Solution: Hand Across The Water

HINTS:

Stuck at the beginning: Hey hey, we ain't the Monkees. We're another top sixties foursome, and these are some of our hits. (Beatles, and you should get songs out of the pictures)
On some albums, they refer to track numbers by letters. It's really confusing to enter a, b, c in your CD player instead of 1,2,3. I think they're all standardized by now. (letter index)
CQD! SOS! No... I think the Titanic sent out more than that. It was a rather orderly disaster.

SOLUTION:

Pick up on the Beatles
Match all pictures to a Beatles song
Letter index based on order of pictures (original!)
Reconstruct Titanic to Frankfurt message
Reorder letters accordingly to spell answer

SOLUTION DETAILS:

Strawberry fields forever, CaptainTo
Michelle (Kwan), Tell
Matchbox (car), Your
My Bonnie (Raitt), Our
Yellow Submarine (Chinese - bad taste, yeah), Help
Hey (Saint) Jude, We
The long and winding road (Lombard St. San Francisco), ComeTo
Hello goodbye (Aloha), The
Revolution (Fidel Castro & Che Guevara), On
Paperback writer (Stephen King), Are
Ticket to ride, Ice

Message from the Titanic to the Frankfurt: "Tell your Captain to come to our help. We are on the ice."

sitoodgoowd

Its good wood

This is part of the lyrics from "Norwegian wood," another popular Beatles' song: "And when I awoke I was alone, this bird had flown. So I lit a fire, isn't it good, norwegian wood."