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The Beatles come second in poll of most bewildering song lyrics
I Am The Walrus named runner-up in the "baffle of the bands" behind The Killers' Human
By Liverpool Echo
Aug 01, 2014
Chart act The Killers have triumphed in the baffle of the bands - after their hit Human was judged to have the most bewildering song lyric.
The track - which reached number three in the singles chart in 2008 - was judged to have the perplex factor for the impenetrable line "Are we human or are we dancer?"
Second in the poll for online streaming service Blinkbox Music was the surreal nonsense lyric for I Am The Walrus by The Beatles, from Magical Mystery Tour.
The Beatles in Liverpool, Friday 10th July 1964. Back home for evening premiere of 'A Hard Day's Night' at the Odeon Cinema. Pictured playing with instruments belonging to Police Band, Civil Reception, Town Hall
The chorus of "I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob" was the line which left music fans scratching their heads.
The top 10 also included Wham!'s Club Tropicana which says "Drinks are free, fun and sunshine, there's enough for everyone, all that's missing is the sea" - despite later referring to watching "the waves break on the bay".
The explanation for the apparent inconsistency is that it is said to have been written about a spot in Ibiza set high in the hills.
Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has explained that his lyric was based on a quote from the author Hunter S Thompson, "we're raising a generation of dancers".
Flowers said: "I took it and ran. I guess it bothers people that it's not grammatically correct, but I think I'm allowed to do whatever I want."
Blinkbox Music managing director Mark Bennett said: "It's true that song lyrics are sometimes as crazy as a box of frogs, but then that's showbusiness. It would be a really boring world if everything was logical and made sense."
Almost two-fifths (38%) of the 2,000 adults surveyed said say they do not usually understand the words they hear in pop songs. And almost a third (32%) said songs have become more confusing over the years.
Top 10:
1. The Killers, Human - "Are we human, or are we dancer?"
2. The Beatles, I Am The Walrus - "I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob"
3. Michael Jackson, Earth Song - "What about elephants? Have we lost their trust?"
4. Lionel Richie, All Night Long - "Tom bo li de se de moi ya, hey jambo jambo"
5. Carly Rae Jepson, Call Me Maybe - "Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad"
6. Black Eyed Peas, Boom Boom Pow - "Beats so big I'm stepping on leprechauns"
7. Duran Duran, The Reflex - "The reflex is an only child, he's waiting in the park"
8. Wham!, Club Tropicana - "Club Tropicana, drinks are free, fun and sunshine, there's enough for everyone, all that's missing is the sea"
9. Taylor Swift, Love Story - "Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter, and my daddy said stay away from Juliet."
10. Oasis, Champagne Supernova - "Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball"
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McCartney mines career-spanning catalog in Missoula concert
By Cory Walsh
August 05 2014
Penny Lane, meet Campus Drive.
Sir Paul McCartney performed to more than 25,000 fans Tuesday in Washington-Grizzly Stadium, the first known concert by a Beatle in the Treasure State.
The response on both sides was enthusiastic.
People in the crowd, who had weathered a line snaking around the University of Montana campus after a sweltering tailgate, were rewarded with the largest concert in state history.
McCartney was more than willing to give it his all, a feat impressive for a musician of any age, much less 72.
“The jacket’s coming off early,” he said after only two songs. “And that’s going to be the only costume change of the night.”
As in past performances on the Out There tour, McCartney drew heavily on his songs from the Beatles catalog, interspersed with tunes from his Wings albums and solo records, and new singles such as the lively “Queenie Eye.“
He played more than two hours as well, everything from solo ballads to a stadiumwide sing-along of “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.“
The massive production included screens bookending the multistory stage, which improved the view for fans in the outer rings of the stadium. Another screen queued up animated collages for specific tunes.
McCartney and his long-running four-piece backing band were just as enthusiastic as prior reviews had hinted.
Songs like “Paperback Writer,” which he played on the guitar used on the original recording, were retrofitted with a harder rock edge than the studio albums.
He even ran through a short instrumental version of “Foxy Lady,” gamely soloing himself and following the tune with a story about seeing Hendrix perform back in the ’60s.
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As the sun finally set, McCartney switched to piano for a suite of songs including “Maybe I’m Amazed,” in fine voice during the howling bridge. That performance, dedicated to his wife Linda, segued into an acoustic set, highlighted by “We Can Work It Out.“
Soon the band decamped, and he played the show’s most vulnerable songs alone on acoustic guitar, atop a 20-foot riser that had video on the front. There was the timeless “Blackbird,” and “Here Today,” dedicated to John Lennon.
The crowd, comprising all generations, seemed as much in awe of the scale of the event as the music. After all, a performance of “Let it Be,” blown out to the size of a stadium, is a literal once-in-a-lifetime experience for most of us in Montana.
Tours by living legends can often have an air of suspicion – after so many mediocre Bob Dylan shows, Missoula residents may have wondered what to expect. Is it a real show, or a nostalgia tour?
McCartney, though, has always peppered his music with nostalgia, and that trait has allowed him to age gracefully and energetically along with his massive catalog of songs.
As the lights-and-pyrotechnics production and energy level showed, he’s always been an enthusiastic showman as well as an artist.
That he’s still so good at both is probably why he got the largest standing ovations the state will see in awhile.
Paul McCartney opens his concert in Missoula’s Washington-Grizzly Stadium on Tuesday evening with the rocker “Eight Days a Week,” a song he wrote for The Beatles.
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Scenes from the historic Paul McCartney concert in Missoula, August 5, 2014.
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Paul McCartney points to the crowd out the car window as he arrives under police escort to Washing-Grizzly Stadium Tuesday evening.
Heather McPhail, Billings, listens and watches the video screen through a fence while McCartney does a sound check before the show.
While tickets went fast during the initial sale, several good seats were for sale outside the stadium.
At 72, McCartney remains the heartthrob he has been throughout his musical career.
A bit of humor with Godzilla and McCartney dolls on the sound board.
McCartney in Missoula
McCartney looks at the Missoula crowd as he first enters the stage.
McCartney licks his finger to tell the Missoula crowd they're hot.
After the finger lick, McCartney gestures to tell the crowd they're hot.
Paul McCartney performs for a record-breaking crowd of 25,000 fans in Missoula. The concert was the largest ever in the state.
Concert goers watch McCartney on the multi-story video screen.
Unable to see the stage, fans listen from the side of Mount Sentinel.
Fans show their appreciation under the shadow of a half moon.
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Macca ex-home door up for auction
Belfast Telegraph
04 AUGUST 2014
It might not be made of Norwegian Wood, but Beatles fans are expected to pay out thousands of pounds for the chance to own this old front door from Sir Paul McCartney's childhood home.
The door, from the former Beatle's home in Forthlin Road, Liverpool, is up for auction as part of Christie's Out of the Ordinary sale on September 3 and is expected to fetch around £8,000.
McCartney's family moved to the council house in 1956 and it is where the band first rehearsed and where early hits including Love Me Do and I Saw Her Standing There were written.
1961 ( 20 Forthlin Road )
The door was removed when the house was refurbished in 1978 and has passed through several hands before being offered for sale.
The Forthlin Road house, which was bought by The National Trust in 1995, is included on a tour of Beatle's boyhood homes along with the house where Lennon lived with his Aunt Mimi.
Other items in the sale include a sword reportedly used at the Battle of Hastings and a silver replica of Harrods that was made as a result of a bet between the store's managing director and Selfridge's owner Harry Gordon Selfridge.
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Celia Harvey, head of sales at Christie's, behind the front door taken from the childhood home of Sir Paul McCartney
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Unheard George Harrison tape has Beatle doing tunes sung by John Lennon
By Steve Marinucci
Beatles Examiner
August 2, 2014
Beatles collector and author Dave Morrell confirmed to Beatles Examiner the existence of a rare George Harrison tape that was put on auction in 2010 but not sold that featured him singing Beatles songs he didn't do with the Beatles. In his book, “Horse-Doggin', Volume 1,” Morrell details stories of his encounters with members of the Beatles and some ultra-rare Beatles collectables.
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Included in the sale was an acoustic guitar, a Yamaha FG-340, that was signed on the guitar body twice by Harrison, according to the auction description. The auction house, Julien's Auctions, also said Harrison likely played the guitar at the jam session that produced the tape.
The tape, approximately 45 minutes long, was described as an impromptu jam session with musicians at the Taj Holiday Village in Goa, India. The music begins 11 minutes into the tape. On the tape, Harrison sings “A Hard Day's Night,” “You're Going to Lose That Girl” and “Norwegian Wood.” According to the description, “Harrison is also heard giving instruction on chord structure and being joined in song by the other musicians present.”
So is this an auctioneer's fantasy? “It exists. I did hear it,” Morrell said. “I know of at least two others have heard it..” Morrell said it was “very good” and “one of the best rare tapes I have ever heard!”
Morrell talked about what he heard on the tape. “It's a wonderful listen. George teaches the others (the restaurant house band) a new song he's working on. They struggle. He's patient. When it doesn't come together, George starts by saying, 'Here's a Beatles number.'
“George is heard talking to the fellows. Then one hands him something that sounds like a ukelele. George then starts that song that the Threetles do in 'Anthology' (likely 'Dehra Dhun'). Then they join in with him. he then starts to show them a new song he thinks they all can learn and it goes on and on and on. Then, 'A Hard Day's Night,' 'You're Going to Lose That Girl' and the one that sent me to the moon!, 'Norwegian Wood!!'
“Then he notices someone is recording it and he scolds them. He says that always happens and he hates getting ripped off. So he stops, signs the guitar and it ends.”
Morrell said he had an idea that Martin Scorsese would have been interested in it. “I tried my best to get the info to Martin Scorsese in hopes that he would use it in the Harrison HBO movie he worked on.”
More intriguing is the fact that "there is much more like this.” Morrell says that at a past auction at Sotheby's several years ago Yoko Ono sold John Lennon's Walkman. “Little did she know a cassette of John's songs were in there, never heard or bootlegged (with) titles not known by fans.”
Hopefully, some of these things will surface while we're still around to hear them. Morrell also says he'll have plenty more stories like this in his upcoming books.
