![]() ![]() Rather it was a sharp but concealed rebuke of none other than…Frank Sinatra! Yeah, Sinatra, strange but true.įirst, at the time the Beatles were writing songs for Revolver, they were harboring low-level resentment towards Sinatra because his album, September Of My Years, was a big Grammy winner for the 1965 awards and Rubber Soul wasn’t even nominated. The song’s cryptic lyrics weren’t induced through the ether of Lennon’s drug use, nor a dig at The Rolling Stones. I urge anyone who hasn’t, to read this book. ![]() This explanation, which I’ve heard through the years, was finally confirmed in Jonathan Gould’s illuminating Beatle book, Can’t Buy Me Love. I’d like to offer up what I’ve learned regarding Lennon’s inspiration for writing what is one of my favorite Beatle songs, And Your Bird Can Sing. It wasn’t like they had to perform “Revolution 9” onstage, which would’ve been literally next-to-impossible to reproduce live onstage with all those tape loops and tape machines. Robert”, “I Want to Tell You”, “Taxman” and “And Your Bird Can Sing” live, even if it meant recruiting a keyboardist to augment them on the tour for certain songs onstage as well as having to just improvise onstage a bit. I never understood why none of the songs from “Revolver” were performed live on their final tour, as they could’ve easily done “Here, There and Everywhere”, “She Said She Said”, “Dr. Ringo is very capable of playing drums and percussion, like most rock drummers, including tambourine, maracas, congas Given that John had high regard for Ringo as a drummer, I see no reason why he wouldn’t entrust Ringo to do drums and nearly all of the percussion parts on his own songs in The Beatles’ years – not every song of course, but I mean in general. Love.Īctually, it was most likely Ringo, and even this page – – indicates as such. Who sang somewhere between jesus and john wayne how to#Possibly…it is important to remove seven layers till we learn how to love. We are only one, everybody and everything connected. We have to forget forever all kinds of prejudice and see all creatures are equal. However, to learn how to practice love the way Jesus meant is not so easy. Our mission is to restore the broken unity. ![]() But we fell and since then duality was created giving birth to the good and the evil. According the her there was a time we were all united. And one of them suddenly started talking about why we are born. In the same day I was invited to spend the week end in a country club with some girls to study the gospels. So it was some months before Paul asking. The coindence for me is that, in the same year I also asked the universe about the meaning of life. That is where he asked the universe about the meaning of life and got that answer that there are seven layers. He smoked pot for the first time with Bob Dylan in 1964. Paul McCartney claims to have helped Lennon write the song. Lennon was later dismissive of ‘And Your Bird Can Sing’, describing it as “a horror” and “throwaway”. It is also likely that the oblique lyrics were an attempt at writing something akin to the wordplay of Bob Dylan, whose songs Lennon greatly admired. Like ‘Rain’, ‘And Your Bird Can Sing’ hinted at knowledge denied to all but the enlightened, showing the influence of LSD. Although the two groups were friends, Lennon saw the Stones as Beatles copyists, and the titular ‘bird’ may have been Marianne Faithfull. While Lennon never revealed the inspiration behind the song, it is believed to refer to the rivalry between The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Written primarily by John Lennon, ‘And Your Bird Can Sing’ is notable mainly for its cryptic lyrics and the twin guitar riffs – played by Paul McCartney and George Harrison – that drive the song. John Lennon: vocals, rhythm guitar, handclaps Paul McCartney: backing vocals, lead guitar, bass, handclaps George Harrison: backing vocals, lead guitar, handclaps Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine, handclaps ![]()
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