When another hundred years or so have passed, this has my vote as the Beatles song that will endure above all others.
What’s that being recited in the background? It’s a passage from Shakespeare’s King Lear.
When another hundred years or so have passed, this has my vote as the Beatles song that will endure above all others.
What’s that being recited in the background? It’s a passage from Shakespeare’s King Lear.
With all those rather small holes sitting in the Albert Hall.
This, and “A Day in the Life.” I like to think that the secret wish of many Boomers is to hear the reprise of the dissonant climbing orchestra and the crashing piano chord coda as they travel toward the light and die. Anyway, it would make a good stand-up joke.
On an even weirder note, I believe that the beginning of IATW has some eerily prescient lines about 9/11 in it, though John would have no way of knowing it and didn’t he say he was high on LSD when he wrote it? Let’s start with “Stupid Bloody Tuesday …” But wait, there’s more!