GEORGE HARRISON WROTE ONE ,IF NOT THE FINEST LOVE SONGS EVER PUT TO RECORD.
GEORGE HARRISON-SOMETHING.
GEORGE WAS INTRODUCED INTO THE QUARRYMEN BY HIS SCHOOL FRIEND PAUL MACARTNEY,GEORGE THEN WENT ON TO BE ONE OF THE FINEST GUITAR PLAYERS IN THE WORLD,PENNING CLASSIC SONGS ALONG THE WAY.
GEORGE HARRISON-HERE COMES THE SUN.
GEORGE HARRISON WITH THE BEATLES-WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU.
GEORGE HARRISONS LAST WORDS WERE-LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
THE TRAVELLING WILBURYS-HANDLE WITH CARE.
THE BEATLES-RAIN.
I AM THE WALRUS-THE BEATLES.
I AM THE WALRUS-THE BEATLES.
THE BEATLES-SHES LEAVING HOME-SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND.
DON FARDON-IM ALIVE.
SPANKY WILSON-SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE.
JOHNNY RIVERS-THE SNAKE.
THE SUPREMES-WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO.
THE SMALL FACES-ALL OR NOTHING.
GLEN CAMPBELL-WICHITA LINEMAN.
FOR THIS NEXT NUMBER ID LIKE TO ASK YOUR HELP,WOULD THE PEOPLE IN THE CHEAPER SEATS JUST CLAP YOUR HANDS,AND THE REST OF YOU JUST RATTLE YOUR JEWELLERY.-JOHN LENNON.
THE BEATLES-TWIST AND SHOUT.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS(WAR IS OVER)-JOHN LENNON.
I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS-GREG LAKE.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY-NOEL GALLAGHER.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
IAN MACDONALD WAS BORN IN 1948.A WRITER OF MANY INTERESTS,HE WAS ASSISTANT EDITOR OF THE NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS DURING 1972-5.HE ALSO WORKED AS A SONGWRITER AND RECORD PRODUCER,AND IS THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW SHOSTAKOVICH(1990),THE PEOPLES MUSIC(2003) AND THE BEATLES AT NO.1(2003).HE DIED IN AUGUST 2003.
AS DAZZLING AS THE DECADE THEY DOMINATED,THE BEATLES ALMOST SINGLE-HANDEDLEY CREATED POP MUSIC AS WE KNOW IT.TODAY, THEIR SONGS ARE SITED AS SEMINAL INFLUENCES BY STARS LIKE OASIS AND BLUR. ELOQUENTLY GIVING VOICE TO THEIR TIME,THE BEATLES QUITE SIMPLY CHANGED THE WORLD.FULLY UPDATED TO INCLUDE MATERIAL FROM THE BEATLES LIVE AT THE BBC AND THE ANTHOLOGY SERIES,THIS ACCLAIMED BOOK GOES BACK TO THE HEART OF THE BEATLES-THEIR RECORDS.DRAWING ON A UNIQUE RESOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE TO READ THEIR 241 TRACKS-CHRONOLOGICALLY FROM THEIR FIRST AMATEUR EFFORTS IN 1957 TO REAL LOVE,THEIR FINAL ENGROSSING CLASSIC OF POPULAR CRITICISM IN WHICH THE EXTRAORDINARY SONGS OF THE BEATLES REMAIN A CENTRAL AND CONTINUALLY SURPRISING PRESENCE.
COMING ACROSS THE BEATLES WAS AN UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE, WHOLEHEARTEDLY, THE MUSIC ,THE BEGINNINGS ,THE HISTORY,THE BEATLES STILL HAVE A MYSTICAL HOLD OVER NOT ONLY ME AND THE FANS AND THE FREAKS BUT ACROSS THE MUSICAL SPECTRUM.AS A GROUP OF MUSICIANS THEY PUSHED THE BOUNDARIES TO THE LIMIT SOMETIMES SHOCKING AND SOMETIMES SURPRISING THE SQUARES AND THE SENSORS WHO WERE OPPOSED TO THIS MUSIC REVOLUTION THAT WAS CONSUMING THE WORLD THROUGH BEATLEMANIA AS WE NOW KNOW IT.SNEAKING PAST THE SENSORS WAS SURELY THE FAB FOURS FAVORITE PASTIME,GIVING SIMPLE EXPLANATIONS FOR VEILED DRUGS REFERENCES THROUGH THEIR MUSIC,LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF THEIR CREATIVE GENIUS, FIRING ON ALL FAB FOUR CYLINDERS THE WORLD WAS THEIRS FOR THE TAKING,NO QUESTION. EVEN SIMPLE THINGS LIKE THE BACKING VOCALS ON GIRL,JUST USING TIT,TIT,TIT,WHILE THE HISS OF INDRAWN BREATH ON THE CHORUS IS SO GROSSLY LASCIVIOUS THAT ITS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO PICTURE LENNON LAUGHING OFF-MIKE.ALTHOUGH SONGS LIKE GIRL AND LUCY IN THE SKY DID SNEAK THROUGH PAST THE OLD GUARD,SOME SONGS DIDN’T QUITE MAKE IT SUCH SONGS AS A DAY IN THE LIFE,BANNED BY THE BBC FOR ITS SUPPOSED DRUG REFERENCES SUCH AS “ID LOVE TO TURN YOU ON” AND THE LINE “FOUND MY WAY UPSTAIRS AND HAD A SMOKE/AND SOMEBODY SPOKE AND I WENT INTO A DREAM”;A BBC SPOKESMAN SAID AT THE TIME”WE HAVE LISTENED TO THIS SONG OVER AND OVER AGAIN;AND WE HAVE DECIDED THAT IT APPEARS TO GO A LITTLE TOO FAR,AND COULD ENCOURAGE A PERMISSIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS DRUG TAKING”.
JOHN LENNON ONCE SAID THE GREATEST SONG PAUL MACARTNEY EVER WROTE WAS HEY JUDE,AND ITS THAT SONG THAT I REFER TO AS ONE OF THE GREATEST COUP THE BEATLES EVER PULLED OFF,AND ITS HEARD EVEN TO THIS DAY WHEN HEY JUDE APPEARS ON THE RADIO OR ANY PLAY LIST.
THE WRITER IAN MAcCORMICK WHO WROTE UNDER THE PSEUDONYM IAN MACDONALD WAS A BRITISH MUSIC CRITIC AND AUTHOR,BEST KNOWN FOR HIS DETAILED HISTORY OF THE BEATLES WROTE ABOUT THIS IN HIS 1994 BOOK REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD,(A MUST READ FOR ANY FOLLOWER OF BEATLES MUSIC.)AS THE CURSE OVER A FLUFFED BACKING VOCAL AT 2:58.THIS REFERENCE IS TO JOHN LENNON WHO EITHER MISSED A CHORD OR A LINE IN THE SONG AND CAN BE QUITE CLEARLY HEARD IN THE BACKGROUND SWEARING AND BECAUSE THIS WAS THE ONLY RECORDING OF HEY JUDE THAT WAS PUT TO PRINT IT WAS LEFT ON THE ORIGINAL AND SLIPPED BY EVERYONE.SO TO THIS DAY HEY JUDE IS THE ONLY SONG TO GO TO THE TOP OF THE BRITISH CHARTS WITH AN AUDIBLE SWEAR WORD ON THE RECORDING.
The Beatles – Hey Jude
REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD-IAN MACDONALD 1948-2003
RUBBER SOUL WAS THE TRANSITION.THERE IT SITS,BETWEEN THE R&B-TINGED POP OF HELP! AND THE
BREATHTAKING KALEIDOSCOPE THAT WAS REVOLVER.ALL THREE ALBUMS WERE RELEASED IN THE SPACE OF A YEAR,A DEAL OF WORK AND RATE OF PROGRESS AWESOME IN ANY CONTEXT.MOP-TOPS NO LONGER,AT LEAST NOT IN THEIR OWN EYES,THE BEATLES HAD BECOME A STUDIO BAND BEFORE ANYONE KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT.WHILE THEY MAY HAVE COME TO DESPISE THE COMMERCIAL PRESSURES PUT UPON THEM BY EMI(AND BRIAN EPSTEIN) THEY FLOURISHED UNDER THEM,FOR TO FLINCH IN THE FACE OF A CHALLENGE WAS SIMPLY NOT IN THE BEATLES MAKE-UP.
FOR EASY DEFINITION,RUBBER SOUL IS THE POT ALBUM.DYLAN HAD TURNED ON THE BEATLES IN 1964,AND THEIR CONSIDERABLE INTAKE THROUGHOUT THE FILMING OF HELP! EARLIER IN 1965 IS WELL ESTABLISHED.THE COVER PHOTO-YET ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY IMAGE,NATURALLY-SHOWS THE FABS STANDING AMONG RHODODENDRON BUSHES;LEAVES OF A MORE VARIEGATED,ILLEGAL KIND WOULD HAVE BEEN OPPOSITE.
RINGO HAS SINCE SAID THAT THE BEATLES PROFFERED NOT TO WORK HIGH,BUT THAT THEY TOOK THEIR HIGH EXPERIENCES INTO THE STUDIO.THIS ALBUM IS PROOF.THE VISION,THE ARTICULATION,THE KNOWINGNESS-ARE ALL ROOTED IN GRASS,BUT THE MANIFESTATION IS CLEAR HEADED ECONOMICAL AND PURPOSEFUL.THE ALBUM IS A PARTICULAR TRIUMPH FOR JOHN LENNON.UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DYLAN,DOPE AND A FEW LUMPS OF ACID,HIS CREATIVITY WAS IN FULL FLOW,MARKED BY SONGS OF UTTER BRILLIANCE AND MATURITY,DEPTH AND INTELLIGENCE-NOWHERE MAN,NORWEGIAN WOOD,GIRL,IN MY LIFE.THANKS TO JOHN HIMSELF,THIS LATER WENT DOWN AS HIS FAT ELVIS PERIOD.
The Beatles – Nowhere Man (Live in Japan 1966)
The Beatles – Norwegian Wood
the beatles – girl
FOUR LADS FROM LIVERPOOL WHO SHOOK THE WORLD.
Lennon and Ono used their honeymoon as a Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton. The March 1969 event attracted worldwide media coverage, as did a second Bed-In three months later at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Recorded during the second Bed-In, and quickly taken up as an anti-war anthem, "Give Peace a Chance" was sung by a quarter of a million anti-Vietnam-War demonstrators in Washington, DC on 15 October, the second Vietnam Moratorium Day.
When Lennon and Ono moved to New York City in August 1971, they befriended two of the Chicago Seven, Yippie anti-war activists Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. Another anti-war activist, John Sinclair, poet and co-founder of the White Panther Party, was serving ten years in the state prison for selling two joints of marijuana after a series of previous convictions for possession of the drug. At the "Free John Sinclair" concert in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 10 December 1971, Lennon and Ono appeared on stage with David Peel, Phil Ochs, Stevie Wonder and other musicians, as well as Rubin and Bobby Seale of the Black Panther Party. Lennon, through his newly written song "John Sinclair", called on the authorities to "Let him be, set him free, let him be like you and me." Some 20,000 people were present at the rally. Three days later the State of Michigan released Sinclair from prison The performance was recorded, and would later appear on John Lennon Anthology (1998) and Acoustic (2004). Accompanied by Ono and Rubin, Lennon performed the song a second time on The David Frost Show.
SMILE FOR PEACE.
the right direction-the northern line. 