The Beatles were not all about love..
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I posted this once before but with the re-mastered CD's, I am struck by all the Beatles fans who buy all the marketing crap about the Beatles being the spokeperson's for peace and love..
In reality they were isolated and totally miserable..
Don't get me wrong, I still LOVE the Beatles music ...but they were all too human is all I am saying..
Paul McCartney was a such control freak so much so that the rest of the band (George and Ringo) played (secretly) on John Lennon's hate song about Paul titled "How Do you sleep?"
Note the reference to his Momma (aka his wife ..Linda McCartney), the "Paul is dead" rumor, and the song "Yesterday"
(see lyrics below)
So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise
You better see right through that mother's eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
You live with straights who tell you you was king
Jump when your momma tell you anything
The only thing you done was yesterday
And since you're gone you're just another day
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they'll see what you can do
The sound you make is muzak to my ears
You must have learned something in all those years
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
In reality they were isolated and totally miserable..
Don't get me wrong, I still LOVE the Beatles music ...but they were all too human is all I am saying..
Paul McCartney was a such control freak so much so that the rest of the band (George and Ringo) played (secretly) on John Lennon's hate song about Paul titled "How Do you sleep?"
Note the reference to his Momma (aka his wife ..Linda McCartney), the "Paul is dead" rumor, and the song "Yesterday"
(see lyrics below)
So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise
You better see right through that mother's eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
You live with straights who tell you you was king
Jump when your momma tell you anything
The only thing you done was yesterday
And since you're gone you're just another day
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they'll see what you can do
The sound you make is muzak to my ears
You must have learned something in all those years
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
"This here's a REQUEST!"
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
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ringo did NOT play on that song...george did. it had nothing to do with paul being a control freak. john felt attacked by a song that paul wrote. all of this was after the beatles had broken up.
So many incredible bands of the 60s and 70s...Beatles, The Who, Kinks, Rolling Stones, Doors, Led Zeppelin ...wish I could have experienced it.
"I know I was born and I know that I'll die, the in between is mine..."
and it wasn't that secret because it was being filmed! i think it's on the gimme some truth dvd
i love the beatles but paul would be my least favorite, i skip a lot of his songs when i play their cds, too.
not sure if it's true or not but i read john had wanted to quit the band, as george had done a few times, but paul talked him out of it then turned around and announced to the press that HE was leaving the beatles!
they were 4 guys who spent a looooooot of time together and grew to have different tastes which conflicted with what they were trying to create and got on each others nerves. like the fights between george and paul near the end. also just my opinion but i think paul started becoming a lot more pretentious which annoyed george and john, i think paul did things for the image and ego at times and john did a lot to stay together like giving paul cowriting credit to give peace a chance
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
dont know if its on the dvd you mention, but i know for sure its on the imagine dvd. and george looks visibly uncomfortable when certain things were sang. and the op left out the best lyric of all: "HOW DO YA SLEEP, YA CUNT!?"
not only did they spend a lot of time together; they wrote and recorded an insane amount of material with intense levels of evolution in a VERY short period of time...like 7 years.
and I stand corrected on my orginal post..
Thanks all!
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford