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Post by End80 on Oct 21, 2022 19:29:20 GMT
Today BD at HB posted a link to a priceless recording of WABC during the wee hours of Oct 21, 1969
It's the disc jockey discussing that Paul McCartney was probably dead. Evidently he went on about it for a few hours before being pulled from the air for breaking format.
(youtu.be/Mb1Ghis8y6A)
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Post by mark on Oct 22, 2022 0:31:33 GMT
Isn't it funny that people get so many weird ideas about what is true or not from an album cover or a song that has abstract lyrics.
John Lennon got a kick out of this. People trying to interpret the meaning of songs and what they think is no where near the truth. He wrote I am a Walrus just for that reason. He took phrases from all kinds of places and put meaningless sentences together and listened while everyone tried to figure it out.
It meant nothing. The song from the double white album....Happiness Is A Warm Gun....everyone thought is was about heroin but the truth is he was driving in the USA and saw a poster on a tree that said happiness is a warm gun with someone holding a gun. He just got a few ideas from that poster and stuck it in a song. It had nothing to do with drugs. On the Abby Road album the picture where they were crossing the road and Paul was a little out of step, meant nothing, but from that this rumour that Paul was dead...it never meant anything!
The Donovan song Mellow Yellow was never about drugs.....he saw an ad in a paper for a vibrator called mellow yellow and wrote a song about it. Electrical banana was what the vibrator looked like to him. Strange ideas people get when they here something they don't understand and try to figure it out.
Songwriters get ideas for songs form many places and if it is not straight forward in meaning people get crazy ideas as to what it means. Just like abstract art as opposed to a painted picture of something definite like a country scene.
Wonder what Paul Mccartney thought when everyone thought he was dead.
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