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Originally posted by Tim Gypsy Hill '64

Nah. You're not. Grossly overrated in my opinion. Like Mozart, they wrote pop for their time. Catchy tunes. It made them money. I admire them for their writing (Lennon, McCartney) and Harrison could play the guitar well, but as a band, pretty 'meh'.

"She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah". Inspiring lyrics...

The reason I re-started this thread was because I'd just finished reading a book about the story of Abbey Road studios It's fascinating and includes the following quote from EMI recording engineer Norman Smith:

'I was setting up the microphone when I first saw the lyrics on the music stand, "She Loves You, yeah, yeah, yeah, She Loves You, yeah, yeah, yeah, She Loves You, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah!" I thought, Oh My God, what a lyric! This is going to be one I do not like. But when they started to sing it - bang, wow, terrific, I was up at the mixer jogging around.'

It was written mostly in a Manchester hotel room after a concert and recorded on 1st July 1963. It remains the band's best selling single in the UK and the top-selling single of the 1960s here by any artist. Guess they must have got something right.

 


Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

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Originally posted by Palace Old Geezer

The reason I re-started this thread was because I'd just finished reading a book about the story of Abbey Road studios It's fascinating and includes the following quote from EMI recording engineer Norman Smith:

'I was setting up the microphone when I first saw the lyrics on the music stand, "She Loves You, yeah, yeah, yeah, She Loves You, yeah, yeah, yeah, She Loves You, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah!" I thought, Oh My God, what a lyric! This is going to be one I do not like. But when they started to sing it - bang, wow, terrific, I was up at the mixer jogging around.'

It was written mostly in a Manchester hotel room after a concert and recorded on 1st July 1963. It remains the band's best selling single in the UK and the top-selling single of the 1960s here by any artist. Guess they must have got something right.

Norman Smith, of course, also had some chart success in the early 70s as Hurricane Smith, most notably with 'Don't let it die', which was probably the first green/ecologically conscious song ever to hit the charts. Adopted by the WWF, to whom royalties are still paid.

 


Wife beating may be socially acceptable in Sheffield, but it is a different matter in Cheltenham

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Originally posted by Cucking Funt

Norman Smith, of course, also had some chart success in the early 70s as Hurricane Smith, most notably with 'Don't let it die', which was probably the first green/ecologically conscious song ever to hit the charts. Adopted by the WWF, to whom royalties are still paid.

Off top of head "Big Yellow Taxi"

 

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Originally posted by silvertop

Off top of head "Big Yellow Taxi"

Yeah, yeah. I should have said 'one of the first...'. I realised almost immediately after posting.

 


Wife beating may be socially acceptable in Sheffield, but it is a different matter in Cheltenham

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