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The following article is taken from the ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Commission), updated 27 Sep 2019,
Abbey Road tells a story of deep divisions within the Beatles, 50 years on from its release
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It wasn’t Angus Young, Jung. It was his older brother, rhythm guitarist Malcolm you are thinking of.
“Though his younger brother Angus was the more visible of the brothers, Malcolm was described as the driving force and the leader of the band. In 2014, he stated that despite his retirement from the band, AC/DC was determined to continue making music with his blessing. As the rhythm guitarist, he was responsible for the broad sweep of the band’s sound, developing many of their guitar riffs and co-writing the band’s material with Angus. He was married to Linda Young and had two children, Cara and Ross.
Young left AC/DC in April 2014, to receive treatment for dementia. In September 2014, the band’s management announced that he would be retiring permanently. He died from the disease on 18 November 2017.” Angus Young is still alive and well and lead guitarist with AC/DC.
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Monty Python at 50: Gumby World Record Attempt, 5 October 2019, London
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And more.
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Out for dinner and took the MG California for a spin.
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I know, it’s only a drawing, but what a beautiful car.
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Sounds good Jung. Is your company allowing you to hire a mustang for your trip?
I’ll be heading off on a bike trip stateside in a week too, a house sit in the Blue Mountains, NSW. A lovely bush area. I’ll be looking after three dogs, a cat and two ponies for three weeks. I’ll have my iPhone geared up to listen to the MLT jukebox via Bluetooth and my helmet speakers. I’ll post a photo of my Moto Guzzi California all polished for the trip, in the Petrolheads Anonymous thread. You’ll have to do the same with your vehicle of choice. Safe driving Jung!
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Hi David. Welcome to the best Club in the world! So nice to hear from you. I concur with everything you wrote about the Twins. I only discovered them about a year and a half ago and still can’t understand how I managed to miss them for so long!
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Blackbird was inspired by the racial tensions that exploded in the US spring of 1968 as a symbolic way to support the efforts of the Civil Rights Movement. McCartney underlined also that “bird” is a British slang often used for “girl”, which would make “blackbird” become “black girl”.
“Blackbird” was also inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach’s Bourrée in E minor, a well-known lute piece often played on the classical guitar. As teenagers, he and George Harrison tried to learn Bourrée as a “show off” piece.
The first night his future wife Linda Eastman stayed at his home, McCartney played “Blackbird” for the fans camped outside his house. The fingerpicking technique that McCartney uses in the song was taught to him by folk singer Donovan.
The song was recorded on 11 June 1968 at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios in London, with George Martin as the producer and Geoff Emerick as the audio engineer. It is a solo performance with McCartney playing a Martin D 28 acoustic guitar. The track includes recordings of a male Common blackbird singing in the background.
Since composing “Blackbird” in 1968, McCartney has given differing, contradictory statements regarding both his inspiration for the song and its meaning. In one of these scenarios, he has said he was inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird one morning when the Beatles were studying Transcendental Meditation in Rishikesh, India. In another, he recalls writing it in Scotland as a response to racial tensions escalating in the United States during the spring of 1968. So it is quite possible Michael that you heard somewhere that Paul played the Bach piece backward!
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I wish you and Jung and your fellow Canuckers a ‘Groovy GobbleGobble Happy Thanksgiving Wknd’ too Jacki!
The following is hot off the Australian press!
“US President Donald Trump has mistakenly pardoned the nation of Turkey for Thanksgiving instead of a more traditional American turkey.
Mr Trump has allowed Turkey to attack the Kurds of Syria in a gobble-gobble motion.
“Kurd your enthusiasm,” said a Whitehouse spokeswoman justifying Trump’s kneejerk head-slappery. “What else could he do? The Kurds were in the whey.”
Trump continues to speak in gobble-gobbledygook.”
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There are many pop songs with a classical influence. Probably none more so than this one.
The Toys – “Lovers Concerto”
Songwriters Linzer and Randell based the melody on the familiar “Minuet in G major” (BWV Anh. 114) from J.S. Bach’s Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.
The Toys original version of the song was a major hit in the United States and United Kingdom (among other countries) during 1965. It peaked on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 2. It was kept out of the number 1 spot by both “Yesterday” by The Beatles and “Get Off of My Cloud” by The Rolling Stones. “A Lover’s Concerto” reached number 1 both on the US Cashbox chart (Billboard’s main competitor), and in Canada on the RPMnational singles chart. It peaked at number 5 in the UK Singles Chart.
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“It’s OK to Dream”
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Billy Bragg – “Lay Down Your Weary Tune” (Bob Dylan cover), from Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years Of Amnesty International
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This may not be classical, but I like the title!
“Sweet Little Lisa” (featuring Albert Lee)
This video features Nick Lowe and Dave Edmonds of ‘Rockpile’, who I saw live in 1979. A fantastic live rock band with Nick Lowe on bass guitar and vocals and Dave Edmunds on lead guitar and vocals.
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Dave Edmunds, “The Sabre Dance”.
Can’t you just see lightening Lisa practising some of these tunes until she has “blisters on her fingers”!
