Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Beatles News
- Mash-Up Monday: Beatles vs. Wu-Tang Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers (Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock)
- Former Beatle Ringo wears Electric Fetus T-shirt, Minnesotans wonder how he got it (KARE)
- Brush Up on Your Beatles Knowledge With Summer School at Oxford University (Jaunted)
- Fab Four-themed Mankey Monkeys go on display at Liverpool's Beatles hotel (Liverpool Daily Post)
- Paul McCartney Plugs Meat-Free Monday On Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP (Ecorazzi)
- Heather Mills Says Her Genitals Are Made Of Steel (Musicrooms.net)
Ringo Starr on "Lady Madonna"
"It sounds like Elvis, doesn't it? No -- no, it doesn't sound like Elvis. It is Elvis -- even those bits where he goes very high."
Monday, February 01, 2010
Beatles News
- Free Beatles Theme from Build By Request (BerryReview.com)
- The Beck Week That Was; Woodrow Wilson is an Evil SOB Edition (News Hounds)
- Income tax software makes best of bad situation (TheChronicleHerald.ca)
- Baby you can drive my car (Schenectady Gazette)
- Mills: 'McCartney's Daughter Will Be Musical' (Contactmusic.com)
"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"
"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and performed by The Beatles on their 1968 double-disc album The Beatles, also known as "The White Album."
Origins
In 1980, Lennon said: "That was just a sort of nice line that I made into a song. It was about me and Yoko. Everybody seemed to be paranoid except for us two, who were in the glow of love. Everything is clear and open when you're in love. Everybody was sort of tense around us: You know, 'What is she doing here at the session? Why is she with him?' All this sort of madness is going on around us because we just happened to want to be together all the time."
The song's title is the longest of any in the Beatles' catalog, and it originates from a quote by the Maharishi; however, as for the "and My Monkey" part, George Harrison attested that he didn't "know where that came from." The most common interpretation is that John's "monkey" was a pet name for Yoko Ono, though the most obvious interpretation is that the use of "monkey" is to refer to an addiction of some kind, which would make the title humorous.
Recording
The released version of the song was recorded at Abbey Road Studios on 27 June 1968, and an overdub session the next day.
Personnel
* John Lennon: lead and harmony vocals; lead and rhythm guitar; percussion.
* Paul McCartney: bass, fireman bell, harmony vocals.
* George Harrison: lead guitar, harmony vocals.
* Ringo Starr: drums.
Cover versions
* Fats Domino covered the song in 1970, which pleased Lennon, a long-time fan of Domino's.
* Ramsey Lewis included an instrumental version of the song on his 1968 album Mother Nature's Son.
* The American rock group the Feelies also covered the song on their 1980 debut album, Crazy Rhythms.
* Phish covered the song when they played the entire album on Halloween 1994, which they released as Live Phish Volume 13.
* Beatallica (a satire tribute band that plays songs derived from those of the Beatles and Metallica ) covered the song as "Everybody's Got a Ticket to Ride Except for Me and My Lightning", which combines the titles of this song, "Ticket to Ride", and the Metallica song "Ride the Lightning".
* Kristin Hersh (main singer and songwriter of the Throwing Muses) covered this song on her 1999 Echo EP, which was released in conjunction with her third solo album, Sky Motel.
* The Trews have covered this song during many of their live sets.
* Soundgarden would play the song in 1988, and there is also a bootleg with a demo.
* 60ft Dolls put a live cover of the song on track two of their 'Happy Shopper' CD Single in 1996.
* Tea Leaf Green played a cover of the song around midnight on New Years Eve, December 31, 2008.
Cultural references
In the episode Speaking Terms / Tooth and Nail of the Nickelodeon cartoon Rocko's Modern Life, the title of the song was referenced by the main character. In this episode, Rocko has acquired a nail-biting problem and tries to hide his hands under a ham and a monkey puppet as he answers the door. His friends, Heffer and Filburt try to question him, to which Rocko replies "So what? Everyone's got something to hide except for meat, and my monkey!"
Marilyn Manson alluded to the song live frequently during the early-mid 90's, as well as wrote a song called "My Monkey" which loosely can said to be influenced from this song.
Robbie Williams released his own song entitled "Me and My Monkey" on his 2002 album, Escapology.
In the Vertigo comic Y: The Last Man, issue #46, Yorick calls "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" the worst Beatles song. He uses it to compare the relationship he has with his pet monkey, Ampersand. Ampersand is the only living being he tells everything to.
Album: The Beatles
Released: 22 November 1968
Recorded: 27 June 1968
Genre: Rock and roll, hard rock
Length: 2:24
Label: Apple Records
Writer: Lennon/McCartney
Producer: George Martin
Wikipedia
Origins
In 1980, Lennon said: "That was just a sort of nice line that I made into a song. It was about me and Yoko. Everybody seemed to be paranoid except for us two, who were in the glow of love. Everything is clear and open when you're in love. Everybody was sort of tense around us: You know, 'What is she doing here at the session? Why is she with him?' All this sort of madness is going on around us because we just happened to want to be together all the time."
The song's title is the longest of any in the Beatles' catalog, and it originates from a quote by the Maharishi; however, as for the "and My Monkey" part, George Harrison attested that he didn't "know where that came from." The most common interpretation is that John's "monkey" was a pet name for Yoko Ono, though the most obvious interpretation is that the use of "monkey" is to refer to an addiction of some kind, which would make the title humorous.
Recording
The released version of the song was recorded at Abbey Road Studios on 27 June 1968, and an overdub session the next day.
Personnel
* John Lennon: lead and harmony vocals; lead and rhythm guitar; percussion.
* Paul McCartney: bass, fireman bell, harmony vocals.
* George Harrison: lead guitar, harmony vocals.
* Ringo Starr: drums.
Cover versions
* Fats Domino covered the song in 1970, which pleased Lennon, a long-time fan of Domino's.
* Ramsey Lewis included an instrumental version of the song on his 1968 album Mother Nature's Son.
* The American rock group the Feelies also covered the song on their 1980 debut album, Crazy Rhythms.
* Phish covered the song when they played the entire album on Halloween 1994, which they released as Live Phish Volume 13.
* Beatallica (a satire tribute band that plays songs derived from those of the Beatles and Metallica ) covered the song as "Everybody's Got a Ticket to Ride Except for Me and My Lightning", which combines the titles of this song, "Ticket to Ride", and the Metallica song "Ride the Lightning".
* Kristin Hersh (main singer and songwriter of the Throwing Muses) covered this song on her 1999 Echo EP, which was released in conjunction with her third solo album, Sky Motel.
* The Trews have covered this song during many of their live sets.
* Soundgarden would play the song in 1988, and there is also a bootleg with a demo.
* 60ft Dolls put a live cover of the song on track two of their 'Happy Shopper' CD Single in 1996.
* Tea Leaf Green played a cover of the song around midnight on New Years Eve, December 31, 2008.
Cultural references
In the episode Speaking Terms / Tooth and Nail of the Nickelodeon cartoon Rocko's Modern Life, the title of the song was referenced by the main character. In this episode, Rocko has acquired a nail-biting problem and tries to hide his hands under a ham and a monkey puppet as he answers the door. His friends, Heffer and Filburt try to question him, to which Rocko replies "So what? Everyone's got something to hide except for meat, and my monkey!"
Marilyn Manson alluded to the song live frequently during the early-mid 90's, as well as wrote a song called "My Monkey" which loosely can said to be influenced from this song.
Robbie Williams released his own song entitled "Me and My Monkey" on his 2002 album, Escapology.
In the Vertigo comic Y: The Last Man, issue #46, Yorick calls "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" the worst Beatles song. He uses it to compare the relationship he has with his pet monkey, Ampersand. Ampersand is the only living being he tells everything to.
Album: The Beatles
Released: 22 November 1968
Recorded: 27 June 1968
Genre: Rock and roll, hard rock
Length: 2:24
Label: Apple Records
Writer: Lennon/McCartney
Producer: George Martin
Wikipedia
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Heather McCartney
Heather Louise McCartney (née See) was born December 31, 1962 in Tucson, Arizona to Linda McCartney (née Eastman) and Joseph Melville See Jr., an American geologist. She is the adoptive daughter of Paul McCartney.Biography
McCartney's parents divorced after only eighteen months of marriage, because See had taken off for Africa and expected his wife and daughter to follow. Linda See refused, and sent a letter to her husband stating that she wanted a divorce. After raising her daughter on her own in New York City for several years, Linda McCartney married Paul McCartney of The Beatles in 1969, when her daughter was six years old. That same year, she was formally adopted by Paul McCartney through legal process (and prior consent from See, her biological father) and took the McCartney name. Also in 1969, McCartney appeared in the last Beatles movie, Let It Be. She has stated that although See had a lifelong influence on her, she considers Paul McCartney to be her father.
A sister, Mary, was born in 1969, followed by another sister, Stella, in 1971 and a brother, James, in 1977. Heather's former stepmother Heather Mills is five years younger than she. She has a much younger half-sister, Beatrice Milly McCartney, born to Paul McCartney and Heather Mills on October 28, 2003. She has five nephews and one niece: Mary's three sons Arthur Alistair Donald (born 3 April 1999), Elliot Donald (born 1 August 2002) and Sam Aboud (born 11 August 2008). Stella's two sons Miller Alasdhair James Willis (born 25 February 2005) and Beckett Robert Lee Willis (born January 8, 2008, and her daughter Bailey Linda Olwyn Willis (born 8 December 2006).
Beginning shortly after the birth of Stella in 1971, McCartney and her siblings accompanied their famous parents around the world with their successful rock group Wings. This continued until 1980 when the band stopped touring. She has said that, as a child, she had trouble forming friendships with other children and had difficulty fitting in; she has also said she did not do well in school.
With encouragement from her mother, she took up printing at the Photographers' Workshop in Covent Garden, and was talented enough to win the Young Black and White Printer of the Year Award in Ilford for a photo she called "Waterfall." Her success encouraged her to go on to art college, where she discovered a talent for pottery and design.
During the early 1980s, Heather McCartney dated musician Billy Idol.
In her twenties, Heather McCartney was hospitalized in a clinic for treatment of an emotional disorder. A few years after her release, she traveled to Mexico with very little money and spent several months living among natives of the Huichol and Tarahumara tribes. She felt liberated by this experience.
Later, McCartney moved to Arizona to live with See, where she became even more interested in ceramics. She later returned to England to work as a potter. Her pottery is now famous and critically acclaimed in the United Kingdom.
In 1995, McCartney's mother Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer and died on April 17, 1998, in Tucson, Arizona.
To date, McCartney remains a prominent potter and designer, with exhibitions in New York City, Phoenix, Tokyo, Paris and Sydney, and has been described by Wedgewood as "one of Britain's most exciting new talents." In 1999, Heather unveiled a line of houseware products in Atlanta, Georgia called the Heather McCartney Houseware Collection. She was accompanied by Paul McCartney.
In line with the beliefs of her parents, and siblings, Heather has interests in ecology, animal rights and native peoples. McCartney practices Catholicism.
Currently, Heather McCartney lives on Paul McCartney's Sussex estate in England, where she maintains a low profile and continues to work as a potter.
Wikipedia
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