What is your favourite beatles song.

[marshlander]

Always one of my favourites ... I Am The Walrus

And ... Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds

[Pablogeebee]

Always one of my favourites ... I Am The Walrus

And ... Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds

Your second choice;Lucy in the sky is a good tune.Veerry Psychedelic and wacky! They were deffo on LSD:eek: :eek: (ha,haaa!)when they did that one!

[fjp999]

Pablo dont worry. I wouldnt mind being an ancient hippy but who knows... is it better to be a "[COLOR="DarkOrchid"]nearly ancient punk/new waver" or an "ancient hippy"?

I kinda like "homo artist with history"

Yeah, love it when the Beatles were so young and did those silly things like giggling over This/That boy... They seem so fresh and having so much fun [/COLOR]

[fjp999]

[COLOR="Purple"]Hey Peblo, found A Day In The Life:

I picked this version as Yoko and John appear together at the beginning. Yoko has just reformed Plastic Ono Band and is appearing in two NYC concerts. I like Yoko

I always liked this one:

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[matty7]

i wanna go for a song maybe not many will have heard on here, my dad had the album it came from and it stuck in my head, Polythene Pam from Abbey Road.

[Rychard the Lionheart]

The New York Times have reportrd that the National Trust would consider buying the famous Abbey Road studios in London. This would add to their collection of beatles properties, they have already Paul McCartney's and John Lennon's homes. EMI has not commented on reports that the studio may be for sale.

On to a beatles song.

yesterday

[marshlander]

Your second choice;Lucy in the sky is a good tune.Veerry Psychedelic and wacky! They were deffo on LSD:eek: :eek: (ha,haaa!)when they did that one!

I've never tried working under the influence (hell, I've never been under the influence!), but I would imagine that it might be difficult to stay focussed for the required time it would take to produce something of that quality in a music studio. Although the received wisdom is that acid was involved - people even make a thing about Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - John Lennon refuted the claim (still, if Charles Manson could use The White Album as his reason for committing all those terrible murders with his unhinged "family"...) and I think the truth is actually more interesting. It was the subject of a BBC NEWS | England | Beatles song 'inspiration' dies a few months ago when Julian Lennon's childhood friend, Lucy Vodden, died at the age of 46.

Hey Peblo, found A Day In The Life:

(and Hey Jude)

Excellent choices, Frank! Who was it who said about Paul McCartney on hearing Hey Jude, "It's just not fair, the guy even screams in tune!"

i wanna go for a song maybe not many will have heard on here, my dad had the album it came from and it stuck in my head, Polythene Pam from Abbey Road.

Oooh, haven't heard that one for a while.

Okay, now I'm back in the UK, back in the UK, back in the UK (hmm, doesn't scan as well as USSR) I want to start to take up Rychard's challenge.

First Beatles song I remember hearing was Please Please Me. That's my contender for favourite during their Merseybeat phase.

I know Love Me Do was the first single, but I didn't hear it until it was re-released once Please Please Me began to sell in phenomenal quantity. In those days the only place to hear this kind of music was on the BBC Light Programme (later to become Radio 2) on Saturday mornings or in the evenings on Radio Luxembourg which faded in and out all the time. Radio Caroline was such a relief when it appeared on the waves (air and sea) in 1964, but being quite young at the time I tended to absorb what my mum had on the radio. I didn't really start actively seeking out music until I was about 12, in 1967.

[Rychard the Lionheart]

Talking about Radio Caroline, the 60s brought us the pirate radio stations. Some broadcasted from ships or used the old WW2 offshore naval forts around England. Radio London (BigL) ran from the ship 'Galaxy' and Radio Essex ran from a fort, are just two examples. Many DJs now working at the BBC and UK commercial stations started their career with the pirates. Sometimes I wonder what would we be listening to if the pirates had failed to gain the audiences they achieved.

Now to another beatles song.

The Beatles - Hard Day's Night





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[marshlander]

Rock n Roll Beatles

Got to be "I Saw Her Standing There"

A much more studied boogie-woogie rock n roll Beatles came in 1968 with the release of Lady Madonna. I was in the middle of a three month stay in hospital when this was released and it was a real shock, coming as it did in complete contrast to the psychedelia of Sergeant Pepper. There was a rock n roll revival going on at the time and it was one of the few times the Beatles seemed to be following a trend rather than setting one. I read somewhere that Paul McCartney had Fats Domino in mind with the voice and piano parts. Thankfully it was followed up by Hey Jude with the brilliant Revolution on the B-side.

Off topic bit
Re the pirates, I'd love to say I was an avid Radio Caroline listener, but I preferred the playlists on Radio London. Radio London was a far more commercial operation, but I guess at the age I was when I listened to it almost all day and all night I was not bothered by such considerations, because I loved the music. When John Peel joined Radio London a few months before it closed down he opened up a whole new world of music that wasn't being played anywhere else in the UK - no one else was playing The Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Love, Jefferson Airplane or the Grateful Dead. When Radio London was forced off the air by the introduction of the Marine Offences Act in 1967 John Peel spent much of the final night reading Winnie the Pooh. A friend and I organised a "funeral" for Radio London. We found out where Chuck Blair, one of the "Big L" djs, was staying and went to meet him. What a lovely man he was. He attended our funeral in St Albans on his way to an interview for the new BBC station, Radio One, which was to start broadcasting later. He never got a job at Radio One. I've often hoped we weren't responsible for making him late!

Radio Caroline carried on broadcasting and I started listening more seriously to it during the early to mid 70s. It was sometimes sporadic though and often not broadcasting through technical reasons I assume. Strangely I met one of the Caroline djs at the end of the decade when I spent a few sessions in a studio with him. That was a strange story with an unhappy outcome.

[matty7]

when the Beatles rocked it - Helter Skelter love this tune even though charlie manson went and spoilt its bang a bit