OMG Beatles singing with a Lancaster bomber in their video

[sabredriver]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqOKvonLrH8

wow watch this bealthes music clip and spot something VERY odd ... no not the clothes but b..... a LANCASTER bomber flying in it in the mid 1960s?

Unreal huh who woulda thought dat?

[BLR]

Could be a Shackleton.

Brian...

[k5083]

With those wings, definitely a Shack. If the video had been made a few years earlier I might have said maybe even a Lincoln.

The vid seems to have been shot on an old base, around the hardstands and revetments. Anyone know which one?



August

[chico]

nevermind, someone beat me to it.

[Kdmoo]

The Beatles filmed "I Am The Walrus" at RAF West Malling in Kent Sept, 1967. The Shackleton in the video looks to me like a Mk2 which would probably have been based at RAF Kinloss as part of the 206 Squadron at the time.

I did find a pic of Mk3 sitting at West Malling dated 1960:


Nice find sabredriver!

Best-
Kevin

[bdk]

Wow watch this bealthes music clip and spot something VERY odd ... no not the clothes but b.....

Oh my! Will my kids think that my generation was that strange when they look back? <shudder>

[TimAPNY]

Wow watch this bealthes music clip and spot something VERY odd ... no not the clothes but b.....

Oh my! Will my kids think that my generation was that strange when they look back? <shudder>

If you dressed or looked like this you might have a problem!

http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0245686/Ss/0245686/jd_CT3518R.jpg.html?path=gallery&path_key=0245686

[bdk]

If you dressed or looked like this you might have a problem!

Uh oh! You mean a mullet is a bad fashion statement (in retrospect of course)?

[daveymac82c]

Very interesting.

Mind you, the Shackelton is no stranger/random than anything else in that music video.

As a not, I was too young to have been able to see the Beatles perform, but that doesn't stop me from thinking they're one of the best musical groups ever.

Never-the-less, it's pretty neat that they included an airplane in their video. If everything had a meaning in the video (which they probably don't, but if they did), I wonder what the Shackelton represented.

Cheers,

David (The elderly challenged)

[Mark_Pilkington]

k5083 Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:19 am Post subject:

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With those wings, definitely a Shack. If the video had been made a few years earlier I might have said maybe even a Lincoln. The vid seems to have been shot on an old base, around the hardstands and revetments. Anyone know which one?

Kdmoo Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject:

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The Beatles filmed "I Am The Walrus" at RAF West Malling in Kent Sept, 1967. The Shackleton in the video looks to me like a Mk2 which would probably have been based at RAF Kinloss as part of the 206 Squadron at the time.

At first glance the tapered wing is easily identified as being Lincoln rather than Lancaster (which other than the current BBMF aircraft, had long ceased flying), and to add to the confusion the former Cranfield / Napier Test rig Lincoln RF342/G-APRJ flew its last flight from Cranfield to Rochford to join the Southend Museum on 9 May 1967, (The aircraft recently recovered from the UK to the Australian National Aviation Museum, and the clip was filmed only months later in September 1967. (Even though RAF Lincoln operations had ceased many years earlier).

The shorter rear fuselage confirms the aircraft is indeed a Shackleton rather than a Lincoln, and the Tapered wing without squared off wing tips or wing tanks, confirms it is NOT a mark 3 Shackleton, which, with its tricycle undercarriage, also had a wing outer panel re-design, as compared to the ealier model tail dragger Shackletons that largely had a Lincoln Wing.

I would agree then that the aircraft is a mark 1 or mark 2 Shakleton.

The filming of Magical Mystery Tour was virtually a home movie directed by the Beatles and in particular Paul McCartney, as to the intentional inclusion of the flyover by the Beatles in John Lennon's Psychodelic Masterpiece of "I am the Walrus"?

It could be because this aircraft is obviously meant to represent the police (who are seen lining the walls throughout the clip) "flying" like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as referred to in the lyrics

(smiles nods yes I admit to being a beatlemanic).

I am he as you are he as you are me
and we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
see how they fly
I'm crying
Sitting on a cornflake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
you let your face grow long

I am the eggman
they are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Mr. city policeman sitting
pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky
See how they run
I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying
Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife
Pornographic priestess
Boy, you've been a naughty girl
you let your knickers down

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Goo goo g' joob

Mark Pilkington