Are now and forever the greatest promulgators of popular music to ever live. So much of what they did has become contemporary as to skew their actual contribution. There will never be anything like them again. Ever. I think part of the mystique is that they just kept getting better and better and better... And then they just ceased to exist. We never saw them falter. I was thinking about this last night and I made the observation that the Beatles are actually, as a group, the greatest example of the "Twenty-Seven Club", as the average age of the band when they walked across Abbey Road for the cover shoot was.... 27. It's a great age for an artist to die; it transforms them into a mythological creature... burning out so hot and fast.. What could have been? Well... for one, they would have ultimately failed. There's no way they could have continued on their trajectory. Everything about them was perfection; from their rise to their ultimate demise, like a giant firework exploding across a black sky, fading and never repeated.
The Beatles
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No other band is even close, and among anyone in the business or musicians - it's pretty much universal and without question that it was The Beatles, and then everyone else.
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You two fanbois. I feel like I'm watching the dectectives. That's so cute.
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mehh
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Gerry and the Pace Makers FTW
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I love the verse parts on Dont Let Me down. That descending, sliding thing he plays with that weird timing. Always thought that was really cool
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Then there's the DC5
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I had zero idea of the first 7
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Yeah. I got the first one right away. The next three - stumped. Got 5, nothing on 6 or 7
then I stopped
But it goes to show how Paul's bass parts are not simple root/5th. They have counter melodies.
Got Yellow Submarine as I was typing.
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Lennon was a visionary.
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You don't need any music theory or training to be able to create complex music. Just ears and creativity. And being exposed to a lot of music.
In fact, people who are not trained will come of with "wrong" chord changes that sound fantastic - while some music prick would never consider it.
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Apply the litmus test of play the song acoustically and sing it yourself.
If you like it chances are so will everyone else and it will be around forever.
Roxanne, you don't have to put on that red light. Those days are over. You don't have to sell your body to the night.
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I keep seeing these new (old) photos that I've never seen before. Supposedly this photo is George and Paul recording the harmonies for Octopuses Garden...
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I keep seeing these new (old) photos that I've never seen before. Supposedly this photo is George and Paul recording the harmonies for Octopuses Garden...
I've seen different versions of that one before.
But yeah. Lot of stuff popping up that I've never seen. Did you see Paul McCartney's stuff that he took early on? He has a whole collection that was recently released and they're good!
May Pang also posted some stuff of John Lennon - like one with an Akita on the beach. Stuff I'd never seen.
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I keep seeing these new (old) photos that I've never seen before. Supposedly this photo is George and Paul recording the harmonies for Octopuses Garden...
Looks about that era
