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Welcome!
Sourcing all the photos in the collage from The Boys of Dungeon Lane.
Corrections, additions, better versions of photos, comments, all welcome :)
Birds
Almost all of the birds in the collage have been identified. You can find all the information linked from the Birds masterpost.
People
For photos of people (and objects) see the People masterpost.
Website
All the insights and references gathered on this blog are now mirrored on a static website :
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Unknown
It's this, isn't it?
"What a nice song about my hometown... Anyway, how many references tied to John can I put in this video?"
I've created a page outlining the images from this video, and everything I could figure out about them. We are now only missing source images for this picture of John and the mystery sphere. Thanks OP!
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Does anyone have any idea what performance this could be from?
Ringo's sideboard is longer than the night of the Alpha TV recording in '63 that a lot of the other photos are from.
"What a nice song about my hometown... Anyway, how many references tied to John can I put in this video?"
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"What a nice song about my hometown... Anyway, how many references tied to John can I put in this video?"
"What a nice song about my hometown... Anyway, how many references tied to John can I put in this video?"
In honour of Dungeon Lane and the ways it inspired Paul, please sign (if you’re in the UK) and share this petition
Oglet Shore is one of the last truly rural areas in Liverpool, home to owls, bats, and rare birds. But it’s about to disappear under concret
the photo with the young girl also features in that video btw, but they don’t discuss it ðŸ˜
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Paul. Victoria monument Liverpool. Late 1950s.
source: The Lyrics p. 575
video for Home To Us 1:52
Paul said (in the interview I just reblogged) that this photo was taken at the start of the Paris ‘61 trip
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OMG
I think it's Mr Brierly!!!!
The top image is a screenshot from Paul's recent SNL performance of DWLB. I've been going through it, noting the images that appear on the screen behind him, and was about to mark this one as image number 006 when I spotted the hands on hips.
at 5:49 ! and later he talks about this photo
Birds masterpost
Curlew
Osprey (Tommy's Coming Home)
Magpie (Two Magpies, Footprints)
Swan (This One)
Long-tailed Duck (Long Tailed Winter Bird)
Shag
Lapwing
Great Tit (Girl)
Blackbird (Blackbird)
Gannet
Kite (Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite)
Skylark (Mama's Little Girl, Days We Left Behind)
Great Northern Diver
Chaffinch
Cormorant
Teal (English Tea)
Goosander
Pochard
Kestrel
Manx Shearwater (Three Legs)
Pheasant
Great Crested Grebe
Heron
Swallow (Is This Love?)
Storm Petrel
All of the IDs above feature in the Observer's Book of Birds, and their illustrations originate from Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands. Paul has often mentioned owning the Observer's Book of Birds as a kid, and learning about the birds in his local area from it.
Where I've connected the bird with a song, the song is linked in the relevant post, and also in brackets after the bird name above.
Mystery birds
there are still three birds we've spotted, but not identified:
up in John's face
on teacher's shoulder
on Brian's arm
Here's a map showing the location of all the birds (* marks unidentified):
WAIT BUT LOOK AT THESE COLORED SEGMENTS
It's a greenfinch!
The yellow markings in the finch's wing seem like the edge of the bird in the collage, but on closer inspection you can still make out the edges that have been lost in the printing process (including the edge of the breast, and the beak and top of the head). The wing marking has a dark patch about halfway down, which is still visible in the collage. The dark area near the wingtip is also still visible.
Screenshot from the interview with Paul Mescal, alternate starling image from the Coloured Figures (not the one used in the Observer's book) this is indeed the image used in Observer's. Don't know where I got the idea it wasn't.
This is the second time this image has been used in album promo (see also this post about the website).
I'm going to call it now and say this is Brian's bird.
even though the images I have of the collage don't give me a lot to go on.
Teal
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Stephen is literally holding his hand over the last bird like he's doing it on purpose!
Remaining questions
With the discovery of Mystery Man in a Harlech photo we are getting very close to a complete picture of what went into the collage.
See the website for more details on what we do know.
Major Mysteries
026 -- Kids on the street
This photo appears in both the lyric video for Home To Us (at 0:10) and Paul's recent SNL performance (at 1:13).
We haven't identified any of the kids, but this doesn't seem to be in any photographic collections online. And the fact that it's being used in videos supports the idea that it's a private photo.
041 -- The girl with Paul
This image is not new to the internet, but we're struggling to find a source. It looks like this could be a photo of a book, or possibly of a print? Who is the girl? Is she in the group photo above? Going by the blazer and hair, this could be 1957.
076 -- The ball on John's head
I can't help feeling this is something specific, and I can't help seeing a face. Is this an illustration of the moon? A football? Something else?
Brian's bird
The one remaining bird that has been spotted but not identified is on Brian's shoulder in the bottom right of the collage. (Yes the images are that low-res). I'm hopeful that once I see the actual printed collage it will be possible to ID this bird, but I've been through the Observer's book countless times and I just don't have enough information here.
Minor Mysteries
025 -- John, probably at Odd Spot 1962
The mic, hair, and outfit match with their 1962 Odd Spot gig, but we can't find this specific photograph anywhere.
029 -- Ringo
Similarly this is very like any number of photos of Ringo in 1964, but we haven't source this specific one.
060 -- John Sleeping
Not a new image, but it's always been a bit enigmatic. Is it John in Paris 1961?
069 -- Mike and friends at the beach
Is that Paul behind?
Screenshot from the video for Home To Us at 2:17. This seems to be a new photo.
070 -- Ringo
We don't know where or when this is from.
040, 071 -- Harlech friends
We don't know who these two are.
