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[Kevin]

Go Tkitna. What a load of rubbish this is.
Maybe, just maybe you could imagine pink Floyd doing this. But the idea that The Beatles sat around in '63 and synched Please please Me is insane.
No matter how many happy coincidences (bizarrely called "facts") they come up with.

[Khephra Sol]

You do your homework by systematically researching the synchronizations themselves.  There is no point looking for quotes which don't exist.  Please Please Me was created in synchronization with The Wizard of Oz.  It can be plainly observed because happy coincidence can't synch an entire album with a movie to the point where melody, beat, and theme synch.  This is standard industry practice.  Movies and albums are synched all over the place; very many albums are used to create one movie, and rock groups cut films up all the time to make albums.  The Cure even copied Floyd and The Beatles, and then extended the tradition into Excalibur.  Pornography was recorded in synchronization with The Wizard of Oz, Rosemary's Baby, and Excalibur, using the same start points that The Beatles and Floyd used (music score beginning is the start point for Ecalibur).

[Ydoll Gwyn]

You have done me a great favor, Mr Sol. You have discovered something that Tkitna and I can agree on!

However, I will say that I noticed that if you watch that kooky, late 60s cartoon film "Yellow Submarine", that parts of it are exactly synched with various Beatle songs. I'm thinking of Only A Northern Song, Eleanor Rigby, All You Need is Love, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, and many others -- including, wonderfully, Yellow Submarine itself. THAT could NOT be coincidence!

[Mairi]

Grease synchs up with a number of Olivia Newton-John songs, it's quite strange.

Sorry Ydoll! But mine is not as good as yours, anyway!

[The End]

Sure Al. People have stated that if you play 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' while the 'Wizard Of Oz' movie is playing, the music and the story line synch up and makes sense together. Of course this pertains to many other instances also and not just Floyd/Oz. Also, the more stoned you get, the better the synch seems. Imagine that. Anyways, here's a link that explains how to do it.

http://www.ingsoc.com/waters/info/oz.html

Ah, I see! Cheers TK - I was wondering what everyone was going on about!

[The End]

Sure Al. People have stated that if you play 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' while the 'Wizard Of Oz' movie is playing, the music and the story line synch up and makes sense together. Of course this pertains to many other instances also and not just Floyd/Oz. Also, the more stoned you get, the better the synch seems. Imagine that. Anyways, here's a link that explains how to do it.

http://www.ingsoc.com/waters/info/oz.html

Ah, I see! Cheers TK - I was wondering what everyone was going on about! So, I assume you have to turn off the film soundtrack then - otherwise that would be a very bad trip for Dorothy!

[tkitna]

However, I will say that I noticed that if you watch that kooky, late 60s cartoon film "Yellow Submarine", that parts of it are exactly synched with various Beatle songs. I'm thinking of Only A Northern Song, Eleanor Rigby, All You Need is Love, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, and many others -- including, wonderfully, Yellow Submarine itself. THAT could NOT be coincidence!

Nice!

Well, I can see this is a no win situation and i'm bailing out. I leave Sol's opinions to the rest of you and wish you good luck. (Damn, I know that last post synch's up to some Dylan tune, but I just cant put my finger on it.)

Considering John Lennon lived in the Rosemarys babys suite at the Dakota, its not that far fetched,and also the part in the movie where the lady falls, is the almost exact spot where Lennon was killed,still think your full of it though.

Rosemarys Baby was filmed on location at the Dakota,the rooms where it was filmed is where John Lennon spent the last couple of years of his life...weird!

Considering John Lennon lived in the Rosemarys babys suite at the Dakota, its not that far fetched,and also the part in the movie where the lady falls, is the almost exact spot where Lennon was killed,still think your full of it though.

Rosemarys Baby was filmed on location at the Dakota,the rooms where it was filmed is where John Lennon spent the last couple of years of his life...weird!

It wasn't filmed on location at the Dakota. There are some outside shots of it, the property owners have always forbidden filming in or of the Dakota with this one exception.

As I said before John Lennon lived in the Rosemarys Baby suite at the Dakota,I dont know about filming on location inside the building now,but this film was set inside,and outside that building.

Polanski's camera work and Richard Sylbert's production design transform the realistic setting (shot on location in Manhattan's Dakota apartment building) into a sinister projection of Rosemary's fears, chillingly locating supernatural horror in the familiar by leaving the most grotesque frights to the viewer's imagination. This apocalyptic yet darkly comic paranoia about the hallowed institution of childbirth touched a nerve with late '60s audiences feeling uneasy about traditional norms.

http://www.moviesonline.ca/film850.htm

Perhaps because of this movie they wont allow that now.

Trust me ,I've know this since the 70s,when it was a blurb in the news on him moving into the Rosemarys Baby suite,at the time I dont think anyone wanted to live in that apartment...

I love the Fab four!

Page 73 of "Life At the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address" says only exterior shots were filmed by Polanski, save for the carriage entrance/courtyard where the 'suicide scene' was filmed.  The views in the movie could be from any of the builidings on Central Park West.

You're right about that,some of the scenes were filmed in LA.,but John moved into the Rosemarys Baby suite,either they filmed some of the scenes in there,or they copied one of the rooms for their LA. shoot,Ive alway heard both stories myself,but I was always confused by the fact that there is a Rosemarys Baby room in the Dakota,perhaps we are both right,they didnt shoot inside,but they named a room after the movie,in which John moved into thats a fact.

He lived in the Rosemarys Baby suite.

Jesus, relax, okay he lived in the Rosemary's Baby suite. BFD.

[adamzero]

There's something to synchronicity--but I think it has to do with the ultimately subjective nature of reality.  Of course things are synchronous--that's the way the mind works, it is constantly synchronizing disparate events into seamless, and hopefully, meaningful wholes.  Lennon seems preoccupied with this idea-intuitively in songs like "good morning" "across the universe" or "I am the walrus."  Out of the chaos and cacophany comes the momentary order of the refrain.  

I suggest Deepak look at the poetry of Wallace Stevens or William Carlos Williams--they both wrestled creatively with the formation of order out of the chaos of phenomena and the mind's ability to facilitate the process (and at the same time get in the way of it).  

There's no "magick" out there.  It's the wonder of your own consciousness!

Why is all this crap under "Albums" in the first place?

There's something to synchronicity--but I think it has to do with the ultimately subjective nature of reality.