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All Things Must Beat. Share Anything Beatles!!
- Thread starter Rumble Thunder
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The Shirley Temple show, Red Skelton show, and also the Ed Sullivan show.
America meets the Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show” | February 9, 1964 | HISTORY
At approximately 8:12 p.m. Eastern time, Sunday, February 9, 1964, The Ed Sullivan Show returned from a commercial (f...
I was five. Momma was a die hard Elvis guy and didn't understand all the hoopla going on with those four young men that needed haircuts.... As busy as momma was with school and work the only time we had together was Sunday evenings with Ed Sullivan. I still ask her about it to this day and she will say, "Yes we watched them but they were no Elvis"...
This George Harrison Song Didn't Make it Onto the Beatles' 'White Album' So Jackie Lomax Recorded it Instead — American Songwriter
George Harrison wrote this song within 10 minutes while in Rikisheshk, India, using a guitar he borrowed from John Lennon.
My mother couldn’t stand Elvis, yet she bought me Meet The Beatles, in sort of an attempt to be a hip mom(although she was a Jerry Vale/Andy Williams crooner fan). You know, she heard that this was(pardon the expression)something new that all the kids were excited about. Me? Oddly enough, I was a bit too young to get caught up in that great boomer epiphany…I had heard some of the end of the(soon to be passe’)folk boom, liked that stuff, a lot of it at summer camp.
I listened to their album, it was fun, but I was like SNL’s Chad… “Okay”…when is The Flintstones or Rocky And Bullwinkle gonna be on next? I heard more of their music from the cartoon show. By 1966 I started coming around, when things were getting, uh, different.
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Way off subject. In the Army mid-1970’s and I was all about hair. Everyone was in the 70’s except I was in the Army and didn’t have any. I was jealous of the brothers that would put stockings on their heads and keep it all tight to their heads…… Until Friday night. That stocking came off and man they had Afros better than Sly Stone. Man I was so jealous!
Of the four on stage, which one was best?
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The Beatles September 7, 1964 at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Posted February 8, 2023: I've just discovered the announcement of a new upcoming documentary of Paul McCartney's career in the '70s, including the group Wings. It is currently entitled "Man on the Run", obviously from the hit song and album. There are several articles, mostly the same, about this.
I've chosen to include here the article from Rolling Stone, the publication that did the most to denigrate McCartney's post-Beatles work, because its co-founder was a big fan of John Lennon and believed that Paul broke up The Beatles, and thus deserved censure.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this! I believe that Paul's solo albums, 'McCartney' and 'Ram", were unjustly panned by the critics at the time. However, they seem to lately be receiving more appropriate praise in retrospect. The debut of the Wings band 'Wild Life' album, on the other hand, was definitely a disappointment, even to this McCartney fan. But, of course, I did thoroughly enjoy 'Red Rose Speedway'. Then came the undeniable success of 'Live and Let Die' and 'Band on the Run'. And the rest, as they say ... ... ...
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Well, I finally watched this long awaited documentary. I'd always lamented the lack of such. Yeah, there were compilations of Wings videos, but no real "behind the stage" story of this transitional time.
Paul was always my favorite Beatle, even before I took up bass in 1971, though due to playing guitar since 1962 I had great respect for John's & George's talents. Paul always seemed the most straightforward, level-headed one in interviews, to me. I was thrilled to see George blossom after The Beatles. I was disappointed to see John hardly ever travel far from Revolution 9 after The Beatles. I was very pleased with McCartney I and Ram after The Beatles, though I was really shocked at this part of his printed publicity "interview" stating ...
Q: "Are you planning a new album or single with the Beatles?"
PAUL: "No."
Q: "Is this album a rest away from the Beatles or the start of a solo career?"
PAUL: "Time will tell. Being a solo album means it's 'the start of a solo career...' and not being done with the Beatles means it's just a rest. So it's both."
Q: "Is your break with the Beatles temporary or permanent, due to personal differences or musical ones?"
PAUL: "Personal differences, business differences, musical differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family. Temporary or permanent? I don't really know."
Q: "Do you foresee a time when Lennon-McCartney becomes an active songwriting partnership again?"
PAUL: "No."
No wonder Paul got blamed for breaking up The Beatles!!! And his subsequent suit against the other Beatles just seemed to put the nail in the coffin of his legacy.
But the public didn't know John had privately quit The Beatles in September '69 beforehand. The public didn't know John, George & Ringo had abandoned their previous "one for all, all for one" pact of supporting anyone's veto of a decision with the taking of Allan Klein as manager over Paul's objections.
No wonder Paul retreated to his farmhouse and 'the bottle'.
But, his straightforward, level-headedness, and Linda's love brought him back to himself despite overwhelming depression from such a major part of his life ending. Though praised by Paul and their children here, sadly, Linda does not get her full due as a steadfast wife, diligent mother and loyal and true life partner. There is no defense of her lack of rockstar skills, yet she was never bombastic about her very necessary role of the time. I was initially a bit disappointed in Wings Wild Life. It was quite rough, and I wondered if there was another Yoko blooming. Thankfully, that was not the case.
The Beatles at a press conference in Toronto.
