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Post by TTTM on Jan 7, 2004 6:55:31 GMT
Two of us riding nowhere, "Spending someone's hard earned pay" What do you think (PF)aul meant by that? Who's hard earned pay?
If this has been discussed before, I apologize.
If someone has explained those lyrics before, I apologize.
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Post by PaulBearer on Jan 7, 2004 8:52:28 GMT
Even more significant: Two of us sunday driving Not arriving On our way back home...
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Post by TTTM on Jan 7, 2004 21:54:16 GMT
Yeah, I was thinking of adding that part too, but then someone would probably say "He meant something else by those lyrics! GOD! Why do all Beatle songs have to be about Paul being dead!" It's just that I didn't want this to become my first post "Lots to say" all over again.
Spending "someone's" hard earned pay.....
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Post by Perplexed on Jan 8, 2004 9:47:32 GMT
Irving Berlin is dead. His songs are STILL earning plenty of money. The royalties are I suppose collected by BMI (or is it ASCAP) and given to the Berlin estate. Berlin's will no doubt specified all the particulars. Family, friends, others who were named are legally entitled to recieved royalty payments. Some people inherited a whole lot of money when "Izzy Belin: passed away, at 101 years old!!!!!
George Gershwin likewise. (He was only 37 when he went. Damn I hate that. Love Gershwin.)
The earnings never stop as long as the tunes get played. Or rerecorded. Or re-rereleased. Or "muzaqued."
There are scores of composers (pun intended) that have given us a mountain of unforgettable ditties. They survive the death of their composer(s). They have in many cases come to take on their own life, so to speak.
Oscar Hammerstein was wrong (in part). The "hills aren't really alive"; but the SONGS are!!!! Long after the writer in laid away, his legacy of word and melody breath again day after day for somebody, somewhere. And this is the funny thing. Because to me, songs are so much like a little beaded necklace; a string of perfectly sequenced notes coinciding with a chain of well remembered words------displaying themselves in an unlikely perpetuity-as if so many other pairings of words and notes less well known weren't as worthy as the famous sets. They fill our public and private places; our airwaves, and our introverted little cyber spaces.
They haunt us and follow us like a forgotten friend or a long past romance. They enter our minds without our permission from seemingly no where, and inspire us, hurt us, remind us of the love and the pain. They replenish our hope, and help us relive our temporal glories. They take us up, they take us down. They make us mad, they tempt us to be horny. They slap us in the face with reality and tell us what our real motivation is. Or they help us live in denial and put frosting all over the cakes that melted in the rain. Many of them are silly little love songs, some of them are hate songs, and some of them help us feel like we'e really "Takin' Care of Business." They may tell of an old friend, or the new kid in town, or how to show R-E-S-P-E-C-T, or who is a bridge over troubled water. They sing blue, they have to tell you they love you in a song, and they even SING IN THE RAIN. They are impervious to stormy weather.
This is very a amazing state of affairs, I think, for a mere handful of tiny, oddly spaced dots on a page with a few words typed beneath them to have so much exposure, and control. How could these seemingly inanimate and tiny marks become such a potent elixer for most of listening humanity?
I think there is a conspiracy afoot, my friends. There is a conspiracy of jots, tittles, and semiquavers that dance around on a plain white sheet of paper and seduce the whole world. How insidious; how powerful; how subtle!!!!
These little notes have us by the private parts, all my readers, and they are not easing off. Where will it all end? When is it going to stop? Who will free us from the bondage of vibration that we have come to call "music?"
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Post by authentic on Jan 9, 2004 4:07:17 GMT
Two of us riding nowhere, "Spending someone's hard earned pay" What do you think (PF)aul meant by that? Who's hard earned pay? If this has been discussed before, I apologize. If someone has explained those lyrics before, I apologize. This possibly may be a reference to Brian...Not quite sure what happened to Brian's affairs...More than likely a reference to Paul or should I say it obviously is.... ;D ;D ;D
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Post by TTTM on Jan 9, 2004 5:28:33 GMT
Even more significant: Two of us sunday driving Not arriving On our way back home... At first I disagreed, but now I look at his song: " HEAVEN on a SUNDAY"!!! Are there any other refrences to Sunday?
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Post by Fwings on Jan 9, 2004 8:09:30 GMT
The references to Tuesday are what really stand out for me (they discovered Paul's body on a Tuesday)
...Corporation t-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday...
-I Am the Walrus
Tuesday afternoon is never ending...
-Lady Madonna
Sunday's on the phone to Monday, Tuesday's on the phone to me
-She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
There's even debate (for which I agree with) that the Rolling Stone's "Ruby Tuesday" (bloody Tuesday) was a tribute to James Paul.
She would never say where she came from Yesterday don’t matter if it’s gone While the sun is bright Or in the darkest night No one knows She comes and goes
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday Who could hang a name on you? When you change with every new day Still I’m gonna miss you...
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Post by SilverBeatle on Jan 9, 2004 15:51:41 GMT
Only thing that doesn't jive with RubyTuesday is according to 60IF John initially felt the Rolling Stones may have had something to do with Paul's death...
"This album cover (Pepper) is full of messages... One of the most important is "Welcome The Rolling Stones" written with blood. We hadn't had news about who it was that had killed Paul and John was sure that his murder had been commissioned by the Rolling Stones as they were well-known as delinquents.
Assuming John held these feelings would seem weird Stones would write a tribute. Were Beatles and Stones pals or enemies?
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Post by Fwings on Jan 10, 2004 8:52:32 GMT
The bit on the Rolling Stones is believed to be disinformation fed to John early on by EMI that obviously didn't hold up. They had a rivalry, yes, but it was a friendly one if nothing else. Remember, Mick Jagger took part in the "All You Need is Love" Our World performance, and was in the Day in the Life video.
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