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Lennon would do anything for her ....
She influenced his life so much ....
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Lennon would do anything for her ....
She influenced his life so much ....
Yoko was the best thing that happened to John artistically. He left the pop group and started making more interesting, mature stuff.
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I am the opposite.Nothing Lennon did solo is anywhere as great as his best Beatles work.Please Please Me, Hard Days Night, Day in the Life.I think most of his solo music has aged badly and is depressingQuote
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Lennon would do anything for her ....
She influenced his life so much ....
Yoko was the best thing that happened to John artistically. He left the pop group and started making more interesting, mature stuff.
- Doxa
You have a point there, I do also appreciate John Lennon's solo outputs a lot, but I rarely listen to the Beatles.
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Lennon would do anything for her ....
She influenced his life so much ....
Yoko was the best thing that happened to John artistically. He left the pop group and started making more interesting, mature stuff.
- Doxa
You have a point there, I do also appreciate John Lennon's solo outputs a lot, but I rarely listen to the Beatles.
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Didn't Something Happened To Me Yesterday "do" something in connection to the creation of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heartsclub Band?
That's news to me. Can you provide a good source for that assertion? Thanks.
Hi CC. Some years ago I also mentioned that "story". I remember seeing an extensive interview with John Lennon and somewhere "in the middle" he talked about what inspired him listening to SHTMY, in particular the horn section. I spent hours and days trying to figure out which interview it was and in the end I managed to persuade the (then) chairman of a Dutch Beatles fanclub to help me out. But nothing turned up then. Like I said, I remember it was an extensive interview, so one would have to listen to all of it. Who knows, one day?
So. The "authority" for this claim is that you think you remember an interview in which Lennon brings it up. And, despite the help of someone well versed in Beatles history you've NEVER (so far) been able to verify the claim.
Word of advice. If you have a claim like that to make, then don't simply drop it in a posting - qualified at most by a question mark at the end - make sure you point out how tenuous the claim is.
Fake Memory is interesting. I have a very firm FAKE MEMORY of a BBC radio broadcast of The Beatles playing "Ticket To Ride" on a particular programme. So firm is the fake memory that I enlisted Mark Lewisohn to try and find the origin, and he - in turn - got Kevin Howlett to check the entirety of the BBC's contracts with The Beatles to see if it happened. It didn't.
If it's true, then we can be sure that it will be documented in a future edition of Mark's books.
So, please be more careful with your claims.
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Long live Yoko?...she is having a good go , will be 90 next Feb
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I thought Paul was already dead.......
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I thought Paul was already dead.......
You are right! So it’s down to Ringo and Yoko. I bet if Ringo wasn’t married, Yoko would marry him. What a great finale to the popsters.
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Could the Stones Rock and Roll Circus ( 11–12 December 1968) have inspired the Beatles rooftop concert (30 January 1969) ?
It doesn't look like. The original intention behind the Beatles' Get Back project was for the band to make a return as live performers with a special one-off TV-special performance.
For the venue they were considering e.g. the Roundhouse in Camden, the Royal Albert Hall or the Tate gallery. Other ideas were e.g. a gig at an orphanage, at the Houses of Parliament, at an Airport or in front of an audience made up solely of dogs.
Filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg had the idea to take a cruise ship to Libya and play in the ruins of amphitheatre in Sabratha, an ancient Roman city in Libya. John Lennon was enthusiastic about this idea, Paul McCartney was also up for it, while Ringo Starr didn't say no and George Harrison dismissed the "very expensive and insane" idea, adding that he didn't want to be "stuck with a bloody big boatload of people for two weeks".
The band eventually nixed the idea of a TV-special and in the end the Fab Four, joined by Billy Preston, performed an unannounced concert from the rooftop of their Apple Corps headquarters at London's 3 Savile Row on 30 January 1969.
[en.Wikipedia.org] , [NYpost.com] , [www.GoldRadioUK.com] .
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Lennon would do anything for her ....
She influenced his life so much ....
Yoko was the best thing that happened to John artistically. He left the pop group and started making more interesting, mature stuff.
- Doxa
You have a point there, I do also appreciate John Lennon's solo outputs a lot, but I rarely listen to the Beatles.
Same here. I probably haven't listened a Beatles song willingly for 30 years. I did my best at my youth to discover a Beatles fan in me, but I find it a mission impossible, and I finally gave up. But I find Lennon's solo work inspiring, and the older I get the more and more I seem to like it, and I listen it rather often. To me Lennon leaving the Beatles is like Abba member transforming to Bob Dylan. But that's just me, I know I belong to the minority here, and I do understand why people love the Beatles and their sweet and catchy pop melodies, although they bore me to death. Same with Abba. Had Lennon met Yoko earlier, and left the pop group earlier, some cool Lennon tunes, such as "A Day in the Life", might have been saved.
Probably we should give some kudos to the Stones, too. They gave John a template to perform solo (or outside the pop group) for the first time.
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Lennon would do anything for her ....
She influenced his life so much ....
Yoko was the best thing that happened to John artistically. He left the pop group and started making more interesting, mature stuff.
- Doxa
You have a point there, I do also appreciate John Lennon's solo outputs a lot, but I rarely listen to the Beatles.
Same here. I probably haven't listened a Beatles song willingly for 30 years. I did my best at my youth to discover a Beatles fan in me, but I find it a mission impossible, and I finally gave up. But I find Lennon's solo work inspiring, and the older I get the more and more I seem to like it, and I listen it rather often. To me Lennon leaving the Beatles is like Abba member transforming to Bob Dylan. But that's just me, I know I belong to the minority here, and I do understand why people love the Beatles and their sweet and catchy pop melodies, although they bore me to death. Same with Abba. Had Lennon met Yoko earlier, and left the pop group earlier, some cool Lennon tunes, such as "A Day in the Life", might have been saved.
Probably we should give some kudos to the Stones, too. They gave John a template to perform solo (or outside the pop group) for the first time.
- Doxa
I often agree with you, but this made me chuckle... First, I never heard ABBA doing something like Yer Blues or Revolution#9. Second, as a musician myself I can tell you that it's easier to write tons of "meaningful" music than a single catchy pop tune that's still remembered 10, 20, 50 or even 100 years after the event.
For me, the artist John Lennon got drowned in increasing self-importance after he left the Beatles, and Yoko may have a lot to do with it. Definitely not saying that there aren't a handful of excellent solo tunes that stood the test of time, but almost nothing that he could not have done within the Beatles.
There is a reason why a mere 4 years of the Beatles disbanded, Lennon just went back to the roots with the Rock'n'Roll album - and that not much more came after it.
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Lennon would do anything for her ....
She influenced his life so much ....
Yoko was the best thing that happened to John artistically. He left the pop group and started making more interesting, mature stuff.
- Doxa
You have a point there, I do also appreciate John Lennon's solo outputs a lot, but I rarely listen to the Beatles.
Same here. I probably haven't listened a Beatles song willingly for 30 years. I did my best at my youth to discover a Beatles fan in me, but I find it a mission impossible, and I finally gave up. But I find Lennon's solo work inspiring, and the older I get the more and more I seem to like it, and I listen it rather often. To me Lennon leaving the Beatles is like Abba member transforming to Bob Dylan. But that's just me, I know I belong to the minority here, and I do understand why people love the Beatles and their sweet and catchy pop melodies, although they bore me to death. Same with Abba. Had Lennon met Yoko earlier, and left the pop group earlier, some cool Lennon tunes, such as "A Day in the Life", might have been saved.
Probably we should give some kudos to the Stones, too. They gave John a template to perform solo (or outside the pop group) for the first time.
- Doxa
I often agree with you, but this made me chuckle... First, I never heard ABBA doing something like Yer Blues or Revolution#9. Second, as a musician myself I can tell you that it's easier to write tons of "meaningful" music than a single catchy pop tune that's still remembered 10, 20, 50 or even 100 years after the event.
For me, the artist John Lennon got drowned in increasing self-importance after he left the Beatles, and Yoko may have a lot to do with it. Definitely not saying that there aren't a handful of excellent solo tunes that stood the test of time, but almost nothing that he could not have done within the Beatles.
There is a reason why a mere 4 years of the Beatles disbanded, Lennon just went back to the roots with the Rock'n'Roll album - and that not much more came after it.
Haha, and I thought no one picked up that line...
There is no reason to deny the absolute genious of Lennon/McCartney as song-writers (nor the one of Abba dudes). They are brilliant. Also taken how popular their music still is, their catalogue has aged very well. But I am not talking about that, but just my personal taste. For some reason the music of the Beatles just don't work for me and I find it boring (so I don't willingly listen that ever. Why to waste bullets, since there are so much exciting music in the world to listen and discover). And for some other reason Lennon's solo stuff works for me. A certain kind of chemical reaction, or the lack of it. But opinions are like arseholes, they say...
What goes for "Yer Blues", oh man I dig the Dirty Mac version of it. Lennon has a damn great band there.
Generally my favourite period of the Beatles is the early Beatlemania years (1963/4), you know, all those catchy and eternally fresh-sounding pop hits "She Loves You", "Wanna Hold Your Hand", "Hard Day's Night", etc. But when they started being more 'experimental' and a studio trick band, they lost that appeal to me. No denying their significance, but by the time of people like Hendrix popping up, I think an exciting and actually innovative music was to be found from somewhere else. No matter what Beatlelogists claim...
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