User blog:MemberD/1800 pages

Hello and welcome back. Reached 1,800 pages today in a surprisingly quick time, and also noticed it was coming up this time so managed to dedicate it to something special, namely the beates song Yesterday.

The single cropped up in an #OTD for 1976 as a re-release, or rather the first UK release proper, entered the charts as HNE on 16 March 1976. I was surprised to learn that it was never released as a single in the UK back in the 60s as apparently the group thought it would somehow spoil their image. It was however released in the US where it duly went to N1, and meanwhile crooner Matt Monro snapped up the opportunity to make a pretty penny out of a single release and took it into the UK charts himself. As the song was famously written only by McCartney (with help from Martin with the string arrangement) one might think that perhaps the other Fab Three objected to the song being singled out (pun intended), although this theory doesn't seem to crop up anywhere, from what I've read. Whatever the story it's undoubtedly a classic of pop culture - just try and see how nmany cover versions there have been!

So the wiki itself continues to grow, as we also reach its first birthday too later in the month. It would be nice to get to 2,000 pages although that seems unlikely despite the pace it seems to be growing at, although in theory it is possible so we'll see.

As far as contents go I seem to be bale to keep a good balance between music, TV, radio and current affairs/events although given the abundance and ease of access of magazine scans things like RAdio and TV Times, Smash Hits etc. seem to be very much in the lead.

I've also been eliminating a lot of early entries whcih were very personal things, replacing them with more significant general events, although still favour a lot of my favourite groups/artists etc. After all I'm still alone on here!

Until next time,

MemberD (talk) 15:38, March 16, 2018 (UTC)