The soundtrack for today’s drive from Seattle to Portland was provided by The Beatles. I listened to them all the way home. It was a long, rainy, windy, foggy, stress-filled drive but the music made it better.
I keep trying to think of my favorite Beatles song but I don’t think I can come up with one. I love most of them. I like the early stuff…She Love You, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Love Me Do, Help. I also love, love, love the later years: Hey Jude, Let It Be, Eleanor Rigby, A Day In the Life. How about Ob-la-di Ob-la-da? Get Back! Revolution. Back In the U.S.S.R.! The list goes on and on.
Do you have a favorite Beatles song? A favorite Beatle? A favorite Beatle memory? I think they are timeless. There are few bands that reach the level of recognition and timelessness that they do.
Okay, that’s the end of my words of wisdome; I will let it be!
My favorite Beatles songs tend to change. Currently they are: Julia and You’re Gonna Lose that Girl.
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Also, I was born after they broke up, but Paul is the dreamiest.
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Ringo was always my favorite.
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There are so many to choose from. It’s so hard to pick just one. You’re Gonna Lose That Girl is a great one!
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I am still amazed by how perfect “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is as an album…even so many years later, it’s hard to believe what an accomplishment it is. I love many Beatles songs, particularly “Paperback Writer” (for obvious reasons, perhaps), “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” “For No One,””Taxman,” “Lovely Rita,” “You Know My Name; Look Up the Number.” But my favorite song has always been “A Day in the Life,” which always reminds me of the best of Shostakovich’s simultaneously devastating and savagely hilarious chamber music.
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I too like Paperback Writer. On the drive back, the thought struck my mind that maybe it needs to be re-worked to be Ebook Writer!
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What!!! Paul McCartney was in a band BEFORE Wings???
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“Hey Jude” is the Beatles song that I remember as being the first time I realized that the lyrics of a song could comfort me. I was in 6th grade, having just broken up with my boyfriend, suffering, filled with teenage angst– and suddenly it all made sense to me. I felt like I was part of a bigger picture, and that the Beatles would lead the way. Funny to think on that now, but at the time it was profound.
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