Posts Tagged ‘beatles’
The things you do endear you to me
June 5th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
John will always be my favorite Beatle, but I’m enjoying Paul a lot more than I did when I was a young man. This sort of thing might even get me to forgive him for wasting his huge talent on crap like “Silly Love Songs.”
McCartney thanked Obama for the honor and, in a short political comment, said that he and “billions” of others supported what the president was doing in the face of many challenges. Later, McCartney ended the night by saying, in reference to the prize from the Library of Congress, it was good that after the last eight years, America had a president who knew what a library was.
Not quite as cool as taking a cross-country trip on Route 66 just like a normal person, but pretty cool nonetheless.
Far better than what Paul said was the rise it got out of John Boehner.1
Like millions of other Americans, I have always had a good impression of Paul McCartney and thought of him as a classy guy, but I was surprised and disappointed by the lack of grace and respect he displayed at the White House,” Boehner told HUMAN EVENTS. “I hope he’ll apologize to the American people for his conduct which demeaned him, the White House and President Obama.
I imagine Boehner up late at night in his room, deleting all the Wings songs from his iPod and weeping uncontrollably. “How could he be so demeaning? He was the cute one!”
(Note on the title: It is an inviolable journalistic rule that any story about a Beatle, a Rolling Stone, or Bob Dylan must include at least one line of a song, preferably in the title or the lead paragraph. Try to find a counter-example.)
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You insult me, sir, if you think it mere coincidence that “rise” and “Boehner” are in the same sentence. ↩
God as a thing
May 13th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
I was away from the internets yesterday and didn’t see this item until today:
A recording of a 1966 Beatles press conference at which John Lennon was quizzed over his controversial comments about Jesus is to be auctioned.
This is an August 17 press conference in Toronto, not the one in Chicago on August 11 that gave this blog its name. Let’s hear the clip from Chicago again:
As I’ve said before: poetry.
I was, frankly, sorry to read last month that the Vatican has forgiven the Beatles for this and their many, many other sins. The old boys just can’t seem to hold a grudge the way they used to.
No, you can’t click the links in the graphic: http://xrl.us/bhg7te, http://xrl.us/bhg7tg
All you need
January 18th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
This page has some huge Beatles nerdery charts. The authorship/collaboration timeline is probably the best1,
but I also like the one that shows the song keys per album.
Least interesting, I think, is the self-reference chart because it’s so heavily dominated by “Glass Onion.”
There’s also a Charting the Beatles Flickr group, which I’ve just started to explore isn’t as big or as interesting as I thought it would be when I first saw it.
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I’m a little surprised that “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is credited solely to Harrison. Surely Clapton had some creative input on the guitar solo. ↩