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Some people don't like to click on links...
Let alone reading it.
You might learn something.
Forget the past. We cannot repeat it.
Then move along - nobody is forcing you to read anything.
Nobody is forcing you to post it. It's ancient history. Just listen to the music. That's all that matters.
This is a forum based on a band that's best days are far behind them, and a majority of the content of this forum is based on the past.
Based on your advice, not sure why you even bother posting anything...maybe you should "just listen to the music" instead.
You start making sense.
Yet you haven't made sense at all.
Because it's impossible to make sense on writing about music. Music is freedom of speech.
That makes absolutely no sense at all.
Music is a language that everybody understands. Some dialects might sound ugly to people though . You got it?
Nobody is forcing you to listen to any specific "dialects" that you think "sound ugly".
To use your phrase: "Music is freedom of speech".
Absolutely; answers are also freedom of speech; as far as music is concerned.
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Some people don't like to click on links...
Let alone reading it.
You might learn something.
Forget the past. We cannot repeat it.
Then move along - nobody is forcing you to read anything.
Nobody is forcing you to post it. It's ancient history. Just listen to the music. That's all that matters.
This is a forum based on a band that's best days are far behind them, and a majority of the content of this forum is based on the past.
Based on your advice, not sure why you even bother posting anything...maybe you should "just listen to the music" instead.
You start making sense.
Yet you haven't made sense at all.
Because it's impossible to make sense on writing about music. Music is freedom of speech.
That makes absolutely no sense at all.
Music is a language that everybody understands. Some dialects might sound ugly to people though . You got it?
Nobody is forcing you to listen to any specific "dialects" that you think "sound ugly".
To use your phrase: "Music is freedom of speech".
Absolutely; answers are also freedom of speech; as far as music is concerned.
And posting articles and links about our favorite bands are also "freedom of speech"...feel free to ignore or reply!
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Some people don't like to click on links...
Let alone reading it.
You might learn something.
Forget the past. We cannot repeat it.
Then move along - nobody is forcing you to read anything.
Nobody is forcing you to post it. It's ancient history. Just listen to the music. That's all that matters.
This is a forum based on a band that's best days are far behind them, and a majority of the content of this forum is based on the past.
Based on your advice, not sure why you even bother posting anything...maybe you should "just listen to the music" instead.
You start making sense.
Yet you haven't made sense at all.
Because it's impossible to make sense on writing about music. Music is freedom of speech.
That makes absolutely no sense at all.
Music is a language that everybody understands. Some dialects might sound ugly to people though . You got it?
Nobody is forcing you to listen to any specific "dialects" that you think "sound ugly".
To use your phrase: "Music is freedom of speech".
Absolutely; answers are also freedom of speech; as far as music is concerned.
And posting articles and links about our favorite bands are also "freedom of speech"...feel free to ignore or reply!
We might as well close the conversation now.
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I find a bit "strange" to wish an happy birthday to a deceased person.
Ok it is a way to remember him and tell we love him but I would try to find another words.
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It was 55 years ago almost to the day....
From UCR:
55 Years Ago: The Beatles Become First Rock Act to Win Album of the Year
Bryan Rolli, February 28, 2023
> Sgt. Pepper - BEATLES GRAMMY
No artist did more to legitimize rock music as a serious art form than the Beatles — and perhaps no accolade symbolized that shift more than the band's magnum opus, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the first rock LP to win Album of the Year at the 10th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 29, 1968. The Fab Four had shown a staggering amount of growth since winning their first two Grammys — Best New Artist and Best Performance by a Vocal Group for "A Hard Day's Night" — in 1965. The Rubber Soul track "Michelle" earned them another trophy for Song of the Year in 1967. Still, the most coveted prize of the ceremony had eluded them so far, with Help! and Revolver losing back-to-back years to Frank Sinatra's September of My Years and A Man and His Music, respectively. The Chairman of the Board had won Album of the Year three times in the Grammys' first nine years, leading a pack of recipients that also included Henry Mancini, Judy Garland, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto and even comedians Bob Newhart and Vaughn Meader.
Many establishment types still viewed rock 'n' roll as a childish novelty, hardly deserving of the music industry's top honor. But even rock's staunchest opponents were no match for the paradigm-shifting Sgt. Pepper. The album captured the zeitgeist of the late-'60s counterculture and almost singlehandedly ushered in the Summer of Love upon its release in late May 1967. It topped the charts on both sides of the pond and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. It further cemented the LP as the predominant medium of music release and consumption. It was fitting, then, that the Beatles finally defeated Sinatra in their third consecutive clash for Album of the Year, with Sgt. Pepper triumphing over Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. The psychedelic opus also beat Vikki Carr's It Must Be Him, Ed Ames' My Cup Runneth Over and Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe. Sgt. Pepper also won Best Contemporary Album, while engineer Geoff Emerick was honored with Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical, and art directors Peter Blake and Jann Haworth collected the golden gramophone for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts. Notably, none of the Fab Four attended the Grammys for their big win, as they had recently flown to Rishikesh, India, with their significant others to study Transcendental Meditation at the ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Paul McCartney would become the first Beatle to grace the Grammys stage in 1971 when he accepted the award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture for Let It Be. Ringo Starr appeared in 1973 to co-present Best Male R&B Vocal Performance to Billy Paul's "Me and Mrs. Jones" with Harry Nilsson and to accept Album of the Year for George Harrison & Friends' Concert for Bangladesh. John Lennon made his Grammys debut in 1975 when he and Paul Simon co-presented Record of the Year to Olivia Newton-John for "I Honestly Love You." Harrison, who died in 2001, never set foot on the Grammys stage. Sgt. Pepper marked the first of four Grammy wins for Emerick, who was just 22 years old at the time. Half a century later, the engineer still considered the LP's final track the high point of his work with the Beatles. "Perhaps the greatest peak of all was the production of 'A Day in the Life' on Sgt. Pepper," Emerick told Variety in 2017. "John first played an acoustic version of the song for George Martin, and I heard it and told a colleague, 'Wait until you hear this.' I still had the shivers. And the night we put the orchestra on it, the whole world went from black and white to color."
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It was 55 years ago almost to the day....
From UCR:
55 Years Ago: The Beatles Become First Rock Act to Win Album of the Year
Bryan Rolli, February 28, 2023
> Sgt. Pepper - BEATLES GRAMMY
No artist did more to legitimize rock music as a serious art form than the Beatles — and perhaps no accolade symbolized that shift more than the band's magnum opus, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the first rock LP to win Album of the Year at the 10th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 29, 1968. The Fab Four had shown a staggering amount of growth since winning their first two Grammys — Best New Artist and Best Performance by a Vocal Group for "A Hard Day's Night" — in 1965. The Rubber Soul track "Michelle" earned them another trophy for Song of the Year in 1967. Still, the most coveted prize of the ceremony had eluded them so far, with Help! and Revolver losing back-to-back years to Frank Sinatra's September of My Years and A Man and His Music, respectively. The Chairman of the Board had won Album of the Year three times in the Grammys' first nine years, leading a pack of recipients that also included Henry Mancini, Judy Garland, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto and even comedians Bob Newhart and Vaughn Meader.
Many establishment types still viewed rock 'n' roll as a childish novelty, hardly deserving of the music industry's top honor. But even rock's staunchest opponents were no match for the paradigm-shifting Sgt. Pepper. The album captured the zeitgeist of the late-'60s counterculture and almost singlehandedly ushered in the Summer of Love upon its release in late May 1967. It topped the charts on both sides of the pond and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. It further cemented the LP as the predominant medium of music release and consumption. It was fitting, then, that the Beatles finally defeated Sinatra in their third consecutive clash for Album of the Year, with Sgt. Pepper triumphing over Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. The psychedelic opus also beat Vikki Carr's It Must Be Him, Ed Ames' My Cup Runneth Over and Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe. Sgt. Pepper also won Best Contemporary Album, while engineer Geoff Emerick was honored with Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical, and art directors Peter Blake and Jann Haworth collected the golden gramophone for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts. Notably, none of the Fab Four attended the Grammys for their big win, as they had recently flown to Rishikesh, India, with their significant others to study Transcendental Meditation at the ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Paul McCartney would become the first Beatle to grace the Grammys stage in 1971 when he accepted the award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture for Let It Be. Ringo Starr appeared in 1973 to co-present Best Male R&B Vocal Performance to Billy Paul's "Me and Mrs. Jones" with Harry Nilsson and to accept Album of the Year for George Harrison & Friends' Concert for Bangladesh. John Lennon made his Grammys debut in 1975 when he and Paul Simon co-presented Record of the Year to Olivia Newton-John for "I Honestly Love You." Harrison, who died in 2001, never set foot on the Grammys stage. Sgt. Pepper marked the first of four Grammy wins for Emerick, who was just 22 years old at the time. Half a century later, the engineer still considered the LP's final track the high point of his work with the Beatles. "Perhaps the greatest peak of all was the production of 'A Day in the Life' on Sgt. Pepper," Emerick told Variety in 2017. "John first played an acoustic version of the song for George Martin, and I heard it and told a colleague, 'Wait until you hear this.' I still had the shivers. And the night we put the orchestra on it, the whole world went from black and white to color."
One of the greatest examples journalistic propaganda ever.
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The cheerleading, the excessive rhetoric to continue the myth. Peel that away
and the Beatles pretty much remained a childish novelty. Awards are meaningless.
A band that doesn't perform or tour is not a band.A few songs by them I like, but there are many other bands I prefer. This article is more fuel for the machine,
the big Beatle hype machine.
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MKjan
The cheerleading, the excessive rhetoric to continue the myth. Peel that away
and the Beatles pretty much remained a childish novelty. Awards are meaningless.
A band that doesn't perform or tour is not a band.A few songs by them I like, but there are many other bands I prefer. This article is more fuel for the machine,
the big Beatle hype machine.
You're really not saying anything. They were a cultural phenomenon, tour-de-force, and that continues today. It's not about whether they are performing or touring, that's not what the article is about.
I'm not suggesting your definition of a band is valid or not. It's just not relevant at all to the article, which you said is propaganda, which I don't see. Point to the actual parts of the article that ring untrue, that's what I'm asking because you haven't actually given any examples.
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The cheerleading, the excessive rhetoric to continue the myth. Peel that away
and the Beatles pretty much remained a childish novelty. Awards are meaningless.
A band that doesn't perform or tour is not a band.A few songs by them I like, but there are many other bands I prefer. This article is more fuel for the machine,
the big Beatle hype machine.
You're really not saying anything. They were a cultural phenomenon, tour-de-force, and that continues today. It's not about whether they are performing or touring, that's not what the article is about.
I'm not suggesting your definition of a band is valid or not. It's just not relevant at all to the article, which you said is propaganda, which I don't see. Point to the actual parts of the article that ring untrue, that's what I'm asking because you haven't actually given any examples.
Take away all the talk of awards and firsts. Yes a cultural phenomena, but it's based on hype and and for me, much of the music not worthy of it all. Do know that propaganda is not about "untrue".
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Statues and awards bore the daylights outta me .....