With regard to the Beatles, local KGO radio host Pat Thurston
interviewed Larry Kane, a young news reporter at the time of the Beatles
who hung out with them on their US tour and has recently written a book
about it called "When They Were Boys." He talks about how many of their
songs were actually written a couple years before they were "discovered."
http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcast&id=4372&is_corp=0
It's the Sunday 5PM podcast.
On 10/31/2013 11:02 AM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Re "As for "increased" creativity, however, most serious rock critics
consider their two previous albums ("Rubber Soul" and "Revolver") to
be better than "Sgt. Pepper.":
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, Bhairitu wrote:
>
> Uh, how about they were just creative people to begin with? Many
> artists and musicians are such. It's called "talent."
>
> On 10/31/2013 09:20 AM, cardemaister@... wrote:
> >
> > So, it seems like LSD might have been the main culprit for their
> > increased creativity??
I'm gonna go with Bhairitu's answer above; they were
just creative to start with.
As for "increased" creativity, however, most serious rock
critics consider their two previous albums ("Rubber Soul"
and "Revolver") to be better than "Sgt. Pepper." I know
I certainly do.
Revolver was also heavily indebted to the Fab Four's LSD initiation.
"Tomorrow Never Knows" was a full-on attempt to recreate the immersive
experience of LSD with lyrics borrowed from Timothy Leary's Tibetan
Book of the Dead-inspired writings.
"'Got to Get You into My Life' was about pot, claims McCartney. I (as
did John Lennon) consider it more likely to be about Paul's first acid
trip. Consider the lyric: "I took a ride, I didn't know what I would
find there / Another road where maybe I could see some other kind of
mind there."
"She Said She Said" is a song written by John Lennon who described it
as "an 'acidy' song" with lyrics inspired by actor Peter Fonda's
comments during an LSD trip in 1965 with members of the Beatles and
the Byrds.
