Oi Beatle vey!
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What's a slow news month to be without (another) Rolling Stone mag Beatles special?
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What's a slow news month to be without (another) Rolling Stone mag Beatles special?
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I'll tell you: just another boring August.
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Of course these sorts of "best of" things are rubbish, but they are fun.
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An there is some pretty good writing by RS editors on each of the Top 100 Fab Ones, yet somehow-like all daft lists-I'd reckon many of you won't agree with the order of selection, or for that matter, even those selected.
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MIA songs might be, I Call Your Name, Savoy Truffle, Baby's In Black, All Too Much, One After 909( one of the first songs of Lennon/McCartney) What You're Doing, and many, many other worthy contenders among 217 total songs. I'm sure you'll have yer own list, as well.
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Yet there are some interesting tidbits of info, here in this special RS ish.
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For instance, did you know that Yesterday, rated at #4 has been covered by Daffy Duck?
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George Harrison would-in a big turn-a-bout-instruct Paul McCartney how to play the bass line on Something, #8.
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Or that there was an invasion of girls into Abbey Road studio whilst #14, She Loves You was being recorded which apparently charged up the lads to do a rollicking take.
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How about the claim that Ringo Starr was responsible for the line, "darning his socks in the night," for #22, Eleanor Rigby.
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There is also some real crapola, such as referring to #74, Yellow Submarine as a "gateway drug" to turn on adolescent Beatle fans to the group.
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Now that, is some bloody rubbish.
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But the good well out-weighs the bad, with a ton of excellent B&W and colour pics of our heroes through all those years ago.
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And even a "Numbers" page-at left-which tables the stats of the mag's picks.
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Although it lists the "main writer" of 40 of the top 100 as being from the pen and mind of John Lennon, of the 17 tracks attributed jointly to Lennon/McCartney, 9 get a Lennon/McCartney first, while the other 8 get McCartney/Lennon as the chief writer, despite some quarreling among the songwriters right up to Lennon's death as to who was more responsible for a given tune.
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Anyways, I urge you to pick up this Rolling Stone special., warts and all.
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AND, to read this, a review of a new Beatles book and DVD:
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