Hi Maja, on behalf of the management of DM's, welcome to our little hideaway on the internet. We sincerely wish you'll have a pleasant stay here. Your English is better than that of some native speakers here. It is far better than our Slovenian for sure. Stick around and post away!
Oh, John Lennon was returning to his apartment from recording an album.
So we rented that Zodiac movie tonight and in a couple of the letters that the Zodiac guy wrote he references blue meanies. I'm like, no way. This is the last movie I would expect to see a Beatles reference in. So I looked it up and found this out about the real letters:
The phrase "blue meanie" is almost certainly a reference to the uniformed ogres in The Beatles' animated film, The Yellow Submarine, which was released in 1968; it soon gained popularity as a counter-culture euphemism for police.
I mean, oh my god. Who AREN'T the Beatles connected to??????
Ahhh, that's intense, Sandra! *goes around pointing out 'blue meanies' on the street*
'Ticket To Ride' is used as part of a contest on one of the local radio stations. It's just one little clip of it that they play, but it's called 'Ticket To Ride Sweepstakes', and you can win a Mercedes. When they play that little clip of the song, my ears always perk up, but I'm almost always disappointed. Sigh...
I mean, oh my god. Who AREN'T the Beatles connected to??????
They're everywhere!
I've been thinking about this, and it seems to me they really are about the same as Shakespeare. Even if you haven't read all of Bill's plays (no, I will not ask for a show of hands) you still know all about Hamlet and "to be or not to be" and Romeo and Juliet-- his phrases and characters are part of our common cultural heritage. Same with the Beatles. "All you need is love" took top honors in some contest recently (examines brain for knowledge, throws it back.) People don't have to listen to them or like them to know about them and their songs... Lucky for me!
Oh, yes. Welcome, Maja!!! Join the party.
All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007
For all I know, Ringo might be a yogi disguised as a drummer! - George Harrison
At school in Photography class we're doing a project on an art work thats ment to be a sculpture of Jesus Christ thats made out off choclate. anyway the sculpture is called 'My Sweet Lord'. Everyone looked at me when My teacher said Beatles(I don't really know what she said I wasn't listening, I just herd the word Beatles) I said it was George's song
Oh and Welcome Maja!
"We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
2. Last week I saw a man begging for money. He was singing Hare krishna, krishna krihsna...hare rama, rama, rama...(or something like that). He reminded me of George. I was the only one who was leastening him and he smiled at me...I almost started to cry...
1) Virgin Radio has a little 'please phone in' type advert and they use the original Beatles song 'Anytime at all'
2) A small one- in the TV series 'Blackpool', one of the character says something like 'you'll be like the guy who passed on the Beatles' as an expression of how stupid the other character would be to pass on an opportunity
3) In a Doctor Who interview with David Tennant, he is asked whether, if he could time travel, he would go back to see a real dinosaur, or watch the Beatles at the Cavern... (he reached the conclusion that he would go to the cavern and release a small dinosaur into the crowd then film it all and then return to the present day and post it on youtube...so that's an imaginative solution!)
But every so often you come across something truly inspiring...
They were a question on University Challenge last night. I won't insult you with the question - the answer was "the sitar." And yes, they (Oxford) got it right. Unfortunately, in the bonus music section (hearing songs and identifying the guitarist) they went on to name Robert Page as the lead on Whole Lotta Love and completely failed to identify Keith Richards on Honky Tonk Woman. Bloody students! What's happened to them? This stuff should be bread and butter. Too much study and not enough protesting if you ask me.
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When they play that little clip of the song, my ears always perk up, but I'm almost always disappointed. Sigh...
