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by b_b 493 days ago  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: Interview: Paul Simon on songwriting
Honestly, I didn't read her interview. I have a Yoko boycott, fair or not.



by thenewgreen 493 days ago  ·  link
May I too recommend a book: http://www.amazon.com/Here-There-Everywhere-Recording-Beatle...

I've recommended it a lot and nobody has ever disliked it. A fantastic read for anyone interested in the recording process, whether you're a beatles fan or not. But if you are a beatles fan, you get the added bonus of some great insight. For example: Yoko Ono gets up out of her bed in the Abbey Road recording studio (that's right, John installed a BED for her in the studio) and steals a biscuit that belongs to George Harrison. The Beatles are up in the control room looking down into the studio and Harrison sees Ono take the biscuit and yells"THAT BITCH !!! She's just taken one of my biscuits!" a fight between John and George ensues. The "biscuit incident", is the catalyst for the end imo.

Great read. Your boycott may be more fair than you know.

by b_b 493 days ago  ·  link
I love the Beatles. I have contempt for Yoko even though I think John was a lot of the problem. John is such a transcendent figure that its hard to be mad at him, even thought it wasn't Yoko who was installing beds and whatnot. To ease my mind, I like to think of her as Jim Jones, controlling John's mind all the way to the death of the band. This ignores that fact that he was kind of an asshole sometimes.
by thenewgreen 493 days ago  ·  link
He was definitely an asshole. a lot. Read the book, it's pretty cool. I'll choose to think of her as Saruman and John as Theoden.
by b_b 493 days ago  ·  link
I'm gonna check it out. Thanks.

Great analogy. Unfortunately there was no Gandalf to rescue him. Should have been George Martin. Unfortunately, Phil Specter was the Sauran of the whole thing, evilly dismantling all of the great things the Beatles had worked for in the previous decade. Fuck, we're nerds. I'm gonna stop now.

by thenewgreen 493 days ago  ·  link
Ha, ha! Best kind of nerds though. Good call on Specter, the book touches on that too. You'll love it, I'm actually excited for you.


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