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NileQT87 said:
first off " NileQT87 ", the song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" is not about LSD. Thats one of the most comon missconceptions about the Beatles songs. It was written after John's son came home from pre school with a picture he had drawn which he called "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds". John and Paul were impressed and inspired by the drawing and wrote the song wich has been discribed as a sound track to the painting. The song more than likely was influenced by drugs but is not about them...
And all those covers you mentioned. Thats how the Beatles got noticed. They were teenagers preforming songs by artists who they admired in night clubs and they were good enough to be picked up. They quit covering other artists work soon after they hit the world, after that all they did was their own.
Many, many people argue about Lennon's death. Some say it was a crazed fan (who killed him to make the autographed "Double Fantasy" worth more or because he was offended by Lennon's Jesus statment or just because he was crazy and wanted to kill someone famous) others claim it was the government (watch "The U.S. vs John Lennon, even before I saw this film I thought it was likely that they killed him).
As for Lennon's Jesus statment, I think its absolutly correct that John was aragent (and maybe Paul too) but, look, the Beatles had just as much popularity if not more than Elvis. They did. As my dad says, he was right. John once said that if he had said the Beatles were more popular than TV everyone would have agreed. I think it was'nt a very intelegent thing to say but then again I think there was some truth in it.
You say your so appauled by the Beatles fan treatment, well, On an interview from the early 60's they said that they were in a resteraunt and a woman approached them and said that her 11 year old daughter loved them but she her self couldn't care more. They said that they were a bit cold to her but celebraty or not, she probably deserved it. They stoped touring because they got tired of fans screaming so loud that they couldn't hear themselves play (which is what affected their sound, they literaly couldn't hear the next one to them play.), fans throwing things at them to get their attention, and girls practicaly slaughtering themselves over them. They thought this was all great when they started but after years of this they had had enough. John was quit rude to them at times like in an interview from the 70's in which he was asked about the fans and he said something along the lines of he got tired of stupid f***ers screaming like f***ing idiots. I can understand them deciding to quit the road. I watched on PBS a filmed preformance Elvis did in Hawaii and none of the fans were going TOTALY insane (like Beatle preformances). This was from the 70's when his fame was after its peak but I think if the Beatles had done a reunion consert (while John and George were still alive
) and played a few songs from their old LP's the fans would have been way wild.Personaly I am a Beatles fan but I like Elvis too. I just dont think he was as great as the fab four.
And by the way. This thread is "Who was the cutest Beatle?"... I dunno, I guess its fine to wander...
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