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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 In a session before Martin had not liked playing as Pete Best, and had been replaced by Ringo (who, to avoid risks, hired to turn the battery to a career in Love me do).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 stamp and a minor 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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First of all, I believe we should begin by making clear that the article I wrote what I did not. What you will read below was originally published in the October 1987 issue of the journal Very Interesting, dean of journalism popular Spanish (leaves at 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 of 1962 nobody was aware that such an event would mark a milestone in the history of popular music, from which nothing would be the same as before. And not just on the ground is strictly musical, 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, such influence is far from disappearing.

The idea of reproducing the full story in this Computer Age came to mind after dedicating part of my free time to revisit the discography of the band and go back to watching movies and documentaries relating to it. I recalled the existence of this excellent work, published for more than two decades and certainly 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, which I gladly granted permission to carry out the idea. Therefore, here I leave with you a sample of good journalism coming from an era when there was no Internet, with its stunning ease of access to huge amounts of data (with all the good and bad that that entails), and therefore that he had flip, and much, to find reliable information and quality, even for a group like The Beatles. It will draw in the light of deliveries over the next few weeks, so it does not make you too heavy, and I will leave to insert some comments of his own when he deems it appropriate, properly marked to differentiate them from the original text. I hope you enjoy it as it deserves because it is really worth it. I assure you.

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

Comments on the text (bold) by Leo.

In 1963 and 1964, the Beatles led states of collective hysteria over there where spent. Prior to his music, this was the first shocking appearance that underlined the pacatos media of the time. Below, the "Fab Tour" in a typical promotional photo of the glorious years. From left to right: John, George, Paul and Ringo.

Future Beatles all were born in the harsh enclave of Liverpool, who at the mercy of the provincial industrial belt of central England then add those imposed by the Second World War. John Lennon and Richard Starkey (better known then as Ringo Starr) were born in 1940, Paul McCartney followed them in 1942, and George Harrison in 1943. Ringo came from the outskirts of proletarians and father George was the driver of the school bus to the center where he was studying. John and his mother, Julia (who died in 1957, hit by a drunk police) had been abandoned by his father, a sailor tough that when his son reached the fame record an album trying to return the situation. Perhaps Paul was the children who enjoy a more calm and stable, within a typical middle-class family - with low musical hobbies.

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

By then, some merely careless rockers with the inevitable zamarras leather, that have adopted the name Beatles as a play on words very carefully between Lennon beat (drum) and beetle ( "beetle"), a wink the Crickets ( "Crickets") that came with Buddy Holly. But this image somewhat haggard zafia and will be polished by Brian Epstein when it takes over his promotion after hearing them at The Cavern, a former jazz club where he played in Liverpool on his return, and without Stuart Sutcliffe, who stays in Germany die some time later.

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

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