Posted on 10/07/2023 10:21:54 AM PDT by Beowulf9
The Rolling Stones and The Beatles have had a perceived rivalry since the '60s, but Keith Richards thinks John Lennon and George Harrison would've fit well in the Stones' lineup.
“I don’t think John Lennon would have had much problem fitting into the Stones, or George, if you can imagine that sort of thing happening,” the guitarist admitted during an interview with The Telegraph. “We were the same generation, and we all loved the same music. When we first heard The Beatles, we were relieved that there was some other band in England on the same track that we were on. And within a few months, that track was the main track.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Richards spoke about Paul McCartney playing bass on "Bite Your Head Off" — a track featured on their upcoming album Hackney Diamonds. “Paul happened to be in town…And we couldn’t keep him away, bless his heart," he said. “And hey, if you can get one of the Beatles on your track, you know, you do it.”
“Paul’s a very amiable cat to play with; we’ve been great friends forever,” Richards added endearingly. Hackney Diamonds is the Stones' first album of new material in nearly 20 years and first since drummer Charlie Watts' death. Last week, Ronnie Wood confirmed that Watts recorded drums for "Live By The Sword" and "Mess It Up" before passing away in 2021.
He’s probably right about John Lennon. He prefered a harder sound to theirvsongs, while Paul prefered melodies.
Yet Paul did the most hardest sounding song, Helter Skelter.
same here. Right up there with “Cant you hear me knocking”.
The Beatles collectively and individually sang about love, one girl. It seems to me most of the Stones songs were about picking up girls, one night stands that sort of thing. They’re not as romantic as the Beatles.
“ If the Lennon and McCartney didn’t let The Stones record their “I Wanna Be Your Man”, they might never have gotten off the ground.”
That’s right.
It's complicated.
Sigh. I wasn't comparing the Stones/Beatles to the Traveling Wilburys. I was making the point that they succeeded in "combining raw with polished". To spell that out more clearly, Dylan and Orbison were raw and soulful thrown into the very polished mix of Jeff Lynne and George Harrison (both coming from masterful studio engineering practices). As far as this notion about "what Tom Petty was doing already" - that's because he was already being produced and mixed by Jeff Lynne for a number of years.
Keith’s X-Pensive Winos were a damn good band. “Talk Is Cheap” is better than anything the Stones have done recently.
Sorry I wasn’t questioning you about comparing anything, I was just making my own observation that strangely the Traveling Willburys while sounding good as it was, didn’t really have a Beatles or Stones vibe like I would have hoped but sounded closer to the music Tom Pretty and Bob Dylan were already doing. I’m not even considering the production or recording qualities.
It’s complicated
“…he [harrison] also declined to accept an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) — allegedly because he was insulted by the offer of a station lower than McCartney’s knighthood.”
It’s not complicated. This article is complicated.
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Yeah. All you need is love vs hot stuff and bitch.
Why Don't We Do It In The Road
Of yeah. High school drinking song. Almost a one-off. Beatles weren’t Lilly white with helder skelter and drug fueled lyrics. But there were no match for the stones raunchy lyrics.
Stones made a career out of mick’s filthy mouth. Now mick is old and no longer wants to sing brown sugar. Ha ha.
Methinks Keith Richards will outline all of us.
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Outlive.
Sheesh
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I remember my cousin telling me about the Beatles and saying they brought the music back to the old rock and roll. But they didn’t.
It was the Stones who did that. There’s a certain momentum and energy like a rolling train that the Stones totally captured. It brought me right back to some of the black groups who had sort of gotten eclipsed for a little while when the two genres started merging. The Stones were more in touch with what had come before, and it brought the whole thing together again.
I don’t think the Stones were ever surpassed by any other group.
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