This is very interesting: the playing times ("Spielzeiten") and breaks ("Pausen") for the Beatles at the Kaiserkeller (1960)
Punctual start is mandatory - "Pünktliches Beginnen ist Pflicht"
Original lyrics for In My Life
This originated with a long poem by John about his life, at a time when they were vaguely thinking of writing an album about their childhood. ([email protected]/ The British Library)
Original lyrics for Hard Days Night
Maureen Cleeve of the London Evening Standard: “I said to him that I thought one line of the song was rather feeble. It originally said: ‘But when I get home to you, I find my tiredness is through, then I feel all right’. Seizing my pen, John immediately changed the second line of it and came up with the slightly suggestive: ‘I find the things that you do, will make me feel all right’."
Original lyrics for Help
Lennon uses some rather long words, not normally found in pop songs – such as “self-assured”, “appreciate”, “independence”, “insecure” – one result, apparently, of Maureen Cleave teasing him that all Beatles songs seemed to be filled with one-syllable words. (The British Library)
Original lyrics for Yesterday
It was during a long car-drive while on holiday in Portugal with Jane [Asher] in May 1965, after they had started recording the Help! album, that McCartney finally put some proper words to it. After fitting “Yesterday” to the first three notes he needed a rhyme, and came up with “all my troubles seemed so far away”. (The British Library)
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Sat 27 Sep, 2014 02:39 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
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Original lyrics for A Day in the Life
Inspiration for the lyrics came from John Lennon lying around at home, fairly aimless, reading the papers, scribbling notes, tinkling on the piano, picking up on three stories – two from the newspapers, and one from his own life.
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Wed 8 Oct, 2014 04:48 pm
The guitar John Lennon played when "Paperback Writer" was recorded is going up for online auction next month. Rolling Stone magazine's article. It is expected to fetch upwards of one million U.S.
The song is also interesting for a variety of reasons. The engineer boosted the bass, which Paul played on a Rickenbacker. George Martin later said that the contrapuntal backing vocals had been inspired by the Beach Boys. At one point in the backing vocals, Lennon and Harrison are singing "Frère Jacques". It is said that the song was written by McCartney in response to a challenge from his aunt to write a song which wasn't about love.
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Wed 15 Oct, 2014 10:23 am
THE CASBAH COFFEE CLUB.
Before they ever appeared at the Cavern Club, John, Paul, George, Stuart and Pete used to hang around at Pete's Mother's place, eventually to be called The Casbah Coffee Club.
Mona Best was an unusual woman, to say the least, and before she started The Casbah Coffee Club, she was among other things, a Wall of Death rider in India.
After returning to England, one of her other sons, Rory, told Mona about this big old house that was for sale, and she immediately fell in love with it , so much so that she went out and pawned all of her jewellry to put the money on a horse in the 1954 Derby.
Her horse won at 33 - 1 and she bought the house with the proceeds.
Fed up with her sons and friends hanging around in the house at all hours making a din, she turned the downstairs cellar into a Coffee shop/club (Coffee shops were all the rage then) and as part of the deal so that they could use it, the soon to be Beatles had to help paint and decorate the place, with John using his art student credentials to influence colour and design.
In 1960. the lads officially became The Beatles, and after the famed tour of Hamburg, returned to The Casbah Club, making their first official "Beatles" appearance on stage there on December 17th 1960. It was the first time they had officially played as The Beatles in Britain.
At their height at The Casbah, The Beatles were bringing in anything between 1200 and 1500 people each night, of which up to 1300 would have to stand in the garden, just listening.
Mona's House....
The Stage.....
A Casbah appearance.....
The Dance Floor.....
Amateur vid of house......
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Wed 15 Oct, 2014 10:31 am
Paul and others discussing The Casbah and The Quarrymen..
The "Mo" they all refer to is Mona. She died in 1988.
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Wed 15 Oct, 2014 10:42 am
The aforementioned (in the vid) Red River Rock. This record was played by my older sisters in the 60's, over and over and over again.
And it was the in-house tune for The Casbah Club......
In 1963, I've been to England for the first time. Unfortunatly, these bands didn't play close to where I stayed
Wait ... The High Numbers???
Soon after this concert The High Numbers changed their name to The Who (and those I saw later - and missed The Kinks in 1966, because they were replaced by DDDMT)
My schoolmate was a cousin to Entwistle and used to get all of their records free.
They also played the working man's club at the end of the road where we lived, and the noise was amazing. Halfway through the evening the commitee told them to turn it down or bugger off.
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Wed 15 Oct, 2014 01:03 pm
Good stuff.
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Wed 15 Oct, 2014 01:19 pm
I agree . . . Walter and his Lordyship have contributed a great deal to this thread.
I'm still biting in my ... bottom that I didn't (couldn't?) go there ...
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"Bad to Me" is a song John Lennon wrote (credited to Lennon–McCartney) for Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas[2] while on holiday in Spain. Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas released their recording of the song in 1963 and it became their first number 1 in the UK Singles Chart.[1] Paul McCartney was present during the recording session at Abbey Road Studios. The single would be released in the US the following year, and become a top-ten hit there, reaching number 9. It became one of the first occasions a Lennon–McCartney composition made the US Top 40 recorded by an artist other than the Beatles (the first being "A World Without Love" by Peter & Gordon).
(from wikipedia)
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Fri 31 Oct, 2014 06:44 am
Monster Mash would be an appropriate Halloween song.
But since Halloween only became kind of popular here in the last couple years and since November 1 is a public holiday (All Saints Day), here's a song related to the latter: a rock 'n' roll version of When The Saints Go Marching. (It was the B-side of My Bonnie, The Beatles' first commercially-released record.) Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers:
Recorded at Hamburg's Friedrich-Ebert-Halle school, during a two-day session on 22-23 June 1961., after German bandleader Bert Kaempfert suggested that The Beatles recorded some songs as the backing group to English singer Tony Sheridan.
Tony Sheridan: vocals, lead guitar
John Lennon: rhythm guitar
Paul McCartney: bass
George Harrison: lead guitar
Pete Best: drums
The single had its UK release in April 1962, as Tony Sheridan and The Beatles. The Saints first appeared on a US album in 1964, once the group had achieved worldwide fame, and was credited to The Beatles with Tony Sheridan.
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Tue 4 Nov, 2014 01:42 pm
With a little help from my friends
Ringo took over lead vocals on this Lennon and McCartney song that was featured on the classic ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ album.
The song was first given the title of ‘Bad Finger Boogie’, supposedly because Lennon composed the melody on a piano using his middle finger after having injured his forefinger.
The title would later become the inspiration behind the name of the group, Badfinger, who were signed to the Apple label in the late sixties.
The opening line to the song was originally ‘What would you do if I sang out of tune, would you throw ripe tomatoes at me’ – but Ringo insisted on it being changed in fear that he would be bombarded with ripe tomatoes if he sang the song in front of an audience.
(courtesy of Brian Matthews "sleeve notes")
