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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 27, 2016 22:40:14 GMT -5
“Musically, the Beatles had a lovely sound and great songs. But the live thing? They were never quite there." Keith Richards 2016www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-07-23/keith-richards-i-did-a-painting-of-the-cat-and-wrote-murderer-under-itI suspect, but cannot verify, that Uncle Keith states his opinion on the Beatles live in response to the hype over Ron Howard's upcoming film. Keith also says he loved the Beatles, especially John, but "excommunicated" them when they went to India to hang with the Maharishi, calling the latter an "operator." Uncle Keith is not controversial there, many feel the Beatles got conned by Maharishi. Keith Richards is always good for a quote! But not to fret Beatle people, this next article suggests the Fabs get revenge on Keith by re-issuing Hollywood Bowl which proves they could Rock hard live! uproxx.com/music/new-beatles-live-album-and-ron-howard-documentary/
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I wouldn't pay any creedence to the mutterings of someone who falls out of trees and uses his head to break the fall.
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Post by lowbasso on Jul 29, 2016 16:26:53 GMT -5
“Musically, the Beatles had a lovely sound and great songs. But the live thing? They were never quite there." Keith Richards 2016www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-07-23/keith-richards-i-did-a-painting-of-the-cat-and-wrote-murderer-under-itI suspect, but cannot verify, that Uncle Keith states his opinion on the Beatles live in response to the hype over Ron Howard's upcoming film. Keith also says he loved the Beatles, especially John, but "excommunicated" them when they went to India to hang with the Maharishi, calling the latter an "operator." Uncle Keith is not controversial there, many feel the Beatles got conned by Maharishi. Keith Richards is always good for a quote! But not to fret Beatle people, this next article suggests the Fabs get revenge on Keith by re-issuing Hollywood Bowl which proves they could Rock hard live! uproxx.com/music/new-beatles-live-album-and-ron-howard-documentary/ I find it hard to fret about anything Keith Richards says. Particularly about The Beatles. He has spent over 50 years in the business and playing second fiddle to The Beatles. Sore loser.
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Post by lowbasso on Jul 29, 2016 16:27:12 GMT -5
“Musically, the Beatles had a lovely sound and great songs. But the live thing? They were never quite there." Keith Richards 2016www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-07-23/keith-richards-i-did-a-painting-of-the-cat-and-wrote-murderer-under-itI suspect, but cannot verify, that Uncle Keith states his opinion on the Beatles live in response to the hype over Ron Howard's upcoming film. Keith also says he loved the Beatles, especially John, but "excommunicated" them when they went to India to hang with the Maharishi, calling the latter an "operator." Uncle Keith is not controversial there, many feel the Beatles got conned by Maharishi. Keith Richards is always good for a quote! But not to fret Beatle people, this next article suggests the Fabs get revenge on Keith by re-issuing Hollywood Bowl which proves they could Rock hard live! uproxx.com/music/new-beatles-live-album-and-ron-howard-documentary/ I find it hard to fret about anything Keith Richards says. Particularly about The Beatles. He has spent over 50 years in the business and playing second fiddle to The Beatles. Sore loser.
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Post by mikev on Jul 29, 2016 21:39:41 GMT -5
“Musically, the Beatles had a lovely sound and great songs. But the live thing? They were never quite there." Keith Richards 2016www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-07-23/keith-richards-i-did-a-painting-of-the-cat-and-wrote-murderer-under-itI suspect, but cannot verify, that Uncle Keith states his opinion on the Beatles live in response to the hype over Ron Howard's upcoming film. Keith also says he loved the Beatles, especially John, but "excommunicated" them when they went to India to hang with the Maharishi, calling the latter an "operator." Uncle Keith is not controversial there, many feel the Beatles got conned by Maharishi. Keith Richards is always good for a quote! But not to fret Beatle people, this next article suggests the Fabs get revenge on Keith by re-issuing Hollywood Bowl which proves they could Rock hard live! uproxx.com/music/new-beatles-live-album-and-ron-howard-documentary/ I find it hard to fret about anything Keith Richards says. Particularly about The Beatles. He has spent over 50 years in the business and playing second fiddle to The Beatles. Sore loser. I would love to see a start from scratch hard rocker-all new originals blistering and sharp with a live show. Paul, Keefer, Ron and Ringo. The Stone Beats. A stupid name, but what an album.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 30, 2016 15:35:17 GMT -5
I agree Mike! There is no room at the table for Mick but Keith and Ronnie with Paul and Ringo.....that would be an awesome band and they Rock out!
Keith writes about the lovely time he had with Paul in Jamaica around the time Paul split from Heather.
I think Paul need to go out with a supergroup, he became famous in one! According to that recent performance video I saw with Dave Grohl saying he recently got super high with Paul, Paul and Keith would fit right in, both men loving good reefer. Nothing wrong with that!
Great idea Mike, I'd love to see a merger of the two bands for an album and tour. Paul is trying to act like a bad-ass with Kanye, JayZ, Nirvana-Lite, etc, Paul needs to hook-up with a contemporary bad boy, Keith Richards!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 8:39:57 GMT -5
In this 2008 interview asking Keith Richards who the five greatest bands ever are besides The Rolling Stones,he said obviously he put The Beatles in there. This was 6 years of course before he ridiculously criticized The Beatles brilliant Sgt.Pepper album that The Rolling Stones tried but failed to copy and equal.And now his latest stupid,jealous nonsense.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 8:42:00 GMT -5
It's really amazing how good The Beatles sounded live with such limited primitive crappy sound systems of the time,but they were so great that they would have even sounded good playing out of of cave. There is an online interview with Roger Daltry,Roger's Journey With The Who in The Sun www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/sftw/607170/Rogers-journey-with-The-Who.html and he was asked if The Who had screaming girls at a certain point,and he said after Can't Explain they did. He said it was the screaming teenage era and every band had them on their way up. He said it was fun at first but the trouble for a performer when you are that young and inexperienced is that you start to judge your performances on the amount they scream,he said it's nonsense which is why Lennon gave up. He also said that The Who's manager turned their image overnight from scruffy rockers to Mods. When The Beatles played live in 1963,64,65 & 66 they only had 100 watt amplifiers,no feedback monitors so they couldn't hear themselves sing and play,plus the screaming crowds and that's why they gave up touring. George Harrison says in The Beatles Anthology video series,that for their August 1965 Shea Stadium concerts, special 100 watt amplifiers were made and that they went up from only 30 watts before. Given how limited and primitive the sound systems were then,it's amazing they sounded as good as they did live.But it was impossible for *anyone* to sound great on those kind of limited,primitive sound systems of the time. Former Kiss guitarist Bob Kulick who produced the heavy metal Beatles tribute album, Butchering The Beatles, said he saw The Beatles in concert in 1966 and he said he could hear parts of Baby's In Black & Paperback Writer and they sounded amazing. A guy Steve from Canada said on Artist Facts,that he saw The Beatles live in 1966 and The Stones in 1996(and the sound systems by then were a zillion times better!) and he said don't get me wrong,The Stones were great but they were no match for The Beatles and he called The Beatles The Greatest Band Of All Time. The Beatles started out playing 8 hours a night in the sleazy strip clubs of Hamburg Germany,taking speed pills to stay awake,wearing tight black leather jackets and pants,smoking and cursing on stage,and had sex with so many young women groupies including the strippers in those clubs,they were successful there. They also played successfully live in The Cavern Club for several years in the early 1960's. John and George especially hated Beatle Mania,and George says in The Anthology series, that it took a toll on their nervous systems, they had no life either trapped in hotel rooms most of the time. They wanted to be popular & successful as every band does, but they didn't want or ask for the hysteria. John says in his 1975 Tomorrow Show interview that the screaming wasn't doing the music any good,and that things would break down and nobody would know. The Beatles sound great on their live roof top January 1969 concert in The Let It Be Film, and the sound systems had improved by then,(although still very limited compared to today's) and there were no more screaming crowds. Paul was playing guitar and writing songs at 14 and he started soon after his beloved nurse and midwife mother Mary died of breast cancer, and he wrote the beautiful song Let It Be after he had a real seeming dream where he saw her alive again and she told him to just accept things as they are. He says in his authorized biography, that when he woke up he thought how great it was to see her alive again. And there is this very good article by Collin Fleming from The Atlantic, 50 Years Later: The Greatest Beatles Performance Of All Time www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/10/50-years-later-the-greatest-beatles-performance-of-all-time/280801/ And there used to be the full video of The Beatles February 1964 Washington Colosseum and there were over 1,000 likes and many people were saying what Frank and Jack say to this now only audio version of this concert,( many people on youtube are saying why are many of The Beatles videos gone off of youtube now and some are saying it's because of UMG_MK and I don't know what this is.) that it's amazing that with such crappy sound systems of those days and no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves singing and playing and many said they still sound so good and great and some say this Washington concert proves what a great live band they were and before they got so tired of all of the Beatlemania garbage they had to put up with all of the screaming drowning out their great music.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 8:42:55 GMT -5
I also met two people and know a third one who saw The Beatles in concert,one woman and one man who were my high school teachers who saw them in 1966,and the other my second cousin who saw them at the Baltimore Coliseum when she was 16 in 1964,she became a psychologist.They all told me that they were close enough to them to see and hear the The Beatles and that they were great.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 8:43:30 GMT -5
Giles Martin,George Martin's son who recently remastered The Beatles 1964 and 1965 Live At The Hollywood Bowl concerts rightfully says on All Songs Considered when people ask him if The Beatles were a good live band,he says they were a great live band and he mentions the very limited,primitive sound systems they had back then,and says how great The Beatles played live in the studio on their first 3 or 4 albums,and that they all played their instruments very good. www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/08/25/491201322/all-songs-1-the-beatles-are-live-and-sounding-better-than-ever
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 8:44:32 GMT -5
The Beatles even in their early days were writing and playing on records as well in concerts,both love ballads,and great rocking rock n roll and pop rock songs that they both wrote and cover songs including their great rocking performances in Sweden where the audience was quiet during their performances.
They were the greatest *rock* band ever! (NEVER A G*d dam*ed stupid,uncool,untalented boy band as so many ignorant morons misperceive them as!) And I have always loved this great blues rocker by Paul,She's A Woman.
Except live there isn't the piano,blending with the great rocking guitars,Paul's great prominent booming bass,and his great rock vocal! And once again it's amazing how good they sound on such limited,primitive sound systems of the time and with no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves singing and playing,yet they still played and sang great and in sync with each other.
Here is their great April 1965 New Music Express Winner's Poll concert from April 11,1965.They won three years in a row.And notice that there are men and women of ages in the audience.
Here they performed Paul's great rocking I Saw Her Standing There in Sweden in October 1963 which The Beatles recorded in February 1963 on their first album Please Please Me which was recorded in just one day.
The Beatles performing their rocking cover of Long Tall Sally with Paul's great rocking vocal June 1964.
Here in 1964 June in Melbourne Australia they are playing John's great rock song that they had recorded in February 1964 on their first great early album A Hard Day's Night.
And here they performed Paul's very good hard rocking,especially for early 1965,I'm Down at The Ed Sulivian Theater August 14,1965 one night before their live Shea Stadium performance.
Here is their even harder rocking performance at Shea Stadium on August 15,1965 than they did on their record version of Paul's I'm Down. And they did what a great rock n roll band would do,they ended this rock n roll concert with this rocking song.
Here they performed a rocking cover of Dizzy Miss Lizzy with John's great rock vocal,at the same She Stadium concert.
Here is another great rocking Beatles performance of the cover Twist and Shout in June 1964 in Melbourne Australia
And what a huge disgusting insult to all of them as very talented musicians,and to John and Paul as extremely talented song composers and great singers,and to John Lennon's memory and was never the founder and leader of some stupid,uncool,untalented boy band! And I'm certain that if John were still living he would come on youtube and other message boards and say I was *never* the founder and leader of any f*cking stupid,uncool,untalented boy band get that through your stupid f*cking heads!
If Beethoven,Mozart and Bach had screaming teenage girls in their audiences and they formed a band together they would have been a boy band too right?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 8:58:01 GMT -5
Many years ago I saw a rock music author on Good Morning america who had written a book about The Rolling Stones and he then wrote a book about The Beatles and he said there is this popular myth that there was this big rivalry between them,but he said actually they were both good friends and he showed them sitting together in a room.He also said that The Beatles were geniuses but The Rolling Stones weren't and that there was some jealousy of The Beatles from The Rolling Stones.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 8:58:45 GMT -5
Many people on different message boards have said the only Rolling Stones song they like is Paint It Black, my first cousin who is a head hunter helping people find jobs,she used to an accountant,and when she was 21 a huge Rolling Stones fan she also had The Beatles Revolver album in her bedroom.
When The Rolling Stones did their Steel Wheels tour in 1989 I asked her if she still liked The Rolling Stones and she said no,but the same year at her wedding shower my male and female cousins were talking about The Beatles who we all love,and my cousin said Oh I love The Beatles.
And when I was going to Paul McCartney live for the first time in 1990 and I was very excited about it,I was going on about how great he,John and The Beatles were and she said OK,I said you said you love The Beatles too and she said hey bottom line they were geniuses!
And I once heard a radio host who was a former rock DJ and he said The Beatles are really like the only music artists who have just about every song they did was great and wasn't great was still good. He said even their album tracks that weren't released as singles.
And many people have said it's The Rolling Stones albums that have just a handful of very good songs and the rest is filler!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:00:16 GMT -5
Here is part of The Beatles great January 1969 roof top concert. What Steve Paradiso says in the comments,That The Beatles were arguably The Greatest Rock n Roll Band Ever is *so true!*
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:01:35 GMT -5
As The Rolling Stone Album Guide said, not liking The Beatles is as perverse as not liking the sun. And Ozzy Osbourne( he's been a huge Beatles fan he was a young teen from The Beatles early days,and he picked She Loves You as one of Rolling Stone Magazine's greatest songs of all time,and Sgt.Pepper is one of hi favorite albums) said not loving The Beatles is like not loving oxygen. And a guy who runs Keno's Classic Rock n Roll Site and who runs a Rolling Stones and John Lennon fan site says in his review of The Beatles 1967-1970 Blue Album damn The Beatles were one great group and he said in his great review of The Beatles 1962-1966 Red album, that if you don't love or at least like The Beatles and their music then you are not a true rock fan and more than likely will never ever get it. He also says that John Lennon showed on Paul's rocker Get Back why he should have played lead guitar more often because he did such a good job of it. He also said he played a pretty good slide guitar on George's For Your Blue and he said John also played one of the first and best acid guitar parts on his great rocker Revolution. www.keno.org/classic_rock/rock_albums_reviews.html
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:03:27 GMT -5
As The All Music Guide says in their excellent Beatles biography "That it's difficult to summarize their career without restating cliches that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans, to start with the obvious,they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century." "Moreover they were among the few artists of *any* discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did *and* the most popular at what they did." They also say as singers John Lennon and Paul McCartney were among the best and most expressive in rock. Also on an excellent site,The Evolution of Rock Bass Playing McCartney Style by Dennnis Alstrand,Stanley Clarke,Sting,Will Lee,Billy Sheehan,George Martin and John Lennon are quoted saying what a great,melodic and influential bass player Paul has always been. abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/paulbass.htm And Wilco's John Stirratt was asked in Bass Player which bass players have had the most impact on his playing and the first thing he said was, Paul McCartney is one of the greatest bass players of all time,if you listen to what he was tracking live in the studio it's unbelievable." "With his tone and musicality he was a huge influence,he covered all of his harmonic responsibilities really well but his baselines were absolutely melodic and inventive." connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/15716769/windy-city-wingman-john-stirratt-lays-roots-wilco In this 2010 interview the blogger says that John Stirratt has an affinity for good melodies so it's not surprising that Paul McCartney is one of his musical icons and then he quotes him saying that he's always absolutely in awe of his playing,including Paul's Beatles years. audreeanne.blogspot.com/2010/02/interview-wilcos-john-stirratt-talk.html And in an online 1977 Eric Clapton interview,Eric Clapton In His Own Words he says that there was always this game between John and George,and he said partly because John was a pretty good guitar player himself www.superseventies.com/ssericclapton.html . He played live with John as a member of John's 1969 Plastic Ono Band. And there is a great online article by musician and song writer Peter Cross,The Beatles Are The Most Creative Band Of All Time and he says that many musicians besides him recognize Paul as one of the best bass guitar players ever.He too says that John and Paul are the greatest song composers and that to say that John and Paul are among 2 of the greatest singers in rock and roll is to state the obvious,and that John,Paul and George were all excellent guitarists and that George is underrated by people not educated about music but that Eric Clapton knew better,he also says that both John and Paul played great leads as well as innovative rhythm tracks. John Lennon co-wrote,sang and played guitar on one of David Bowie's first hits Fame in 1975 and David invited John to play guitar on his version of John's beautiful Beatles song Across The Universe.Brain May,Ozzy Osbourne,and Liam Gallagher and many more call The Beatles The Greatest Band Ever.' ezinearticles.com/?The-Beatles-are-the-Most-Creative-Band-of-All-Time&id=222245 Also on Music Radar Tom Petty,Joe Perry and Richie Sambora in What The Beatles Mean To Me all say how cool and great they thought The Beatles were when they first saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 when they were just teen boys,Richie was only 5.Tom Petty said he thought they were really really great. Robin Zander of Cheap Trick said he's probably one of the biggest Beatles fans on the planet.Brad Whitford of Aerosmith said that a lot of that Beatles influence comes from Steven Tyler's collaboration with Mark Hudson both whom are absolute Beatles freaks and he said I guess the goal is to try and emulate probably some of the best music of the last 50 years which has to be The Beatles.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:04:41 GMT -5
Both VH1 and MTV have been using Richie Unterberger's excellent All Music Guide’s long Beatles biography as their Beatles biography they both used to not have a very good biography of The Beatles.Here are great Beatles biographies that totally debunk this totally stupid,inaccurate,ludicrous,ridiculous myth that they were ever a ‘’boy band’’! www.allmusic.com/artist/the-beatles-mn0000754032/biographyen.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BeatlesThe Beatles own documentary The Beatles Anthology The great 1982 Beatles documentary,The Complete Beatles narrated by award winning British actor Malcolm McDowell And any great reputable accurate Beatles biography would debunk this ludicrous,stupid myth.And I have *never* read or heard *any* legitimate serious rock critics or rock music journalists describe them this way and for extremely great reasons!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:05:52 GMT -5
Here is a very good educational you tube video by MeanMr Mayo who is a member of This site, as Joe Abbryd debunking this stupid,ridiculous,ludicrous myth that The Beatles were ever a boy band.
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on Aug 31, 2016 9:07:34 GMT -5
This is a great version of Can't Buy Me Love live at the NME Poll Winners concert in 1964. Should have been used in the Beatles 1 DVD instead of that dreadful one from Around the Beatles.
This is a nice "live" version of Things We Said Today from the BBC recording in 1964.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:12:34 GMT -5
The Beatles were *NEVER* a ''boy band''! As a poster Reverend Rock,who is a rock musician,reverend and a big Beatles fan said on a classic rock site years ago,that anyone who knows The Beatles history knows it's ludicrous to even *suggest* such a thing! And what a huge insult to their enormous talent as true singers,song writers and musicians! The Beatles were a *zillion* times more talented and cool than any stupid,uncool,untalented real boy band!
The Monkees are the first true boy band because they didn't even start off as a genuine band, they were all musical but they were originally hired as actors to play members of a TV pop rock band for their TV show, they didn't start off playing together like Paul at age 15,George age 14 and John age 16 playing guitars and singing,then playing a few years later for 8 hours a night in sleazy strip clubs( and The Beatles had sex with many young women groupies,many who were teen girls and strippers) like The Beatles did in Hamburg Germany(or anywhere) for 2 years in a row,taking speed pills to stay awake to do it,and working their a*ses off playing as a real rock n roll band,and then playing successfully in the Cavern club as a real rock n roll band for years by the time they made it big.
And The Beatles wrote and played a lot of great rock n roll and pop rock songs in their early days. John and Paul wrote the rock n roll song I Wanna Be Your Man write in front of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger in 1963 and they were both really impressed that they could just write a song just like that,and it inspired them to start writing their own songs and both bands became good friends from then on. And this song was one of The Rolling Stones first hits. There is just no comparison to The Monkees etc. A guy so accurately said on a message board many years ago when some idiots called them a ''boy band'' that The Beatles were *never* a boy band,not even during their 1963-1965 period. And another guy said a few years after this on another forum,when some idiot said this,that he too once thought the early Beatles were a boy band like NYSNC,or The Back Street Boys,until he got out of 7th grade.
Every time some ignorant person unjustly calls them a boy band,I'm sure John Lennon's ashes must be turning with outrage.I'm sure he would go on to these sites and say I was *not* the founder and the leader of some f*king,stupid,uncool,untalented, boy band get that through your stupid f*cking heads!
And younger people don't know what type of music was out in 1963,even though I wasn't born yet,I know that The Beatles early songs like She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand were hard rock compared to the music out then.There was just Bobby Darin,The Four Seasons,Bobby Vinton and The Beach Boys surfing hits.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:13:17 GMT -5
Not only is this so ignorant,ridiculous,and false on a creative and musical level,but on their personal level too. I guarantee true genuine boy bands don't have groupies.
The Beatles had sex with *tons* of young women groupies,many who were just teen girls especially during their touring years of 1963-1966 ironically they did this the most during the joke fake cleaned up image Brian Epstein created for them in their early days.In reality they were like pimps playing the part of priests! It's no coincidence that in The Beatles Anthology video series that Paul,George and Ringo made,the story that is reported of The Beatles being thrown out of a US hotel in August 1965 because Paul was found in his hotel bedroom with an underage girl, that is included in the first great Beatles documentary from 1982 The Complete Beatles which none of them had any involvement making,is completely left out of The Beatles Anthology.And obviously Ron Howard left all of this out in his new Beatles documentary The Beatles Eight Days a week:The Touring Years.
Paul McCartney also said in Hunter Davies 1968 first edition of the only authorized Beatles biography called,The Beatles, that he had sex at age 15 with a girl who was older and bigger than him,and most 15 year old boys weren't having sex in 1957,and he said he bragged about it to his classmates the next day and that he was the first one in his class to have sex.Paul also said in this book,that he would go into strip clubs at only 13 and he was the lad in his class that drew nude women.He also got another girl who was his girl friend,pregnant when he was 17 and she was 16,and Paul's father and her parents wanted them to get married but she had a miscarriage.
Hunter Davies says in his 1985 update of his Beatles biography, that The Beatles were no different from any other rock band when it came to groupies and he said they just had more to chose from. He said it was up to the road manager to say to these young women,you,you and you 5 minutes later which is really sexist and disgusting but it's totally typical for every rock band which is what they always were.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:16:39 GMT -5
On Last FM. before Last FM. changed their site and now they unfortunately took off the fan groups,The Rolling Stones only had 80 members and they had 2,000 of their fan group in 2007,The Beatles had over 2,000 which became 18,000 and the average age of fans is 22 more guys than girls and they are from all over the world. In 2006,2007 and 2008 The Beatles were the # 1 most listened music artists on Last.FM and they are very popular on YouTube and Rate Your Music where many male and female fans in their teens and 20's call them The Greatest Rock Band Ever. They are now the number 1 classic Rock band on there www.last.fm/tag/classic+rock/artists and on Rate Your Music,they are the highest rated music artists out of over 3,000.http://rateyourmusic.com/list/noname219/top_artists/ The Beatles are still rightfully regarded by most people,most rock critics,and many other music and rock artists as The most creative,innovative,and prolific rock band ever. In 1995 25 years after they broke up their Anthology CD's went straight to # 1 around the world and I heard a rock DJ say that 40% of the people buying them were teenagers,the same exact thing when their 1 CD came out in 2000 30 years after they broke,up and in 2009,39 years after they broke up,they were the second biggest selling artists in the last decade,and their 1 CD was the biggest selling album. And their music went to the top soon after it went on iTunes.And soon after their music started streaming on Spotify it became very popular and Billboard reported that 65% of listeners are under 34 years old which means they weren't even born when they broke up in 1970. The Beatles wrote *plenty* of great rock songs including hard rock on The White Album and Abbey Road and as many have rightfully pointed out Paul invented heavy metal with his 1968 song Helter Skelter and people have also said John's I Want You She's So Heavy on Abbey road was also one of the first heavy metal songs. Even in their early days they wrote some great rockers that were very rocky for the times, as The All Music Guide said,in their very good review of Past Masters Volume 1 that they proved they could rock really really hard,with John's I Feel Fine from late 1964 which featured the very recorded feedback guitar on a rock song,and Paul's great blues rocker,She's A Woman also from late 1964,and what they called the peerless I'm Down which is Paul's screaming rocker from mid 1965 which they performed even harder rocking, and screaming in August 1965 at Shea Stadium. www.allmusic.com/album/past-masters-mw0000691313 Also John's You Can't Do That from early 1964,is a great rock song, so is Day Tripper,Paperback Writer, And You're Bird Can Sing,Oh Darling,Hey Bulldog, She Said She Said,Taxman, Revolution,Get Back,Come Together etc
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:17:15 GMT -5
In this All Music Guide review of The Beatles early 1963 album,With The Beatles Stephen Thomas Erlewine says at the end of the very good review that still the heart of With The Beatles lies not in the covers but the originals where it was clear that even at this early stage The Beatles were rapidly maturing and changing turning into expert craftsman and musical innovators. www.allmusic.com/album/with-the-beatles-mw0000192941
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:17:33 GMT -5
In The All Music Guide's great review of The Beatles Past Masters album,they say they proved that they could rock really,really hard with their songs I Feel Fine,She's a Woman,and the peerless I'm Down www.allmusic.com/album/past-masters-mw0000691313 all from late 1964 and early 1965.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:18:09 GMT -5
In 1964 The Rolling Stones wrote and recorded a Rice Krispies TV commercial jingle not something cool like a cigarette ad and they also had teen girls screaming at their early concerts.Maybe The Rolling Stones should be called a boy band too.I'm pretty certain The Beatles never wrote and recorded a jingle for a cereal TV commercial. www.snopes.com/the-rolling-stones-rice-krispies-jingle/
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:19:31 GMT -5
Not only did The Beatles give The Rolling Stones one of their first hits with their rock n roll song I Wanna Be Your Man as you know,and they wrote it right in front of them and Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were impressed and like wow how can you write a song just like that and it motivated them to start writing their own songs.
The Rolling Stones were good friends with and fans of The Beatles. Mick Jagger was at 4 Beatles recording sessions and Keith Richards was at 2 of them with him.Also Mick Jagger was such a big Beatles fan that in May 1967 when The Beatles were reording their song Baby You're A Rich Man he came there and stood on the sidelines to watch and listen to them recording it. His name is also on the tape box and he likely sang at the end verses.In Mark Lewishon's great detailed music diary book, The Beatles Recording Sessions there is a big black and white picture of Mick Jagger sitting in between John and Paul in the recording console room during The Beatles Revolver recording sessions too.
The Beatles remastered albums sold much more 40 years after their break up than The Rolling Stones remastered albums and they are still together! The Beatles have the best selling album of the last decade with their CD 1.And soon after their music went on iTunes,it went to the top.
And Brian Jones played the saxophone on the strange Beatles song, You Know My Name Look Up The Number and he and Mick Jagger's girlfriend at the time Marriane Faithful contributed sound effects on the song Yellow Submarine. As this guy Sal66 who is also a musician and has also posted on sites debunking ignorant cr*p about The Beatles has rightfully pointed out, The Beatles wrote,played and recorded I Feel Fine (which The All Music Guide says has brilliant,active ,difficult guitar leads and riffs) in the Fall of 1964 which was the first use of feedback guitar on a pop rock record and it also had a prominent guitar riff throughout this very good song almost a year *before* The Rolling Stones's Satisfaction came out.
And on John's great Norwegian Wood recorded in the Fall of 1965,George Harrison was the first to play a sitar on a pop rock song and it was released on their great album Rubber Soul in December and then in May 1966 The Rolling Stones song Paint It Black came out with Brian Jones playing a sitar.
And in Paul McCartney's authorized biography Many Years From Now, Mick Jagger's former girlfriend singer Marianne Faithful says that she and Mick used to go over to Paul's house a lot and hang out in his music room. She said he never went to see them at their house they always went to visit him because he was Paul McCartney.She also said that Mick was intimidated by Paul but that Paul was totally oblivious to this.
Paul also says in this book that he turned Mick on to pot in his music room and he said which is funny because a lot of people would assume it was the other way around. Mick Jagger was also with The Beatles in Bangor when they got the call that Brian Epstein was found dead because he went on the train with them with his then girl friend singer Marianne Faithful to see the Maharishi to study meditation that weekend.
Also Mick Jagger is quoted on a Rolling Stones fan site,timeisonourside.com saying that Keith Richards liked The Beatles because he was quite interested in their chord sequences and he says he also liked their harmonies which he said were always a slight problem for The Rolling Stones.He said Keith always tried to get the harmonies off the ground but they always seemed messy.Mick then says,that what they never really got together were Keith and Brian singing backup vocals and he said it didn't work because Keith was a better singer and to keep going,oooh,ooh,ooh(he laughs) and he said Brian liked all of those oohs which Keith had to put up with.He also said Keith was capable of much stronger vocals than ooh,ooh,ooh.
On this same fan site Keith Richards is quoted from 1971 saying that The Beatles were perfect for opening doors,when they went to America they left it wide open for them and he said that The Rolling Stones could never have gone to America without them.He also said that The Beatles are so f**king good at what they did.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:27:31 GMT -5
Here are The Rolling Stones live in 1963 and 1964 they don't sound better or even as good as The Beatles live then! They aren't even rocking.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 9:48:41 GMT -5
Here is The Rolling Stones in 1963 performing the cover Roll Over Beethoven.
Here are The Beatles also performing Roll Over Beethoven in 1964,and clearly their version is more rocking and better!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 11:33:50 GMT -5
In this recent Rolling Stone Magazine interview with Paul McCartney he's asked what he thinks about The Rolling Stones and he says they are a good little rock n roll band but not as good as The Beatles and that he's going to be playing with them soon.And he's asked about the song I Wanna Be Your Man and how they wrote it and gave to The Rolling Stones and it became one of their first hits. www.rollingstone.com/music/features/paul-mccartney-looks-back-the-rolling-stone-interview-w433437
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 12:03:23 GMT -5
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