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Give My Regards To Broad Street, Yesterday, Here There and Everywhere, Wanderlust
I’m not ready to say goodbye to Paul’s terrible movie, in fact watching this makes me want to see the whole thing. I might have seen the whole thing laid out on youtube, and if it is, expect the entire film posted on my website soon with humorous remarks dashed about. Anyway, despite the movie…
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Paul McCartney, Give My Regards to Broad Street, Eleanor Rigby
I’ve never seen Give My Regards to Broad Street, but from what I’ve read, its pretty awful. Apparently, it was Paul McCartney’s ego run amok, thinking he could replicate the success of “A Hard Day’s Night” with another movie about a “day in the life” of…Paul McCartney. The movie was a huge waste of money,…
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The Hey Jude Rehearsal Videos
I should have reversed these posts, but after I was surfing “Hey Jude” yesterday on youtube, I found some more choice clips of the legendary song, so consider this an unofficial part 2. These are rehearsal videos of the lads in the studio learning the song. You get John doing some funny antics, Ringo singing,…
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The Beatles, Hey Jude
I woke up this morning knowing I wanted to post something by the Beatles. For whatever reason I put on “Hey Jude,” their 1968 9 week #1 smash hit. By this point, “Hey Jude” is rather rote and overplayed, but this morning, to me at least, the song sounded fresh. It’s kind of strange how…
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Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Gotta Serve Somebody vs. Serve Yourself
John Lennon was really offended by Bob Dylan’s latest single, “Gotta Serve Somebody.” Dylan recorded the song for his 1979 album Slow Train Coming. The album and the song was part of Bob’s short lived conversion to Christianity. In his diary, John wrote, “The backing was mediocre by Jerry Wexler, the singing was really pathetic,…
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The Beatles, Rain
No, I’m not talking about the horrible Beatles cover band Broadway show thing, I’m talking about the 1966 B single of “Paperback Writer.” I’m posting “Rain” because I’ve met 4 people in the last two months that had NEVER heard of the song before, which to obsessed Beatle lunatics like myself, is just unfathomable. Perhaps…
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The Everly Brothers and John Lennon, All I Have to Do Is Dream, Cathy's Clown
Dreams are mysterious and crazy things. Sometimes you’ll have a dream and have no idea of what to make of it. Songs simply about dreams, even sort of romantic cliched ones, are sometimes enough just to trigger those feelings of the novel, the unexplained, and the otherworldly. Such is the case with the 1958 Felice…
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Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, Say Say Say, The Girl is Mine
The year was 1981. Michael Jackson was staying over Paul and Linda McCartney’s house. The pair of ultra stars were recording songs with Quincy Jones and George Martin for their respective albums. For Thriller, MJ and Macca were laying down “The Girl is Mine,” a horrendous piece of saccharine pop. For McCartney’s equally successful album…
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John Lennon Was Wrong About Bob Dylan's New Morning LP
Here is an exchange between John Lennon and Jann S. Wenner of Rolling Stone Magazine on Bob Dylan’s 1970 release New Morning, ” WENNER: What do you think of Dylan’s album? LENNON: I thought it wasn’t much. Because I expect more–maybe I expect too much from people – but I expect more. I haven’t been…