Imagine in 1968 buying The White Album and sticking it on the turntable. Thirty songs (no singles), double album with gatefold sleeve, four colour photographs including this songs like this, after all they had done in such a short time. What an output....
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08-03-2019 06:58 AM #1
How did The Beatles stay so far ahead of the game?
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08-03-2019 11:03 AM #3
The late sixties were a phenomenal time for music full stop.
Recording techniques were advancing, experimentation was widespread (instead of releasing safe, bland, commercially driven rubbish) and The Beatles were just part of a far bigger picture.
The Beatles would release something. Brian Wilson would come up with Pet Sounds. The Beatles would then have to better that etc etc.
There have been some magic programmes on the BBC over the past few years, as it has been 50 years since all of the various landmarks happened.
I'm a big fan of The Beatles (one of the programmes I watched was on the making of Sergeant Pepper and the recording techniques used to do so) but there was so much going on at that time I don't know if I'd say they were that ahead of the game. They were a huge part of a wonderfully creative period in music history.
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08-03-2019 09:21 PM #4
I think a lot of the special quality of the Beatles was their grasp of the music hall tradition. It's best seen on Sgt Pepper.
Songs that tell a story and contain a singalong chorus.
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10-03-2019 06:21 AM #5
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I'm a huge fan, always have been. A major factor in their groundbreaking output and success though was producer George Martin.
Listen to their demos and early versions of songs then compare to the final output. Great musicians and writers but George was a major contributing factor in their success. Definitely "the fifth Beatle"
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10-03-2019 10:40 AM #8
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They didnt start ahead of the game of course...their music was influenced by the rhythm & blues sounds of black America that emerged in the late 50s and early 60s..chuck Berry, fats domino, ray Charles, the olympics, closer to home Lonnie Donegan skiffle music was also an influence..
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17-04-2019 02:03 AM #9
From Love Me Do to this in four years, and when the music scene and charts were still dominated by two minute love songs...
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17-04-2019 08:10 AM #10
maybe it was the drugs
There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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17-04-2019 08:49 AM #11
Funny this was bumped, as I actually watched the Sergeant Pepper programme on the I-player again last night.
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I highly recommend it, it is my favourite kind of tv programme
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17-04-2019 05:20 PM #12
It was all down to the chemistry between Lennon and McCartney - nothing else - and that's it. All dead now.
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The focus on that pair does George Harrison a disservice but also Ringo Starr too. Ringo Starr is much derided but he got the job done.
The chemistry between the 4 of them was very special.
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18-04-2019 03:05 PM #15
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