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Success of anything in life often depends on certain critical moments.
For me, the Beatles’ success story owed a lot to John Lennon’s vocal performance on Twist and Shout.Forget anything the other Beatles may have done….
This song is famous for having been the last one recorded during the all-day session on February 11, 1963 that resulted in most of the band’s first album, Please Please Me. An favorite from the Fabs’ stage show, it was saved for last by producer George Martin because it was the hardest to sing — John, suffering from a cold, sang it so roughly that his voice was not quite right for days afterwards. The ragged quality of his voice, however, is precisely what appeals to fans of the song, who find it rawer than many Beatles covers.
I bet I know who will reply to this! :)
Interesting choice Terry…
I think we all have favourite Beatles songs but my defining moment wasn’t a Beatles song… it was two brothers (twins) who were friends when I was younger …Paul and Barry Ryan… two young men who seemed to have everything but had so many problems coping with fame….. Paul died aged 44 of cancer and Barry is now a photographer in Manchester. Their defining moment was Paul deciding not to perform anymore to save his sanity… so he wrote songs.. he did well too… even writing for Sinatra.
Paul wrote this song and Barry performed it… they had real talent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBpceStRbyQ&feature=related
For all sorts of reasons this song has meaning for me… RIP Paul
You jumped in before Sgt! :D
I remember Paul and Barry Ryan too. I was only a child and enjoyed their good looks. They did Better use your head with their mother Marion Ryan, who herself was a legend..
defining moments? the opening riffs of the Clash on Clash city rockers will always be sheer freedom and euphoria to me.
Thats true ruby… but even when Marion had her TV show Paul and Barry lived with their Grandma in a terrace house in Leeds… their grandad was a market trader on Leeds market… I dont think show business was as lucrative then as it is now…
My sister who is four years older than me used to take Paul, Barry and me to school… I was the youngest …and I used to get in trouble for not keeping up :D
Julie Andrews running round and round the hills, swinging her arms round like a loon, clear voice, not a swear word or naughty thought in sight. The first LP I ever bought. I wanted to marry this woman, so pure, so uplifting, so asexual. A nun with a bit of life but still not naughty. Oh would my wife be like her????!!!!
Twist and Shout was my first record, and an EP, three years earlier. I was really with it, liked the Beatles before anyone else in my class, and was totally in puppy-love with Paul McCartney’s face.
Being taken to see South Pacific when it first came to the town cinema in 1960. mam recruited me coz dad said it made him sick to think of the film. He was really ard, was our dad. Mitzi Gaynor running on the sand with her arms swinging around and jumping on a big rock as the blue sea hit the Sandy Shaw. Young Marine Lootenan’ holding an underage Vietnamese girl in his arms, and then swimming with her in an underwater lagoon to the lilting tune of Younger than Springtime.
Hey no reason to be so scared of life, I thought. Things were going to be all right, with Americans and Vietnamese loving one another, everyone smiling and helping one another and a warm sun shining on an ocean which was forever blue.
Yeah, life was going to be good when I grew up.
For me – giving birth – even scept can’t beat that! :lol:
Would be like passing a grapefruit, oh, maybe a HUGE pumpkin through ya winkie! :lol:
@sceptical guy wrote:
Julie Andrews running round and round the hills, swinging her arms round like a loon, clear voice, not a swear word or naughty thought in sight. The first LP I ever bought. I wanted to marry this woman, so pure, so uplifting, so asexual. A nun with a bit of life but still not naughty. Oh would my wife be like her????!!!!
Twist and Shout was my first record, and an EP, three years earlier. I was really with it, liked the Beatles before anyone else in my class, and was totally in puppy-love with Paul McCartney’s face.
Being taken to see South Pacific when it first came to the town cinema in 1960. mam recruited me coz dad said it made him sick to think of the film. He was really ard, was our dad. Mitzi Gaynor running on the sand with her arms swinging around and jumping on a big rock as the blue sea hit the Sandy Shaw. Young Marine Lootenan’ holding an underage Vietnamese girl in his arms, and then swimming with her in an underwater lagoon to the lilting tune of Younger than Springtime.
Hey no reason to be so scared of life, I thought. Things were going to be all right, with Americans and Vietnamese loving one another, everyone smiling and helping one another and a warm sun shining on an ocean which was forever blue.
Yeah, life was going to be good when I grew up.
I like you.
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