This week’s Mad Men used an original Beatles recording, which is pretty rare. How rare? Here’s a 2 minute video we made with every other time a movie or TV show has done it.
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Album covers minus the deceased.
The last three nights I’ve had dreams about taking hallucinogenic drugs.
Also tossed in there was a dream in which I helped John Lennon write/record “Julia.”
Late in the Beatles’ career, John started to whip out an astonishing variety of musical styles that he never really explored more fully in his solo work: the languid tropicalia of “Sun King,” the stoner sludge of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy),” the moody funk of “Come Together,” the golden classic gorgeousness of “Dig A Pony” … and, yes, the sexy glam of “Polythene Pam.” Each of these templates would be enough for a lesser artist to base an entire career on.
Bill Bonds’s commentary on guns, following the murder of John Lennon in 1980.
Paul McCartney performing “Here Today,” written shortly after John Lennon was shot.
“We were playing Amoeba Record Store in Los Angeles and I was singing ‘Here Today’ for John… I was holding it together until I looked into the audience…I just saw this girl who had totally lost it and was weeping and it got me. I tried to look away and forget it but it was impossible - I just went with her.”
Keep a dry eye. I dare you.
The Polyphonic Spree - Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Covering John Lennon and staying true to his message is not easy, but Tim DeLaughter and his symphonic rock band, The Polyphonic Spree manage to pull it off. Staying true to nearly every musical aspect of the song, as well as singing Lennon’s message of peace, The Spree give a rousingly enthusiastic version of this song. I like it.
So this is Christmas, and what have you done?
Another year over, and a new one just begun.
And so this is Christmas, I hope you have fun,
The near and the dear ones, the old and the young.
A very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year,
Let’s hope it’s a good one without any fear.
And so this is Christmas for weak and for strong,
For rich and the poor ones, the world is so wrong.
And so happy Christmas for black and for white,
For yellow and red ones, let’s stop all the fight.
A very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year,
Let’s hope it’s a good one without any fear.
And so this is Christmas and what have we done?
Another year over, a new one just begun.
And so happy Christmas, we hope you have fun,
The near and the dear ones, the old and the young.
A very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year,
Let’s hope it’s a good one without any fear.
War is over if you want it. War is over now.
