Discuss the icons that you love best!| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | | June 1st is the 40th anniversary of the release of the Beatles' classic "Sgt. Pepper" album (and no, that doesn't make me feel old at all:-) A lot of fans consider it to be their best album (it's 3rd on my personal list...after "Abbey Road"[as grand a collection of pop music as one could want, in my opinion] and "Revolver" and just ahead of "The White Album" and "Rubber Soul"...but that doesn't mean that it's not great, of course.)Which Beatles album means the most to you?And which individual Beatles single/track touches/moves/inspires you most? (the soaring, inspirational "Hey Jude" still gets me every time I hear it.) | |
| | No Sgt. Pepper on I-Tunes | | Well, that's not entirely true, but the one's I'm looking for aren't there.Earlier today we had the TV on and the movie "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was on. I was singing all the songs and just lovin' it! So I decided to go to I-tunes and download the music - both The Beatles and Bee Gees. Well, neither of them are there. I was so looking forward to listening to that while I was walking every morning. I guess I'll have to buy the cd's and upload them myself. Or I can do like my boss does and borrow them from the library! | |
| | "Paul is Dead" Urban Legend | | This is the biggest hoax of the 60's on the biggest and most popular band of the 60's or maybe of all time, The Beatles. The most common story about this hoax it that Wednesday, 9 November 1966 at 5 am, McCartney, while working on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, stormed out of a recording session after an argument with the other Beatles and rode off in his Aston Martin which he subsequently crashed into a lamp post, and died.
The story was put together from the lyrics of various Beatles songs. The most common narrative includes the following pieces of evidence:1. "He didn't notice that the lights had changed" from the song "A Day in the Life"2. He then crashed into a lamp-post (a car crash sound is heard in the songs "Revolution 9" and "A Day in the Life").
3. He was pronounced dead on a "Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock as the day begins" from the song "She's Leaving Home")
4. Nobody found this out because the news was withheld: "Wednesday morning papers didn't come" from the song "Lady Madonna".
5. A funeral procession was held days later, as was supposedly implied on the Abbey Road album cover by the Beatles' clothing. (John Lennon dressed all in white, like... | |
| | In memory of the day the music died Feb long but worth the read | | One day in early February 1959, a 13-year-old in New Rochelle, New York, cut open the stack of newspapers he was about to deliver and read that three rock ’n’ roll stars, Buddy Holly, J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, and Ritchie Valens, had died in a plane crash in Iowa. The boy later said he felt “like someone had punched me in the face.” It was a feeling shared by many in America and around the world. Years later, in 1971, that paperboy, Don McLean, would write the song “American Pie,” which gave an enduring name to the event: the Day the Music DiedA reference to the beloved "sock hop".(Leather-soled street shoes tear up wooden basketball floors, and rubber-soled sneakers grip too much for dance moves, so dancers had to take off their shoes.)Man, I dig those rhythm 'n' bluesSome history. Before the popularity of rock and roll, music, like much else in the U. S., was highly segregated. The popular music of black performers for largely black audiences was called, first, "race music", later softened to rhythm and blues. In the early 50s, as they were exposed to it through radio personalities such as Allan Freed, white teenagers began listening, too. Starting around... | |
| | Songs Of The Century | | The list, in the order of votes received. Each song is followed by the name of an artist who made a recording of the song.Title Artist
1. "Over the Rainbow" Judy Garland
2. "White Christmas" Bing Crosby
3. "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie
4. "Respect" Aretha Franklin
5. "American Pie" Don McLean
6. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" The Andrews Sisters
7. West Side Story (Album) Original Cast
8. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" Billy Murray
9. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" The Righteous Brothers
10. "The Entertainer" Scott Joplin
11. "In the Mood" Glenn Miller Orchestra
12. "Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley & His Comets
13. "When the Saints Go Marching In" Louis Armstrong
14. "You Are My Sunshine" Jimmie Davis
15. "Mack the Knife" Bobby Darin
16. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" The Rolling Stones
17. "Take the A Train" Duke Ellington Orchestra
18. "Blueberry Hill" Fats Domino
19. "God Bless America " Kate Smith
20. "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa's Band
21. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Marvin Gaye
22. "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" Otis Redding
23. "I Left My Heart In San Francisco " Tony Bennett
24. "Good Vibrations"... | |
| | Queen Chosen Greatest British Band, and Indeed It Is | | A BBC poll found rock band Queen is considered the greatest British band ever. BBC radio polled British music lovers Monday to rank five beloved U.K. groups, chosen in a previous selection from some thousands. Votes were submitted by e-mail, text message and telephone.Queen, led by frontman Freddie Mercury until his AIDS-related death in 1991, beat out the Fab Four by just 400 votes. Rock veterans Rolling Stones placed third, followed by bad-boy rockers Oasis and, finally, boy band Take That. The groups were reportedly judged on songwriting, lyrics, live performances, originality and showmanship.Queen was formed by Brian May, Freddie Mercury, and Roger Taylor in London, England in 1970 from the remains of Smile, with John Deacon completing the lineup the following year. In 2001, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio and in 2003 Queen became the first and remain the only band to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.In 2004, the band was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame and in 2006 Queen was the first inductee into the VH1 Rock Honors. Queen have also been inducted into the Rock Walk of Fame (at Guitar Center on... | |
| | Sgt. Pepper's 40th anniversary today.... | | Today (June 1st) is 40 years ago that the Beatles released the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band album.What's your opinion on this album?
Were you even born when they released it?
Do you know it?
Do you like it?Let me know.... | |
| | Sgt. Pepper album | | Can you believe it was 40 years today that the Sgt. Pepper album was released by the Beattles? For me, it is one of my favorites. What about you? What is your favorite Beattle song? or album? | |
| | Which Beatles do you like better, before Sgt. Pepper or after? | | Sgt Pepper is basically the album that changed the Beatles style of music. Before Sgt. Pepper the Beatles were basically the mop top "Love Me Do" type band. After Sgt. Pepper their music became more introspective "I Am A Walrus" type.
Which style do you like better? Old Beatles or new?
I like them both but always felt that as the sixties came to an end, John Lennon got weird. | |
| | Which is your favorite musical decade? | | With the birth of rock and roll in the 1950s, which decade is your favorite decade of music and which decade is your least favorite? You can even pick a period of music as well...Sgt Pepper to Double Live Gonzo would be 1965-1975; Captain n Tenille to Duran Duran would by 75 to 85.
My favorite musical decade is the sixties, especially the Woodstock era, the Sgt. Pepper to Double Live Gonzo. That music is still dominating radio play today.
My least favorite is the 70s and disco. Disco Inferno is enough to gag a maggot. What do you think? | |
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