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A lovely young lady but what’s going on with that hair?
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What can one say!
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Just awful!
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Did George Harrison compose the guitar solos he played for The Beatles or did John and Paul tell him what exactly to play?
Harold Philip Benson Harold Philip Benson, Classically trained pianist. In pop/rock band
“It varied. In the early years, like on “I Saw Her Standing There”, George would ad lib the breaks in the song during the studio takes of the song. Even live, he’d pick whatever guitar break came to him when they performed this song. In later years, Paul would ‘hear’ in his head the breaks he wanted on songs Paul wrote, at least, and probably he’d get George to play the breaks as he (Paul) wanted them. This is an example of why George got impatient with “The Beatles” as years went by. George had other reasons too, but that’s another story. Then there’s the now famous story of how George tried over and over again to play a good break on his “Taxman” song but could not do it. Paul and George Martin got impatient, so Paul grabbed a guitar and quickly did a break for the song which was used.”
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The Manfreds: Interview (Mike d’Abo and Paul Jones)
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Nice one Jacki. You don’t have much to worry about as the resident MLT Bard!
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Post Transferred to MLT – Cover Requests
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Post transferred to MLT – Cover Requests
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The Rock “n” Roll Years 1968
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If the Beatles couldn’t read music, how did they write down the songs and notes they composed for them to remember and for others to play?
Alex Johnston. BA Honours in music theory, tech and musicology.“They didn’t write them down at all. They remembered them.
In their early years, Lennon and McCartney wrote songs together and one of their rules was that if they wrote a song but then couldn’t remember how it went, they’d junk it. Since they were trying to write songs that were catchy, this rule worked very well. They wrote words down and changed them on the page, and they might scribble guitar chord names above the words, but as far as the tunes and guitar parts were concerned, they just remembered them.
Later, when their songs were going to be published, they were transcribed by other people. George Martin was writing down the melody of ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, which is in G, and in the line ‘And I’ve been working like a dog’, he couldn’t figure out what note Lennon was singing; I would characterise it as an untempered F. Martin asked Lennon if it was E or F, and Lennon replied ‘Yeah, one of those.’ He went with F:
Later, they recorded themselves on tape recorders. A bootleg called It’s Not Too Bad contains Lennon’s demo recordings of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, from him poking around on a guitar in a Spanish hotel room when it was barely a song, all the way to the final mixes.
For instrumental parts played by others, Martin wrote arrangements.
The Beatles couldn’t read or write music, not in the 60s at any rate. They might have done well to learn, but they got by pretty well without that particular set of skills.“
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Thanks for sharing the video Angelo. What do you mean you have work for the next 20 years?
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Really nice to see those two Matons of yours together Angelo.
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Mike d’Abo – Meeting with the Beatles (‘All My Loving’ and ‘Norwegian Wood’).
For those of you who may not know, Mike d’Abo replaced Paul Jones as lead singer of Manfred Mann when Paul left to start his solo career.
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Hurdy Gurdy Man – Donovan
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Sunshine Superman – Donovan
