John and Yoko

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by Norm K

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You do realize a band being overrated for 50 years means they might not be, you know, overrated.

The Beatles are excelling at the test of time. Their contribution to popular music is not in dispute. You also must consider their influence on world-wide culture. As in most forms of art, influence has to be considered within the temporal context.

I heard Paul is trying to get rights to the catalogue back.

[creaturecat]

i never bought one Beatles song either. i do like the nostalgic feel (for me) when i listen to them these days.
Led Zep was my band of choice, in the day. Neil Young, CSN&Y and Joni Mitchell filled in the gaps, more or less. Black Sabbath was in the mix somewhere.

[creaturecat]

the documentaries are fun to watch. i loved the feel/setting of the "final concert", on the top of the Apple Records building.

[Rick Lee]

Slightly NSFW due to language, but very well done.

[Sarc]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

Where the Rolling Stones took on the rebel rousing persona, the Beatles took the more neutral road.
They sometimes answered the call with another song .

Like an old friend used to say; "Beatles for when your behaving, Stones for when your not".

Unfortunately for him, he listened to a lot of Stones.

[Crowbob]

As collaborators, John and Paul would be difficult to surpass. Paul would hum or plink a melody and John would fill in the middle eight like a spontaneous musical conversation. George Martin couldn't quite understand how they did it but he knew immediately that each was complimenting the other's genius, somehow. With his classical training and musical insight Martin also understood his role was to facilitate their progress. He was pretty much the only one of the bunch who could read music.

[Kraftwerk]

George Harrison drove a Porsche 911.

'nuff said.


A mentally disturbed person being able to easily buy a handgun is what killed the Beatles, the first Beatle anyway, then cancer got George, chain smoker that he was. He also liked driving his Porsche.

[creaturecat]

Originally Posted by Kraftwerk

George Harrison drove a Porsche 911.

'nuff said.

George drove a 928
John drove a 911.

[Kraftwerk]

Well let's be real, they all drove many nice cars, I am sure. George did have a 911s, he wrote about it in
"I, Me, Mine" , his autobiography.

( Pun NOT intended )

[creaturecat]

let's be real?
George had two 930's as well.

[gorthar]

Originally Posted by creaturecat

George drove a 928
John drove a 911.

I believe that was actually a 912 that he bought for Cynthia and kept only for a short time.

And George did have at least one 930.

[Crowbob]

They also and Rolls Royces and compared them with Elvis' even though none of them could drive any of 'em.

[regency]

i kinda agree with Ledhedsymbols, never cared for them.

Steve

[jcommin]

The band had run it's course. George was essentially frozen out on music he wrote. He was hording songs.

Their albums between Rubber Soul and Abbey Road are truly amazing.

[creaturecat]

"A Day in The Life" has a great background history.
Lennon/McCartney at their best, for me.

[Don Ro]

A hundred years ago, John Fogerty was being interviewed on KSAN (San Francisco) rock radio by "Ben" Fong-Torres, an American rock journalist, one night and was asked who impressed him and who impressed the other popular rock bands of the day.
He began to list a few groups and Fong-Torres asked him why he hadn't mentioned the Beatles.
He laughed and said, "Oh well, no one would mention any other group in the same breath as the Beatles."
.
Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops, once proclaimed the Lennon-McCartney team as the greatest composers of our time.