The Beatles on Record (tonight on TV)
John Doherty
The Beatles on Record:
In 1962, an unknown group from Liverpool entered Abbey Road Studios to
record their debut single. During the next eight years they created
what is arguably regarded as the greatest collection of studio
recordings of the 20th century. This special charts The Beatles'
extraordinary journey in the studio from "Please Please Me" to "Abbey
Road" and reflects on how they developed as musicians, matured as
songwriters and created a body of work that sounds as fresh in 2009 as
the time it was recorded. Narrated entirely by John, Paul, George,
Ringo and Sir George Martin, the documentary features over 60 classic
songs, rare footage and photos from The Beatles' archives and never
heard before out-takes of studio chat from the "Abbey Road" recording
sessions.
Ray O'Hara
"John Doherty" <jo...@johndoherty.com> wrote in message
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Not bad but it needed to be longer, it should be a 2 hour show.
JimK
I didn't see the Beatles thing, but the HBO special tonight about
Thelonious Monk and Pannonica Rothschild was great. It would be hard
to find two more fascinating characters.
JimK
DGDevin
> I didn't see the Beatles thing, but the HBO special tonight about
> Thelonious Monk and Pannonica Rothschild was great. It would be hard
> to find two more fascinating characters.
>
> JimK
That BBC show that PBS recently aired--How The Beatles Rocked The
Kremlin--about the impact of the Beatles in the Soviet Union was
fascinating. It seems the Soviet govt. was worried about the Beatles'
influence on Soviet youth even to the point of sending people to prison for
making and selling unauthorized copies of Beatles music--until the state
music label eventually bootlegged Beatles albums itself. They even made an
anti-Beatles propaganda film that would have gone over well with
Beatles-hating old farts in America. Nixon and Brezhnev had more in common
than they knew....
Ray O'Hara
"DGDevin" <dgd...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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yeah, the Soviets armed up for the Marines but when we invaded it was with
rock&roll, blue jeans and Mickey D's.
we should do the same thing in the middle east.
, we should create a Radio Free Islam.
screw the political propaganda, hit them with pop culture,
.beam the internet into them. they all have cell phones.
how do you defend against that?
3jane.
> Ringo and Sir George Martin, the documentary features over 60 classic
> songs, rare footage and photos from The Beatles' archives and never
> heard before out-takes of studio chat from the "Abbey Road" recording
> sessions.
I wish Lennon had hooked up with a kick ass lead guitar player before
the idiot knocked him off. He was the only guy in the group with a
rock 'n roll feel and instincts, the rest of them were pop musicians
(very good pop musicians). Aside from the early primative stuff,
let's try and name some good hard rock 'n roll played by the Beatles:
Helter Skelter and Get Back. I will try to catch this doc and thanks
for the heads up, they were an interesting sociological/historical
phenomena.
JimK
American Pop Culture = Weapon of Mass Seduction
JimK
JimK
wrote:
A few other rockers:
Back In The USSR
Birthday
Help
Hey Bulldog
I'm Down
Lady Madonna
Polythene Pam
Taxman
Why Don't We Do It In The Road
JimK
DGDevin
> Aside from the early primative stuff,
> let's try and name some good hard rock 'n roll played by the Beatles:
> Helter Skelter and Get Back.
"Revolution" comes to mind, as does "Back In The USSR," and a bunch of
others depending on what you mean by "hard rock."
Ray O'Hara
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Like Bob Dylan they changed the world.
John Doherty
commercials, so it's likely only about 48 minutes of show.
But every word is by one of the Beatles or George Martin; there's
plenty of obscure studio chatter and a great bunch of little seen
visuals. Looking at some of the stuff, I wonder how it took 40 years
to emerge.
They use the now familiar technique of animating some old photos by
separating figure from ground and slow zooming into the background.
There was a glimpse of the band learning George's "For You Blue" that
I had seen in very grainy black & white, here in sharp color. All in
all, big fun, but wish it was at least two hours;-)