McCartney decides to let it be.

wonderful

Around the Universe this topic is one of the least interesting that could have been possted.

/how bad of a pun is that?

In related news, Siskel & Ebert re-runs are now Ebert & Siskel.

What does this guy need? more money? to be more popluar?

give it a rest, Paul...if that IS your true name...

/Paul is dead

Well, there goes any hope that Roebuck ever had of getting to billing.

I hate Yoko Ono. She is like an overcooked pancake - ugly to look at, and tastes of burning, and also doughy and thick. Also, I hope she dies.

And this matters why?

I have yet to see anything that either Lennon or McCartney have done that was actually any good...

Well, other than Live and Let Die.

all we are sayyyyyyyying...is kick yokos ass...

Pretty bad, considering the song is "Across the Universe". ;)

duhhhh

/(not like I've listened to them in the past five years)

What does one need to reunite the Beatles?

Two bullets.

Ouchu JJ_UK... I'm gonna have to remember that one.

I don't see why this is news. Who cares. They are both being accredited. Screw them both.

My late sister-in-law used to know the Lennons. She was there at the dinner party when Yoko introduced John to his wife picked mistress May Po. I don't want to say who my sister-in-law was, but her first husband was old time rock & roll and the only thing they ever seem to have agreed on was that Yoko would've made a house husband out of Jesus if he had been around.

Lenin?

well, at least paul saw what a retard he was being.

Odd. Frankly, I think the credit-switching could be a service to fans. On their shared-credit compositions, one usually DID do more to the song than the other. I wouldn't mind being able to check the liner notes to see which one did more work.

Peaceboy: Better him than Ringo.

"Yes, I believe the cornerstone, the apex of Beatles recording history was 'Octopus' Garden'. It's true, the rest of the blokes never really wanted to admit this in public, but it was pretty much the consensus, behind closed doors".

That would be scary.

What a whiny biatch. He should just let it be.

Yeah, Pauls's nowhere, man...

Jpe_dty
Around the Universe this topic is one of the least interesting that could have been possted.
/how bad of a pun is that?

I believe it is "across the universe". other than that, good job.

Holy carp...Talk about living in the past. Let it go already. It's 30+ years. Who cares? Pauls 60, Johns been dead 20+ years, George Harrisons passed away. Enough already.

Don't you love how the baby boomers have stretched their 15 minutes to 2 1/2 hours?

Typoink:

You can generally tell who the primary songwriter was by who is singing. Even on songs with separately written parts like A Day in the Life and Baby, You're a Rich Man, each sings the part he wrote.

There are a few songs that are hard to identify the singer, but you can usually find out with a little research.

Lennon > Beatles

. . . in December 1980 outside his New York apartment 10 years after the Beatles disbanded . . .

Last week McCartney, 60, and his wife Heather Mills, 35, announced they were expecting their first baby after marrying last year.

Do I have my math right? Was McCartney's now wife 5 when the Beatles broke up?

I am very happy and frankly surprized to hear about this. I want to kill Paul much less now.

How much better would the Beatles have been, had Elton John been involved, rather than that muppet McCartney.

It was May Pang, not May Po I believe.
In any case, it is pretty common knowledge that they rarely collaborated on compositions, esp. in the latter part of their career together. They generally wrote solo and claimed the agreed-upon credit. Whether you liked McCartney or not, songs like Yesterday and Let It Be were solely his work, and I would guess he was probably miffed for decades that his contributions to popular culture were seen as collaborative efforts. Not to knock Lennon in any way.
Discovery of singer-songwriters of any talent are increasingly endangered by the slow creep of homogenized shiat-rock 'performers,' lip-synching and booty-shaking their mediocre ghost written corporate-sponsored pap at us via the robotic ClearChunnel empire. Okay, I'm done.

In other news: Willie G. Davidson says...

blah....sad.........

According to the Music Choice poll, the top 10 worst covers of Beatles tunes were:

1. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds/William Shatner
2. All My Loving/Pinky & Perkey
3. The Long & Winding Road/Will Young & Gareth Gates
4. Drive My Car/Damon Hill
5. Help!/Bananarama with French & Saunders
6. I Am The Walrus/Jim Carrey
7. With A Little Help From My Friends/Wet Wet Wet
8. I'm Only Sleeping/Suggs
9. Norwegian Wood/PM Dawn
10. Strawberry Fields Forever/Candy Flip

I know this will sound weird but I'm actually glad John Lennon died, for some reason I don't give a shiat about him and it makes me happy he is a corpse. I cannot explain why :/

Ahhhhhh... justrice is done. Done by the mega-biatch, but justice is done.

10. Strawberry Fields Forever/Candy Flip is the best beatles cover ever. 10,000 peaking ravers circa 1990 can't be wrong!

"She said stop pretendin' you're not John Lennon..."

Weird- I just saw Brendan Benson doing a free show around the corner from my house, and was playing this song "Folk Singer" on my guitar, and singing these lyrics...

"Will I ever get over this?"....

Great Fountains of Wayne-type powerpop - check it out.

EG-Fox

I know this will sound weird but I'm actually glad John Lennon died, for some reason I don't give a shiat about him and it makes me happy he is a corpse. I cannot explain why :/

Easy. Your nuts. Seek help quick!

The article doesn't really go into any depth about the Lennon/McCartney thing. Basically for some reason they both decided to credit every song either of them published as Beatles songs as Lennon/McCartney. Later in the Beatles career (pretty much from the White Album on) Lennon and McCartney usually had very little to do with each others songs. Somehow even 'Give Peace A Chance' has McCartney's name on it, even though he had nothing to do with it (it's not a Beatles song).

If effect the Lennon/McCartney thing is now kind of meaningless. (Several songs that ended up on McCartney's first solo album, which is the only really good one, would have been Lennon/McCartney songs if they had ended up on Let It Be).

And The Beatles are the most influential music group ever, so - um, all you playa haterz best shut up.

Saddad, for the record I feel the same way about Kurt Cobain

How can anybody respect Lennon? Despite all his talk about love for each other and karma, he abandoned his first son. Deadbeat dad!

I think the Beatles are great. I enjoy the music and their story is fascinating. But I hate hate hate hate the misguided hero worship of John Lennon (or any of the others for that matter.) The man was an interesting mess, but he wasn't a genius, nor was he even that decent of a person. (Genius? I just read part of that huge "FINAL INTERVIEW" that he did with David Sheff in which he proclaims that evolution is a lie and that he doesn't believe in it. EVOLUTION! What a chump.) The cult of personality around him truly baffles me. It's the song that's important, people. Not the singer.

Hey, has Yoko Ono done anything in the last 20 years besides leech off her dead husband ? I'd rather listen to William Shatner bellow Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds than anything she's done. At least William Shatner had a sense of humor. Or he's insane. Either way ...

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Ahh fark 'em all. The Beatles were quite revolutionary for their time, but this continuing idolization...

On the other hand, given the shiat that's produced and gobbled up by the unwashed masses these days, I almost pine for rabid Beatles fans.