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Dig a Pony JOHN 1972: "I was just having fun with words. It was literally a nonsense song. You just take words and you stick them together, and you see if they have any meaning. Some of them do and some of them don't."
Tomorrow Never Knows PAUL 1984: "That was one of Ringo's malapropisms. John wrote the lyrics from Timothy Leary's version of the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead.' It was a kind of Bible for all the psychedelic freaks. that was an LSD song. Probably the only one. People always thought 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' was but it actually 'wasn't' meant to say LSD."
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds JOHN 1980: "My son Julian came in one day with a picture he painted about a school friend of his named Lucy. He had sketched in some stars in the sky and called it 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,' Simple. The images were from 'Alice in Wonderland.' It was Alice in the boat. She is buying an egg and it turns into Humpty Dumpty. The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere and I was visualizing that. There was also the image of the female who would someday come save me... a 'girl with kaleidoscope eyes' who would come out of the sky. It turned out to be Yoko, though I hadn't met Yoko yet. So maybe it should be 'Yoko in the Sky with Diamonds.' It was purely unconscious that it came out to be LSD. Until somebody pointed it out, I never even thought it, I mean, who would ever bother to look at initials of a title? It's NOT an acid song. The imagery was Alice in the boat and also the image of this female who would come and save me-- this secret love that was going to come one day. So it turned out to be Yoko... and I hadn't met Yoko then. But she was my imaginary girl that we all have."
PAUL circa-1994: "I went up to John's house in Weybridge. When I arrived we were having a cup of tea, and he said, 'Look at this great drawing Julian's done. Look at the title!' So I said, 'What's that mean?' thinking Wow, fantastic title! John said, 'It's Lucy, a freind of his from school. And she's in the sky.' ...so we went upstairs and started writing it. People later thought 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' was LSD. I swear-- we didn't notice that when it first came out."
It's All Too Much GEORGE 1980: "'It's All Too Much' was written in a childlike manner from realizations that appeared during and after some LSD experiences and which were later confirmed in meditation."
GEORGE 1999: "I just wanted to write a rock 'n roll song about the whole psychedelic thing of the time-- 'Sail me on a silver sun/ Where I know that I am free/ Show me that I'm everywhere/ And get me home for tea.' (laughs) Because you'd trip out, you see, on all this stuff, and then whoops! you'd just be back having your evening cup of tea! 'Your long blond hair/ And your eyes of blue' --that was all just this big ending we had, going out. And as it was in those days, we had the horn players just play a bit of trumpet voluntarily, and so that's how that 'Prince Of Denmark' bit was played (in the fade-out). And Paul and John just came up with and sang that lyric of 'your eyes of blue.'"
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WhiskeyClone
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Re: Beatles... [Re: JunkFood]
#6816072 - 04/21/07 01:49 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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JunkFood said: I think popular bands are egotistical; that's why I only listen to underground music.
That's not fair. A band becomes egotistical because people like them?
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JunkFood
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WhiskeyClone said: That's not fair. A band becomes egotistical because people like them?
One exception would be The Doors
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Cracka_X
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Re: Beatles... [Re: demiu5]
#6816101 - 04/21/07 02:00 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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demius said: they were pretty open about their use of LSD (bless Robert Zimmerman) and it reflected strongly in their later works
Yeah, it's funny how some artists go through their evolution of though/music/life and it's reflected in their music.
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sirbojangles
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Re: Beatles... [Re: Phishe]
#6816205 - 04/21/07 02:35 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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the beatles were the times
acid was the time
simple as that
beatles aren't rock beatles are sponge
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DrCamacho89
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=bQ6d3m-GFyw
Musical with all beatles music as the soundtrack.
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Re: Beatles... [Re: JunkFood]
#6816275 - 04/21/07 03:17 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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JunkFood said: I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen. - Timothy Leary
Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God...?
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