'For our last number'

[Ichingcarpenter]

'For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll, just rattle your jewelry.




Royal Variety Performance in London (4 November 1963) attended by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret. John had intended to say..... "fucking jewelry"........, but was persuaded against doing so by Paul McCartney and the group's manager Brian Epstein.





The Royal Jewels have been Rattled

[dbt]

1. And the Family Jewels better watch out, too.

:evilgrin:

[Goldstein1984]

2. "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;

when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

If the ruling class isn't afrain, they need to be.

[tavalon]

3. Yes they do

They aren't so far.