On Thursday, October 3, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, saki wrote:
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:52:46 GMT, Eric Johnson ><Eric.J...@ColumbiaSC.ATTGIS.COM> wrote:
Say Lennon did mix in 'everybodys' fucked up' at the end of IATW, which >>was a big enough public supposition at the time the song came out that >>the Beatles had to deny it to the press.
Just curious. Can you cite any such denial? I've never heard this one before and would like to know where the denial was printed, just for future reference.
Many people take this for "Everybody smoke pot", which is also not
what it says.
Would any of the Beatles, especially Lennon, admit it?
Well, what you're saying then is that whether they confirm or deny it,
it makes no difference to the accuracy of the lyrical transcription.
:-)
So how do you find out for sure? Consult one of the Mike Sammes
Singers, perhaps, who sang this passage in the song?
No, because then the song would be
censored, or have to be remixed and reissued, etc.
But the song already mentioned "knickers", which got Auntie Beeb's own knickers in a twist. :-) The Beeb was pretty overwrought about things
they thought were lyrically salacious or inappropriate. They didn't
like "A Day In The Life" because Paul sang about going upstairs to
have a smoke...which the BBC assumed, in its wisdom, was about pot
smoking (again, it was not). Yet the line "I'd love to turn you on"
was apparently not the cause of the BBC's banning of the song...go
figure!
I think the Beatles,
in their heyday, were arrogant and talented enough to try and slip a lot >>of stuff by their unsuspecting, dim witted public with a wink and a nod, >>and did! And I think it's great!!
They did less than you think. It appears the Fabs thought more highlyDon't forget the excerpts from King Lear which add quite a big to the weirdness of the song.
of their art than to use it constantly as a massive in-joke. Most of
the time they were trying to communicate to us feelings and
philosophies on quite a higher plane. If you're missing that aspect of their music, you may want to listen again. You can never hear the
Beatles too many times, IMHO. :-)
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Question for everyone - my friend and I, who are both big fans, were
sitting around listening to I Am the Walrus one sunny day. But we got inot
a bit of an arguement at the end of the song, where the vocaists are "singing" their little bit over and over and over... you know, right at
the end. Well, he told me that they were saying "Everybody smokes pot" -
that really high sounding voice in particular. I disagreed - I don;t
think that is waht it says and I have never heard or read anything to make
me think differently. So, can someone help me out???
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