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Continued from Part Three

Finally we arrived at the conclusion of the report about the Beatles that we have been publishing for deliveries over the past few weeks. At first it was thought to divide into two separate parts, but I have decided to publish it all in a single chapter. Although this is a text with a little longer for the other deliveries, I think we have gone home as reading public will understand why it whole. I assure you it is worth, because this last part is really beautiful, and is the final makes the difference between a good story about the Beatles and the vast majority of what has been published about them on the Internet. I sincerely hope you enjoy it as surely as you have done so far.

Original author: Agustin Sanchez Vidal
Published in Very Interesting, number 77. October 1987
www.muyinteresante.es

Comments on the text (bold) by Leo.

DOWN: The figure of John Lennon, idealized for his tragic end at the hands of the fan Mark David Chapman in 1980, easily stands out from the rest of the group. His relationship with Yoko Ono will lead to divorce the Beatles, anything you do not forgive nor their fans or their own comrades.

In May 1970, coinciding with the launch of the latest album of all, Let it be, Paul officially announced the separation of the Beatles. John already had some time to work on their own with Yoko Ono in more experimental albums that the Beatles (and sometimes also much more unbearable), and expiring embarking on a crusade for peace and disarmament that he would be booked by the FBI and impede their settlement in New York, where he established to raise his son with Yoko, Sean, born in October 1975. It would be murdered outside his house several blank shots to the Dec. 8, 1980. An unbalanced fan, Mark David Chapman, was waiting on his return from a recording studio, where he and Yoko gave the finishing touches to the album that meant his return to music, Double fantasy.

Paul ended up marrying Linda Eastman Kodak heir to the empire, a homely woman who began to fill the sons and striped vests. Her music became a pinch hortera (even more than it was in its final stage with the Beatles), but had the courage to start from scratch with his band Wings, playing in small rooms. John died, was the only one of the Beatles able to resume mass successes, and today he estimated revenues of approximately 130 million daily (pesetas in 1987, of course). His most popular song, Yesterday, has reached 1500 versions, and sounds an average of once per minute throughout the world. At the end of 90, coinciding with the illness and death of Linda because of cancer, his star began to decline. The vicissitudes of his private life have made her name ends to occupy more space in the pages of society and the dreaded British tabloids that the lists of sales, but thanks to his daughter Stella, who has successfully made a dent as a fashion designer , The place of the family among the personalities of success appears to be safe.

George had a lively start with his triple LP, All things must past, then overshadowed by the conviction for kidnapping his most famous single, My sweet lord, identical to He's so fine the Chiffons. The benefit concert for Bangla Desh was his moment before moving to a quiet gloom. Discrete penumbra of which never left Ringo Starr, who made their versions more or less sympathetic and attended school more than their adventure film. In 2001 George also lost a long battle against cancer. Since years before that sad event many fans of the Beatles have made efforts to revindicarlo as the "brain in the shadow" of the band and as an instrumentalist and composer more than competent. Many filmgoers will also have reserved a hole through his production company Handmade Films, responsible among other around as a classic Life of Brian, the best movie of the great Monty Python. In any case, your credit alone can be compared in any way the legacy they have left as a group.

The chemistry of the Beatles functioned as a strange amalgam of personalities. Its producer, George Martin, defined the match between John Paul and comparing it with the mixture between vinegar and oil: isolated, may be too acidic or too unctuous, together, are in balance. Lennon provided an undeniable tear, a corrosive force and a touch of blues that mordant added to the songs, McCartney gave the lightness, optimism, melodic fluency. And we must not negligible as instrumentalists: John printed a rhythm guitar to his personal and not transferable, Paul introduced many innovations in the use of the bass and guitar solo from George or Ringo battery were fair and effective, far from the back of the rock exhibitionism .

And then their personalities were: easy to differentiate, but, like their voices, perfectly capable of amalgamated into a single whole. It is not difficult to emphasize, however, that of Lennon, enlarged by the mythology and necrophilia. John Winston Lennon was a child of postwar, born in the German bombing on Liverpool. As the war wore stigma that second name in tribute to Winston Churchill, like Spain after the 1939 populated by significant Jose-Antonio. "I was nauseated at Liverpool while Hitlerism bombarded the neighborhood," he wrote in In his own write.

His favorite book was Alice in Wonderland country, Peter Pan and its flagship myth: the syndrome who refused to grow. Not that Lennon would not want to evolve: it was the Beatles because they were resigned to stagnate. It did not accept that the mechanisms of initiation by which someone stops being himself to fit into the mold to each, as the coffin, it has prepared: profession, trade, mood, character, identity card, military card, For permission to drive ... not accept, do not even want to spend their lives being a Beatle. And that was his undoing. One of his fans who did not accept that change ended his life.

However, there is something radically different to John Lennon, not only with respect to other illustrious men, but even in relation to other figures in the rock. He took all the 25 years and was world famous in its current account fell 900 million annually thereafter without the need to do anything. He said he was glad to have reached a couple that situation because it felt completely liberated. He felt terrible struggle for a lifetime position, become famous, being respected and influential, have pasta. He had already achieved and went directly to a person. To have the person, not to be adult. And from a certain moment wanted to use his influence to arrange things a bit. Not lacked instinct to embrace the cause of pacifism, which provided its anthem Give peace a chance.

The influence of the Beatles in music and popular culture remains intact after nearly fifty years since the publication of her first single. LEFT: Cover LP The black and white album by The Hives (2007), clearly inspired by the cover of With The Beatles in 1963.

But many of the features that were in John superlative degree would be extended to the other Beatles. They emerged in the'60s by a host of circumstances hardly repeatable. When appeared on the scene, rock and roll we now call classic, that of the fifties, was almost extinct, with Elvis in the military, Little Richard in a convent, Chuck Berry in jail, Buddy Holly in the grave, Jerry Lee Lewis out of action for having married to his cousin for 12 years ... The Beatles returned to that heritage, the stylized, the recreated, put it daily, did evolve and saved all this torrent of adolescent energy projected towards more ambitious goals.

The fate would have it all this is a vast movement for the revision of the values that people like them (or Dylan) became spokespersons. Lennon would like to note, had the impression of going all in the same boat that sailed forward, maybe they were on the bow or at the top of the mast, but the boat was moving in solidarity. Beatles themselves rightly refused to paripé always round of recurrence: that would have been a time to rebuild all that his return would end. Surely there have been moments in the most cutting-edge culture of the twentieth century, and even more commercial, but so convincing a mix of depth and spread rarely has been repeated again and hard.

FIN.

Coming soon publish "11 masterpieces: the albums of the Beatles' brief and very juicy annex published in VERY close to this story.

Continued from Part Two
Original author: Agustin Sanchez Vidal
Published in Very Interesting, number 77. October 1987
www.muyinteresante.es

Comments on the text (bold) by Leo.

Hippismo's booming, the Beatles were involuntarily converted into public oracles. Their attitudes and the lyrics of their songs were considered very closely by supporters and detractors. BELOW: "All you need is love."

The respectability of an alarming increase in 1965 to give his Majesty Graciosa Members of the Order of the British Empire, normally reserved for the deeds of war. Old ex-combatants who were in the trunk of the memories returned outraged. John later comment that it was more logical that it be imposed on them, who had contributed to entertain the staff, that those who were dedicated to killing people. And the truth is that British exports have soared thanks to an England that had become fashionable in the hands of the Beatles: enough to crown them the necks of their jackets with velvet that was shot for the sale of this fabric. Over time, Lennon rejected his own award as a sign of protest pacifist one of its campaigns. But in its day was accepted more or less pleased, though shortly before the ceremony was locked in the toilet of a palace to smoke a joint to relax the protocol.

Also in 1965 tested the drug immediately be fashionable, LSD, and with it increased the degree of intellectualisation of his work, especially when combined with the Hindu mystic and transcendental meditation. The Beatles end up reneging publicly of his relationship with the controversial Maharishi. Even with this, no one can deny the positive aspect in the musical that took everything. Its lyrics began to be acechadas as if they were gospel, they were required from all sides conduct consistent with their responsibilities, and the whole dynamic that going becoming public oracles ended up being very dangerous.

The first warning came in August 1966 in San Francisco, shortly before leaving the stage, where John Lennon said: "We are more famous Christ." Never had to say. The reaction among certain sectors of the public was so hysterical that was on the verge of ending the career of the group. Then came warnings for drug use. With the Beatles did not dare until their separation, but the Rolling Stones subjected to the real overdose of police not to the misguided youth.

By 1969 it was usual scrupulously examine the folders and microsurcos lyrics of the Beatles in search of hidden messages. It was absolutely paranoid mental constructs, which took the palm that issued on October 29 by an American student magazine, Rat Magazine. According to his theory, Paul McCartney had died in a car accident, being replaced by a double look and voice very similar to the original. The Beatles had concealed it, but leaving tracks on their discs for which I would understand.

For example? Well, on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's, where there is a tomb, a hedge of flowers with a four-stringed guitar (ie the low-Paul); on the cover of Abbey Road, McCartney is the only one who walks barefoot and with the shift changed, while it sees a Volkswagen parked IF whose enrollment is 28, ie 28 if ... (Paul had served 28 years if he had not died in a car accident, as implied this theory to the analysis of the letter A day in the life). Also, if you went backwards Revolution No. 9, John was heard telling a mournful "I buried Paul" ( "I buried Paul"), and so on. Even magazines such as Triumph brainy echoed in Spain elucubraciones of this type. When at press conferences asked him for his death, McCartney responded with humor that had not been aware of it, but you do not miss anything, because it was always the last to find out what was going on in the Beatles. On this topic fun , On the Internet you can find all kinds of pages. Not a few are worth thinking oligofrénicas, but nevertheless does not stop being curious. Anyway, that in this as in all "there are people pa sented," hear.

There was no place for jokes, however, when the Manson case that same year of 1969. A psychopath California, Charles Manson, who had created his own family (sort of mystique among commune, hippie and neo-Nazi), also believed to perceive hidden messages in the songs of the Beatles, particularly in Helter Skeleter and Piggies. And with them as a motto committed a series of horrific murders that included the actress Sharon Tate, pregnant with her husband, film director Roman Polanski. Alongside the corpses, written with his blood, appeared titles of the songs of the Beatles, and its authors, John and George, were called to testify.

In the book, Curiosities Delta and anecdotes from Hollywood Eduardo Llorente and David Eraskin, indicated that the main motivation of the Manson Family to carry out the massacre was charged with Steve McQueen, whom Manson apparently admired. Manson was also a lousy singer, a screenwriter, even worse, and sent a script to the production company owned by the actor, Solar Pictures, with the hope that his idol starring accept. However, the text was so bad that topped him not the slightest attention. Disgust, Manson began to concoct in their brains the idea of revenge, and long after he learned she was going to hold a party at the home of the Roman Polansky that McQueen had been invited. It saved their lives because they decided to spend the night alone with a linking. What is there is no doubt that Manson and his relatives were intended to commit a slaughter sooner or later, going against whoever they fell ill and was within their reach (Manson also had tirria to Liz Taylor or Tom Jones , For example). The saddest part is that Manson (who continues locked in a prison for mentally ill) has become a millionaire to run for years, thanks to thousands of jumentos committed to admire (!) Or see something interesting on the figure of this moron .

What was becoming a nightmare, with the Beatles in a claustrophobic cage of gold, especially since his immersion in the business world with the stamp Apple (after the death of Brian Epstein in August 1967) and the movie to TV Magical Mystery Tour (a nonsense of caprichito McCartney) had ended in a resounding failure. The Beatles were not infallible after all. With maturity came, moreover, the diaspora. John had met a Japanese avant-garde artist, Yoko Ono, in November 1966, and his relationship with her would lead him to divorce his first wife, Cynthia, and also the Beatles. If the first divorce seemed well to almost everyone, the latter will not forgive anyone: neither the group nor other members of their own fans.

Summer of 1967. In full fever of psychedelia, the emergence album - suite "Sgt. Pepper's "dazzled critics. But the Beatles were not infallible: its first immersion in the business world proved a failure. UP: the "boutique" Apple, located in the heart of London.

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Continued from Part One
Original author: Agustin Sanchez Vidal
Published in Very Interesting, number 77. October 1987
www.muyinteresante.es

Comments on the text (bold) by Leo.

BELOW: Four rockers neglected, turned into good guys. Brian Epstein was responsible for the first image of the group.

Epstein who will get them a meeting with George Martin, producer of a subsidiary of EMI experienced a record comedians like Peter Sellers, with a reputation for risk with new people. Thus, the September 11, 1962 is the recording of Love me do. In a session before Martin had not liked playing as Pete Best, and had been replaced by Ringo (who, to avoid risks, hired to turn the battery to a career in Love me do). The single will be positioned between the twentieth blockbusters. The Beatles were already a local celebrity.

All this makes us think, again, regarding the short-sightedness of many big shot when it comes to "uncover geniuses", particularly in the cultural fields and, more specifically, in the musical. Look at the Beatles managed to record his first single, almost on the rebound, having to resort to it to a smaller label and a producer of the second row. Almost nobody was able to see the diamond in the rough that could have at hand, such as those responsible for other record of highest level that they rejected, such that Decca. Those might include types of form among the most advantageous idiots who have never stepped on this world and several adjacent.

We are in 1963. Please, please, I accomplished the miracle of bringing the national number one, recorded his first LP and become the refrain of She loves you in the war cry of a generation, a yeah-yeah that will name a provisional this rebirth of rock: music ye-ye. John, who has been married the previous year penalty with his girlfriend, Cynthia, (marriage that was temporarily silenced so as not to "disappoint" the fans and keep intact the pull of popular musician and his band) has a son who Julian puts its name in memory of his mother. A tour around the country and galas with the most elite of British society put an end to its national recognition. The next step will be the United States.

The single I want to hold your hand and paved the way in February 1964, thousands of screaming fans at Kennedy Airport before a Beatles that brought warm, just out of the oven, her second album. The yankis did not know, but the quartet from Liverpool was reconciled with his own musical roots. As Lennon would say later, "when we come to the U.S. and we find that nobody listened to rock and roll or black music, I felt we had been at home, but nobody wanted to hear it. "

That year 1964 marked also the triumph on other fronts, especially in cinema, from the hand of Richard Lester, director of a thriving free cinema English. In A Hard Day's Night captured in a documentary about the insane life of the four Beatles, with inserts very innovative in the musical numbers that suggest what will be the future video clips. The following year Help! Develop those components, showing them as a kind of Marx Brothers pop. Today A Hard Day's Night is an undisputed classic of contemporary cinema

In addition, John published two books, John Lennon in his own write and A Spaniard in the work. Everyone was surprised: the book is more than acceptable, it shows that there are rockers who have more than sawdust in the head and that Lennon draws and writes superbly. He was awarded the prize Foyle legendary bookshop in London and this gives a reception in his honor. Not only that: John Lennon in his own write sold 300,000 copies in England. In the U.S. it is also a best seller. The rock is starting to enjoy social respectability. The producer of his films, Walter Shenson, has evoked a John Lennon at a banquet at the Cannes Film Festival, and that looks the best of their smiles to the gallery while it is under whispers: "Walter, tell me if the fucking holder I am taking is right for this dish. "

The concerts of the Beatles away from the public. On the rare recordings that show, the songs are barely audible among the shouting from the audience. In the photo, performance of the band in Las Vegas in 1964. The following year he visited Madrid and Barcelona in the summer of 1966 he withdrew from the stage. His music had become too complex to implement in vivo.

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Beatles visit to Spain Spanish Television produced a magnificent documentary entitled Who are the Beatles!, Which account in detail that lightning visit sabotaged in a more or less subtle by the Franco dictatorship, I saw in those "melenudos" four dangerous agitators of youth who agreed to anything to the interests of the regime. If you can not miss the link to get the chance, that's great.

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