The Beatles

[pemberly]

the video for got my mind set on you was kinda freaky.

[Ken Cheng]

the video for got my mind set on you was kinda freaky.

Harrison made two videos for that one. The first showed him sitting in some kind of lounge with stuffed animals (not the cute, cuddly kind that kids play with, but the kind that hunters display in their homes to show what they've killed). The second featured a game arcade, with a teenaged couple trying to get a ballerina figurette out of a game machine.

[pemberly]

i only remember the talking moose heads one. *shudders* taxidermy doesn't belong in music videos.

[Ken Cheng]

The other version of the "Got My Mind Set On You" video.

[Canuck21]

I used to love "Got My Mind Set On You". I wanted to dance whenever I heard it. I remember clearly at the sugar shack hearing this song and dancing to it. Good times.

[lisa4you]

Love them))

[kingearth]

I'm not a big fan of "The Beatles" but my other brother siblings do loved them very much. Iheard that they was once very popluar in the 60s-70s decades right? I think some of their songs are very great to heard even till now.

[Ken Cheng]

I'm not a big fan of "The Beatles" but my other brother siblings do loved them very much. Iheard that they was once very popluar in the 60s-70s decades right? I think some of their songs are very great to heard even till now.

The Beatles completely dominated Western popular music during the mid to late 1960s, and their influence has been felt in popular music ever since. The last forty years of popular music history would have looked radically different had the Beatles not existed.

The band's work is still held as the gold standard of how great pop music *can* be.

[Canuck21]

I'm not a big fan of "The Beatles" but my other brother siblings do loved them very much. Iheard that they was once very popluar in the 60s-70s decades right? I think some of their songs are very great to heard even till now.

Do you even have to ask that? The Beatles are the most popular band in the world, no other band past and present are as well known as the Fab Four.

[Ken Cheng]

Do you even have to ask that? The Beatles are the most popular band in the world, no other band past and present are as well known as the Fab Four.

The thing about the Beatles is that their popularity was not contained within the era during which they were active as a band. They've been popular in all the years since they split up in 1970. To have not recorded anything new (other than "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" in the mid-1990s) in nearly forty years and still be able to outsell many popular music artists of today every time a new compilation CD comes out is amazing.

If there are still human beings in the year 3000, they will still be singing Beatles songs.

[Ken Cheng]

Now this is cool.

But it'd be ironic if the work of the band that embodies peace and love here on Earth is interpreted as a declaration of war by the aliens of Polaris.

[Flawless Flower]

Beatles in space? Cool beans!!!

Hey, did anyone buy/get the "Help!" deluxe boxset for christmas? It's so precious and has a place of honour in my flat

[Ken Cheng]

Beatles in space? Cool beans!!!

Hey, did anyone buy/get the "Help!" deluxe boxset for christmas? It's so precious and has a place of honour in my flat

I bought the CD ages ago and I got the DVD when it was released a few months back. With that, I figured I didn't need the boxed set.

Now if only they'd release the LET IT BE movie (depressing as it was).

[Ken Cheng]

After the Beatles broke up in 1970, the Fab Four never played together as quartet again, but in 1994, during the making of THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr jammed together one last time on the skiffle and rock 'n roll songs that they had started their career together playing forty years earlier. It was the closest that the world ever got to seeing and hearing a Beatles reunion concert after 1970.

[Ken Cheng]

"Real Love," the last Beatles song ever recorded. First recorded as a rough demo by John Lennon alone some time during the late 1970s, then completed by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr in 1995 (released in 1996).

[cordycep]

Let it be, Yesterday and The Long and Winding Road are real classics. I know how to sing them even before I know who the Bealtes were, strange isnt it?

Really like most of Paul's later songs, that's after the Band disband. But it's John Lennon that I truely love. "Imagine" what a song! Love how John looks too. Love the fact that he paints as well. Just don't like Yoko too much though, she sort of screams when she sings.

[Ken Cheng]

Let it be, Yesterday and The Long and Winding Road are real classics. I know how to sing them even before I know who the Bealtes were, strange isnt it?

Such is the mark of the band's greatness: people become fans of their music without even being aware that they're fans. Even people who wouldn't call themselves Beatles fans have at least one Beatles song they enjoy; the Beatles played songs in so many different styles that you're bound to find one you like (unless you just hate music in general).

[oGaKirA]

Question: Were the Beatles known for doing drugs? Just curious since the era and some of their songs are very psychedelic.i.e. Strawberry Fields

Im pretty sure John Lennon did. I mean Yoko Ono always looked spaced out. lol

However, Paul always looked like a good boy.

[Ken Cheng]

Question: Were the Beatles known for doing drugs? Just curious since the era and some of their songs are very psychedelic.i.e. Strawberry Fields

Im pretty sure John Lennon did. I mean Yoko Ono always looked spaced out. lol

However, Paul always looked like a good boy.

All of the Beatles had been smokers since they were teenagers in high school.

When they first began to play together professionally as "the Beatles" in 1960, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Pete Best (the band's original drummer) were prodigious drinkers because part of their pay at the German nightclubs and bars in Hamburg was unlimited beer.

During their bar band era (1960-1962), they took amphetamines called Preludin to keep them going during their gigs, eight hours a night, seven nights a week. The uppers kept them really high during their shows, and if you've heard the bootleg tapes of THE BEATLES AT THE STAR CLUB (an illegal tape of their last performance at the Star Club in Germany in 1962 just before they really began to hit it big), you can tell how amped they were. They played everything three times faster and more ferociously than they ever did on their records or their performances during the Beatlemania era (1963-1966).

During their second visit to the U.S. in the summer of 1964, Bob Dylan turned them on to marijuana.

In 1966, during a dinner meeting with a prominent celebrity dentist in New York City, John Lennon and George Harrison got dosed with LSD. Lennon and Harrison got into acid first, and Ringo Starr joined them soon after, but Paul McCartney did not start using LSD until mid-1967 (although he was first to make it public knowledge). John Lennon wrote a song about the LSD-dosing dentist incident, "Dr. Robert," which appeared on the Beatles' REVOLVER album. At the time, not many people outside of the Beatles' inner circle knew what the song was about (many fans were perplexed about why the Beatles had stopped recording songs about holding a girl's hand and started recording songs about some really weird stuff). Marijuana and LSD definitely had a profound effect on their 1966 and 1967 output (i.e. the REVOLVER, SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, and MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR albums, as well as the "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane," "All You Need Is Love/Baby You're A Rich Man," and "Hello, Goodbye"/"I Am The Walrus" singles).

John Lennon and Yoko Ono had a heroin period during the late 1960s. The other Beatles experimented with heroin as well during the late 1960s, but didn't like it and didn't do it for long. However, both Lennon and Harrison (along with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones) got busted for heroin possession in 1969.

Paul McCartney was arrested at airport customs in Tokyo, Japan in 1980 when he brought marijuana into the country during his tour with his post-Beatles band, Wings. The Japanese authorities detained McCartney in jail for ten days before releasing him. He was banned from Japan for years after that (until the late 1980s, when the ban was lifted).

Ringo Starr struggled with alcohol problems throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He and his wife, Barbara Bach, went into rehab together in the late 1980s and have been clean since. One of Ringo's solo hits during the 1970s was a song called the "No No Song," a humorous look at his struggles with substance abuse.

In recent years, however, little new has occurred in the drug exploits of the various Beatles.

[World Peace]

Hello Ken, what a surpise for me to know that there's a Beatles fan in a Forum mostly for contemporary TV dramas. You seem to have vast knowledge about the Beatles, so can you help me to answer some questions regarding the song A day in the life?
- Who was the man that sang Ah ah ah ah ah in the song? John or Paul?
- What are the parts written by Paul?
Thank you.