Beatles Timeline: 50 years on

[Kevin S]

Dunno about underrated - he always features high on any list of top bassists. A quick Googling:

Music Radar ranks him #5 of all time
Guitar World ranks him #3
NME ranks him #14
Rolling Stone ranks him #9

Mind you, the latter does say 'It’s hard to think of Paul McCartney as being underrated in any category. But for all the praise he’s earned as a singer, songwriter, and live performer, it’s quite possible he hasn’t gotten enough for his low-key low-end verve.'

So maybe it was the case at some point that he was underrated, but certainly there's been a very strong 'Hang on a minute fellas, this guy was actually a genius with four strings, wasn't he?' movement for a good while now.

Paperback Writer and Rain for me, Clive, if you like it pumping on your stereo. (Rain also featuring some very strong Ringo action.)

[Stumpy Pepys]

Like McCartney, I'm also a piano player who's never had a piano lesson. He's not a great piano player technically (and neither am I), but his use of chords is something special and a theme that music theorists can debate for a long time.

His bass playing is underrated though. Towards the end of the Beatles, he was doing some really inventive stuff. Check out the isolated bass on Lovely Rita.

[Sporting]

This is brilliant:

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Desperate click baiting from the NME, but I bring attention to it for their description of John Lennon as "the 'Imagine' hitmaker". Oh you mean that John Lennon...

https://twitter.com/NME/status/1444400507771133957?s=19

[kokamoa]

Yeah, the Lennon/Harrison reference was to the instrumental "Cry For A Shadow", which they recorded on Tony Sheridan's LP in Hamburg in 1962.

Indeed, and I had assumed the thread had gone into talking about Lennon/Harrison Beatles compositions, but it hadn't. It was talking about Beatles songs which don't mention the title in the lyrics, which is true of both Cry For a Shadow and She Said She Said.

[Sits]

I should have noted The Concert For Bangladesh, which was fifty years ago last month - considering it featured two Beatles in Harrison and Starr, plus two individuals who played on Beatles records in Billy Preston and Eric Clapton.

[G-Man]

Yeah, the Lennon/Harrison reference was to the instrumental "Cry For A Shadow", which they recorded on Tony Sheridan's LP in Hamburg in 1962.

[kokamoa]

Ooh, I do feel a fool!

[Sporting]

I don’t think that’s a co-write between John and George though. It is possibly the only instance where they are the vocalists on a track which Paul played on but didn’t sing. He walked out of the session because of an argument apparently.

I wasn't referring to a Lennon-Harrison collaboration.

[kokamoa]

Another one is She Said She Said.

I don’t think that’s a co-write between John and George though. It is possibly the only instance where they are the vocalists on a track which Paul played on but didn’t sing. He walked out of the session because of an argument apparently.

[Sunderporinostesta]

The Guraundiunan has an article on a “new” Beatles/Lennon song. “Radio Peace” recorded by four Danish school kids interviewing Lennon for their school magazine during a child custody trip to visit Yokosuka first husband. No indication of the date but The Beatles archivist types will be frothing at the mouth I expect.

[G-Man]

Another one is She Said She Said.

It has lots of "she said"s though.

[Sporting]

From their entire catalogue?


The entire side 2 of the Yellow Submarine album

Apart from being instrumental this is really George Martin's work.

[Sporting]

Another one is She Said She Said.

[G-Man]

Cry For A Shadow. Which had no lyrics.

But, fact-fans, it's the only Lennon/Harrison composition.

[Discordant Resonance]

Octopus Garden?

[Lang Spoon]

The ballad of John and Yoko.

[Sporting]

From their entire catalogue?

Revolution #9
Flying
Yer Blues
Wild Honey Pie
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
A Day in the Life

The entire side 2 of the Yellow Submarine album

Yes, and there are more.

[Sheep]

From their entire catalogue?

Revolution #9
Flying
Yer Blues
Wild Honey Pie
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
A Day in the Life

The entire side 2 of the Yellow Submarine album

[Sporting]

Go on, name the rest of them.

[Sporting]

Oh, another Revolver track, Love You To. I mean, all the words are there, but in a different order.

Yeah. Love You To...to do what? Title doesn't quite fit with the lyrical intent.

[Sits]

Get in.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Oh yeah - there's loads innit.

[Sporting]

On Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) does John actually sing “this bird had flown”?

I think he does. That was the song I had in mind.

[Sits]

On Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) does John actually sing “this bird had flown”?