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Secret John Lennon Files Released By FBI
ClickonDetroit ^ | December 20, 2006 | AP

Posted on 12/20/2006 5:52:03 AM PST by ShadowDancer

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To: Borges
Lennon wrote some of the most beautiful melodies in pop music history. 

Well.  That's subjective.  My personal opinion is that he was a complete and total hack compared to people like Paul Simon.  I've always disliked his music, even in 5th grade.

But an ability to write music does not in itself, translate into an ability to perform music competently.  It's actually not the least bit abnormal for a skilled composer to not be a skilled performer:  composing and performing are two different disciplines.

Do you think Mccartney was also tone deaf?

Lets just say I respect Lennon more than McCartney.  Especially after watching a special a couple years ago where McCartney proved, on film, that he couldn't actually write music but rather, had to dictate how he wanted the music to sound to an actual composer who was able to score it for him. 

I just sat and laughed to myself.

What  made it doubly amusing was that he had already been knighted for his so-called musical skill.

But then again, he's got a gagillion dollars more than me, so he's been successful at something and I have to respect that about him.

 

141 posted on 12/20/2006 5:22:28 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: Fedora
"But if you want money for people with minds that hate, all I can tell is brother you have to wait..."

Thanks...

142 posted on 12/20/2006 5:35:53 PM PST by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Lennon had a unique voice that people have tried to imitate ever since. His vocals on 'Twist and Shout' and 'Money' are regarded as among the best in Rock history. Paul Simon couldn't really sing. He did the best he could with an extremely limited vocal range.

I suppose I should make a distinction between composing and being a tunesmith. None of the great Tin Pan Alley writers orchestrated either (Irving Berlin). Most of them anyway. Gershwin wasn't the best orchestrator but he was getting better.


143 posted on 12/20/2006 6:36:35 PM PST by Borges
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To: Psycho_Bunny

"Especially after watching a special a couple years ago where McCartney proved, on film, that he couldn't actually write music but rather, had to dictate how he wanted the music to sound to an actual composer who was able to score it for him.

I just sat and laughed to myself.

What made it doubly amusing was that he had already been knighted for his so-called musical skill."

The joke's on you.

McCartney's father taught him music. He had piano lessons as a child. Plus plenty of other music classes in school.

He can read and write music.

He chose/chooses instead to play and compose "by ear." (Something a lot of jazz and folk musicians have often preferred.)

McCartney was by far the most accomplished musician of the Beatles. And certainly the group's most sophisticated composer.


144 posted on 12/20/2006 6:37:08 PM PST by Sam Hill
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To: subterfuge
In Beatlesongs , by William J. Dowlding, there is a Lennon quote that says,

"I should never have put that in about Chairman Mao. I was just finishing off in the studio when I did that."

Another quote is,"...the original version which ends up on the LP said 'count me in' too; I put in both because I wasn't sure....On the version released as a single I said. 'When you talk about destruction you can count me out.' I didn't want to get killed.

Also, " It's a yin-yang thing. We all have a streak of violence underneath."

145 posted on 12/20/2006 9:04:19 PM PST by period end of story (Merry Christmas.)
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To: MikeD

John didn't see Julian for about three years until he separated from Yoko and lived with May. Julian visited John about three times in a one-year period. When John went back to Yoko, Julian only visited about three times in the last five and a half years. The last time Julian saw John was in Palm Beach in March 1979. John never visited England for the last nine years of his life, but he had no problem flying to Japan as well as going on "around the world" trips directed by Yoko's astrologers.


146 posted on 12/20/2006 9:20:52 PM PST by Revenge of Sith
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To: Sam Hill
Maybe he should have been an actor because he did a brilliant job of sounding precisely like someone who doesn't have a clue about music theory.
147 posted on 12/21/2006 6:20:48 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: ShadowDancer

I understand if you play the file backwards, it sounds like Lawrenece Welk.


148 posted on 12/21/2006 6:23:22 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Thane_Banquo
But is Paul dead or isn't he?

Just play "Revolution Number Nine" backwards and you'll find out!

Turn me on deadman.

149 posted on 12/21/2006 6:29:21 AM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: steve-b

"an unnamed foreign government" MI6 and John Lennon... Shagadelic Man!


150 posted on 12/21/2006 7:23:50 AM PST by dblshot
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To: Psycho_Bunny

You don't have to have a clue about music theory to be a great tunesmith. He's also a world class bassist.


151 posted on 12/21/2006 1:39:17 PM PST by Borges
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