Tag Archives: Beatles
I Will
Mona discovered this beautiful cover version of an early Beatles song, and shared it with me. Now I’m sharing it with you: Full lyrics HERE.
I can see them laugh at me
This is a really nice cover version: Full lyrics HERE.
1966
“The trouble with government as it is is that it doesn’t represent the people, it controls them. All they seem to want to do– the people who run this country– is keep themselves in power and stop us knowing what’s going on… I’m not saying politicians are all terrible men. It’s just the system of …
Hugs
“I was thinking the other day, ‘I wish I had sat and just hugged John all the time when we were together.’ (…) I’d just sit around and hug him forever. That’s the depth of my feeling for him.” ~Paul McCartney, 2020 If there’s someone in your life you want to hug, do it today. …
Glimpses
“The thing the Sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibilities that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us glimpses of the possibility.” ~John Lennon
Across the Universe
I stumbled across this while looking for something else. I had no idea it existed. Full lyrics HERE.
Ringo and Friend
In every picture of Ringo from the 70s, he looks like he’s fighting not to cry.
Prudence
Prudence was a real person who was going through a bad time, and John Lennon wrote this song to cheer her up. It’s one of my favorite Beatles’ songs.
Not every day.
Howard Stern Comes Again, ©2019, is a collection of transcripts of what Stern considers his best interviews over the last several years. The excerpt below with Paul McCartney is from January 14, 2009: Howard: I haven’t spoken to you since George Harrison died. How are you doing with that? That’s got to be major. Paul: …
Spread Peace
Full lyrics HERE.
The light that’s shining out from you will touch everything that you see…
When Ringo wants to say something, he doesn’t couch it in difficult metaphors. He keeps it simple. Full lyrics HERE.
Just For Today
George’s widow Olivia Harrison said that this song is her favorite of his. Someone on YouTube pointed out that it has two separate guitar solos, which I suppose is the sort of thing that happens when the lead guitarist writes the song. What I always enjoyed about it is that it seems like something from …
You Are Part of Everything
“Dear Prudence” is one of my favorite Beatles’ songs, and it turns out to have been a favorite of Jerry Garcia, too. Full lyrics HERE.
We Saw Yesterday Last Week
Mona and I went to see a Beatle’s tribute band last week, and they were a lot of fun. We didn’t go expecting to relive Beatlemania, we just wanted to sing and dance and enjoy the songs that have become such a part of our lives. The band we saw, Yesterday: The Beatles’ Tribute, gave …
It’s Easy
“There is nothing to do. Just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say: ‘be yourself’, since you do not know yourself. Just be. Having seen that you are neither the ‘outer’ world of perceivables, nor the ‘inner’ world of thinkables, that you are neither body nor …
Does it mean you don’t love me anymore?
“Don’t Pass Me By” first appeared on The Beatles (aka The White Album). On his latest album, Give More Love, Ringo Starr slowed it down and made it much, much better: Interestingly, the Georgia Satellites took the same song, sped it up, and made it much, much better: Full lyrics HERE.
Why did the four friends cross the road?
Beatles Crossing Cam: LINK
You Don’t Really Need It
“A hippie is supposed to be someone who becomes aware– you’re hip if you know what’s going on. But if you’re really hip, you don’t get involved with LSD and things like that. You see the potential that it has and the good that can come from it, but you also see that you don’t …
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