The Beatles

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Camoradi

4,285 posts

255 months

Wednesday 14th November 2018
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I'd like to think I was delivered by Doctor Robert, but I was about 5 years too early wink

back on thread, Revolver to me is their masterpiece. To think they went from "She Loves You" to "Tomorrow Never Knows" in just a few years is astounding

selym

9,539 posts

170 months

Wednesday 14th November 2018
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Xmas present from the wife; White Album 4 X LP! Winner!

Roofless Toothless

5,610 posts

131 months

Wednesday 14th November 2018
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Camoradi said:
I'd like to think I was delivered by Doctor Robert, but I was about 5 years too early wink

back on thread, Revolver to me is their masterpiece. To think they went from "She Loves You" to "Tomorrow Never Knows" in just a few years is astounding
The cynic in me suggests that such rapid progress was down to different sorts of drugs than musicians traditionally used.

br d

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8,388 posts

225 months

Saturday 17th November 2018
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Seeing as I started this thread I thought I'd better chip back in.

I'm having a beer today, the other half has gone out and is staying at her sisters so it's any music I like blaring through the house via Spotify.

I intended to have a good trawl though the Beatles stuff I'm unsure of and settling in sensibly in a way that reflects well upon a man of my advancing years. However, I've only got as far as blasting Back In The USSR and I Saw Her Standing There at light bulb melting volume and jumping around like a demented idiot.

Christ I love this band. in a way I'm glad it took me all this time to get them. It's like I've loved every type of music throughout my whole life and am finally discovering why.

K12beano

20,854 posts

274 months

Sunday 18th November 2018
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In case you haven't found it yet:

I am the EggPod

MC Bodge

21,551 posts

174 months

Sunday 18th November 2018
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br d said:
Seeing as I started this thread I thought I'd better chip back in.

I'm having a beer today, the other half has gone out and is staying at her sisters so it's any music I like blaring through the house via Spotify.

I intended to have a good trawl though the Beatles stuff I'm unsure of and settling in sensibly in a way that reflects well upon a man of my advancing years. However, I've only got as far as blasting Back In The USSR and I Saw Her Standing There at light bulb melting volume and jumping around like a demented idiot.

Christ I love this band. in a way I'm glad it took me all this time to get them. It's like I've loved every type of music throughout my whole life and am finally discovering why.
My 8yo daughter and I listened to the White Album yesterday (whilst playing chess -how cultured wink ).

It really is very good. She liked it too.

johnxjsc1985

15,948 posts

163 months

Sunday 18th November 2018
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I like to put an Album on Amazon music put the timer on the TV and drift off . You can always find an Album or LP to give the correct title to suit your mood.

cherryowen

11,682 posts

203 months

Saturday 24th November 2018
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Jake Lizzio has, for some time, been my "go to" for music theory on guitar and here is his take on a complex Beatles progression:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO-m-njwMmc


audidoody

8,595 posts

255 months

Sunday 25th November 2018
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Glad I bought the 50th anniversary White Album remix. The Esher tapes are astounding

Spanglepants

1,743 posts

136 months

Thursday 29th November 2018
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Sorry to take this OT, quote reminded me, day i was born Help! was Number 1. Nurses all gathered round me as i was in the words of my Dad - covered head to foot in hair like a chimp.


Camoradi said:
Totally O/T, but the day I was born, "Please, Please Me" was number 1 in the charts. I was born with a full head of dark hair (The ugliest baby you'd ever see) and the nurses from all over the hospital came to marvel at "The Beatle" in the maternity ward smile

paua

5,648 posts

142 months

Friday 30th November 2018
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Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye, semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower

Just bookmarking a great thread.
Only came to this part of the world once - the year before I was born.

johnxjsc1985

15,948 posts

163 months

Friday 30th November 2018
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there are places I'll remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life, I've loved them all
But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more
In my life-- I love you more.

By far my favourite Beatles Song and lyrics that mean so much to many many people I would imagie

DickyC

49,540 posts

197 months

Friday 30th November 2018
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johnxjsc1985 said:
In my life
George Martin named his retirement album In My Life with songs performed by friends and people he admired. I think they were all Beatles songs. The title track was spoken by Sean Connery.

It's worth a listen. Jeff Beck and Jim Carrey spring to mind.

Evangelion

7,638 posts

177 months

Friday 30th November 2018
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DickyC said:
... The title track was spoken by Sean Connery.
"Shome have gone and shome remain"

DickyC

49,540 posts

197 months

Friday 30th November 2018
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Evangelion said:
"Shome have gone and shome remain"
hehe

That's uncanny. It's as if I was listening to the track.

johnxjsc1985

15,948 posts

163 months

Friday 30th November 2018
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Evangelion said:
"Shome have gone and shome remain"
That's exactly how I remember it too.
What was the track Capt Kirk did?

Roofless Toothless

5,610 posts

131 months

Friday 30th November 2018
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johnxjsc1985 said:
there are places I'll remember ...
... In my life-- I love you more.

By far my favourite Beatles Song and lyrics that mean so much to many many people I would imagie
A few years back I paid a visit to the British Library and there was an exhibition of autograph documents. amongst them was a piece of paper with the lyrics of In My Life, handwritten by Lennon, and presumably rescued from the recording session.

There was more than one extra verse that never appeared on the final recording!

I wish I had made a note of them. Can't remember them now.

Also my favourite Beatles song.


Edited to add that I just found the Wikipedia article on this song, and it has a photo of the very piece of paper, and the missing lines. The song as originally conceived is clearly a relative of Penny Lane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_My_Life




Edited by Roofless Toothless on Friday 30th November 16:24

Riley Blue

20,912 posts

225 months

Friday 30th November 2018
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From a friend in France in an e-mail yesterday,

"Zoe is learning English from Beatles songs - think her teacher must be a fan! This week it was "You say hello, I say goodbye". She's quite good too, not bad for a 7-year-old. Pity she didn't learn "When I'm 64", she could have serenaded her grandfather on Sunday."

K12beano

20,854 posts

274 months

Saturday 1st December 2018
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Riley Blue said:
From a friend in France in an e-mail yesterday,

"Zoe is learning English from Beatles songs - think her teacher must be a fan! This week it was "You say hello, I say goodbye". She's quite good too, not bad for a 7-year-old. Pity she didn't learn "When I'm 64", she could have serenaded her grandfather on Sunday."
“Michelle” must be a tad confusing!?

johnxjsc1985

15,948 posts

163 months

Saturday 1st December 2018
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Roofless Toothless said:
A few years back I paid a visit to the British Library and there was an exhibition of autograph documents. amongst them was a piece of paper with the lyrics of In My Life, handwritten by Lennon, and presumably rescued from the recording session.

There was more than one extra verse that never appeared on the final recording!

I wish I had made a note of them. Can't remember them now.

Also my favourite Beatles song.


Edited to add that I just found the Wikipedia article on this song, and it has a photo of the very piece of paper, and the missing lines. The song as originally conceived is clearly a relative of Penny Lane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_My_Life




Edited by Roofless Toothless on Friday 30th November 16:24
Get the feeling it was about the time when they Left Liverpool for London and beyond it must resonate with so many people of a certain age every time I hear it I think they have written that song just for me .