Posted on 06/01/2017 9:59:18 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
Someone else in the galaxy loves Revolver and Rubber Soul! When I was 10, I’d babysit next door. Once I knew my parents had retired at the opposite end of our house, I’d slap on the vinyl and put the needle to the grooves. Loved Taxman. Drive my Car, Looking Through You, Norwegian Wood..... I could go on and on. Miss those days. Thanks for prodding the memories.
A few years ago I read a very long, in-depth articke about Ringo. I’m sure I’d never be able to find it again. One of the themes that stood out was this: non-drummers tend to knock Ringo, while fellow drummers pay him the highest respect. Maybe it has to do with the fact that he wasn’t a showboat, but he understood how to facilitate the music.
There was one anecdote I recall. John was trying to work with a different drummer post Beatles, and it wasn’t going well. Finally he blurted out, ‘Play it more like Ringo!’ A fine tribute, if there ever was one.
... I agree when you stated Ringo wasn’t the best rock drummer, but he was the perfect drummer for The Beatles.
Heck, John Lennon even said that Ringo wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/67599/man-who-was-fired-beatles
Pete Best is still pissed off.
You can’t blame him, he’s right up there with the guy who was with Apple when they started and sold his stock for a few hundred bucks.
I don’t see how pop music could ever surpass Revolver.
Tomorrow Never Knows sounds as dark and mystical today as it’s first release.
And Your Bird Can Sing is as stunningly bright as any ever recorded.
She’s Leaving, as forlorn and sad.
Not to rain on others’ parades but, what’s to celebrate? Have you seen this information about how wicked the four were? They were pioneers in serving Satan as his musicians, leading to horrendous evil filth as the woman who’s “fame’ attracted to Manchester the ISIS filth.
For the photos see link:
http://taylormarshall.com/2014/01/beatles-butcher-album-abortion.html
Otherwise, the text:
Did the Beatles Promote Abortion?
by Dr Taylor Marshall
I recently did a little study on the Beatles. This post looks at the intellectual poison behind two of the most famous Beatles album covers in Beatles history – one of which seems to depict an eerie abortion scene. But it all began with my Hindu neighbor. I recently noticed a photograph of a Hindu guru in my neighbor’s office.
(If you receive this post by email, make sure to click “display images” because you’re really need to see these photos!)
“Who is that man?” I asked.
“That is Paramahansa Yogananda. He came to America and taught the similarities between the teachings of Christ and Hinduism.”
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I knew I had seen and heard of him before. After a couple of weeks, I remembered reading somewhere that he was one of the dudes on the Beatle’s album cover for Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearst Club band (3rd from the right, 2nd row from top).
That got me thinking. “Yeah, George Harrison was all into Hinduism and Hare Krishna. That makes sense. But I wonder. Who else was on the album cover for Sgt Peppers?”
However, when I studied the “who’s who” of Sgt Pepper’s, I was horrified. Here’s a list of who is on the cover.
Adolf Hitler was removed from the at the last moment due to protest from the record label:
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Top row
Sri Yukteswar Giri (Hindu guru)
Aleister Crowley (Satanist, pansexual, and occultist)
Mae West (occultist, actress, sex idol)
Lenny Bruce (early obscene comedian, drug addict)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer, Socialist, new-ager)
W. C. Fields (comedian/actor, alcoholic)
Carl Gustav Jung (occultist, psychiatrist)
Edgar Allan Poe (dark writer)
Fred Astaire (actor/dancer)
Richard Merkin (artist)
The Vargas Girl (erotic painting by artist Alberto Vargas)
Huntz Hall (actor)
Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers)
Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter, occultist)
Second row
Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)
Sir Robert Peel (19th century British Prime Minister)
Aldous Huxley (writer, eugenist)
Dylan Thomas (poet)
Terry Southern (writer)
Dion Dimucci (singer/songwriter)
Tony Curtis (actor)
Wallace Berman (artist)
Tommy Handley (comedian)
Marilyn Monroe (sex idol)
William S. Burroughs (homosexual, killed his wife, promoter of narcotics)
Sri Mahavatar Babaji (Hindu guru)
Stan Laurel (actor/comedian)
Richard Lindner (artist)
Oliver Hardy (actor/comedian)
Karl Marx (atheist, founder of atheistic communism)
H. G. Wells (socialist, eugenist, author, advocate of the “World State”, open critic of Catholic Church)
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (Hindu guru)
James Joyce (Irish poet and novelist, self proclaimed “enemy of Catholicism”)
Anonymous (hairdresser’s wax dummy)
Third row
Stuart Sutcliffe (deceased former Beatle, alleged to be homosexual)
Anonymous (hairdresser’s wax dummy)
Max Miller (early obscene comedian)
A “Petty Girl” (erotic image by artist George Petty)
Marlon Brando (homosexual, actor)
Tom Mix (actor)
Oscar Wilde (homosexual, writer)
Tyrone Power (actor)
Larry Bell (modern sculptor, artist)
Dr. David Livingstone (missionary/explorer)
Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic swimmer/Tarzan actor)
Stephen Crane (author of Red Badge of Courage) – barely visible between Issy Bonn’s head and raised arm
Issy Bonn (comedian)
George Bernard Shaw (atheist, socialist, eugenist)
H. C. Westermann (sculptor)
Albert Stubbins (English footballer)
Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (Hindu guru)
Lewis Carroll (author, alleged pedaphile)
T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”)
Front row
Wax model of Sonny Liston (boxer)
A “Petty Girl” (erotic image by George Petty)
Wax model of George Harrison
Wax model of John Lennon
Shirley Temple (child actress) – barely visible behind the wax models of John and Ringo, first of three appearances on the cover
Wax model of Ringo Starr
Wax model of Paul McCartney
Albert Einstein (physicist) – largely obscured
John Lennon holding a French horn
Ringo Starr holding a trumpet
Paul McCartney holding a Cor Anglais
George Harrison holding a piccolo
Bobby Breen (singer)
Marlene Dietrich (bisexual, actress, singer)
An American legionnaire
Wax model of Diana Dors (British sex symbol, actress)
Shirley Temple (child actress) – second appearance on the cover
The Intellectual Background for the Beatles
When I was a teenager, Sgt Pepper’s just look like a cool album cover. After formally studying philosophy for a few years, I now realize that the album cover is a collage of intellectual poison.
Aleister Crowley? Really. As in Black Sabbath’s “Mr Crowley.” Nuts. The Sgt Pepper collage is mostly an assembly of occultists, political socialists, eugenists, homosexuals, and sexual provocateurs (plus four Hindu gurus).
So I started looking around at their other album covers and I re-discovered this album cover from the Beatles: Yesterday and Today released on 20 June 1966. That was just one year before Sgt Pepper’s, which was released on 1 June 1967. Take a look. If you’re getting this post by email, be sure to click “display images” in your email browser/client so you can see the photos:
The Beatles’ Yesterday and Today “Butcher Cover”
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The four Beatles are wearing white doctor’s coats covered with flesh and decapitated babies. John looks mildly pleased. And Paul looks happy, even delighted. Ringo looks depressed (“Am I really doing this?”). George Harrison looks straight up evil. I feel like George is giving me the bird with a dead infant’s head.
This is just gross.
Pause. What did this represent in 1966? John Lennon said it was a commentary on the Vietnam War. But I don’t see what physician smocks with dead babies has to do with the war. Yes people are dying in each, but still. Kinda weird.
For what it’s worth, the Parliament legalized abortion in the UK with the Abortion Act of 1967 on 27 October 1967. Abortion was being hotly debated in the United Kingdom when this photo was taken.
Conclusion
My conclusion is that there is something really dark about the Beatles. It’s not just a happy “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Life Goes On” quartet. There is something sinister here. This album cover just screams it. It’s not normal.
I used to think that the great “evil minds” infecting the 20th century were men like Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Michael Foucault. However, I think the biggest wrecking ball of Western culture might have been resting in every American’s record collection (or iPod) – John, Paul, Ringo, and George!
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Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I’ll be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.” – John Lennon on 4 March 1966 (about 3 months before the “butcher baby” album cover)
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I heard George Martin say that he always regretted that those two songs weren't included in Sgt. Pepper. Man, talk about an embarrassment of riches if those two songs had been included.
You really do need to see a doctor.
I’m not being flip. I’m sincere.
They were the 1st & 2nd concept albums. Then the Stones made Satanic Majesties Request. Not many peoples favorite.
Although it's difficult (for me,at least) to list their songs by "greatness" that's one of their very best.
And here's a quiz for you....what,or who,is the intended "target" of "Bird"...and why.
McCartney and Lennon needed one another. Without McCartney, Lennon's songs came across as too angry - he needed McCartney to mellow things a bit. Without Lennon, McCartney's songs lacked edginess which Lennon could add with a line or two. On another dimension, McCartney was better with melodies and Lennon with words. Harrison was really coming into his own as a songwriter when the Beatles split but he just didn't have the volume of great material the other two did.
I think that George Martin played a key role in the success of the Beatles, too. He was the adult who reeled in some of the excesses which would have probably diminished their final products. Martin was the one who could take an abstract musical idea and figure out how to make it work. The Beatles had the inspirations of musical genius but it was Martin who had the technical skills to actually accomplish the desired result.
“Then the Stones made Satanic Majesties Request. Not many peoples favorite. “
It was bad enough to cause the Stones to rethink their entire direction. All members hated it.
Then, in 1968 and 1969 they went back to their R&B/Rock roots and created two masterpieces:
Beggars Banquet and Let it Bleed. From that point forward they were the Greatest Rock and Roll band in the world.
I think it was about McCartney’s girlfriend.
Yes. Also, their engineer-—forget his name, but I read his book. He actually was the one who kept coming up with tricks. They’d tell him the sound they wanted, he’d find a recording trick to do it.
I was 20 when this was released waiting to report for active duty in December. I bought this one, the Doors first, and the Hendrix album in the same week in late June if I recall. Sgt. Pepper had stiff competition and I still preferred Revolver and Rubber Soul and I think their all time best is the White Album. The Cream record got my attention a little later but I was already into the Mayall/Yardbirds groove and there was the Butterfield Blues Band and Muddy Waters stuff that was solid driving straight-ahead stuff compared to the Beattles. And the Stones kept on truckin’. Stones and the blues guys vs. the Beattles was like Yin and Yang. The girls always liked the Beattles better and seemed like the more feminine males did too.
“You really do need to see a doctor.”
About what? Being disgusted with evil? Being perturbed at what has destroyed the Christian culture in the West?
Or is it for daring to oppose a music cult so popular among the masses?
Free Republic’s mission is about defending God’s honor, family and country. Rock music is one of each of these entities’ greatest enemies.
Revolver.
I begged my mom to buy it when I was in 2nd grade. I wore the grooves off of it; it was my soundtrack for that year.
Now, I’m 57 and it still sounds just as good now as it did then. I find that extraordinary.
Makes you feel old, huh.
Wanna feel old? Last night my daughter asked me
if it was true that Paul McCartney was in a band
before Wings.
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