FREE AS \u200b\u200bA BIRD Wow! It 's a posthumous Beatles song. It was recorded in '77, but released 17 years later, in '94, the year when for the first time I went to England. The John Lennon recorded at his home New York, and in 80 after he was killed right there, by a "fan" who asked un'autografo, and he was there to tell them: (. Needless to say that Oasis have also inspired this song in many of They can, for example, "Whatever."
1967-1970
"Sexy Sadie"
HERE COMES THE SUN
Wonderful! in its simplicity. It 'by George Harrison, but done with all four Beatles. She wrote in England and during a trip to Sardinia. Text essential: referring to the Sun, "... It Seems like years since it's been here" ... seems a year since being here ...
MY SWEET LORD
Stupendous! It 'a song by George Harrison's solo career. These sentences sound strange in the song: "My Sweet Lord, I really want to see You, I really want to be with You, But It Takes so long, my Lord" , my sweet Lord, I want to see you really want to be with you really, but it takes so long, my Lord. Words that sound sad, thinking that George is gone (November 29 is the anniversary). It 's a bit like when Freddie Mercury of Queen, in a song posthumously, four years after he died (in that album with a cover in his home in Switzerland on the lake), a song he said "I read the papers, c 'Death is in every page, oh Lord, I thank the Lord above, my life was saved ... but then when he died of AIDS. My real passion for the Queen started in '91, when he is gone. What happens is that people start to like when there are not more ... (
PENNY LANE fun song, very surreal. Taken by one of the best Beatles album, that of Sergeant Pepper, "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Penny Lane is the name of a street in Liverpool, the city of the Beatles. Of course, that street is now a place of worship for the fans, and England has the record for the number of thefts of the sign with "Penny Lane". It 'written and sung by Paul McCartney. The "pretty nurse", the pretty nurse spoken of, selling poppies, is British custom every year in November to commemorate the dead of two world wars. Before says "Four of fish and finger pies in summer ..." : in the jargon of Liverpool already old at the time, "finger pie" was a term referring to the obscene female. Penny Lane was also the nickname, the name of art, the star of the film "Almost Famous" (beautiful, very Led Zeppelin), where she was a "groupie" (ie the girl who follows a rock star everywhere, even and especially beds) was the blonde Kate Hudson, daughter of actress Goldie Hawn. In the song, Penny Lane is personified, it gives a sense of calm when the chorus starts: "Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes, there Beneath the blue suburban skies I sit ... ", Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes, the blue suburban skies I sit ...
SOMETHING Beautiful. E 'by George Harrison, but done with the Beatles. It 's the most popular and performed his song, very moving when they put it the other year when he died. "Somewhere in her smile she knows that I do not need another woman, something in his manner that makes me understand ... I do not want to leave her now, you know I believe, all right." The movie below is "Wonderwall" (!), With music Indian George Harrison (director Joe Massot). The girl is Jane Birkin, the beautiful (once:) British actress and singer.
"Wonderwall to be here" + "Cowboy music"
A DAY IN THE LIFE
play is wonderful. E 'the masterpiece written by the couple Lennon / McCartney, two names that have always gone hand in hand (a few years ago, Paul has made it McCartney / Lennon and Yoko Ono was pissed). He speaks of having two articles in the newspaper. It 'a song circle, but with different cores. What to "I'd love to turn you on" , I'd like to rev up, it could be read as an invitation to the use of drugs. Paul admitted that it was a provocation. But those "four holes," read by someone like drug addiction, provoked the censure of the BBC. I like the part where he says: "Today I saw a movie, oh boy, the British Army had won the war, a lot of people have turned away, but I had to look, having read the book. .. "
Richard Avedon images
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE Eeeeehhhhhh?? As Leonardo Manera ghghghghgh ... That stuff you hear at the beginning?? The hymn FRENCH !!!!!!!!!!!! Noooooo!! Just a song so famous of the group's most famous story, and so very English too! I can not believe. Beatles, I have disappointed:). But because love is considered FRENCH? I do not understand. Here is Castagna, Dr Strangelove. It became an anthem of what was remembered as a "summer of love" that of '67 (Noel Gallagher of Oasis had just been born in late May, the most famous Beatles album came out a few days later, in early June). Plain text of Lennon, as opposed to "I Am the Walrus" that John wrote shortly after this. In the video there was the "enemy" Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, who sang in the choir. "There's nothing you can do that you can not do, nothing you can sing that can not sing ... no one who can save that can not be saved ... it's easy!" In the final feel of the car- citations of "She Loves You" and "Yesterday".
GET BACK I remember a few years ago, Zelig, they did a version of this song in Milanese dialect (!!!) and was laughing too, he said: "ghe the old, old ... that the ghe 'vor can go on ... "(translation, if you do not understand what I wrote: there is the old, there is the old ... who does not want to leave the premises). And now every time I play the guitar with this song, sing it in Milan and invented words. Written and sung by Paul, was a political song, then against the measures taken in England against immigration from Asia, from India. But Song said, "Back, Back, Back where you once belonged. " John however had always thought it was addressed to Yoko Ono, an invitation to return to his country. Many believe that the dissolution of the Beatles was just due to her, the wife of John.
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD Simply magnificent. Is the tear, (. Written and sung by Paul, is one of the last songs of the Beatles. The words are a classic love songs, with a tendency to victimization, some would say manieeeeeraaa :))), Silvio. Besides, this song is the music, not words, to predominate, with these beautiful bows. As Noel said later in "Wonderwall" "and all the roads We have to walk are winding ..." . When he says "many times I've been alone and many times I cried," then there is the phrase "but you never know the many ways that I tried, but in the film that became" You always know the many ways I've tried " and then the other lines as in the original "and I still carry on the long and winding road, when you left me here long, long time ago ...". That way before "guide me to your door," ends in prayer: "Do not keep me waiting here, lead me to you!"
LET IT BE
a classic, which takes its name this blog, "Let it be .. Atles"). Written and sung by Paul. Many thought that had a religious significance, "Mother Mary", but was dedicated to his mother, Mary, died when he was 14. "And when the broken hearted people living in the world will agree, there will be an answer, let it be, because even if they are divided, they will see that there is still a possibility." When I was a child had made a version with a number of famous singers and singing each part, as in "We Are the World" by Michael Jackson song that my teacher in elementary Liberal Make (As we called said Alberto Sordi: Bruno crashed:) continually put on his hi-fi in the classroom.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps E 'by George Harrison, but done with the Beatles. The text is affected by the reading of the 'I Ching', the Eastern theories. "I watch the world turns and I realize that while my guitar gently weeps." Simply perfect (perhaps the famous "perfect song "...).
LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS Alice, the girl with kaleidoscope eyes. This song was inspired by the following of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, that "Through the Looking Glass" that I write here below in "I Am the Walrus." (Then there are two others: "Alice's adventures underground" and "Nursery Alice" for children 0 to 3 years). In particular, it is inspired by the fifth chapter of "Alice in the mirror," in which Alice follows a river boat with the Sheep. Here is the best creative vein of John, his imagination, is an extraordinary narrative texture images, in memory of all become a sort of psychedelic-era fresco. Of course this piece is influenced by those experiences, even if John explained which is not an acid song. He said: "It was Alice in the boat ... and it was also the woman who would one day come to save me, a girl with kaleidoscope eyes out of the sky." I read the book, Alice is on the boat with the Sheep, Alice has to row. At one point in the text Carroll says: "... there must be something very curious in that water, thought Alice, because from time to time as the oars were still planted on something solid and it took a pretty hard time pull them up. " Then Alice Pecora warns that this is not just one of the rivers, raise it a crab! "A nice little crab! - He thought of Alice. - Well I'd love to! "How sweet. Then there a part where Alice wants to stop and pick flowers tall, swaying and fragrant. "... And for a while 'forgets the Sheep as he leaned from the edge of the boat, untidy hair that touched the water and his eyes sparkling with joy ... - Oh pretty one there, too bad I can not reach ... - Even if on purpose, although Alice strives to gather a lot of beautiful flowers as the boat glided away, there was always a most beautiful of others who could not reach! ... What mattered if the flowers, freshly picked, quickly began to fade and lose their fragrance and their beauty? Those who had flowers dream vanished almost as snow in the sun, and there were piled at his feet ... But Alice just looked after us: there were many other strange things that intrigued! "The Beatles song begins:" Imagine yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you say slowly, a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in his eyes, and she's gone: (. Follow her up to a bridge near a fountain where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (such as Marshmallow Man, the giant white of Ghostbusters), all smile as they slide over the flowers that grow so incredibly high. Taxi newspaper (this is a picture of Paul) appear on the shore, waiting to take you away. You get back with your head in the clouds, and you're gone ... Picture yourself on a train at a station with plasticine porters with ties to the mirror, suddenly there is someone at the gate, the girl with kaleidoscope eyes " As for the initials" LSD ", this is dell'acrostico only a legend, in fact, John has always denied everything saying that the idea for this song had been given by his son Julian, then a child, in a design made for his school friend Lucy.
Strawberry Fields Forever
words: strawberry fields forever. Oasis have been inspired by this song and his video for their "Go Let It Out." In a song of Vasco Rossi, you can clearly hear an instrumental part in which cloning is that it seems to have Beatles song. However, thousands, millions, all the musicians were inspired by the Beatles: the "cockroaches" are all up in the music, such as video are their invention, but then, if one were to make a list of the 100 songs famous of all time, at least half would be the Beatles. This is John, a masterpiece. Like "Penny Lane", this is inspired a memory of a real place, "Strawberry Field" in fact was the name of an orphanage, surrounded by a large garden. John had moved to nearby when he was five, his aunt Mimi (the house was on the cover of the single "Live Forever" by Oasis, picture below). The first draft of the song John had it in Spain, during the filming of "How I Won the War." The text creates a bridge between the real and the imaginary world of dreams caused by LSD. "It 'easy to live with your eyes closed, misunderstanding what you see." "It's getting hard to be someone, but everything is resolved, I do not care much about me." When says "no I think one is in my tree ", means that" no one seems to be out like me, so I must be a genius or a madman. " "But you know I know when it's a dream ... let me take you with me, because I'm going to strawberry fields." In the blur of long coda is heard John saying "cranberry sauce, cranberry sauce. Very enigmatic.
Aunt Mimi's house, John Lennon
COME TOGETHER "One thing I can tell, you have to be free. Come together right now over me. " It 'a song by John. Was banned by the BBC for the inadvertent advertising for Coca-Cola ( "He shoot Coca-Cola ..." ). The protagonist is the walrus, I will write below as negative character in "I Am The Walrus", the designer label Bag Productions ( "he got Walrus Gumboot" , rubber boots, a walrus). At one point he says: "He has no O-whiskers!" Like me:). I-whiskers "favorites" of Count Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour:)). But here in the song was a reference to Yoko Ono, his relationship with her, among other things, it is difficult to interpret that "come together" in key sexual ... Of this song dozens singers and groups have made their own version. I have also one of Michael Jackson, a close friend of Paul McCartney has always been. As a child I would go crazy for "Jacko," as he danced at home, like an idiot:). Hey Michael Jackson has a great fascination for children ... Of course if I knew who would become a pedophile, I would have given up, but in the '80s and early '90s was a lot of myth, no one danced like him, and I think even now. In the 80s it was the songs with McCartney singing together, as in "The Girl Is Mine," in which they pretended to quarrel because they both wanted a girl playfully, and then other beautiful songs together. My "Beatle" was his favorite Paul McCartney, perhaps because it was the most beautiful and friendly, who had success with the girls, I really liked his songs. Besides, when I was a child, John Lennon was already dead (80), and the Beatle who had more commercial success (video, pop songs) as a soloist Paul was right, so it's normal that I liked him more. But even George Harrison was making great songs solo. Ringo Starr was not known, but he also worked as a soloist. So you can imagine how excited I was a bit 'of years ago when I went to Paul McCartney in person to bring an invitation to a prize of literature. It was the first time I met him, is very kind, a true English baronet (in fact it has become). Over the years, many legends have circulated about him, saying he was dead. No no, he is alive, and how! They said that for various things, such as the cover of the Beatles album "Abbey Road" (the famous one in which they cross the pedestrian crossing, I have the poster in the room) he was the only bare feet, and the second was malignant dead. Mah!
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (video: Fiona Apple cover) It has beautiful words. E 'by John Lennon, done with the Beatles, but here I put version of Fiona Apple, finally a female voice. I really like playing it, is one of the first I had learned. This version of Fiona was unavailable on CD (I've got: P), a true rarity, is a single Japanese. In '69 this song on the album came out in favor of the WWF, entitled, referring to what he says this song, "No one's gonna change our world." There is a reference to Indian philosophy, when it relies on the Guru Dev ( "Jai Guru Deva Om" , where Om is a species of "amen"). I have Guru on YouTube:) The words of this song leaves me open-mouthed: "Words fly like endless rain in a paper cup, slip as they pass, they disperse throughout the universe / pools of sorrow, waves of joy floating through my open mind, seize me and caressing me ... nothing gonna change my world. " Magnificent. "Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes that call me and call me all over the universe / thoughts wander as a restless wind inside a letter box, to rush blindly as they make their way to the full ' universe ... nothing gonna change my world. " Superb. "Sounds of laughter shades of earth resound through my open views, I encourage em'invitano / endless love and no limits to me shines around like a million suns, called me and called again for all the world ... nothing gonna change my world. " Wonderful.
"Across the Universe" Beatles version
HEY JUDE Great classic. A few years ago I went to see at the theater (at the National Theatre in Piazza San Babila) a wonderful spectacle on the Beatles, was a musical, with dance, with the most clever cover-band playing, etc.. It ended with this song, which went on ad libitum (at will, "fading") and never ended, with "naa na-na-na-na-na-na ..." (Later taken over by the Oasis, for example in the song "All Around the World"). It 'written and sung by Paul: The idea came to him while driving to visit Cynthia and John's son, Julian Lennon, after the separation. He sang "Hey Jules", who became "Jude", a name because it was more country-western. Paul, to advertise the title, made a written in large letters on the windows of the Apple boutique, already at that time failed. What was even viewed as an action and there was even an anti-Semite who accused Paul of pro-Nazi (a brick broke a window). He feels the bitterness of Paul nell'accorgersi have lost a friend, John, when says "go out and get her" , because of Yoko Ono. Large echoes of this song you hear in "Little James" by Oasis, written by Liam for his son.
I Am The Walrus (video: cover Oasis Knebworth 1996, spectators: 250,000) words: I am the walrus. Influences in the text: of course Carroll, the author of "Alice in Wonderland" (see above song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"). In the fourth chapter of "Through the Looking Glass" is the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter". In this regard, John Lennon, author of Song said: "I never really understood what it meant. Only later I realized that the walrus was the bad and the good carpenter. I thought I got the wrong character. I should have said: "I am a carpenter". Even in "Alice in Wonderland," the walrus was the one that apparently showed nice, but then he ate all the poor oysters. Alice often wrong, think of a good or bad character, and only after he changes his mind, again with the walrus. The walrus and the carpenter poem begins:
the sun shone over the sea, shone bright and glorious, everything sparkled and did not spare anything; shone under live within each wave, and strange to say, it was still night.
John admitted, inter alia, that he began writing under the influence of LSD, in fact listening to this song one wonders if he made a drug addict or something. And then, in the sixth chapter of Carroll's book, there is this "man-egg" in this song ("the eggman"), an egg with a lot of nose, eyes and mouth. The song begins with references to Taoist scripture, in fact at the beginning says "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together ", I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. In the text, then there are surreal, grotesque, that the girl with her pants down provoked the censure of the BBC. Then the Hare Krishna also appear, so dear to George Harrison (see above song "My Sweet Lord") and Edgar Allan Poe. Other quotes are the famous Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (among other things, contains the initials LSD Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds). E 'was also suggested that even a police siren gave the idea for a first core melody (and the reported to the police officer), this song is from the mentally ill :). " Crabalocker fishwife pornographic priestess" , translate any part of the track: "Cream yellow runny eye on a dead dog (yuck!) Granchiarmadio fishwife pornographic priestess, Boy you were a girl (?) Naughty , you pulled down your pants. " And then: "Semolina pilchard climbing a Eiffel Tower (French ...). grrrrr. .. Bella the part when he says: "Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun does not come, being tan in the English rain." GOO GOO GOO joob! In tail plays in the background the voice of a radio-transmitting the sixth scene of Act IV of "King Lear "by Shakespeare.
"I am the walrus" original version of the Beatles
Helter Skelter (video: Oasis cover) words: spiral slide. It 'also the name of the label of Oasis. The play also in concerts. It was the loudest song of the Beatles, Ringo Starr so that after recording shouted "I've got blisters on my fingers!" In addition to "slide", the title it also exploits the other meaning of the term, which is "confusion ". Start with: "When I reach the bottom I go back to the top of the slide where I stop and I turn and leave for a ride, until you get to the bottom and I see you again ... I rush down but I'm miles above you. "
