Today is the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight. Commander Chris Hadfield's performance of David Bowie Space Oddity remains the most awesome one:
I always post this: background vocals for U2's breakthrough album, WAR, were handled by . . . the Coconuts, of Kid Creole and The. Not two bands you group together in your head . . .
Chas Newby and Paul McCartney... both played in the Beatles, both bassists, both left handed, both born on June 18th.
Not a single member of The Doobie Brothers actually has the surname "Doobie." On a much grander scale, not a single member of The King Family actually has the last name "King."
The nonsense holds that if they're born in roughly the same month they should be roughly the same, and then if they're born on the same day they should be more the same. How much do the same do they have to be?
Everybody that covers "Gloria" by Van Morrison and Them---does the chords WRONG. It's E-Em-D-A. They all leave out the Em part. Drives me nuts. It is NOT E-D-A. E-Em-D-A. Got it? Thank you---phew!
At that time my High School ASB was shopping for a band to play at the annual ASB "Icebreaker" dance. Had a bid from The Rolling Stones, at $5,000. The school district decided that the Stones were too radical, so they chose the Seeds instead, and boy did they suck. To put the sprinkles on the icing, they looked, acted, and sounded radical. And sucked. For the previous year's dance we had The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. They were great. I think it would be a good bet that the Stones would have played for 30 minutes or so, not uncommon at the time. More related trivia, from the online Inflation Calculator: What cost $5000 in 1966 would cost $39132.73 in 2018. What cost $5000 in 1967 would cost $38029.87 in 2018. That was a lot of bake sales worth of $$.
I don't find this to be trivial: Written by the songwriting team of Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer (a.k.a. FGG Productions who later formed the group the Strangeloves). The f'n Strangeloves, OMG! Grungabunga!!
The one that bothers me is that a LOT of people who cover"You're Going To Lose That Girl" by the Beatles (even tribute bands) play a G#minor as the 2nd chord on the verse, but it's very clear (to my ears anyhow) that the Beatles play a G#MAJOR, and it really makes a difference. The minor chord is just too common and obvious, the major chord that the Beatles play makes the song unique.
Somewhat morbid but, as Hunter Davies points out in his book The Beatles’ Lyrics, the February 11, 1963 session in which the Beatles recorded the remaining ten tracks for their Please Please Me album took place on the same day on which poet Sylvia Plath committed suicide. And only seven minutes away. The Beatles Lyrics
