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...sound like they were recorded while Spector was out of the room ("Apple Scruffs," "If Not For You") and those that seem like deliberate imitations of other people. "What is Life," for example, which is not nearly so bad as the title suggests, is a cross between "Keep on Runnin" by the Spencer Davis Group and any number of Paul Revere and the Raiders songs. "My Sweet Lord," a Top 40 hit, is musically a direct steal from the Chiffons' great "He's So Fine," and must have been done as a deliberate goof. There is something genuinely funny about...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: All Things Must Pass Living Without the Beatles | 12/12/1970 | See Source »

...Yeah. We took Bunk on as a second trumpet. He and Evan started soundin' real nice together--man, we had us a band then. Well, about two nights before Thanksgivin', we was up on the bandstand, and this fella name of John Gilbey come runnin' into the dance hall with a butcher knife. Said Evan been messin' around with his wife. Evan didn't have no time to run, so he grabbed me by the shoulders and ducked down behind me." George raised his eyebrows and smiled his ironic smile, "Man I thought I was finished then. That man reached...

Author: By Thomas A. Sancton, | Title: 'I Had to Make Music Like That, Too' | 5/21/1969 | See Source »

...spring and the sap is runnin' high at Disney's. They've perduced melliferous live-action pitchers 'fore Family Band, but this'n could be cut up and used for flypaper-and mebbe ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...Kantner: "There's a significantly greater communication between the music itself, the people who make it, and the people who listen to it than there was in Elvis Presley's day." One difference is that Elvis never had "acid rock" going for him. The Airplane's Runnin' 'Round This World, for example, is a number that, says Lead Singer Marty Balin, celebrates the "fantastic joy of making love while under LSD." Their latest single, White Rabbit, is a fantasy about a kind of Alice in Wonder-drugland that is "aimed at the twelve-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Open Up, Tune In, Turn On | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...Eastern world it is explodin', Violence flarin', and bullets loadin'. You're old enough to kill, but not for votin' . . . If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away. There'll be no one to save, with the world in a grave . . . Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Message Time | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

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