George Harrison was a great rock n’ roll guitarist for The Beatles, but he was also fascinated with cultural music, such as Indian music and reggae. He had a passion for Indian music that led to him learning the sitar and adopting a more spiritual lifestyle. He also found reggae to be an intriguing genre and said the genre was somewhat similar to The Beatles.
George Harrison said reggae and The Beatles tried to copy rock n’ roll
Reggae originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and became an influential genre thanks to artists like Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. The music intrigued Many international audiences as it not only introduced them to the culture but also had a distinct sound that blended many genres and instruments.
George Harrison discovered reggae music and took an immediate interest in it. One reason why he loved it was that it reminded him of The Beatles.
George Harrison said reggae and The Beatles tried to copy rock n’ roll
Reggae originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and became an influential genre thanks to artists like Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. The music intrigued Many international audiences as it not only introduced them to the culture but also had a distinct sound that blended many genres and instruments.
George Harrison discovered reggae music and took an immediate interest in it. One reason why he loved it was that it reminded him of The Beatles.
- 7/10/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In and out of the group, The Beatles wrote many songs about home, whether where they grew up, a house they once lived in, or the city they resided in. Here’s a list of 13 times the Fab Four wrote about home.
The Beatles | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 13. ‘I’ll Follow the Sun’
The Beatles’ “I’ll Follow the Sun” doesn’t seem like a song about home, but it is. In his book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul McCartney wrote that the tune is a “Leaving of Liverpool song.” He explained that the lyrics say, “I’m leaving this rainy northern town for someplace where more is happening.” Paul and The Beatles did leave Liverpool to start a better life.
12. ‘In My Life’
“In My Life” was John Lennon’s first song where he spoke about his own life. He called it his “first real major piece of work.
The Beatles | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images 13. ‘I’ll Follow the Sun’
The Beatles’ “I’ll Follow the Sun” doesn’t seem like a song about home, but it is. In his book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul McCartney wrote that the tune is a “Leaving of Liverpool song.” He explained that the lyrics say, “I’m leaving this rainy northern town for someplace where more is happening.” Paul and The Beatles did leave Liverpool to start a better life.
12. ‘In My Life’
“In My Life” was John Lennon’s first song where he spoke about his own life. He called it his “first real major piece of work.
- 3/30/2023
- by Hannah Wigandt
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
With their latest documentary, Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge, directors Alex Gibney and Blair Foster stitch together old performance footage, recordings from interviews with artists (Ice-t) and Presidents (Bill Clinton), and readings from some of the magazine's most important stories, with the likes of Johnny Depp subbing in for Hunter S. Thompson. Instead of following the magazine's activities year by year, the narrative is dictated by big stories: The film jumps from one big scoop to the next, skipping from Hunter S. Thompson on George McGovern in 1972 to an...
- 11/6/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Donald Trump has been trying very hard to do a lot to this nation, thus far with pathetically little success. However, while he might not be making America great, he’s most certainly been making American comedy fantastic.
Take Stephen Colbert. After he took over The Late Show, he has been losing badly to The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon. Then the Manchild from Hell won the election – thanks to a little help from his friends – and that very evening Colbert had something of a nervous breakdown, live on CBS. To his vast credit, he put all that energy into his job: making jokes at the expense of our Megalomaniac-In-Chief. Now, six months later, he’s leaped over Fallon in the ratings.
Certainly, there’s no shortage of material. Indeed, many other comics have made similar journeys on the Trump Turnpike (“what will that asshole think of next?”). Seth Myers,...
Take Stephen Colbert. After he took over The Late Show, he has been losing badly to The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon. Then the Manchild from Hell won the election – thanks to a little help from his friends – and that very evening Colbert had something of a nervous breakdown, live on CBS. To his vast credit, he put all that energy into his job: making jokes at the expense of our Megalomaniac-In-Chief. Now, six months later, he’s leaped over Fallon in the ratings.
Certainly, there’s no shortage of material. Indeed, many other comics have made similar journeys on the Trump Turnpike (“what will that asshole think of next?”). Seth Myers,...
- 8/2/2017
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
My alienation from current pop is almost complete; the only 2013 Top 40 material I enjoyed enough to play repeatedly was Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, from an album released in 2012. So I am officially a cranky old fart. But there are more and more of us, and maybe fellow COFs will find this list useful. By the way, crossing that border of alienation made me think more than ever that saying my lists are of the "best" albums is nearly absurd, hence the new headline.
1. Wire: Change Becomes Us (Pink Flag)
This is my favorite Wire of this century thanks to more emphasis on Colin Newman's brooding. When allied to their chugging motorik beats, it's irresistible to me. There are still some uptempo burners that recall their beginnings in punk, and some more whimsical though still musically solid songs, but it's Newman's dark musings that made me play this repeatedly.
2. Kitchens of...
1. Wire: Change Becomes Us (Pink Flag)
This is my favorite Wire of this century thanks to more emphasis on Colin Newman's brooding. When allied to their chugging motorik beats, it's irresistible to me. There are still some uptempo burners that recall their beginnings in punk, and some more whimsical though still musically solid songs, but it's Newman's dark musings that made me play this repeatedly.
2. Kitchens of...
- 1/1/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
"From Straight To Bizarre" : Zappa, Beefheart, Alice Cooper and La's Lunatic Fringe", will be released on DVD, February 21, 2012, including rare footage, archive interviews, location shoots, "...and the music that made it all worthwhile..." :
"...in 1968, musician Frank Zappa, desperate to remove himself from his original deal with Verve Records, set up the Bizarre and Straight labels with manager Herb Cohen.
"Records by Zappa with his 'Mothers of Invention' band would rub shoulders in the label's racks with releases by Wild Man Fischer, the all female 'GTOs', acapella gospel collective 'The Persuasions', the first clutch of 'Alice Cooper' records, Tim Buckley's 'Starsailor', live recordings by Lenny Bruce and 'Lord Buckley' and a whole lot more.
"But it would be a 1969 release by the Don Van Vliet aka 'Captain Beefheart', that would provide the 'art-statement' for which the Bizarre/Straight enterprise is remembered best, and which...
"...in 1968, musician Frank Zappa, desperate to remove himself from his original deal with Verve Records, set up the Bizarre and Straight labels with manager Herb Cohen.
"Records by Zappa with his 'Mothers of Invention' band would rub shoulders in the label's racks with releases by Wild Man Fischer, the all female 'GTOs', acapella gospel collective 'The Persuasions', the first clutch of 'Alice Cooper' records, Tim Buckley's 'Starsailor', live recordings by Lenny Bruce and 'Lord Buckley' and a whole lot more.
"But it would be a 1969 release by the Don Van Vliet aka 'Captain Beefheart', that would provide the 'art-statement' for which the Bizarre/Straight enterprise is remembered best, and which...
- 1/18/2012
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
The Crazy Heart soundtrack. With so much of this agglutination of rock, mud and salt water that we like to call the Earth having been thoroughly explored, mapped and subsequently filed, it follows that there must these days surely be a paucity of new species for the aspiring zoologist to discover. With even the South Pole probably only a few years away from scoring its own coffee shops and burger joints, what previously unseen creatures can there be left for all those wannabe Charles Darwins out there to prod and poke and use as steppingstones to a university chair? Well, here’s a suggestion for any such ambitious pups: try seeking out a sentient creature who will admit to a dislike of Jeff Bridges.
Unthinkable, I know! Ever since The Big Lebowski struck just over a decade ago, Lloyd’s younger son has enjoyed the gold-plated status of a slacker...
Unthinkable, I know! Ever since The Big Lebowski struck just over a decade ago, Lloyd’s younger son has enjoyed the gold-plated status of a slacker...
- 2/1/2010
- by Paul Martin
- Movie-moron.com
"Before we go any further, let's acknowledge that the question of whether and how different kinds of animals feel pain, and of whether and why it might be justifiable to inflict pain on them in order to eat them, turn out to be extremely complex and difficult. And comparative neuroanatomy is only part of the problem. Since pain is a totally subjective mental experience, we do not have direct access to any one's or any thing's pain but our own; and even just the principles by which we can infer that other people experience pain and have a legitimate interest in not feeling pain involve hardcore philosophy-metaphysics, epistemology, value theory, ethics. The fact that even the most highly evolved nonhuman mammals can't use language to communicate with us about their subjective mental experience is only the first layer of additional complication in trying to extend our reasoning about pain and morality to animals.
- 5/10/2009
- by unclebob
- DreadCentral.com
When 39-year-old Louis Prima met 16-year-old Keely Smith in 1949 in a Las Vegas nightclub, it led to a passionate but ill-fated marriage and a long-lasting singing partnership. Their work influenced the evolution of pop musical styles -- jazz, swing, big band -- of the 1950s and beyond. Some say their collaboration marked the birth of the lounge-act craze.Flash forward to 2006 and another nightspot where another prodigious partnership emerged from a chance meeting. Actor-writer Vanessa Claire Smith, a member of L.A.'s Sacred Fools Theater Company, was preparing to move back to her home state of Louisiana following career disappointments. Shortly before her departure, she was waitressing at M Bar in Hollywood when actor Jake Broder performed his solo show Lord Buckley in Los Angeles. Smith had all but given up on her dream of playing Keely Smith in her long-planned bio-musical about the duo, but that night she...
- 3/12/2009
- by Les Spindle
- backstage.com
We head into the weekend with a celebration of the great Joe Kubert, a look at the under appreciated humor of Lord Buckley, how Lost celebrated their return to prime time and what new celebs are joining in the NY ComicCon celebration.
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- 1/23/2009
- by Mike Raub
- Comicmix.com
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