Posted on 04/05/2009 10:08:37 AM PDT by SupplySider
t was a scene straight out of a rock 'n' roll dream.
Paul McCartney was singing "I Saw Her Standing There." Ringo Starr was on the drums. Actually, so was Moby. Beach Boy Mike Love was singing harmony, alongside Donovan and Bettye LaVette. Ben Harper was playing guitar. And Sheryl Crow was shaking a tambourine and dancing around -- so was Eddie Vedder, playing maracas.
It was odd and beautiful like most of the work of "Blue Velvet" director David Lynch. And, like most of his work, it was made possible only through Transcendental Meditation. Never mind what you may or may not believe about the power of meditation. If it has done nothing else -- and as speaker after speaker have explained over the past two days, that is definitely not the case -- it reunited McCartney and Starr for their most significant musical collaboration for the public in decades.
After turning down countless invitations in the years since The Beatles disbanded in 1970, McCartney and Starr played together last night at Radio City Music Hall in the name of Transcendental Meditation, at the "Change Begins Within" benefit for the David Lynch Foundation, which hopes to raise funds to bring meditaion techniques to one million children around the world.
And play they did. McCartney and Starr vamped, pretending to steal the spotlight from one another, seeing who the crowd would cheer for loudest. They hugged and smiled, singing "With a Little Help From My Friends" into the same microphone.
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Paul and Ringo, Mike love, Donovan, Paul Horn, Eddie Vedder, and Howard Stern and Seinfeld.
After hearing McCartney “sing” last week on a concert in London made two years ago, it sounds like he should quit. His voice has really lost a lot. Too bad.
The Good Ones are Dead
They didn’t do “Sexy Sadie”?
Meditation? How about ‘medication’? Food?
Meditation? This got these two singing together again? ...
They don’t want to save lives when mother Gaia is being wounded by overpopulation :/
Ringo and Paul...and Jerry Seinfeld, etc., I have this to say to you:
Try praying daily. You will find this kind of meditation is all one needs.
Sounds cheezy.
"My invitation must have been lost in the mail..."
You mean they turned down Lorne Michaels offer of $3000 to appear on Saturday Night Live?
Ahhh... Love the Rutles and all things Python.
Sexie Sadie was John’s song, and it was about the Maharishi, so...
You are joking right? Mike Love is an idiot. Moby, seinfeild and Sheryl Crowe are mega libs. Stern is a repulisive moron.
I have nothing against meditation. I think paul spends a lot of his meditation time with a bong. Ringo is a decent lad but George was the nicest Beatle followed by Ringo.
Eric Idle is a very unpleasant man. He sued Neil Innes (John or Stig in the rutles). Innes is a good guy.
Mike takes a lot of grief, and has gotten a lot of bad press over the years as a result of the never-ending Beach Boys legal traumas, but I've spent some time with him over the years and found to my surprise (because of all that bad press) that he is a very nice guy. Others' mileage may vary, of course, but that's been my impression, at least.
In any event, it's kinda cool a Beach Boy got invited to a semi-Beatles reunion!
I'm not endorsing anything or everything each of these folks has said or done.I think seeing Paul and Ringo having a great time together after all these years would have been fantastic. I think it's for a good cause, too (putting on flame retardent suit).
Oh too bad. I’m sad to hear that. Why did Idle sue him? Just give me a link if you have one.
What, no Eric Clapton?
With Lennon, Harrison and the 5th Beatle, Billy Preston, dead, thought they’d want to have the 6th Beatle on hand to play along. Scuttlebutt has it that at one point John wanted Eric to join the Beatles and replace George.
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