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All Songs +1: The Beatles Are Live And Sounding Better Than Ever
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| August 25, 2016
| Bob Boilen
Posted on 08/25/2016 4:34:02 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
"Paul McCartney was talented, but every High school has someone like that. Lennon though was a mutant."Paul McCartney wrote most of Peter And Gordon hit songs. Paul actually lived upstairs in the Astor (upper class to McCartney) home while dating Peter's sister Jane.
Peter was so bummed out because he thought their popularity was due to McCartney's name as the author on their albums.
McCartney wrote the song Woman for Peter and Gordon using the name Bernard Webb...it was still a very big hit.
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posted on
08/25/2016 5:43:16 PM PDT
by
blam
(Jeff Sessions For President)
To: Mariner
I was in the 8th grade in 1957 when
this (Maybe Baby) song was released.
Those were the days.
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posted on
08/25/2016 5:50:03 PM PDT
by
blam
(Jeff Sessions For President)
To: Inyo-Mono
I read your comment and wondered what the date was that I saw them in Memphis. I looked it up, August 19th, 1966. Dates both of us - 50 years ago this month.
To: rusty schucklefurd
Yes, God love George Martin!
To: blam
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posted on
08/25/2016 6:23:41 PM PDT
by
Zirondelle
("disce aut discede")
To: Mariner
McCartney was/is one of the greatest rock bass players of all times.
Rubber Soul and Revolver and songs like Don't let me down and Come Together are classics
because of McCartney's Driving, melodic and sublime bass playing.
Blackbird is one song any aspiring guitar player must learn.
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posted on
08/25/2016 6:26:12 PM PDT
by
John 3_19-21
(The primaries are over, you are either with U.S. or against U.S.)
To: dfwgator
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Lennon was good at writing spiritually depressing clap-trap lyrics.
He had a head full of “awful stuff.”
Paul was the heart and soul of the Beatles.
.
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posted on
08/25/2016 6:29:07 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Bearshouse
I read your comment and wondered what the date was that I saw them in Memphis. I looked it up, August 19th, 1966. Dates both of us - 50 years ago this month.Yeah, it sure does! I was 16 at the time. Aside from the screaming, they were very good live considering what they had to work with at the time. Seeing The Beatles live, they sounded just like their records to me and I have seen many concerts over the years with other bands where they sounded not nearly as good as their recordings.
To: editor-surveyor
Paul would write, ‘It’s getting better all the time’, then John was the one who added, “It can’t get no worse.”
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posted on
08/25/2016 6:46:17 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: freepertoo
Paul and John were opposite ends of the spectrum, and they balanced one another so perfectly that it made the band truly great. It was that ying and yang...sugar and salt, light and dark. They were perfect as a team. When they split, so did the magic. Paul briefly teamed with Elvis Costello, which had a similar kind of mix. They co-wrote "Veronica" which IMHO may have been one of Macca's best Post-Beatles songs.
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posted on
08/25/2016 6:48:21 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: BlueStateRightist
I listen to the songs written by Paul on Abbey Road, Sergeant Peppers, Revolver, and the White Album and I reach a different conclusion. He also was superlatively unique. Paul, who ultimately couldnt stand John after Yoko arrived, added genius in his own way and if you removed him from the band they wouldnt be remembered as best of their era as they are now.I totally agree with you. Paul was (and is) a real musical genius. He wrote some of the best of Beatles songs and his lead guitar on "Baby You Can Drive My Car" and "Doctor Robert" is superb.
To: Mariner
The Beatles played at least two concerts at Budokon Hall in Tokyo and also the famous Shea stadium show that were professionally recorded.
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posted on
08/25/2016 6:55:01 PM PDT
by
curth
To: Inyo-Mono
I would also point out Paul’s first solo album, which as truly a solo album in every sense of the word, that every sound on it was produced by Paul.
Maybe I’m Amazed is great, but there are other hidden gems, like “Junk” and “Every Night.”
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posted on
08/25/2016 6:56:19 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
You bet.
“Every Night” is one of favorite not well known McCartney songs.
To: Mariner
Amazing. You can almost hear the band above all the shrieking, crying girls.
Does that sort of thing still happen?
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posted on
08/25/2016 8:39:32 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: Inyo-Mono
A Dunn y story from 1994. Paul came to Memphis and played the Liberty Bowl. His first song of the night was “Drive My Car”. He totally blew the first few words. He stopped and said let’s try that again. A great nearly three hour concert. The first of three for me.
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posted on
08/25/2016 9:28:17 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
To: NCC-1701
A Dunn y = A funny. Big oops.
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posted on
08/25/2016 9:30:07 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
To: ZagFan
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posted on
08/25/2016 10:51:49 PM PDT
by
Daaave
("Well bless my soul what's wrong with me")
To: BlueStateRightist
Lennon was a hardcore leftist before it was fashionable for rockers to be total leftists. I have a feeling Lennon, if alive, would be a Bernie supporter. To the greater point, its safe to assume all current artists vote Marxist these days. If I start to like any music I intentionally avoid learning of the bands/artists politics as Im sure it would ruin the experience.
Perhaps not a Bernie guy in Lennon's later yeaars -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009562/John-Lennon-closet-conservative-fan-Reagan.html
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posted on
08/25/2016 11:02:36 PM PDT
by
az_gila
To: BlueStateRightist
If John Lennon were alive today, he’d have been dead many years ago with the massive amounts of chemicals and hallucinogens and alcohol he consumed in his relatively short life. Keith Richards would probably have demanded that John have an intervention.
An incredible talent of course—but John needed Paul and vice-versa... Though in my opinion, Paul is far more talented a player, singer and songwriter, I still loved John as a Beatle.
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