Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
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in Video of the Week Tags: beatles, it won't be long, the beatles experience
Sometimes in the case of the Beatles, or any great pop, it takes a good cover version to refresh our appreciation.
Argentine Beatles tribute band The Beatles Experience not only nail all the riffs and harmonies here, but also supply one more reminder that Beatle album tracks were often superior to other bands’ singles.
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(via Quora) Answered by Shawn M. Winterich
George had an affair with Ringo’s wife, Maureen. It went on for months. Apple exec Peter Brown first wrote about it in “The Love You Make” in the 1980s, and band members and associates who commented dismissed his work as sensationalistic trash. It wasn’t: truth was a defense. Then Pattie Harrison wrote about the affair in her book about 20 years later (“Wonderful Tonight”), after speaking with Ringo first…
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(via Quora) Answered by Marty Shupert
What was the Beatles’ most badass moment?
There are quite a few. I’ll add a few. Someone told them “Hey Jude” wasn’t going to work because no one would play a song that was longer than 7 minutes. John said, “They will if it’s us.”
Thinking about this, that presser when they came to the U.S. for the very first time… you would think they might be rather timid, shy, worried, not wanting to come off as anything other than 4 wonderful lads. A reporter said something to the effect of, “There’s considerable doubt that you boys can even sing.” Without hesitating a nanosecond, Lennon deadpanned, “We need money first.”
During another presser, a reporter suggested that “Eleanor Rigby” was about a lesbian and “Lady Madonna” was about a prostitute, implying that this was not the type of thing that a pop band should be writing about (impressionable children and all that). Asking, “Why do you want to write about these things?” Paul, this time, deadpanned, “Because we enjoy writing about lesbians and prostitutes.”
Read more: https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-Beatles-most-badass-moment
29 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
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(via Culture Sonar) by Mark Daponte
One of the more bizarre sayings (and something parents of an infant shouldn’t have to say to the nanny) is “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” This advice, meaning don’t throw away something good in the course of throwing out something bad, was heeded by a number of rock stars who found gems amongst musical projects they had thrown out.
The most noteworthy salvage job was Pete Townshend’s unfinished sci-fi rock opera film called Lifehouse which started as a story written around several songs. Pete recalled: “The essence of the storyline was a kind of futuristic scene. It’s a fantasy set at a time when rock ’n’ roll didn’t exist. The world was completely collapsing and the only experience that anybody ever had was through test tubes. In a way, they lived as if they were on television. Everything was programmed. The enemies were people who gave us entertainment intravenously and the heroes were savages who’d kept rock ‘n’ roll as a primitive force and had gone to live with it in the woods. The story was about these two sides coming together and having a brief battle.”
Every Moment Has A Song 