: "The Wrestling Dog"

[The Wrestling Dog]

Mr. John Lennon (the audience claps)

(Moore performs a song at the show's close, and makes introductions)

... and of course, the BOOKWRITING BEATLE! Mr. John Lennon.

Nicholas Schaffner in "The Beatles Forever" has a picture of a Sgt-Pepper-era
Lennon (glasses, no moustache) which is captioned "John Lennon as a snappily
dressed W.C. attendant in Not Only...But Also" (Keystone Press Agency) which
indicates Lennon was to appear on the program a year later.  However, I do not
have this in my collection, and have never seen the film.

The "Tonight" appearance is much more serious.  John is interviewed by a 
rather stuffy news-type, and the poems he reads are mostly his political
satire from "A Spaniard in the Works"

<ESC>
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ou est le soleil, dans la tete, Travaillez.
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