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“Because”
John Lennon’s Anger
‘BECAUSE’ was a song developed by John for the Side 2 medley on Abbey Road. At the time it was a bit of a throwaway, a remnant of a piece of a song, as were the
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Breaking Down
“The End”
Three Lead Guitars = Paul George John
Drum Solo = Ringo
‘THE END’ was a piece of music that Paul conceived for the 22 minute second side medley. THE END was only 2 minutes 21 seconds, but it was a precious and poignant 2 minutes in the Beatles history.
LENNON
John Lennon Lyrics -“Steel And Glass”
Describing his venom for Allen Klein, the dishonest manager who took advantage of theBeatles in their time of vulnerability after their longtime orginial manager Brian Epstein committed suicide.
Klein amazingly recommended by Mick Jagger.
Allen Klein would eventually rip off both The Beatles and the Stones and become infamous for his treachery.
This song, created by Lennon in 1974 during his “lost weekend” summer in Los Angeles, commemmorates Kleins betrayel and thievery.
Who is it, who is it, who is it?)
There you stand with your L.A. tan
And your New York walk and your New York talk
You’re mother left you when you were small
But you’re gonna wish you wasn’t born at all
Steel and glass
Steel and glass
Steel and glass
Steel and glass
Your phone don’t ring no one answers your call
How does it feel to be off the wall
Well your mouthpiece squawks as he spreads your lies
But you can’t pull strings if your hands are tied
Well your teeth are clean but your mind is capped
You leave your smell like an alley cat
Steel and glass
Steel and glass
Steel and glass
Steel and glass
Early early Beatles, before 1963
Mainly a cover band, the first several years for the Beatles were more of a hard work, low pay, long hours lifestyle. They playes all over the U.K., driving around in a beat up old van, and went over to Hamburg a few times for long stints on the Reeperbahn, among the strip clubs and seedy bars. This was before Ringo, when Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best were the other bandmembers.
This early version was quite different than the Beatles we discovered in 1963 or after. For me it was late 1963m when i heard “She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Paul and George: I Need You / Friends To Leave
In 2005 Paul released a quiet, more contemplative “grown up” album than he had before, CHAOS AND CREATION IN THE BACKYARD. At that time I dismissed this this album –– I felt that he was past his prime as a post-Beatle and was too interested in releasing album after album. How many great songs could he write, anyway? Also, as a soloist he put out some very weak songs on several albums that were a bit ridiculous, should have never been released IMO. He released over 40 albums over the past 50 years; that’s a lot of music –– too many songs, 500 or so, volume vs. quality.
However, Paul is a genius in my mind. Despite his inability to edit himself (or is it the money? He’s a former Beatle, so can always get funded to make more music), he has created dozens of great records with and without Wings, and he’s always trying.
If you watch the documentary following the CHAOS album, called CHAOS AND CREATION AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, you’ll see the genius at work, relaxed, experimenting, forthcoming, working with just his producer, playing an acoustic guitar. He is very good live, spontaneous, without artifice.
This was 2005, 25 years after John died, and only 4 years after George had died. So his soul was probably a bit rattled. Two of the four were now gone.
One of the great values of these periodic albums is that they last forever. Here we are 18 years later, just discovering this box of gems. It also turned me on to Nigel Godrich, a producer with an amazing list of credits producing for Radiohead, Travis, Pavement, R.E.M., Arcade Fire ++. Nigel uses a keyboard effect on this al
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#yoko
johnandyoko
Once Yoko Ono found a way to get to John Lennon, she zeroed in on completely dominating his mind and spirit to create a new life of affluence and fame that was far beyond anything she could possibly have without him. She was determmined,
yohnandyoko became a significant force
Yoko Ono, 1967
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Yoko Ono Lennon
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PLEASE PLEASE ME
“When I was recording them in the early days, I was looking for a hit song, and I knew they didn’t have it. But when ‘Please Please Me’ came along in the form that it did, it was a different matter.”
George Martin, 1963
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