![]() Ian MacDonald died almost ten years ago, and McCartney's friend and biographer Barry Miles wrote this 1996. Please tell me one single avant-garde song, composed by McCartney, please, please just one!Īnd why don't you put in articles of the today points of view. A loop is created by splicing the end of a section of music to the beginning so that it plays continuously." Lennon composed several psychedelic avant-garde music. Geoff Emerick writes in his book (2006, page 9): "John decided to start the recording process by having me make a loop of him playing a simple guitar figure, with Ringo accompanying on drums. Why don't you say about the fact that Lennon composed Tomorrow Never Knows, and it's innovation with only one chord, and bordun? Not a single word of it! And the idea of loop was not McCartney's idea alone. Cool down and tell me what's so great with McCartney? And when you go to the songs in Sgt Pepper, you only talk about A Day in the Life, and that is n o t a McCartney composition.Īnd this banging on McCartney, "the avant-garde Beatle" and the tape loops in Tomorrow Never Knows. The Beatles were not Sgt Pepper and Paul McCartney! What do you mean with this ever banging on Sgt Pepper and Paul McCartney? The Beatles was not just 1967 and Paul McCartney. Johan from Stockholm, SwedenTo the magazine MOJO, November 2012.Not a single song by McCartney from Pepper. Johan from Stockholm, SwedenIn the magazine Rolling Stones, "100 greatest Beatles songs", among the first 20 songs, Lennon has 12, McCartney has 4, Harrison 2 and Lennon-McCartney have 2.The most evident song of this was "Within You and Without You" that begins the second side of the album with the first verse saying "We were talking." which lays it out without metaphor what the first side was saying, i.e., the absurdity of life. It shows how the Beatles were outside society's conflicting psychology that people are conditioned with, and even their wax figures are standing around a grave of themselves, meaning that they've transcended themselves which was just a part of the whole. Harry from Sunnyvale, CaI think the disparate people on the cover in which the Beatles called their "friends" was a way to show the theme of their album, which was basically the transcendental experience of taking LSD which showed the meaninglessness of Maya, or illusion.Don from Willoughby, OhThis is a great album, But the best part is that 47 years after it was released ALL of you are still talking about it!.Īs long as The Beatles are talked about, Their music will never die!.* Also on the bill were Procol Harum, Denny Laine, and the Chiffons and at the time Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" was at #1 on the United Kingdom's Singles chart. In the audience to see their song being played were both Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band" the title track from the Beatles’ latest album, which had only been released three days earlier. One of the songs the trio performed was a covered version of "Sgt. Barry from Sauquoit, NyAs stated above, on June 4th 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience appeared in concert* at the Saville Theatre in London, England. ![]() ![]() Pepper" was at #6 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.Īnd to top it off, two Beatles albums were on the Top 200 "Beatles 1967 - 1970" was at #75 and the "White Album" at #94. Īlso at the time the soundtrack album from the movie "Sgt. The week it was at #71 three other cover versions of Lennon/McCartney songs were also on the chart "Oh! Darling" by Robin Gibb was at #16, "Come Together" by Aerosmith at #23, and "Got to Get You Into My Life" by Earth, Wind, & Fire was sitting at #34, plus Wings’ “London Town” was at #48. Barry from Sauquoit, NyPer: and stayed on the chart for 7 weeks.Pepper's and its influence on '60s counterculture. Kev from Rogers, ArIn 1987, ITV in the UK and PBS in the US aired a British documentary titled "It Was 20 Years Ago Today" which chronicled Sgt. ![]()
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