The Beatles The Candle Burns

I’ve been a Beatles fan since I first discovered the Fab Four in High School-about ten years after the band broke up. I bought reissues of all their albums and once in a while in a thrift store I would find an album I had never seen before. These unknown albums would often have the usual tracks of an LP I was familiar with, but with new cover art. Once in a while they had songs I had never heard of either. These, of course, were bootleg albums-records cranked out by companies that didn’t have the rights to release them…

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Beatles-Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club is the most important album the Beatles ever recorded. The satin uniforms, the backward music, that whole Paul is Dead thing. And it was in eye popping color. Their first smash album in the U.S. was Meet The Beatles, followed by their appearance on Ed Sullivan-both in black and white. The split lighting on the cover of Meet the Beatles has been paraded almost as much as the mob scene on the cover of Sgt Pepper. I discovered the Beatles when I was in High School in the late 1970s. Disco and New Wave ruled…

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Beatles Song Yer Blues

Yes I’m lonely wanna dieYes I’m lonely wanna dieIf I ain’t dead alreadyOoh girl you know the reason why. The Beatles-Yer Blues The Beatles album named The Beatles, and known by almost everyone as The White Album, has some of the best and weirdest songs The Fab Four ever recorded. This is not so much a rock album as a collection random musings by four men that could record virtually anything and have it sell a gazillion copies. There are good solid songs here, like Back in the USSR and Ob-la-de, Ob-la-da. My personal favorites on the Beatles only double…

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Across The Universe-The Soundtrack

The Beatles songs are strong and amazing, no matter who sings them or how they sing them. The fact that three Anthology Sets of unreleased music sold millions of copies. Followed by Let It Be Naked selling millions of copies. And then Love, music to watch Cirque Du Soleil by, sold millions of copies should prove that there is still a market for this stuff. But all of those were, in fact, The Beatles. Across the Universe is not the Beatles, not even close, but the music is still powerful and good.I have always had this fantasy of recording an…

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