1 Topic by gitaardocphil (edited by gitaardocphil 2009-01-17 07:09:08)

  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Topic: Beatles & Eolling Stones

Listen to this: http://www.myspace.com/beatlejazz
I wander:
-  how many times a Beatles song was and still is covered
- how many Rolling Stones songs were/are covered

I wonder
- how many songs the Beatles gave away.

About the Beatles: a range of probably 200 songs? I have more than enough time and I am really impressed.
There are too many songs so I will give you this, by the way, great site:
http://www.secondhandsongs.com were you can find "tons"of information about almost all the bands.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW SOMETHING: do you agree, do you like it and kast but not least you will find "unbelievable" facts. You want an example, well here is one: who wrote "angels of the morning"?
Yes, CHIP TAYLOR (= brother of the actor JON VOIGHT), but how many people know this? This is what I loved, a site providing you almost every valuable information, just search the artist OR search the song

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  • From: Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Re: Beatles & Eolling Stones

If you are looking for stories about the writing of particular songs, the BBC have a long list of songs with detail about their writing. For instance, "blew his mind out in a car" from A Day in the life by Lennon / McCartney was about guiness heiress Tara Browne.

You can access this at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/ .

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  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Re: Beatles & Eolling Stones

Yes, I visited the Guinness Factory 10 days ago, and they told that story too.

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

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  • From: Wales
  • Registered: 2009-01-09
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Re: Beatles & Eolling Stones

alansheeran wrote:

If you are looking for stories about the writing of particular songs, the BBC have a long list of songs with detail about their writing. For instance, "blew his mind out in a car" from A Day in the life by Lennon / McCartney was about guiness heiress Tara Browne.

You can access this at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/ .

I have a book at home, I can't recall the name but it lists every Beatle track, how it was written, who wrote what and what state of mind they were in. 

I read Hey Jude was initially written by Lennon and was called Hey Jules (refering to his son) but Lennon was struggling to fill parts so he handed it to McCartney who finished it off (and changed the name to Jude).

Great read, if your interested I'll dig out the name and publisher when I get home.

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