Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the same time, though, the Beatleologists hit a dry vein when they decided that the songtitle "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was an anagram for LSD. The song's author, John Lennon, has explained to the world that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was the title of a drawing his daughter brought home from school, around which he built a song about a little girl's fantasies. The song is simply an updated "Big Rock Candy Mountain" with a very neat accelerate-slowdown effect that gives the impression that you're traveling...
...performers who dress up in Edwardian band costumes to comment on modern times? First of all, when you talk about the Beatles, you mostly mean John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who write nearly all the words and tunes, and producer George Martin, who writes the rest of what you hear on the record. Martin knows all the musical technique anyone will ever need: as a musicologist, he has at is command every classical trick in the book, as a record producer, he knows how to make piano strings sound like the winds of Hell. He can conjure up anything...
...blue and orange Rolls-Royce earned the London Daily Express' admiration as "a cross between a psychedelic nightmare and an autumn garden on wheels." But it was a pretty square set of wheels compared to John Lennon's latest vehicle-an 1874 carriage, fundamentally yellow with wild flowers rampant, which was triumphantly drawn up to Lennon's mansion in Weybridge, Surrey, by two white horses in front with two more trotting at the rear. The new Beatlemobile, which cost Lennon about $10,000 to buy and have refurbished, "is really a toy for four-year-old Julian...
...surname, Dumbell-Smith, so tickles John Lennon that he is writing a Beatle tune about...
...There may be comic incongruity in her highfalutin version of Yellow Submarine, and Paul McCartney, surprisingly enough, sings Eleanor Rigby a great deal more movingly than Cathy does. Yet in such waifish songs as Michelle, Here There and Everywhere and Yesterday, her tasteful, straightforward singing warmly underlines John Lennon's lyrics and McCartney's inventive melodies...