Computer Age

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

Comments on the text (bold) by Leo.

BELOW: Four neglected rockers 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 specialized subsidiary of EMI 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 played like Pete Best, and was replaced by Ringo (who, to avoid risks, hired to turn the battery to a professional Love me do). The single is placed between the twentieth blockbusters. The Beatles were already a local celebrity.

All this makes us think again about the short-sightedness of many hours of total commitment to "uncover genius", especially in the cultural field and, more specifically, in the musical. Consider that the Beatles managed to record their first single almost rebound, having to resort to it to a smaller label and a producer of the second row. Hardly anyone was able to see the diamond in the rough that could have at hand, such as those responsible for other record of a higher grade than they rejected, as Decca. Those could include a rate surpassed the most idiotic ever 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 giving tentative name for this Rock revival: music ye-ye. John, who has been married the previous year penalty with his girlfriend, Cynthia (who was married to temporarily silenced no "disappointing" to the fans and keep intact the pull of popular musician and his band) has a child who Julian puts its name in memory of his mother. A nationwide tour and galas with the best 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 fans at the airport aullaban Kennedy Beatles brought before a warm, fresh from the oven, her second album. The yankis did not know, but the Liverpool quartet 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 the origin, but no one wanted to hear it. "

That year 1964 was, well, success on other fronts, especially in the film, alongside Richard Lester, director of a thriving free cinema English. A hard day's night captured in a documentary about the crazy life of the four Beatles, with inserts in the highly innovative musical numbers that suggest what the future will be video clips. The following year Help! Develop these components, showing them as a sort of Marx Brothers pop. Today, A Hard Day's Night is an undisputed classic of contemporary cinema

In addition, two books published by John, 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 are more than dust in the head and draws and writes superbly Lennon. 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. U.S. is also a bestseller. The rock begins to enjoy social respectability. The producer of his films, Walter Shenson, recalled to John Lennon at a banquet at the Cannes Film Festival, and he looks the best of their smiles for the gallery while it is in whispers: "Walter, if you tell me 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 recorded the songs are barely audible from the audience screaming. 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 left the stage. His music had become too complex to perform live.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Beatles' visit to Spain Spanish Television produced a documentary entitled What a great come the Beatles!, Which detail that has sabotaged lightning visit on a more or less subtle by the Franco dictatorship, those who saw "melenudos" four dangerous agitators for youth at all suited to the interests of the regime. If you can not miss the link to get the chance, that's great.

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First of all, I believe we should start making it clear that the article I wrote I do not. What you will read below originally was published in the October 1987 issue of the magazine very interesting, informative journalism dean Spanish (off newsstands steadily each month since May 1981.) The date was no coincidence, because at that time were met twenty-five years since the publication of the group's first single, that simple but catchy "Love me do." That day in 1962 nobody was aware that such an event would be a milestone in the history of popular music, from which nothing would be the same as before. And not only in strictly musical terrain, as the influence of the "Fab Four" to reach many areas of life and culture of the twentieth century and still today, fully immersed in the XXI, this influence is far from disappearing.

The idea of reproducing the full story in Computer Age came to mind after devoting part of my free time to revisit the discography of the band and go back to watching movies and documentaries relating to it. I remembered the existence of this excellent work, published for over two decades and probably unknown or forgotten by almost everyone. I understood that it would be worth making it available to people on the net and I contacted Jose Pardina, the director of the very, happy that I granted permission to carry out the idea. So, here I leave with you a sample of good news from a time when there was no Internet, with its easy access to staggering amounts of data (with all the good and bad that implies), and therefore had to flip, and much, to find reliable information and quality, even for a group like The Beatles. We draw the light deliveries over the next few weeks, so it does not make you too heavy, and I will leave some comments to insert themselves where appropriate, properly identified to distinguish the original text. I hope you enjoy it as it deserves because it is really worth it. I guarantee you.

Beatles Forever: 25 years since "Love me do." Part One
Original author: Agustin Sanchez Vidal
Published Very Interesting, number 77. October 1987
http://www.muyinteresante.es/

Comments on the text (bold) by Leo.

In 1963 and 1964, the Beatles hysteria provoked states where there passed. Prior to his music, that aspect was the first scandal that highlighted pacatos media of the time. Below, the "Fab Tour" in a typical picture of the promotional glorious years. From left: John, George, Paul and Ringo.

Future Beatles all were born in the tough spot of Liverpool, that the elements of the provincial industrial center added England then imposed by the Second World War. John Lennon and Richard Starkey (better known then as Ringo Starr) were born in 1940, were followed by Paul McCartney in 1942, and George Harrison in 1943. Ringo came from the suburbs proletarians and George's father was the driver of the bus where the center studied. John and his mother, Julia (who died in 1957, hit by a drunk police) had been abandoned by his father, a seaman's tough when his son reached fame record an album trying to return the situation. Perhaps Paul was the children who enjoy a more peaceful and stable, within a typical middle class family - with low musical hobbies.

Over time, Liverpool would, however, its advantages: the port kept well-stocked music news, communication with Sodom and Gomorrah as Hamburg was flowing and people survived thanks to a dislocated sense of humor of the best evidenced comedians in the country, who come from there. After several training and names John, Paul and George (the three armed guitars, which must be added Stuart Sutcliffe on bass and Pete Best on drums) is playing in Hamburg struggling tirelessly clubs bad death. But they are also popular as a German university Klaus Voorman, a future member of Manfred Mann, author of the cover of their album Revolver. Many years later, after having collaborated with the time of Lennon Plastic Ono Band, Voorman it again both in the surviving Beatles to cover the compilation The Beatles Antology (1996).

At the time, do not go from being careless with the inevitable rockers zamarras leather, that have adopted the name of a Beatles pun very beat between Lennon (percussion) and beetle (beetle), a nod the Crickets ( "Grill") that came with Buddy Holly. But this picture somewhat zafia and trasnochada be polished by Brian Epstein when it takes over his promotion after listening to The Cave, a former jazz club where he played in Liverpool on his return, without Stuart Sutcliffe, who is in Germany and die some time later.

In 1993, the director Ian Softley (K-Pax) debuted in the film Backbeat, a film focusing on the raids of the Beatles in Hamburg in early 60s, but Luis (the jefón this site) is not short rate publicly as "a piece of shit." Certainly not a film is too bright to say, but can be constituted as a starting point to look more seriously at a stage of the gang known as little as equally fascinating.

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