The history of four Liverpool lads and how their tremendous talent turned the world of the rock music upside down.
The songs Beatles performed and played inside:
Paul sings “Twenty Flight Rock” by Eddie Cochran
Their early recordings:”That’ll Be The Day” by Buddy Holly, “In Spite Of All The Danger” by Paul McCartney
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Okay, so for English we had to do a powerpoint about four poems, and we had to be original. So for my ‘Personal Comment’, I did video interpretations of the four poems.
And here they are (remember I can’t draw)
And what are people’s thoughts on the kirby picture at the end? Good? Bad? Your thoughts?
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The history of four Liverpool lads and how their tremendous talent turned the world of the rock music upside down.
The songs of the Beatles performed and played inside:
Shea Stadium (New York) – “Twist And Shout”, I Feel Fine”, “Baby’s In Black”
awful live in my opinion..looks like almost nobody’s listening to them. poor lads..
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The Beatles “Baby’s in Black” 45 rpm vinyl — live version from the Hollywood Bowl, recorded Aug 1965 – issued as the B-side to “Real Love”, March 1996.
This is my first “vinyl video” clip where I actually make a video, not just point the camera at the turntable and you get to watch a record spinning on a turntable — I suspect that can be only so interesting even to most die-hard vinyl record fans. Plus, the audio is sourced directly from the vinyl single.
So in this video, I included images that pertain to both this Beatles track and their Hollywood Bowl performance. “Baby’s in Black” did not appear on the 1977 album release “The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl”, nor did it appear on any of the Anthology albums. But just for fun, I decided to put some “Hollywood Bowl’ pics (that album has yet to appear on CD, so many might have not heard it if they do not have the original LP, or know what the cover artwork looks like, or the essay George Martin wrote for the back cover, which I included here).
“Baby’s in Black” composed by John Lennon & Paul McCartney. Originally appeared on the ‘Beatles for Sale’ UK album, and the ‘Beatles ‘65′ US album, both issued Dec 1964.
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“Something” is a song released by The Beatles in 1969. It was featured on the album Abbey Road, and was also the first song written by George Harrison to appear on the A-side of a Beatles single.
It was one of the first Beatles singles to contain tracks already available on a long playing (LP) album, with both “Something” and “Come Together” having appeared on Abbey Road.
“Something” was the only Harrison composition to top the American charts while he was in The Beatles.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney—the two principal songwriting members of the band—both praised “Something” as among the best songs Harrison had written.
As well as critical acclaim, the single achieved commercial success, topping the Billboard charts in the United States, and entering the top 10 in the United Kingdom.
The song has been covered by over 150 artists including Elvis Presley, Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, James Brown, Julio Iglesias, Smokey Robinson, Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker, and is the second-most covered Beatles song after “Yesterday”.
During the 1968 recording sessions for The Beatles (also referred to as the White Album), Harrison began working on a song that eventually became known as “Something”. The song’s first lyrics were adapted from the title of an unrelated song by fellow Apple artist James Taylor called “Something In The Way She Moves” and used as filler while the melody was being developed.
The song’s second line, “Attracts me like no other lover,” was the last to be written; during early recording sessions for “Something”, Harrison alternated between two placeholder lyrics: “Attracts me like a cauliflower” and “Attracts me like a pomegranate.”
Harrison later said that “I had a break while Paul was doing some overdubbing so I went into an empty studio and began to write. That’s really all there is to it, except the middle took some time to sort out. It didn’t go on the White Album because we’d already finished all the tracks.”
A demo recording of the song by Harrison from this period appears on the Beatles Anthology 3 collection, released in 1996.
Many believe that Harrison’s inspiration for “Something” was his wife at the time, Pattie Boyd. Boyd also claimed that inspiration in her 2007 autobiography, Wonderful Tonight, where she wrote: “He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me.”
However, Harrison has cited other sources of inspiration to the contrary. In a 1996 interview he responded to the question of whether the song was about Pattie: “Well no, I didn’t [write it about her]. I just wrote it, and then somebody put together a video. And what they did was they went out and got some footage of me and Pattie, Paul and Linda, Ringo and Maureen, it was at that time, and John and Yoko and they just made up a little video to go with it. So then, everybody presumed I wrote it about Pattie, but actually, when I wrote it, I was thinking of Ray Charles.”
The original intention had been for Harrison to offer the song to Jackie Lomax, as had been done with the previous Harrison composition, “Sour Milk Sea.” When this fell through, the song was given to Joe Cocker (who had previously covered The Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends”); his version came out two months before that of The Beatles.
During the Get Back recording sessions for what eventually became Let It Be, Harrison considered using “Something,” but eventually decided against it due to his fear that insufficient care would be taken in its recording; his earlier suggestion of “Old Brown Shoe” had not gone down well with the band. It was only during the recording sessions for Abbey Road that The Beatles began seriously working on “Something.”
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The history of four Liverpool lads and how their tremendous talent turned the world of the rock music upside down.
The songs Beatles played and performed inside:
at Brian Matthew’s “Saturday morning club”: “Lonesome Tears In My Eyes”, “That’s All Right, Mama”, “So How Come, No One Loves Me”
“Thank You Girl”, “Twist and Shout”
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It’s an album many of us hoped we wouldn’t see for a long time yet, marking the unfortunately early demise of this amazing band, but at least on the bright side; it’s absolutely amazing! A brilliant collection of 13 tracks spanning the last couple of years of recordings, making it an essential item for all avid fans
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Poetry Flash Presents The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. An anthology reading with the editor, Francisco Aragón, and contributing poets Venessa Fuentes, Adela Najarro, Paul Martínez Pompa, and John Olivares Espinoza.
This reading celebrates The Wind Shifts, the anthology edited by Francisco Aragón with a Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera, and published by the University of Arizona Press.
John Olivares Espinoza’s first full-length book of poetry is The Date Fruit Elegies; he’s appeared in many journals and anthologies, most recently in The Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems from California.
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Tribe – Beneficent
An anthology of Tribe Records 1972-1977. Underground jazz and funk from Detroit collective of musicians that include Wendell Harrison, Phil Ranelin, Marcus Belgrave and others. Tribe as well as releasing records in the early 1970’s also used to produce a black awareness magazine for Detroit. In the early 1970’s Detroit was a city carrying with it the musical legacy of Motown as well as the title Motor City as one of the USA’s main car manufacturing centres. But, by 1970 Motown had moved to Los Angeles and the city’s car industry was in decline leaving Detroit in a cultural and industrial void. Out of this wasteland came Tribe. Over a five year period a group of creative jazz musicians from Detroit took control of their own lives by running their own label, Tribe Records, where they proudly put forward the message “Music is the healing force of the Universe.” Message from The Tribe contains music from this label, a mixture of Funk and deep Jazz. Tribe contains music by Wendell Harrison, Phil Ranelin, Marcus Belgrave, Doug Hammond and more.
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