Paul McCartney The Songs He Was Singing Vol. 5 2010 – 2019is (as its title suggests) the latest installment in a series compiled and written by John Blaney. Blaney, a passionateBeatlefan, brings to his writing the expertise and rigour of a professional historian. After starting out in musi...
By Susan Jean Courtney 5 Stars “Vibrational Resonance of Love” This book is written from the perspective of the author’s channeling sessions with John Lennon and George Harrison. She writes that John Lennon and George Harrison made themselves known to her in 2006 and they began to have occ...
And others will argue that anybody would have been overshadowed by the powerhouse songwriting partnership, and that he doesn’t need to be John or Paul to be an indispensable part of The Greatest Show On Earth. John Lennon said that Something was the best song on Abbey Road. Here Comes ...
elegantly written book, Schultz shows us the psychological research, tracing it through the lives of various artists—John Lennon, David Bowie, Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo—to elucidate how personality lays the foundation for the states of mind in which art gets...
Blackbird Singing by Paul McCartney I, Me, Mine by George Harrison In his Own Write by John Lennon (written back in 1964 and reprinted 2000) So, take a trip down memory lane and read a book by one of the Beatles or check out one of their movies. Happy Birthday to Sir James Paul Mc...
As rock music came of age, so its ambitions grew, with big ideas in literature influencing big ideas on record. WhenThe Beatlesrecorded “Tomorrow Never Knows,” the epochal closing track to theirRevolveralbum,John Lennonhad in mind a book by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert...
, theAbbey Roadalbum cover has him barefoot…Hmmmmm. It was around that time that the ‘Paul is dead’ meme came about. Then about ten years later, John Lennon was assassinated. Then, after George Harrison during an interview (sorry, don’t have link but it’s on YouTube) claimed ...
These opening lines, from “Watching the Wheels,” John Lennon’s first song on his final album, capture so well the side glances, head shakes, reflective looks, laughs and chuckles, and othercra-craexpressions I’ve seen from friends, family, teachers, editors, students and reading audiences...
Being around John Lennon does that to a guy…and Paul McCartney bluntly correcting your grammar. Jesus. Without a doubt, it’s a bitter note for The Beatles—”I Me Mine” was the last new material recorded by them, depending on which criteria you’re going off of*—but even through ...
“nothing,” and therefore could be inhabited by whatever configuration presented itself. Dylan was and is no different. “I don’t believe in Zimmerman,” sang John Lennon. Join the club, John. Neither did Bob Dylan. It is only the words of the songs that deserve to be believed, and ...