The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 2:47pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 2:46pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 2:25pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 1:38pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 9:26am


It's a mistaken interpretation that "Run For Your Life" is an admission or even justification of domestic abuse. In fact, John was being considerate and warning his lady friend that the beans and toast were about to re-emerge and make the air toxic.
I think it was this incident that inspired Paul to write "Fixing a Hole".
As well as the whole "Paul shit himself" rumour that started in '69.
Fifty years ago, a Detroit DJ accidentally started the biggest hoax in rock & roll history: the “Paul's butt is dead” craze. It blew up on October 12, 1969, when Russ Gibb was hosting his show on WKNR. A mysterious caller told him to put on the Beatles’ White Album and spin the “number nine, number nine” intro from “Revolution 9” backwards. When Gibb tried it on the air, he heard the words, “Turn me on, dead butt.” The clues kept coming. At the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” John says, “I curried Paul.” What could it all mean?

In 1969 Paul was last seen entering the toilet at Abbey Road singing "When I find myself in times of trouble...let it be oh let it be".
And in the end, the gas you make is equal to the food you take.
...Speaking words of wisdom, let it be!
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Marky Dread wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 3:40pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 2:47pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 2:46pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 2:25pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 1:38pm


I think it was this incident that inspired Paul to write "Fixing a Hole".
As well as the whole "Paul shit himself" rumour that started in '69.
Fifty years ago, a Detroit DJ accidentally started the biggest hoax in rock & roll history: the “Paul's butt is dead” craze. It blew up on October 12, 1969, when Russ Gibb was hosting his show on WKNR. A mysterious caller told him to put on the Beatles’ White Album and spin the “number nine, number nine” intro from “Revolution 9” backwards. When Gibb tried it on the air, he heard the words, “Turn me on, dead butt.” The clues kept coming. At the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” John says, “I curried Paul.” What could it all mean?

In 1969 Paul was last seen entering the toilet at Abbey Road singing "When I find myself in times of trouble...let it be oh let it be".
And in the end, the gas you make is equal to the food you take.
...Speaking words of wisdom, let it be!
Let it be beans?
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 3:50pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 3:40pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 2:47pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 2:46pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 2:25pm


As well as the whole "Paul shit himself" rumour that started in '69.
Fifty years ago, a Detroit DJ accidentally started the biggest hoax in rock & roll history: the “Paul's butt is dead” craze. It blew up on October 12, 1969, when Russ Gibb was hosting his show on WKNR. A mysterious caller told him to put on the Beatles’ White Album and spin the “number nine, number nine” intro from “Revolution 9” backwards. When Gibb tried it on the air, he heard the words, “Turn me on, dead butt.” The clues kept coming. At the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” John says, “I curried Paul.” What could it all mean?

In 1969 Paul was last seen entering the toilet at Abbey Road singing "When I find myself in times of trouble...let it be oh let it be".
And in the end, the gas you make is equal to the food you take.
...Speaking words of wisdom, let it be!
Let it be beans?
Paul McFartney ...all together now!
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Marky Dread wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 4:37pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 3:50pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 3:40pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 2:47pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 2:46pm


Fifty years ago, a Detroit DJ accidentally started the biggest hoax in rock & roll history: the “Paul's butt is dead” craze. It blew up on October 12, 1969, when Russ Gibb was hosting his show on WKNR. A mysterious caller told him to put on the Beatles’ White Album and spin the “number nine, number nine” intro from “Revolution 9” backwards. When Gibb tried it on the air, he heard the words, “Turn me on, dead butt.” The clues kept coming. At the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” John says, “I curried Paul.” What could it all mean?

In 1969 Paul was last seen entering the toilet at Abbey Road singing "When I find myself in times of trouble...let it be oh let it be".
And in the end, the gas you make is equal to the food you take.
...Speaking words of wisdom, let it be!
Let it be beans?
Paul McFartney ...all together now!
It was the bulldog. :shifty:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 5:25pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 4:37pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 3:50pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 3:40pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
21 Dec 2021, 2:47pm


And in the end, the gas you make is equal to the food you take.
...Speaking words of wisdom, let it be!
Let it be beans?
Paul McFartney ...all together now!
It was the bulldog. :shifty:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 Dec 2021, 10:24pm
Inder wrote:
24 Oct 2021, 3:13pm
Onto Craig Brown’s One, Two, Three, Four. Started yesterday and am already halfway through — lots of fun and v enjoyable. Track it down if you haven’t read it yet!
Started reading this evening. Delightfully breezy and inventive, but certainly for those who know The Story in and out, backward and forward already.
Yeah, a nice entry to Deep Beatle Theory.

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I'm fucking drunk and not thinking of the Beatles at all. I'm all about the Beaumonts. You're welcome...

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revbob wrote:
22 Dec 2021, 9:31pm
I'm fucking drunk and not thinking of the Beatles at all. I'm all about the Beaumonts. You're welcome...
No way you're drunk enough rev. Seriously drunk people post in the KISS thread.😉
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Marky Dread wrote:
23 Dec 2021, 6:29am
revbob wrote:
22 Dec 2021, 9:31pm
I'm fucking drunk and not thinking of the Beatles at all. I'm all about the Beaumonts. You're welcome...
No way you're drunk enough rev. Seriously drunk people post in the KISS thread.😉
This is very, very true.
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Craig Brown's One Two Three Four glides by a rather important stroke of luck in the Beatles' ascent:
'I Want to Hold Your Hand’ was not released in America for another month, and then only after a notably random chain of events. A Washington disc jockey had been given a British copy by an air hostess, and played it over and over again on his show, prompting top-forty stations in Chicago and St Louis to follow suit. At this point, Capitol Records recognised its potential, and released it as a single on Boxing Day 1963. Within a week it had reached number 43 in the US charts; it seemed likely to climb higher.
Prior to this point, all of the Beatles UK hit singles had been flops in the US. The presumption was that the US exports rock n roll, it doesn't import it, so there was little to no effort to promote foreign rock n roll records. And there's no reason to think that without this dj taking it upon himself, after the fluke of receiving a copy of IWtHYH, it would have been greeted at Capitol with anything more than meh. What if the dj doesn't listen to the record or does so while in a pissy mood? Similarly, if Ed Sullivan doesn't personally fly to the UK to scout for acts for his show, and isn't sufficiently intrigued by girls screaming for four guys with hair that's decidedly unguylike in the US, they don't play on his show and things don't take off. Talent is talent, but without luck it doesn't get realized as such. It's sobering but undeniably true, that even a watershed group like the Beatles required dumb luck to become huge.
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More neat Beatles trivia that I wasn't aware of. Okay, I knew that "I Am the Walrus" was a reference to "The Walrus and the Carpenter," but I didn't know that John misunderstood the poem. He thought the Walrus was the good guy, and upon learning he was wrong, he said it should have been "I Am the Carpenter" (neither one, tho, are good guys, so he *really* didn't get the poem). The line in "Glass Onion" stating that the Walrus was Paul was a sly effort to correct his error and have a dig at his friend/competitor.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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Talent is talent, but without luck it doesn't get realized as such. It's sobering but undeniably true, that even a watershed group like the Beatles required dumb luck to become huge.
This is how I console myself.
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Kory wrote:
03 Jan 2022, 4:35pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Dec 2021, 10:36am
Talent is talent, but without luck it doesn't get realized as such. It's sobering but undeniably true, that even a watershed group like the Beatles required dumb luck to become huge.
This is how I console myself.
:lol: And yet it is true. If your stuff was heard by a particular person in a specific context, you might be lying face down in your Beverly Hills swimming pool at this moment.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Jan 2022, 4:37pm
Kory wrote:
03 Jan 2022, 4:35pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
26 Dec 2021, 10:36am
Talent is talent, but without luck it doesn't get realized as such. It's sobering but undeniably true, that even a watershed group like the Beatles required dumb luck to become huge.
This is how I console myself.
:lol: And yet it is true. If your stuff was heard by a particular person in a specific context, you might be lying face down in your Beverly Hills swimming pool at this moment.
Sounds like a relief.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
30 Dec 2021, 10:49am
More neat Beatles trivia that I wasn't aware of. Okay, I knew that "I Am the Walrus" was a reference to "The Walrus and the Carpenter," but I didn't know that John misunderstood the poem. He thought the Walrus was the good guy, and upon learning he was wrong, he said it should have been "I Am the Carpenter" (neither one, tho, are good guys, so he *really* didn't get the poem). The line in "Glass Onion" stating that the Walrus was Paul was a sly effort to correct his error and have a dig at his friend/competitor.
Paul was already dead, smart guy.
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