I really havent heard any Ringo solo stuff, acctually I heard one song and it was pretty good. I read on his new CD that Eric Clapton and David Gilmour play on it. So for me it might go.

George>Paul>John>Ringo???

[QUOTE=Livewired]I really havent heard any Ringo solo stuff, acctually I heard one song and it was pretty good. I read on his new CD that Eric Clapton and David Gilmour play on it. So for me it might go.

George>Paul>John>Ringo???[/QUOTE]

I heard Robert Randolph played on it too. That makes me want to check it out.

Hmm, interesting.

[QUOTE]Yea there tons of clues in songs. There's a whole book about it. There was a good website about it but I don't remember it. Maybe someone in this thread does though. The Beatle Anthology mentioned it a bunch of times though. At the end of Revolution 9, it says "Turn me on dead man." I think it says "Paul is dead" in Strawberry Fields. There's something in I'm So Tired too. And then there's tons of stuff in Sgt. Pepper's particularly A Day in the Life, which I don't feel like getting into because I'm lazy.[/QUOTE]

Revolution 9 - Play the "number 9"'s backwards, "Turn me on Deadman"

Strawberry Fields - At the end, either "I buried Paul" or "Cranberry Sauce". Lennon egged on everyone and stood behind both of them in numerous interviews. (meaning he always said it was one or the other)

I'm So Tired - The gibberish at the end, play it backwards "Paul is a dead man, miss him , miss him, miss him"

A Day in the Life - The song is interpreted to be about the day that Paul supposably "died". He "blew his mind out in a car".

What does "he blew his mind out in a car" mean? Did he shoot himself in his car or something?

[QUOTE=Illmatic]What does "he blew his mind out in a car" mean? Did he shoot himself in his car or something?[/QUOTE]

The people who believed Paul died believed he died in a car crash, so John Lennon wrote that part so more people would buy into the hoax.

Ohhh, I see.

Actually, I read that it was about a guy (I'm pretty sure it was a popular politician) who was high in his car and got caught by the media or something. Kinda like he "blew his mind out" with drugs. If I remember correctly, this was also from that Making of Sgt. Peppers book.

On the other hand, my rockology teacher claims it was about their friend who was the heir to Guinness beer who got in a car accident and died. I don't really believe him on this one though.

[QUOTE=magicbus]Actually, I read that it was about a guy (I'm pretty sure it was a popular politician) who was high in his car and got caught by the media or something. Kinda like he "blew his mind out" with drugs. If I remember correctly, this was also from that Making of Sgt. Peppers book.

On the other hand, my rockology teacher claims it was about their friend who was the heir to Guinness beer who got in a car accident and died. I don't really believe him on this one though.[/QUOTE]

Tim Leary maybe? Not sure.

John said that he wrote it after just reading the newspaper headlines, but it also applies to the "Paul is dead" hoax.

[QUOTE=robo2448]Tim Leary maybe? Not sure.

John said that he wrote it after just reading the newspaper headlines, but it also applies to the "Paul is dead" hoax.[/QUOTE]

Yea, he read about the guy in the paper, so that makes sense.

Im pretty sure "he blew his mind out in a car," refers to a man who was in a car accident. I dont know if he was the heir to guiness beer. But it's definetley not about the "Paul is dead" hoax, and they didnt find out about the rumors until Abbey Road. So they couldnt have made all those hints on purpose. Or at least it says they found out about it around Abbey Road in their Anthology.

[QUOTE=HighVoltageRockNRoll]Im pretty sure "he blew his mind out in a car," refers to a man who was in a car accident. I dont know if he was the heir to guiness beer. But it's definetley not about the "Paul is dead" hoax, and they didnt find out about the rumors until Abbey Road. So they couldnt have made all those hints on purpose. Or at least it says they found out about it around Abbey Road in their Anthology.[/QUOTE]

I think they found out about it around The White Album. I'm not sure though, I haven't read the Anthology in a while and can't remember every little fact from it, since it's so detailed and long ;)

It's a great read though :thumb:

[QUOTE]I think they found out about it around The White Album. I'm not sure though, I haven't read the Anthology in a while and can't remember every little fact from it, since it's so detailed and long [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]In 1969 Russell Gibb, a radio Disc Jockey in Detroit, announced that Paul McCartney was dead. His proof: evidence strewn throughout the Beatles' songs, movies, and album artwork. Newspaper and television reporters picked up the story and the news quickly spread across America.[/QUOTE]

1969 was when America was informed about it.

A Day in the Life was written about a friend of the Stones/Beatles who got killed in an accident.

Or was this established already?

[url]http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2003/01/27/album-covers.html[/url]

^^ this cant be serious!!!!

[QUOTE=clown_phobia][url]http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2003/01/27/album-covers.html[/url]

^^ this cant be serious!!!![/QUOTE]

WTF :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

That cover's like the Holy Grail. How could they touch that :angry: :angry:

It was perfect. I'm glad I already own it.

That article is from 2003...and I've never seen the cover like that..but anyways, yes they found out in 1969 after they recorded Abbey Road.

The article was a joke- [url]http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/information/complaining.html[/url]

:lol: That's a relief.

Replacing the Sex Pistols with Celine Dion? It was pretty obviously a fake.

I am almost positive it's about the Guinness heir, who's name was Tara Browne.

Today in class, we listened to songs off Abbey Road and The White Album, and also "I Am The Walrus". If some of you have some lyrical questions about that, or "Come Together", we looked into a lot of songs today. I'd be happy to share.

Yeah coudl you explain I Am The Walrus because that song confuses me, great song though


in other words, im so happy because the chorus teacher decided to let us sing Imagine in our concert, and were doing Mother from Floyd,im doing guitar:)

Today is my birthday! And tomorrow I'm seeing Paul! :cool:

HAPPY ****ING BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its my friends birthday too

Ok, while I'm not entirely sure of the meaning of "I Am The Walrus" in its entirety, we went over a lot of its parts. I guess the song is supposed to be frantic, with a lot of random imagery thrown together, kind of like a nightmare. The noise at the very beginning of the song is supposed to be like a police siren, which helps to establish the paranoid feeling. Lines like "yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye" also help to do this.

The phrase "I am the walrus" comes from Lewis Carol's [I]Through The Looking Glass[/I], where Alice reads a story about a walrus who lures oysters out onto the beach and them eats them. I guess the same could be said about capitalism, or something.

Lennon also throws in some stuff about society and how people can be revolting ("Crabalocker fishwife pronographic priestess" is like another way of calling somebody a slut, crablocker = full of crabs), and he talks about this a lot in his later songs also. However, the first line of the song "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together" shows that Lennon is no better than the rest.

That one was a little tough.

EDIT: Happy birthday Deus :cool:

[QUOTE=magicbus]EDIT: Happy birthday Deus :cool:[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=WelcomeToTheMachine]HAPPY ****ING BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its my friends birthday too[/QUOTE]
Thanks!

I liked the analysis on I Am the Walrus. Now that I've seen it, it seems really intuitive and obvious. But, I had no clue what it meant before that.

Happy birthday John lennon!

^^ His birthdays not until Sunday

opps

I've always loved the later Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's on), but lately I'm becoming more and more of a sucker for their "lame" early stuff. Those sappy love songs are just so **** catchy! I'm actually happy I'm turning soft as I get older, now there's more Beatles albums that I can reach for!