Cock-Robin wrote:You can hear the last chord of Mustard at the beginning, and it stops abruptly before Pam.
Cock-Robin wrote:Sorry about the double post. But this will make up for it. Paul's bass on this song is superb:
I Want You (She's so Heavy)
Beatles Anthology where they describe it. It's one of the accuarate Wikipedia entries on the song.
Let me take you down
Cause I'm going to
Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone
But it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me
Let me take you down
Cause I'm going to
Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
No one
I think is in my tree
I mean it must be high or low
That is you can't, you know, tune in
But it's all right
That is I think it's not too bad
Let me take you down
Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Always, no sometimes, think it's me
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean
a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
Let me take you down
Cause I'm going to
Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Strawberry Fields forever
Strawberry Fields forever
FrodoTook wrote:MerriadocBrandybuck wrote:Most
Overrated
Band
Ever
Thanks for sharing your opinion.
Who is anyone to say you are wrong or right? It really doesn't matter, if we're wrong or right.
Your perception is your reality and no one can change your perception. Nor should they.
To thine own self be true.
Lets go to the other extreme.
Which band, in your opinion, is the most underrated?
MerriadocBrandybuck wrote:FrodoTook wrote:MerriadocBrandybuck wrote:Most
Overrated
Band
Ever
Thanks for sharing your opinion.
Who is anyone to say you are wrong or right? It really doesn't matter, if we're wrong or right.
Your perception is your reality and no one can change your perception. Nor should they.
To thine own self be true.
Lets go to the other extreme.
Which band, in your opinion, is the most underrated?
Queen:D RIP Freddie!!
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It wasn't always certain that Love Me Do would be the first single, anyway. Producers were all-powerful then, and George Martin had a ready-made pop tune for the group to record: Mitch Murray's How Do You Do It?. After a quick and competently unenthusiastic run-through, the Beatles balked, insisting on recording their own material. Martin eventually went with Love Me Do, and gave How Do You Do It? to Gerry and the Pacemakers, who took it to No 1 in April 1963.
The difference between the two songs shows just how anomalous Love Me Do was in autumn 1962. How Do You Do It? is charming, catchy but just too pat: the ebbs and flows of teen romance are captured in lyrics that err on the side of cloying. The melody boxes the group in, and they are reduced to sounding collectively cute – not a happy aural experience nor a true reflection of their characters. Murray was born the same year as Lennon and Starr, but might as well as have been on a different planet.
In contrast, Love Me Do is, once you get past the primitivism, is soulful and bluesy. There is a swing and drive to the harmonica playing and the harmonies that belie the impression of tentativeness. The lyric, while entirely within period romantic cliches, is both slightly awkward – "love me do": who ever says that when they're chatting someone up? – and direct ("someone like you"). Which makes it a pretty faithful expression of teen courting rituals, with their mixture of uncertainty and desire.
As the first Beatles' hit, this unassuming but forceful record has had a long after-life. The second version was included on several best-selling UK EPs and LPs and went Top 5 when rereleased in 1982 as a single. Right at the end of the first flush of Beatlemania, in late May 1964, it hit No 1 in the US – a strange turn of events for an 18-month old song. This in turn ensured its place as the opening track on the 1 album, which has sold over 31 million copies during this century.
In the Summer of ’67, I discovered two things that changed my life. As much as I would like to be able to tell you that it was body painting, and sex on acid…I can’t. Mainly because I had only recently turned 11. The first thing I discovered was Mad Magazine (which undoubtedly explains a lot, to long-time readers). The second thing was record collecting. I still remember my very first vinyl purchase, blowing at least three months’ worth of allowance at the JCPenney in Fairbanks, Alaska. I purchased two LPs (at the whopping price of $3.98 each), and one 45 single. The LPs were Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the 45 was “Penny Lane”/”Strawberry Fields Forever”…all by that band that, you know… Paul McCartney used to be in before Wings.
Flash-forward about 35 years or so. I was enjoying my first visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. At the Beatles exhibit, I happened upon a glass case that contained some weathered pieces of paper with scribbles. I lingered over one in particular, which was initially tough to decipher, with all the crossed-out words and such:
basil wrote:Some bits found while TORC was remaking itself
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/ ... -film.html
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“But you know I know when it’s a bean”? Huh? It still wasn’t really registering as to what I was looking at (the mind plays funny tricks sometimes). However, when I got to: “I think I know I mean-er-yes, but it’s all wrong. That is I think I disagree” I realized, Oh.My.(Rock) God. This is John Lennon’s original handwritten draft of “Strawberry Fields Forever”.
basil wrote:A nice "bit", huh?
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