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Post by owen on Dec 17, 2008 4:01:02 GMT -5
very sad news.
anji is a classic.
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Post by owen on Dec 15, 2008 17:54:29 GMT -5
nice pics.
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Post by owen on Dec 15, 2008 13:59:42 GMT -5
never heard follow me before buts its a good song. some fairport convention in there too.
lot of different styles this week: soul, music hall, country, blues, pop. check out the Koko Taylor ft. Little Walter track. heavy, man
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Post by owen on Dec 14, 2008 18:09:58 GMT -5
hehe...thx for the chuckle
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Post by owen on Dec 14, 2008 14:42:58 GMT -5
From The Sunday TimesDecember 14, 2008
I beat Lennon to the barricades
Paul McCartney tells how Bertrand Russell turned him into a rebel Maurice Chittenden
When the Beatles gathered at London’s Abbey Road studios in the summer of 1968 to record what became universally known as their White Album, John Lennon was consumed by a new firebrand song called Revolution, lying on their floor at one stage to distort his voice as he sang.
Paul McCartney, meanwhile, was singing pop songs about home-building Desmond and Molly Jones on Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and a cowboy on Rocky Raccoon.
Forty years on, however, and it is McCartney who says he was the one who introduced the Beatles to politics.
McCartney, 66, paints a new picture of himself this week, in an interview with an intellectual journal, as a political animal. He claims it was he who converted Lennon to opposing the Vietnam war.
His critics see it as another piece of revisionism with McCartney seeking to alter people’s perceptions of what really went on in the Beatles.
He says he held a meeting with Bertrand Russell, the philosopher and pacifist, in London in the mid-1960s, which first alerted the band to the horrors of the Vietnam war.
“We sort of stumbled into things,” McCartney tells Prospect magazine. “For instance, Vietnam. Just when we were getting to be well known, someone said to me: ‘Bertrand Russell is living not far from here in Chelsea, why don’t you go and see him?’ and so I just took a taxi down there and knocked on the door.”
He adds: “He was fabulous. He told me about the Vietnam war — most of us didn’t know about it, it wasn’t yet in the papers — and also that it was a very bad war.
“I remember going back to the studio either that evening or the next day and telling the guys, particularly John [Lennon], about this meeting and saying what a bad war this was.”
McCartney says the band ignored requests from their publicist not to mention Vietnam when they went to America.
“Of course, we talked about it the whole time and said it was a very bad war. Obviously we backed the peace movement.”
If it was McCartney who politicised the Beatles, it was Lennon who voiced the opinions in song. He vented his feelings in Revolution. “You say you want a revolution,” he sang. “Well, you know, we all want to change the world.”
Later Lennon recorded more anti-war songs such as Give Peace a Chance. It was not until the start of McCartney’s solo career that he released his first protest song, Give Ireland Back to the Irish.
Jonathan Power, a school friend from their days together at the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, is McCartney’s interviewer for Prospect. He tells the singer: “You were a megaphone for a generation.”
McCartney replies: “People often say to me, ‘Do you think music can change the world?’ and I do, on a lot of levels, and one of those levels is just the fact that famous musicians are listened to.”
He adds: “Perhaps in terms of responsibility we did sow some seeds for people who came after. People like [Bob] Geldof, Bono, people who have the megaphone now.”
McCartney’s recollections of the 1960s are at odds with those of some Beatles experts.
Alan Clayson, who has written separate biographies of all four Beatles, said: “I think Sir Paul is rewriting history, now that Lennon is gone.”
Spencer Leigh, who has just written a history of the Cavern Club with a foreword by McCartney, said: “Both Paul and John were interested in what was going on around them, but as to whether Paul politicised John I’m not so sure.”
Tariq Ali, who was one of the leaders of the anti-war movement in Britain, said yesterday: “It is not my recollection at all. It is possible McCartney met Bertrand Russell, but certainly I had no contact with Paul.
“When I asked Lennon why Mick Jagger came on our big anti-Vietnam war marches and he never did, he said he always regretted it, but Brian Epstein [the Beatles’ manager] told him that if he went on the marches he would not get a visa to go to America. If McCartney had been that way inclined we would have known.”
Hunter Davies, who spent 18 months with the Beatles during 1967-8 before writing their authorised biography, said: “At that stage the Beatles were open to all the smart, intellectual and artistic people trying to get them involved in things.
“It wasn’t just John. Paul was as interested in meeting these people and hearing their stuff.”
The interview with McCartney appears in the January issue of Prospect, on sale from Wednesday
PACIFIST WITH A STRING OF LOVERS
Bertrand Russell was a Nobel prize-winning philosopher, mathematician and social critic who proved to be one of the most influential British voices of the 20th century.
Born in Monmouthshire in 1872, he led the movement known as the “revolt against idealism”, which came to shape the study of logic, mathematics, linguistics and analytic philosophy.
Imprisoned for pacifism during the first world war, Russell spoke out against the rise of Adolf Hitler, imperialism, nuclear weapons, the advent of Soviet power and the Vietnam war.
Married four times and thrice divorced, Russell also indulged in numerous — even simultaneous — affairs with a string of lovers including Lady Ottoline Morrell, the actress Lady Constance Malleson and, it was claimed, Vivien Eliot, wife of the poet T S Eliot.
Politically active until his death at 97, he condemned Israeli aggression two days before he died. Copyright 2008 Times Newspapers Ltd.
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Post by owen on Dec 13, 2008 11:53:50 GMT -5
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Post by owen on Dec 12, 2008 9:00:10 GMT -5
"gave you time to save up for the next single."
well, it meant that you had less heavy competition, more sales and more chance of reaching no.1
by this stage, the stones manager took the concious decision of making the stones "the dark beatles"
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Post by owen on Dec 11, 2008 18:13:54 GMT -5
substitute
apparently written after pete heard tracks of my tears - "she's just a substitute"
interesting how beatles, stones and who never seem to be releasing singles the same week.
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Post by owen on Dec 10, 2008 15:17:47 GMT -5
nowhere man is one of john's greatest songs. i first heard it on the blue album or whatever it was, my sis owned it, and saying to myself "what the fuck is this"? if you've listened to that album, its the first track where the words aren't "i love you" and you can tell a bit of works gone into the lyrics (even though the original idea flowed out) musically, its minor and seventh heaven. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7FDEhUq1Xgsun aint gonna shine is a classic. apparently frankie valli did it first. here's another great evie sands track: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke4n4n5rIU8
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Post by owen on Dec 7, 2008 14:58:00 GMT -5
19th Nervous Breakdown
forget exile. this is where it's at. 66 is starting to get shit hot.
the lyrics are a strange one. were they trying to write like dylan
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Post by owen on Dec 6, 2008 10:59:05 GMT -5
pretty bad week...
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Post by owen on Dec 6, 2008 9:56:13 GMT -5
we were talkin about a year for the 50's a while back. was listening to some sun elvis and buddy lately and figured '57 looked pretty good. check this out - 1957 singlescount the classics that list also doesnt include mona (b-side to hey bo diddley)
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Post by owen on Dec 5, 2008 14:26:28 GMT -5
thx dino.
they are even more useless than i first thought.
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Post by owen on Dec 5, 2008 14:05:44 GMT -5
The 4 Seasons - Working My Way Back To You
written by yet another great 60's duo Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, this song has seen it all - from the class of the seasons and spinners to the dizzy heights of uncool with cuntzone.
bummer
fought the law and boots fighting it out for top spot. wow.
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Post by owen on Dec 3, 2008 15:44:04 GMT -5
yep, their real names were julian and sandy. id be fairly sure the first thing their manager said to them was "we gotta get some new names"
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Post by owen on Dec 3, 2008 15:39:48 GMT -5
also the lee dorsey, get out of my life woman is a great record. ahead of its time for funk. yea great stuff, thanks. its also where they got the riff for hey bulldog from too, by the sounds of it. cool record.
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Post by owen on Dec 2, 2008 6:22:25 GMT -5
agreed, conc. hendrix's version is one of my fav dylan things. lars and 4th are better songs, but crawl is one for the guitarists. always liked the lyrics too.
im guessing tell me momma was written around this time too as it has the same sniping lyrics.
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Post by owen on Nov 29, 2008 10:02:54 GMT -5
island timelinewhile we're waiting to get our 66 on, we can look at a few important events in 65. On 13 November 1965, during a live TV debate, broadcast as part of the BBC's late-night satirical show BBC3, Tynan, commenting on the subject of censorship, said "I doubt if there are any rational people to whom the word 'fuck' would be particularly diabolical, revolting or totally forbidden." This was the first time the word "fuck" had been spoken on British television. apparently whitehouse said "he should be reprimanded by having his bottom spanked". tynan was also the guy who called pepper “a decisive moment in the history of Western civilization.”
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Post by owen on Nov 28, 2008 13:51:43 GMT -5
looks like grossman on the right
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Post by owen on Nov 26, 2008 8:48:03 GMT -5
yea, thats why paul's idea in 69 would have being kick ass
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