Olympiadmania

The declassified reconnaissance photo above was captured from the cockpit of the TDS MINI Cooper Mobile Tactical Assault Vehicle while on routine maneuvers in and around the Oxville theater of operations while under direct orders from TDSOXCOM.

Transmit to Vladimir that his strategy is under way.

One event that is not an Olympic Sport is head-in parking:

Evidently, Culver's frozen custard makes people do crazy things!

In other globular news, this week marked the anniversary of a notable insect infestation of the United States that occurred - and was borne witness on The Ed Sullivan Show - 50 years ago.  This pernicious infestation shall forever go unnamed, but it originated from Liverpool, England.  Let me be clear, I am not a fan of the mop-topped quarrymen.  It is with extreme prejudice that I dislike John, Paul and George.  Ringo I can tolerate only through his close friendship  over many years with Keith Moon.  Billy Preston was the only talented artist in the bunch.  Simultaneously, I recognize that without their unfathomable success so many of the bands for which I am fanatical may not have come into existence.  

Fair is fair.

It is with this consideration that I present to you the following WHO-related connections to the Plastic Wilbury Wings: 

THE WHO studio jam session from the summer of 1977 which produced this cover of I Saw Her Standing There with Keith Moon singing the lead vocal (as well as this more well-known yet off-topic cover which appeared in The Kids Are Alright rockumentary [trailer narrated by Richard Starkey]).

Zak Starkey's dad was himself featured, alongside Keith Moon, in The Kids Are Alright in segments filmed during 1977 at Moon's Malibu Beach, California palatial estate wherein Ringo asks for Moon's opinion of Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey.

Moonie was asked to sing the vocal on a cover version of When I'm 64 for the film soundtrack to All This And World War II (1976), possibly his best vocal performance (which isn't saying much).  Keith covered In My Life on his one and only solo album, Two Sides Of The Moon (1975; produced by Steve Cropper of Booker T & The MGs and Blues Brothers fame) which featured a song titled "Together" (outtake) on which Ringo and Keith share vocals.

In fact, I'm not so certain that Keith Moon wasn't the Sixth Member of the so-called Fabs, such was their voluminous number of interactions of which you've seen/heard but a few examples here.

Roll the credits!