Say Something Interesting About The Beatles

Admit it - you LIKE the beatles, they were (mostly) great!

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The line "Now that I know our view must be right/I'm here to show everybody the light" is some proto-rave messiah stuff, which is appropriate for such a hypnotic and dancey song as "The Word". LOVE LOVE LOVE the way John sings "I'm here to show everybody the light!!!" He has a little bit of a knowing or punk sneer with those words.

Also, for having a one-note-turning-into-dissonance organ solo, this song is definitely my favorite right now.

"Wait!"

Purely for the uncelebrated couplet:

".. and I've been good, as good as I can be"

i.e. he's not been good at all!

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/lord-woodbine-the-forgotten-sixth-beatle-2015140.html

In 1958 he was with the All-Steel Caribbean Band, led by a fellow Trinidadian, Gerry Gobin. At the Joker's Club, where the band often played, the musicians noticed two white lads who seemed keen. They were Lennon and McCartney, wide-eyed and restless kids, like many others on rock and dole. The steel-pannists moved to the popular Jacaranda Club in Liverpool 1 and The Beatles followed. Gobin, unimpressed by their music, was initially irritated by these hangers-on. Candace Smith, then Gobin's partner, was also suspicious of them: "Bloody white kids, trying to horn in on the black music scene."

Marylee Smith, Jamaican, 81, used to visit her cousins in Liverpool. Interviewed for this article, she recalled Toxteth's music scene then: "They was there all the time, you know, all the time, like they was looking for some black magic, pushing in, rough boys, unwashed sometimes. Jumping on to the stage, playing the pans like it was theirs. Some of us didn't like that. But the musicians, they didn't mind so much." Woodbine was bohemian, free, left wing, incautious. He even had the boys performing in his strip club. It must have been madly exciting.

In 2008, McCartney recalled those times in Mojo magazine: "Liverpool being the first Caribbean settlement in the UK, we were very friendly with a lot of black guys – Lord Woodbine, Derry Wilkie, they were mates we hung out with."

Is there any likelihood of the Yoko Ono lps being remastered/reissued at any time? I thought they might be included in the Apple reissues of the last few years but I haven't seen any sight of them.

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haha

Warren Wilmer got his wish this year, sort of

Stumbled upon this interesting audio interview from Sept 19 1969 of Paul McCartney plugging Abbey Road with David Wigg for the BBC series Scene and Heard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iwas2xM6-M

The following day (Sept 20 1969) Lennon would announce leaving the Beatles. McCartney discusses his interest in possibly playing small clubs (to which he suggests the Beatles do the following day to John's famous "Your daft and I'm leaving..." response.)

ever notice how George is wearing a cowboy hat on the back sleeves for Help! + Rubber Soul and the front sleeve of Revolver? howdy, pardner!

That Shakespeare bloke, total hack, can't hold a candle to Marlowe and Johnson, we all hate him on I Love Elizabethan Theatre

SHIRLEY MOORE otm

Is there ILM consensus on the best Beatles country/country-adjacent song? (original, ie not Act Naturally)

it's probably just because i'm listening to Beatles for Sale (which i've been obsessing over this year for some reason), but i really like "i don't want to spoil the party"

Beatles for Sale is the best Beatles

following that on Beatles for Sale is the glorious "what you're doing", which has the most perfect rickenbacker-style guitar accompaniment. the performance is perfect, which is especially astounding considering that was back when they recorded things in just a few hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XswcADHL5zc

I don't want to spoil the party. I'm not partial to C&W pastiches either, but the harmonies on "I still love her" make it special

Good point.

If that’s the Dave Edmunds special in that video, just notice that the related album is streamable.

The vocal performances on I Don't Want to Spoil the Party are really great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXvpZwPE_3M