If you need pitch correction you need to find something else to do
Just saying
Duke
Just saying
Duke
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No Beatles? That would be a tragic loss for he world in general. Then again maybe Motown would have had a longer run.
Maybe Yoko would have been more popular?
What might have been! Yoko's superior version of "Imagine" could have been the definitive.
I know this: Out of all the 'British Invasion', the smartest of the bunch was Dave Clark. Clark managed them, booked them, owned all the copyrights and all the masters. By the time they decided to pull the plug in the 70's, the original members walked away with no horror stories and enough money to never work again. Geez, Dave would book the dates where they'd work a couple of weeks, take a week off out on the road somewhere in the world, then go back for a few weeks and repeat. What a guy !
Your account makes Dave Clark sound somewhat visionary. How on earth did he manage to retain his rights and masters in that era?
okcrum
in your chest
Same way you do now - you pay for everything and make your own promo, booking, and distribution deals.
It's still pretty amazing he did it ten years before Frank Zappa and the Grateful Dead did.
EDIT: This, however, rates a level of awesome. He beat them at their own game:
"On the release of a (DC5) British hits album in the mid-'70s, Clark resided in the US for a year, thus avoiding paying UK taxes in Britain on the proceeds of that release. The British Government challenged this but lost the case in court." - Wikipedia, w/reference
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The Rolling Stones' first really successful song was written by the Beatles.
Doesn't it say it all?
If your old enough to have lived through it. Then you truly understand the impact the Beatles had on the world back then.
Oh ya, the songs were great too.
Oh ya, the songs were great too.
I once drank too many Brandy Alexanders and made myself unpopular, so I have that in common with John Lennon.
Ringo, with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes was already doing very well before the Beatles. Imho his drum beats are what helped the Beatles songs push through, His parts are so signature to the songs that you can listen to a Ringo drum part without the rest of the music and still identify the song. John and Paul prior to bringing Ringo on board with Pete Best on the kit couldn't get a record deal listen to the Beatles Decca audition it was nothing magical that is for sure
A tremendously under-rated band.
Agreed, though Martin and Emercik did in fact have, and use, pitch control tools all the time (though the Beatles did not need their pitches fixed). They "vari-speeded" recordings all the time (e.g., the keyboard in In My Life, Lennon's vocals in Strawberry Fields).
From '57 - '62 this was true. Not only current rock hits like Elvis, Little Richard, or Gene Vincent, but also Broadway tunes, pop standards, British Music Hall stuff, etc. McCartney said he copped the melody chorus of I Saw Her Standing There from When the Saints Go Marching In.
Stone's first #1 single in the UK was It's All Over Now, by Bobby Womack.
You know, if they hadn't met 60 years ago, Lennon wouldn't have been assassinated in 1980, and I wouldn't have had to deal with stupid f'ing tourists asking me the same 6 questions when I was the Dakota doorman for a few years in 2012. But hey, we got such great musical gems as Yellow Submarine.
