Very well done and produced.

50 year anniversary of their intro to America on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Modern day bands doing Beatles song with Biographys on the 4 members and Letterman interviewing Paul and Ringo in the Ed Sullivan Theater. All culminating with Ringo and Paul singing together which is about to occur soon in case you're not watching.

It was fantastic. I loved it.

The next special should be"After the Beatles".

All the music the 4 of them made after the breakup.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Most.Overrated.Band.Ever.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Very good show indeed. While My Guitar Gently Weeps was especially good. Ringo really sounds good and Paul still respectable for being in his 70's.

Bravo!

It was 50 years ago today...

This Billboard article is really interesting for those of us who weren't around to experience the rise of the Beatles in real time. I'm sure JORR probably hung out with one of Ed Sullivan's backstage guys at the time.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/ ... page=0%2C0

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Never a huge fan, but their impact is undeniable...

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"I'm not smiling because I thought what you said was humorous. I'm smiling because one day I know you'll be dead..."

That honor goes to the Rolling Stones.

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Elvis is introducing the Stones when they are elected to the over-rated HoF.

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Elvis is not overrated. He was and remains an American icon.

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

He was an adulterer though!

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Elvis is greater than the Rolling Stones. The only difference is that those guys are still alive and toured longer they should have.

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Do you support Elvis?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

You can put the Stones prime up against the Beatles prime any day. I prefer the Beatles but I dont think it is outlandish to say that the Stones were better.

If the roles were reversed and the Stones broke up and Jagger got shot, we would think the same way about the Stones that we do the Beatles now.

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Only old racists say Elvis invented rock and roll.
Chuck Berry was light years ahead of him in making rock and roll.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Actually it was his cousin Marvin Berry who got it from a high school kid

I'm going to disagree on both statements there Henry.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

The timing was the thing with the Beatles as much as anything. Maybe if the Stones had been the first ones to break through and went on Ed Sullivan we'd have something.


But its not just Lennon getting shot.


The Who are better than both

Mott The Hoople was better than all of them.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

All the Young Dudes is a great song.

Fuck yeah! It's got everything. Name-checking T. Rex and Cockney rhyming slang too.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

That would be a very painful listen. Nobody wants to listen to any of the shit the 3 remaining Beatles released in the 80's. Absolute garbage.

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Even though Bowie tried to remove the cool from it with this bullshit


Bowie himself once claimed that the song was not intended to be an anthem for glam, that it actually carried a darker message of apocalypse. According to an interview Bowie gave to Rolling Stone magazine in 1973, the boys are carrying the same news that the newscaster was carrying in the song "Five Years" from Ziggy Stardust; the news being the fact that the Earth had only five years left to live. Bowie explains: "All the Young Dudes' is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth, as people thought. It is completely the opposite."[4]


Sorry Dave, the song is not about what you intended. It IS a hymn to youth, no matter what youre intention was.

Elvis was basically a prop.

He is the most underrated prop of all time though.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

There is no "greater" between the Stones vs. the Beatles unless you're into the idiot fanboy nonsense.

The Stones would never have been able to make a song from scratch like "A Day in the Life".

The Beatles would never have been able to make a song from scratch like "Gimme Shelter".

Which is great because they both came from the same place musically but then just branched out into entirely different things.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I would agree with that. And both tried and came off looking ridiculous.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

We don't agree much anymore do we? Mark the day down.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I don't know about that. Granted the Rolling Stones are huge and they sold out a lot of stadium tours, but the Lennon/McCartney/Harrison songwriting combo was really incredible. Granted a lot of the post-Beatles stuff is not exactly legendary, but I don't think the Rolling Stones are exactly putting out great albums any more either. It's probably the same with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. The old guys just don't put out as good of material, except for Johnny Cash.

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

With some notable exceptions, particularly on White Album and after, the Beatles legendary song writing was very vanilla, bubblegummy and silly.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014