Posted on 12/16/2008 10:37:20 AM PST by weegee
I’m back in the U.S.S.R. hey
You don’t know how lucky you are boy
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Yep!
You never see Paulie going on and on saying, “I wrote Silly Love Songs!”
Well, they did not start out as lefties. I believe it was McCartney who wrote “Taxman”.
“Taxman” would be one of the relatively rare George Harrison songs to be recorded by the band.
George Harrison
Mega pot head who gottaken to the cleaners by a crazy gimp. George was a saint. A really good man. George was treated badly by Paul and John because they would only write together. I recall the final studio sessions with yoko sitting next to John in the studio.
My guess is it was not as bad as being in Pink Floyd with libtard and bully Roger Waters. Rick Wright in Floyd was a founder and gentle soul like George. Waters treated Rick badly.
Tried listing to some of the Beatles the other day. Sir Paul wrote the most mind numbing insipid and banal songs in their archive. Only Georges songs really survive the test of time...
Actually all he did was call Yoko and talk to her about changing the credit names on one song which was YESTERDAY written by McCartney. He was and is very professional and respectful of his and John’s song writing work. Of course Yoko said no.
Actually it was George Harrison. McCartney did do the great lead guitar work on the song though.
You’re right It was Harrison who wrote it. McCartney did do the fine lead work on that particular song though which I always thought was interesting.
Harrison best single songwriter in the band. Lennon and McCartney when they by themselves pretty much sucked.
The movie “Help!” was an excercise to leave England and dodge taxes for awhile.
“Oh, I see. John Lennon the Commie had nothing to do with politcising the Beatles. Uh, huh. Right.”
But John was a kind of heroin haze politics. “Give Peace a Chance” and “Imagine” are sensible opinion pieces when you just stuck a needle in your arm.
Paul McCartney turned down Yoko in the 1960s and she’s never let him live it down.
None of the Beatles were educated men, to be charitable - musical geniuses but political toddlers. If McCartney wants to take credit for politicizing a not particularly political music group, so be it. I'd be more interested to learn who really turned them all onto LSD. That, IMHO, was a lot more infulential than politics.
Ringo Starr was treated even worse than George. Ringo left the band during The Beatles/White Album. Imagine not getting to contribute more songs on the record because they wanted to put on Revolution 9 and threatened to put on Mary Jane Had A Pain.
“Dr. Roberts”. Reportedly a dentist they knew.
McCartney was the only successful Beatle after the break-up. George nor John never came close to writing as many hits or selling as many records. Don’t get me wrong they were both great writers they just couldn’t keep up with Paul.
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