Facts of Bitles biography
The art of fact: the 10 most popular legends about the Beatles Lennon competed with Jesus? Yoko did it ruin the group? Legend 1. Nobody in The Beatles did not own a butt -literate verdict: this is true. The members of The Beatles group with their producer George Martin on an entry in the studio. Volume One: Tune in ”, at the age of 11, parents gave the floor to study with the teacher of the piano, but this lasted no more than a month and a half:“ Paul loved to play piano in his own way, and not as they say.
He loved to select songs by ear, and not to disassemble the musical text. And certainly he was not going to memorize all these squiggles ”M. The Beatles: All these years. Volume One: Tune in. New York, hereinafter - the translation of the author .. It is important to understand that the statement "The Beatles did not own a musical notation" is not equal to the statement of "The Beatles did not understand anything in the structure of music." At the dawn of their careers, they enthusiastically remembered guitar chords, and Lennon even once said that young George Harrison was accepted into the group because he knew more different chords than John and Paul.
Like many other pop musicians, they simply did not need to notify their compositions, and in cases where it was still necessary, for example, for strings in “Yesterday” or “Eleanor Rigby”, producer George Martin was always ready to help. Legend 2. Photo of Michael McCartney. For various reasons, the studio session did not immediately set. The examination of the exam forced them to be nervous - the only studio experience of the group until then was the record with Tony Sheridan in Germany, where they acted as accompanying the composition.
Five songs from the film recorded on that day, after many years, entered the Beatle “Anthology” - and, frankly, the contours of the great group in these rawed compositions are almost not guessed; In hindsight, the label refusal to cooperate with The Beatles can be understood. The wording of the refusal is still the object of disputes. It is not known for certain whether anyone said directly that the Beatles, they say, lack talent.
Some researchers believe that their Liverpool registration simply played against the group: it was more convenient to deal with the London company with the ensemble from the local Dagenham region, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, which successfully listened to the same January day. The Beatles album rating: from the worst to the better successful and not very cover version, bright hit-syringals and inconspicuous masterpieces Legend 3.
The creative tandem Lennon - McCartney, who signed the majority of The Beatles songs, did not exist: the musicians wrote songs separately a verdict: this is rather not true. John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Photo of Linda McCartney. Two main Soncubers The Beatles actually composed songs together, or at least helped to bring each other to the mind. The dynamics of their co -creation changed over time: in the first half of x they often worked in conjunction, and in the second they often brought on rehearsals a more or less ready -made “fish” of compositions.
In these three months ... Each of the musicians was actually left to his own ”J. Nevertheless, in the mature period, John and Paul were quite often involved in work on each other's songs, which can be seen, for example, looking at the rehearsal process in Peter Jackson's film“ The Beatles: Get Back ”. Legend 4. In fact, Paul McCartney died in a year; Instead, his double verdict acted: this is not true.
The rumor that McCartney allegedly died in a car accident was first held in England at the beginning of the year-once the musician even had to refute this information at a press conference. As a result, McCartney broke his lip, and to hide the wound, he grew a mustache; According to the bitter irony of fate, a month later, Tara Brown will die in another car accident - The Beatles will sing about this in the song “A Day in the Life”.
Most of them were based on hints that were allegedly contained in The Beatles albums. In fact, there, apparently, was “Cranberry Sauce” “Cranberry sauce”. In addition, on the cover of the album "SGT. The appearance of the theory of the death of Paul McCartney has two main causes. The first is in the general public conspiracyology. The second is that the texts of the songs of The Beatles of the psychedelic period are customary to include first of all the albums “Revolver”, “SGT.
According to one version, Manson claimed that he had heard calls for murders in the songs “Helter Skelter”, “Piggies” and “Revolution 9” .. It would disappear and collapse. I'm not even going to argue about it - I'm right, and soon my correctness will be proven. Today we are more popular than Jesus ”“ Christianity Will Go. It Will Vanish and Shrink.
In the UK, the interview did not make a particularly vivid impression, especially since, according to statistics, the level of churching in the country has really steadily decreased since the end of the First World War. But when in August of the same year, on the eve of the next last one, as the overseas tour later became clear, the American edition for Datebook teenagers reprinted the quote, a grandiose scandal occurred.Antibitle demonstrations were organized, on which their records and merchants were burned.
In South Karolin, Ku-Klux-Clan "crucified" One Beatles one of the albums, nailing him to a wooden cross. Legend 6. Screaming young fans during the concert of The Beatles at Shi Stadium. And then the conflicting events around the tour in the United States, see the symptomatic that in the last round of The Beatles did not play a single composition from the album “Revolver”, although it was released a week before the start of the tour.
It is no less symptomatic that the record ended with the experimental composition “Tomorrow Never Knows”, and concerts-including the latest, in San Francisco on August 29-the Long Tall Sally standard, which the Beatles played on their performances from the year, under the name The Quarrymen. However, perhaps a very naive person can take her for a pure coin: this is a typical McCartney frivolous fantasy, in which he speaks as if on behalf of the Soviet spy, who returned home from the task and simultaneously parodies the patriotic pathos of the composition “Back in the USA” Chuck Berry.
Inside - the whole set of stamps about the Soviet Union from balalaikas to contacting the girl “Come and Keep Your Comrade Warm” “Come and warm your comrade”. With this number, he finished each of his eight performances. There is another version where the legend of the performance of The Beatles came from in the Soviet Union. In January, another prominent British bit group, The Kinks, went on its first world tour.
It is known for certain that the aircraft on which the musicians flew at the fuel refueling in Moscow - theoretically, The Kinks could sing several songs in acoustics, while in the airport waiting room, and then the rumor smashed this in a distorted form. Legend 8. The Beatles musicians bought a Greek island and wanted to create their utopia a verdict there: this is not true.
The members of The Beatles travel with families in Greece. It was a time of psychedelic music, light drugs and hippies-communal, so in the process the musicians lit up with the idea of buying one or more islands and organize their own retrite there. It turned out, however, that the transaction requires the exchange of a large amount of currency, and by the time this exchange was produced, the Beatles have forgotten about the Greek islands.
I had to change the money back, and since the pounds of sterling grew during this time, the musicians, as Harrison noted with irony, eventually even earned a couple of dozen shillings.
But, as George Martin remarked with a smile, the same insatiable instant was inherent in them in the studio. Lennon was rarely able to seriously master one or another tool. McCartney was a little more diligent, but also became impatient if the new studio effect he had required appeared late. Chicago, Legend 9. Yoko it ruined The Beatles verdict: This is not true. The Beatles and Yoko it.
Photo of Linda McCartney. In other words, Yoko became a victim, including xenophobia, in the literal meaning of this word - as a fear of a stranger in this case, not only ethnically, but also aesthetically. At the same time, it is stupid to deny that the appearance of Yoko has significantly changed the dynamics of relations within the group. She really did not leave Lennon a single step, becoming a predominantly dumb witness to almost all Beatle rehearsals.
When, during pregnancy, Yoko prescribed strict bed rest, John even installed a large bed in the studio so that it could constantly be with it. A special friendly connection with Lennon, which McCartney and Harrison felt, now seemed to break out: he devoted all his free time to his new love. Nevertheless, as convincingly shows the film “The Beatles: Get Back”, there was no enmity between Yoko and the rest of the Beatles, at least during the recording of the material of the album “Let it be”.
They Want to Stay Together, Those Two. They want to be together, these two. This is normal, let these two young lovers be nearby. There is nothing wrong with this. ” When Harrison decides to record a solo album, he reports this to Lennon and it, and they approve of the idea. The legend of John, Ringo and George, meanwhile, continued to periodically cooperate: for example, Harrison’s guitar is well heard in Lennon's album “Imagine”, and Harrison himself, in turn, was played by Ringo Starr on The Concert for Bangladesh.
Paul and John have never recorded anything else together. Nevertheless, the acute phase of the confrontation soon ended. Already in the year, McCartney released the song “Dear Friend”, which is usually interpreted as an appeal for a former ally to burden the ax of war. In the year, both as well as Harrison, albeit separately, but took part in the record of the same album - Ringo Ringo Starr.
In the middle of X, especially during the so-called linon's lost weekend in the Lennon hagiography, this is the name of the period from the summer to February, when John broke up with Yoko and lived with his assistant May Paning. Jackson P. The Beatles: Get Back. Lewisohn M.THE set Beatles Chronicle. McDonald I. Tourner S.