Posted on 02/24/2009 10:17:08 AM PST by a fool in paradise
I believe originally they were the “beat men” and changed it to the Beatles.
From my recollection.
I was thinking they were the “Journeymen” or something similar.
Every Beatles song worth listening to has already been released. There’s a reason the left over stuff wasn’t released. There are some Beatles die hards that want everything they recorded, so this is probably good for them.
That song was created when they discovered that England's surtax (soak the rich - does that sound familiar?) rate was 95%.
Maggie gets credit for fixing that later....
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No, it was originally the “Quarrymen” after Quarry Bank High School - my alma mater.
Sadly, the name went and is now Calderstones School - the same name as the adjacent public park.
Song parody I wrote (before George died...) to the tune of Free As a Bird
Old...as the hills
That’s what we’ve all become
Old as the hills
Old, cold and grey
GEORGE: Just call me Grandpa George
Old as the hills
PAUL: The songs we did before, like When I’m 64
Now they’re coming true
We’re...
The Quarrymen.
(National Lampoon Radio Dinner.)
Also, it was over forty years ago today, when Sgt. Pepper got it's first play.
You’ve gotta like the Stones for fleeing the UK for France to avoid taxes. Also, until recently they avoided politics and just sang about getting laid and getting high and focused on getting rich.
Every Beatles song worth listening to has already been released. There’s a reason the left over stuff wasn’t released. There are some Beatles die hards that want everything they recorded, so this is probably good for them.
Didn't any of you read my post #4?
The Lost John Lennon Interview
"Power to the People"
TA (interviewer): In a way you were even thinking about politics when you seemed to be knocking revolution?
JL (John Lennon): Ah, sure, 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'. The original version which ends up on the LP said 'count me in' too; I put in both because I wasn't sure. There was a third version that was just abstract, musique concrete, kind of loops and that, people screaming. I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution--but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
On the version released as a single I said 'when you talk about destruction you can count me out'. I didn't want to get killed. I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off. I just thought it was unsubtle, you know. I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. That was how I felt--I was really asking a question. As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.
bttt
Except for “Street Fighting Man” and Mick Jagger making an appearance at some British riot in 1968, the year the streets ran red with Red Commie pinkos rioting in the streets.
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