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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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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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The Making of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The best discoveries are the ones you make by accident. Just yesterday, my roommate keyed me into letmewatchthis.ch, one of those movie streaming websites of dubious legality. It’s a pretty cool site with a lot of variety of stuff, but new and old. On a lark, I typed in “Beatles” in the search box, and…
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My Top 100 Youtube Favorites, a Retrospective, Part 4
Sex sells! I want to thank this “Drunken Angel” above and Tal Wilkenfeld from yesterday for drawing a few extra clicks to my humble little site. Before anyone accuses me of perversion or lechery or something, I’d like to defend myself a bit by saying this is one of the better lists of rock and…