Tag: beatles

  • Sounds Familiar: Chuck Berry v. The Beatles

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    New post series: Sounds Familiar. Homages, rip-offs, lawsuits, and the songs that have lived to tell. Exhibit A: Chuck Berry’s “You Can’t Catch Me” and some Beatles tune you may know. From Wikipedia: In 1973, “Come Together” was the subject of a lawsuit brought against Lennon by Big Seven Music Corp. (owned by Morris Levy)…

  • Isolated: “Come Together” Comes Apart

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    Groovin’ up slowly, piece by piece: Vox: Keys here. Everything else linked from there. And here’s everything you wanted to know about the song @Wikipedia.

  • Demo: “She Said, She Said”

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    Have heard a lot of this stuff, but never this: Cool. More here.  

  • Outtakes: Fab Four

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    Beatles fans have heard the readily available Anthology outtakes plenty. The web goes deeper. Check out, for starters, oldclevelandboy’s outtakes collection on Soundcloud. This early version of “She’s a Woman” is especially fun given Ringo’s clear uncertainty about when the chorus hits. Guess they hadn’t rehearsed it much before showing up in the studio, which…

  • Was Beatles

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    Just about everything you’ve ever listened to or might want to listen to is on Spotify (and/or the others). Everything, that is, with very notable exceptions: “Shake It Off” and the Beatles. You can probably satisfy your Taylor Swift needs with a sound-alike by an outfit called Kidz Bop. Close enough. For something drilled deeper…