Monthly Archives: February 2017

“We wrote a lot of stuff together, one-on-one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in I Want To Hold Your Hand, I remember when we got the chord that made the song. We were in Jane Asher’s house, downstairs in the cellar … Continue reading →

“You see, from the honky tonks you got such a mixture of all different types of music, and I think what happened is that when Elvis busted through, it enabled all these other groups that had been going along more … Continue reading →

George Harrison’s 74th birthday…a bittersweet reminder that All Things Must Pass… (originally published in 2015) In many ways it’s pointless to write or say much more about The Beatles. They remain, despite revisionist rock historians’ best efforts, rock music’s most … Continue reading →

“‘Don’t Bother Me’ I wrote in a hotel in Bournemouth, where we were playing a summer season in 1963, as an exercise to see if I could write a song. I was sick in bed.” – George Harrison John Lennon … Continue reading →

“He never listens to them… He knows that they’re the fools” – Paul McCartney Here’s the thing about Paul. As I have  written before on more than one occasion, McCartney rubs a lot of people the wrong way. He’s the … Continue reading →

“There…is a place/Where I can go/When I feel low/When I feel blue…” – John Lennon, Paul McCartney The English composer and musicologist Wilfrid Mellers, in his now classic scholarly study of the Beatles, Twilight of the Gods,  calls the early … Continue reading →

“I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, it ain’t music, it’s close order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.” … Continue reading →

“When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.” – George Harrison Recent news reports have noted that the best selling book at Amazon is currently George Orwell’s classic novel of dystopian horror, 1984. Given … Continue reading →

The Tell-Tale Treasure is a thriller for which one cannot use the standard descriptions such as fast-paced, edge of your seat, or thrill a minute. That is its most interesting appeal. Diane Sawyer’s The Tell-Tale Treasure is a bit of … Continue reading →