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| The Beatles – A Day in the Life Lyrics
| 24 years ago
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By the way, I wish I get ahold of the analysis I once wrote on this song for my senior english class in high school. I wrote four pages in an hour-and-a-half, and at the time, I remember thinking it was the best thing I had ever written. maybe i'll try to tackle it again some day just for the hell of it. in my opinion, this is the greatest beatles song, as it is a perfect pairing of the writing styles of John and Paul, attributed as one of the many "Lennon/McCartney" songs. |
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| The Beatles – I Am the Walrus Lyrics
| 24 years ago
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The song was written after the Beatles were going through fan mail, and they picked one out at random, which turned out to be from a school John had attended when he was young. And, the letter said that they were analyzing the lyrics of his songs in class. So, John wrote the nonsensical I Am The Walrus, largely based on The Walrus & The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll. It has been said that some of the lines were written by John under the influence of LSD, but Paul had nothing to do with it. It was John scribbling on scrap paper (I believe some of the handwritten lyrics to this song were auctioned off a couple years back). Semolina Pilchard, by the way, was a combination of two names of nasty foods John remembers eating as a child. |
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| The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby Lyrics
| 24 years ago
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it was not written after they was a tombstone with her name on it... actually, technically, that's not true, but the tombstone was not the inspiration. most fanatics agree that this is largely a paul song, though paul's and john's stories differ about who wrote most of the song. paul remembers taking the name eleanor from an actress he worked with (on Help!, I believe). and, mckenzie was an alteration of the original name "Father McCartney." however, it was pointed out to paul years later that in a cemetery where he and john used to get drunk there is both a Rigby tombstone (not Eleanor Rigby's, but it does mention an Eleanor Rigby on it, I believe) and a McKenzie tombstone (John McKenzie if I'm not mistaken). so, it is possible that the names may have caught paul's fancy by way of subconscious recollection from his youth. |
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| The Beatles – A Day in the Life Lyrics
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The song refers to Tara Browne, a partygoer in his day, deemed a "socialite" by The Pretty Things in the title of the song "Death of a Socialite," dedicated to Tara. He was the son of Lord Oranmore and Browne, thus had he lived to see the age of twenty-one, he would have inherited his father's estate engrossed by the Guiness beer company. I think this is what the House of Lords line refers to. John was not very close to Tara, though they surely had met. Paul, on the other hand, was a friend of Tara's. Another cog in the Paul Is Dead controversy is the scar Paul got on his lip after wrecking a motorcycle while joyriding with Tara. In the early morning hours of December 18, 1966, with his girlfriend Suki Poitier in the passenger seat, he sped through a red light in Redcliffe Square, swerved to miss an oncoming VW Bug, and slammed into a parked van, killing Tara. Yet, Suki walked away hardly scratched. In January, the article about Tara's death was run in the _Daily Mail_ and John put it in the song. Suki, by the way, dated many rockstars including Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, and Keith Richards. |
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