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This is my tribute to my favorite rock band of all time-The Beatles. I am trying my best to post something about them every Tuesdays and forgive me if there are times I wasn’t able to do so.

I have been a big fan of the 60’s band since high school. I love their music to, the bones. Everytime I hear their songs in the radio or on a cd I get excited and inspired. I can name a few of my favorite songs but love all their music.  This one here is from sir Paul McCartney’s concert in Kiev, Ukraine last June 14, 2008.

As is true of many of McCartney’s songs, the melody and first line of the song came to him as he was playing around on his piano. The name that came to him, though, was not Eleanor Rigby but Miss Daisy Hawkins. In 1966, McCartney recalled how he got the idea for his song:

Others believe that Father McKenzie refers to ‘Father’ Tommy McKenzie, who was the compere at Northwich Memorial Hall^[3][4]

McCartney originally imagined Daisy as a pre-pubescent girl, but anyone who cleaned up in churches would probably be older. If she were older, she might have missed not only the wedding she cleans up after but also her own.

McCartney said he came up with the name Eleanor from actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with the Beatles in the film Help!. Rigby came from the name of a store in Bristol, Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers, that he noticed while seeing his then-girlfriend Jane Asher act in The Happiest Days Of Your Life. He recalled in 1984, “I just liked the name. I was looking for a name that sounded natural. Eleanor Rigby sounded natural.”^[5]

The Beatles finished the song in the music room of John Lennon’s home at Kenwood. John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their friend Pete Shotton all listened to McCartney play his song through and contributed ideas. Starr contributed the line “writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear ” and suggested making “Father McCartney” darn his socks, which McCartney liked. Shotton then suggested that McCartney change the name of the priest, in case listeners mistook the fictional character in the song for McCartney’s own father.^[6]

The song is often described as a lament for lonely people^[7] or a commentary on post-war life in Britain.^[8][9]

McCartney couldn’t decide how to end the song, and Shotton finally suggested that the two lonely people come together too late as Father McKenzie conducts Eleanor Rigby’s funeral. At the time, Lennon rejected the idea out of hand, but McCartney said nothing and used the idea to finish off the song, later acknowledging Shotton’s help.^[6]

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Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
Jai guru de va om
Nothing’s gonna change my world,
Nothing’s gonna change my world.

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
That call me on and on across the universe,
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box they
Tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the universe
Jai guru de va om
Nothing’s gonna change my world,
Nothing’s gonna change my world.

Sounds of laughter shades of earth are ringing
Through my open views inviting and inciting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a
Million suns, it calls me on and on
Across the universe
Jai guru de va om
Nothing’s gonna change my world,
Nothing’s gonna change my world.

One night in 1967, the phrase “words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup” came to Lennon after hearing his then-wife Cynthia, according to Lennon, “going on and on about something”. Later, after “she’d gone to sleep—and I kept hearing these words over and over, flowing like an endless stream”, Lennon went downstairs and it turned into a song. He began to write the rest of the lyrics and when he was done, he went to bed and forgot about them.

In the morning, Lennon found the paper on which he had written the lyrics and took them down to his piano, where he began to play chords, and find pitches to match the words. The flavor of the song was heavily influenced by Lennon’s and The Beatles’ interest in Transcendental Meditation in late 1967–early 1968, when the song was composed. Based on this he added the mantra Jai guru deva om to the piece, which became the link to the chorus. The Sanskrit phrase is a sentence fragment whose words could have many meanings, but roughly translate to “Victory to God divine”,”hail to the divine guru”, or the phrase commonly invoked by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi “All Glory to Guru Deva” then the mystic syllable om, which is theoretically the cosmic sound of the universe and used by monks during meditation.

The song’s lyrical structure is straightforward: three repetitions of a unit consisting of a verse, the line “Jai guru deva om” and the line “Nothing’s gonna change my world” repeated four times. The lyrics are highly image-based, with abstract concepts reified with phrases like thoughts “meandering”, words “slithering”, and undying love “shining”. The title phrase “across the universe” appears at intervals to finish lines, although it never cadences, always appearing as a rising figure, melodically unresolved.

In his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, Lennon referred to the song as perhaps the best, most poetic lyric he ever wrote. He also expressed pride in the meter of the main verses, commenting on how unique it was to his compositions and how he could not duplicate it.

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Here’s another hit song from The Beatles. Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Hope you’ll enjoy this you all Beatlemania fans out there!

“IN MY LIFE”

“According to Lennon, the song’s origins can be found when English journalist Kenneth Allsop made a remark that Lennon should write songs about his childhood. Afterwards, Lennon wrote a song in the form of a long poem reminiscing on his childhood years. The original version of the lyrics was based on a bus route he used to take in LiverPool, naming various sites seen along the way, including Penny Lane and Strawberry Field.

However, Lennon found it to be “ridiculous”, calling it “the most boring sort of ‘What I Did On My Holidays Bus Trip’ song”; he reworked the words with Paul McCartney, replacing the specific memories with a generalized meditation on his past. “Very few lines” of the original version remained in the finished song. According to Lennon’s friend and biographer Peter Shotton, the lines “Some [friends] are dead and some are living/In my life I’ve loved them all” referred to Stuart Sutcliffe (who died in 1962) and to Shotton.

According to Lennon, McCartney supplied harmony and the “middle eight” or bridge section of the song. The section to which Lennon referred is unclear, as the song does not contain a recognizable bridge aside from a brief instrumental break. McCartney claimed he set Lennon’s lyrics to music from beginning to end, claiming that he wrote the whole melody but took inspiration from songs by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles. Of the disagreement, McCartney said, “I find it very gratifying that out of everything we wrote, we only appear to disagree over two songs”, the other being “Eleanor Rigby”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_My_Life

I would love to watch The Beatles concert in a flat screen tv with a dolby surround sound system. Our tv is not lcd flat screen. I even have to find appropriate tv stands for our humble crt type television.

Last night Ella and I went to visit my mother and sisters place. They just arrived from Bukidnon where they brought our fathers urn.It was his will that after the wake here in Davao he will be brought there to give way for other relatives and friends to able to see him the for the last time. Unfortunately, they will see him through his ashes. They had a great time there as what they are telling me (my sisies). My dad said when he was still alive that there will be music be played like those of his favorites from the Beatles, Herman’s Hermits and BeeGees. He also said that the song “The Power of Love”  be played because it is one of his favorite christian song. That only means he doesn’t want a sad wake there. As what they told me I think everybody had a great time there. I missed that moment of my life.

I was suppose to go there too but for some reasons like Carol is having a lot of pain from the contractions of her tummy. I just can’t leave her here in the city and also it’s not advisable for her to travel long distances. We have to go to see her OB. When we did, she said Carol is in labor on her 35th week.  That shouldn’t be happening because it would be risky to deliver the baby this time. The OB prescribed something for Carol to keep the baby in her tummy until the 37th week comes. By that time it will be a lot safer for Carol to deliver the baby. Hope everything will be ok. Carol is having a full bedrest. I am watching her diet too because she has gained weight and that is not good for her.

For the mean time, we will be staying here in the city for another week. We will visit the doctor again this friday. I am worried about Ella. She’s been absent for almost 2 weeks now. I hope the teacher will understand our situation.