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...joke...you can't put over how you really are. Newspapers always get things wrong." Newspapers always get things wrong; a truth we all learned from Rosenthal's hilarious reporting from Columbia. So why not put them on. "What do you think of Beethoven?" "I love him," said Ringo. "Especially his poems." Fuck them all if they think we're stupid...
They gave up touring when it was no longer fun. "Once you've got to manufacture it, it doesn't work. You've got to give to receive," Ringo said. Or as John put it, "It's like the Army, Whatever'n the Army's like...
Musically, the song is a mixture of the burbling sighs and grunts of "Hello-Goodbye" (one magnificent nasal intake of breath after the line 'Remember to let her other lines from pervious verses) and the wavering, broad-based melody punctuated by Ringo's superb stabbing drums of 'All You Need Is Love...
What Davies finally suggests is the Beatles' isolation and boredom. Ringo is the most content, living a suburban, intensely domestic life in a house full of gadgets, including six TV sets. Paul roams restlessly through the youthful London underground, where artists and the remaining hippies overlap. George Harrison searched desperately for his own thing, seems to have found it briefly in Indian music and mysticism. Since Davies' book went into type John has left his wife and son for the Japanese artist Yoko Ono, and has put his suburban house up for sale. John trims away friends, will...
Davies reveals that John has had bouts of shoplifting, that in school Paul "always got good marks for all his essays," and that John, George and Paul have sometimes been vegetarians. It is further disclosed that Ringo's wife Maureen collects trading stamps...