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Beatles / Jefferson Airplane Coincidence
Grace Slick: “Don’t you want somebody to love?”
Ringo: “I want somebody to love.”
Grace Slick: “Don’t you need somebody to love?”
Ringo: “I need somebody to love.”
Could this be some sort of Jedi mind trick? With a Little Help from My Friends was released less than two months after Somebody to Love.
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It’s certainly two songs that should be heard back to back, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some unintentional subconscious affect Somebody to Love had in a small way on With A Little Help From My Friends.
There are some who believe in some kind of universal consciousness in play too. Do you remember the Borg? 🙂
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Wow David, that really is some great insight and diagnosis on your part. I had forgotten how close together in time they were released, although I loved both songs. I never connected them until now. Speaking for myself, I have to believe that this really is a case of total coincidence given the completely different musical styles of the two bands, the different themes of the songs, and the fact that “I just need someone to love” is just a minor lyrical part of the Beatles composition overall. But you really found a gem here!
Hey Jung, you will have to remind me, I don’t remember the Borg!
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Stephen, they were the most powerful threat to mankind in the universe of Star Trek. “Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated”. 🙂
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Well,
did Ringo ever meet Grace when it would have mattered ?Other than the last concert being at Candlestick Park there’s very little about the Beatles in S.F.
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Well it was the Love Generation. Two Great Songs Somebody to Love and A little help from my Friends.
I guess the White Rabbit should have been in Yellow Submarine. Just being funny. But this was interesting I think. Grace real name is Grace Wing. She was invited to the White House when Nixon was President during the Viet Nam era … See below.Slick hadn’t been invited to the White House by Richard Nixon — it was Tricia Nixon, the President’s daughter, who had sent an invitation to Slick, or at least to the singer’s maiden name Grace Wing. Nixon and Slick had both attended Finch, a women’s college in New York City, about ten years apart.
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A Little Help from my Friends
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I think Grace was escorted by Abby Hoffman.
I would sell my soul to be a fly on the wall.
But i think they got turned away at the door.I’m pretty sure that Abby was on everybody’s watch list by then.
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Thomas I think you are right on the Abby and Grace story. I heard that too. Better that happen. Old tricky Dick Nixon and cross dresser Herbert Hoover. You did not want to be on their list. Just like they did to John and Yoko.
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I think they were more than watching Abby & John Lennon.
In my humble opinion.
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Agreed…
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Lol…never crossed my mind until now…so what other songs then have this same kind of phenomenon , If you will, I wonder, the doors are now open on this….come on in….lol
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The only other example I can immediately think of is “I am the walrus, goo goo g’ joob” (November 1967) and “Coo-coo-ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson” (April 1968). But according to Wikipedia, Paul Simon acknowledged that that was a deliberate reference.
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