Tag Archives: The Beatles
Song of the Day #1,713: ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ – Irene Lombard
Song of the Day #1,712: ‘And Your Bird Can Sing’ – Claudia Jardine
Song of the Day #1,711: ‘If I Fell’ – Sara Wee
I’ve been a bad, bad blogger. It’s been a hectic couple of weeks at work and I have neglected the blog to such an extent that I am currently five hours from my next scheduled Song of the Day post and I have nothing scheduled to run.
That might not seem so bad if you don’t know that I generally write these posts at least one to two weeks in advance. All those Arcade Fire posts… when I wrote them, not only did we not know who the new pope was, I don’t think the old one had even stepped down.
So this is uncomfortable territory for me.
Song of the Day #1,537: ‘Not a Second Time’ – The Beatles
Yesterday I looked at how Bob Dylan shaped my musical tastes for decades. Today I’m paying tribute to the other important formative band of my adolescence — The Beatles.
I got into The Beatles a year or two after I discovered Dylan, when I was around 17. I spent a ridiculous amount of time that summer typing out the lyrics to all of the band’s songs on an electric typewriter (the sort of story I can tell my kids to explain how unplugged we were “back in the day”).
Meet Me In Montauk 