Posted on 01/20/2022 8:46:27 AM PST by shadowlands1960
I don’t normally share anything personal but this my dad from a while back explaining to my daughter he signed the Beatles. Ordinary people do extraordinary things. Great decisions are made for the simplest reasons. “I figured if I like them this much other people might too”
I wonder if his granddaughters grasps the magnitude of his topic. Probably not. She’s a bit fidgety, but seems like she’s trying to understand granddad....
And thanks to him I get to listen to my grandkids play “Rocky Raccoon” over and over and over and over.....
That is simply EXTRAORDINARY.
I like hearing he thought they were nice and good people.
Great find
Thanks
The real fifth Beatle.
Thanks for this. That “niceness” George Martin saw in them came across nicely in the new Apple documentary, Get Back.
George Martin was a genius. I have heard the Decca Audition tapes of the Beatles and there was nothing out of the ordinary about them at all and they mainly sang covers of other people’s songs. I don’t blame Decca for not signing them. Martin saw and heard something there that others didn’t and encouraged them to concentrate on their own songs. The first really big hit they had after he signed them and recorded an album with them was “Please Please Me”, which was an original composition. Paul said it was written as a sort of mock Roy Orbison style ballad. Martin had them speed up the tempo and rock it up and it became a smash hit. The Beatles were really lucky that Decca didn’t sign them and EMI did, because they were mentored by Martin as a result.
You have to drop Maxwell’s silver hammer in that case. There’s no other choice.
Needless to say, I can't get the Beatles out of my head these days.
I agree. One thing about the video that stood out for me was how respectful and ‘adult’ Yoko was... everyone seemed to like her. The only serious ‘tiff’ was between George and Paul and we already knew that from the movie ‘Let it Be.’ They were just very talented men taking different routes in life. The good-natured hard work ethic of Ringo also shone through.
The Beatles broke up at the right time, it was time to move on, music was changing. Breaking up when they did, has kept their legacy intact, unlike the other bands of that era that eventually wore out their welcome, and became nothing but nostalgia acts.
An overwhelming conversation made human.
Ping to check out later. Not a huge fan, but I know someone who is.
#11 The Beatles doing Disco..... think about that!
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