Posted on 06/28/2019 1:58:54 PM PDT by beaversmom
In Danny Boyle’s new movie, Yesterday, a failed indie rocker (Himesh Patel) gets hit by a bus and wakes up in an alternate reality where nobody but him remembers the Beatles, so he plagiarizes “She Loves You,” “Hey Jude,” and other Lennon-McCartney standards and unseats Ed Sheeran as the world’s biggest pop star. The film, written by Richard Curtis, is obviously fictional. But 55 years ago, a similar thing, or at least pretty similar thing—minus the bus accident and the interdimensional copyright infringement—really happened to Peter Asher.
On Feb. 28, 1964, British folk duo Peter and Gordon released their debut single, “A World Without Love.” It didn’t matter that the song was an adequately harmonized, extremely melodramatic ballad about doomed teenage romance. (“Please lock me away,” it starts, “and don’t allow the day here inside, where I hide with my loneliness.”) It didn’t matter that neither Asher nor his performing partner, Gordon Waller, 20 and 19 at the time, were natural heartthrobs; indeed, Asher’s glasses, haircut, and teeth would later give Mike Myers the visual inspiration for Austin Powers. All that mattered at that precise instant in history was that “A World Without Love” was written for Peter and Gordon by Paul McCartney (and credited to Lennon-McCartney, like all of McCartney and John Lennon’s songs were then, no matter who wrote what) and therefore infused with the magic of the Beatles, which meant Peter and Gordon had been handed musical plutonium.
That sounds modest, but in the spring of 1964, the demand for Beatles substitutes was through the roof. The Beatles themselves had come to New York and performed on The Ed Sullivan Show for three consecutive Sundays that February, but then disappeared for most of March and April to shoot A Hard Day’s Night. By this point, McCartney...
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And John’s stuff was ever worse.
Actually I had high hopes when Paul collaborated with Elvis Costello, that could have been an awesome partnership, “Veronica” was a fantastic song.
Here is a list of all the Stone's charting singles in the UK. Their first song to make the charts was Come on which was released July 31, 1963 and reached number 21 .
Their second hit was the I Wanna Be Your Man, which was on Nov.20, 1963. It made it to number 12.
Not Fade Away came in March of 1964, and reached number 3.
It was It's All Over Now that finally got them their first #1 hit in Aug. of 1964.
Here's the full list:
Yes, Peter Asher is still around as a bigwig Hollywood music producer. Nice fellow, despite having inflicted James Taylor on the world.
Article mentions Peter & Jane’s father was the psychiatrist who discovered Munchausen Syndrome.
I never knew that.
Peter and Jeremy give a GREAT show. If they ever come to town again, we will go again. It was soooo much fun!
That may be the Beetles or the Beadles,
but that is not the Beatles.
Wanna feel old? My daughter asked me if it was true
that Paul McCartney was in a group before ‘Wings.’
Or, “Who is that white guy doing that song with Stevie Wonder?”
Neither is this...
Give Me a Kiss--The Hornets (1964)
Nor this. Although this act got some air play in the summer of '64, they failed to bust any charts.
She's the One--The Chartbusters (1964)
And the Rolling Stones are back on tour.
Talk about longevity.
I’m surprised at that. ‘She’s the one’ got a lot of play at the time.
On another note I listen to the blues channel on Sirius, they played an old blues tune “the killng floor”, this was led zeps lemon song. Im probably late to the game but it was interesting to hear
Paul solo and with Wings had a lot of great songs. “Helen Wheels” is a good rock song, for example.
The best version of “The Killing Floor” is on The Electric Flag album with The great “Mike Bloomfield” playing lead guitar.
I didn’t know until recently that McCartney helped write “Veronica”.
“Veronica” is one of those unusual songs that sounds happy and fun until one delves into the lyrics and discovers just how sad that song is.
Your daughter isn’t alone. My first exposure to McCartney was his “Wings” years.
The first John Lennon song I ever heard was “Just Like Starting Over”.
It wasn’t until after Lennon’s murder that I discovered that McCartney and Lennon were in a band together. Lennon’s murder was the talk of the school playground the next day.
I did like “Instant Karma”.
You might not know it, but when
the Beatles first came out, they
called themselves the Silver Beetles.
Lennon wanted them to be called the
Crickets, but McCartney pointed out
the name was already taken, ie,
Buddy Holly’s band.
I was in high school when the Rolling Stones “Some Girls” album came out. We loved it but considered the Stones “old” because they had been around for so long. That was 40 years ago!
Ahh the album with the song with the lyrics...”Black girls just want to get f’d all night”.
Oh yeah. The lead in is one of the all time greats. LBJ “ I speak tonight.....”
I was selling an old-school tube stereo. The prospective buyer came over and I put that track on, and I could tell in the first 30 seconds, he was sold.
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