GREAT MOMENTS IN ROCK

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Good times, bad times, great moments and some stories behind the songs and the people.........

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Naked voice of Merry Clayton singing Gimme Shelter

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Paul McCartney interview he wished he never did! "Hey Jude by John Lennon?Youve hit on a sore point!


The Beatles - Hey Jude

The Beatles
Published on Dec 7, 2015
The Beatles 1 Video Collection is out now. Available on: www.thebeatles.com/

Hey Jude topped the charts in Britain for two weeks and for 9 weeks in America, where it became The Beatles longest-running No.1 in the US singles chart as well as the single with the longest running time.

The Beatles did not record their promotional film until Hey Jude had been on sale in America for a week. They returned to Twickenham Film Studio, using director Michael Lindsay-Hogg who had worked with them on Paperback Writer and Rain. Earlier still, Lindsay-Hogg had directed episodes of Ready Steady Go! And a few months after the film for Hey Jude he made The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus TV special that featured John and Yoko but wouldn’t be shown until 1996

To help with the filming an audience of around 300 local people, as well as some of the fans that gathered regularly outside Abbey Road Studios were brought in for the song’s finale. Their presence had an unlikely upside for The Beatles in their long-running saga with the Musicians’ Union in that the MU were fooled into believing the band were playing live, when in fact they were miming for the vast majority of the song. Paul, however, sang live throughout the song.

The video was first broadcast on David Frost’s Frost On Sunday show, four days after it was filmed. At that point transmission was in black and white although the promo was originally shot in colour. It was first aired in America a month later on 6 October 1968, on The Smotheres Brothers Comedy Hour.

Official site: www.thebeatles.com

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John Lennon meets Paul McCartney

From March 1975 - A nice video discussing John's partnership and friendship with Paul.

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I recall the big thing in music during my senior year in high school and prom was Carole King's Tapestry. By the end of the year as a freshman in college American Pie was ruling the charts. The song pulled in a lot of important moments that led up to this time. When I received my Vietnam Draft lottery number American Pie was #1 on the charts. Talk about a solemn day in the dorms. Across the courtyard one could hear the faint sounds of American Pie on the radio but in the darkened dorm hallways was echoing the "voice" of the lottery caller picking a birthdate and then the draft # to correspond. We all skipped class that morning to listen. All room doors were open down the vast expanse of that hall to receive our fate. I laid down on my bed to wait for my 5 seconds. Great moment in rock but bad moment in life for many.

The story of Don McLean’s magnum opus begins almost 13 years before its release, on a date with significance well-known to any American who was alive and conscious at the time. Tuesday February 3, 1959, was the date of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the J.P. “the Big Bopper” Richardson—a date that would be imbued with transcendent meaning by Don McLean when he labeled it “the Day the Music Died.” One might reasonably point out that the baby-boom generation has since invested its entire rock-and-roll experience with transcendent meaning, but don’t blame Don McLean for starting the trend. “American Pie” wasn’t written to be a generation-defining epic; it was written simply to capture McLean’s view of “America as I was seeing it and how I was fantasizing it might become.”
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-pie-hits-1-on-the-pop-charts

Don McLean American Pie the story behind


American Pie Explained: Don McLean's Cultural History of Rock n' Roll


Don McLean - The meaning of American Pie (UPDATE)

lonestarsound
Published on Feb 15, 2007
This is a revision to previously posted videos. I was fortunate enough to go to the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake IA and speak firsthand with many who were there including Tommy Allsup who flipped the coin with Ritchie Valens. This version corrects some factual errors and includes new footage from the SURF