Say Something *NEW* about the Beatles...

I think he already sold those rights, as he couldn't afford to keep them. You have to pay quite an amount for a good lawyer, you know...

Coincidentally (or not!), today is little Emmanuel's birthday.

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), March 9th, 2005.

I love Geir! So true...

actually, def leppard's on through the night and judas priest's british steel were both recorded at ringo starr's house. actual true fact!

This has been said before, by lots of people who were not yet 5 years old when The Beatles broke up in 1970, plus Thousands of fans of metal, R&B, funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz, rock'n'roll, classical, avant garde, electronica, dance or other musical styles that The Beatles rarely touched.

Oh, wait. You said about, not by...

but that's not true. they had a lousy reissue campaign, with questionable remastering, no bonus tracks and perfunctory packaging.

I don't know which Beatles thread to post this in, so this'll have to do. I've been listening to "Sgt. Pepper" lately (40th anniversary and all) and there is a line in "She's Leaving Home" that has bugged me for many years. The line in question?

"Fun is the one thing that money can't buy."

My reasons for hating this line are thus:

1. Not three years before, the Beatles themselves informed us that money cannot buy love.
2. Of all the things that money can't buy, Macca lists FUN as the ONE THING that MONEY CAN'T BUY? Fun would seem to be one of the easier things to procure through the use of currency. Go see a movie or something, for Christ's sake.

God, I'm a nerd but I had to get this off of my chest.

that line bothered me too

oh wells

i enjoyed reading johan kugelberg's beatles are so awesome piece in the old issue of ugly things with kim fowley on the cover the other day.

As if Paul actually believed every line of lyric that he wrote. I always thought he was more into the idea of putting words together that sound good with the song, rather than emphasizing his words.

To be fair, the speaker in the other song mostly emphasizes that money can't buy HIM love, weakly suggesting that it can't buy YOU love as a sort of trailing afterthought.

Also the original 45 pressing had "YMMV" etched along the run-off groove.

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Agreed, fully! However, the rest of the song is so evocative (especially for Paul) and carefully put together that I'm surprised he chose such a cop-out line to conclude the whole story (and then stuck poor John with the task of delivering it).

how do you know john didn't write that line?

Well, I don't.

also, how can you say "so evocative for paul" when he was writing stuff like for no one and and eleanor rigby and penny lane around that time??

I don't think it's so bad if you hear it in the voice of rich parents trying to figure out why their daughter ran away after trying to buy her off for years.

paul says in 'many years from now' that they wrote it together: "(john) was doing the Greek chorus, the parents' point of view: 'we gave her most of our lives/we gave her everything money could buy'."

also, how can you say "so evocative for paul" when he was writing stuff like for no one and and eleanor rigby and penny lane around that time??

Those are also especially evocative for Paul. They're the exception, not the rule. For the record, I'm one of the biggest Macca supporters I know - I just had issues with that one line.

And Pete, I do think the line makes sense if you imagine the parents saying it - something that's reinforced by the fact that John sings all of the parents' lines. I'd never noticed this before. I do believe you've saved the song for me!

paul says in 'many years from now' that they wrote it together: "(john) was doing the Greek chorus, the parents' point of view: 'we gave her most of our lives/we gave her everything money could buy'."

See, this is why I love ILM. I can now listen to this line with contentment.

you're content because john wrote it??

I'm content because I'd never imagined that particular line as the parent trying to rationalize their daughter's departure - "oh well, fun is the one thing we couldn't buy for her."

It's been a while since I read it but I remember the Goldman book being massively entertaining, and actually pretty good when talking about the actual music.

feel like the mark lewisohn book was so good and actually made the early days beatles story feel fresh i never want to read anyone else write anything about the beates except his next 2 upcoming books

^^^

ha i should give it another try, got a little exhausted around page 150 ... though I"m excited for that level of detail on the actual Beatles years

Lewisohn was very enthusiastic about the prospects for this film.

"Something new about the Beatles"

Cool band

As far as I can gather, the people of the Philippines are still more than a bit embarrassed about the way the Beatles were handled here.

Yeah, "We're sorry about Imelda Marcos", they've said that a few times.

#9 Dream sounds an awful lot like an Ariel Pink song, doesn't it? (or the other way round if you're offended by this comparison)

^ yes, it does

https://i.redd.it/bea2nydimowz.jpg

A better thread would be "Say something about a band that aren't The Beatles"

(and I'll bet 'Carnival of Light' is terrible)

haha, that's great

I always thought "From Me to You" was the weakest of their early singles, but I like it more now - pretty classic Beatles.