miércoles, 27 de agosto de 2008

Happiness is a warm gun.

White Album. The Beatles. Fourty Years on and still an endless musical adventure.


...WHITE, Paul`s Dead, Clues, Donovan, HAPPINESS, Heroin, (anti) Maharishi Mahesh Yohi, Prudence Farrow, Bob Kennedy`s Assesination, Vinil, 4 Sides, 2 Discs, 30 Songs, Circles, Sour Milk Sea, 1968, A Doll`s House, Silence, Esher Bungalow, USSR, Alright - Alright, Derek Taylor, Press, Bill, Captain Marvel, You Kill, Sad, Cry Baby And Guitar, Cynthia And Jane Out, Linda In, Yer Blues, Ob-La-Di, Mother, Friedrich Von Flotow, Tired, Shubert, Fool, Gently Weeps, On A Hill, References, Martha, WARM, Spiritual, Bleuf, Ono In, Brian Epstein Out, Child, Lost, Separate, Don`t Pass R By, Oink-Oink, Need A Fix, 15 Hours, 100 Takes, Such A Joy, Fantastic, Meaningless, Reach, Insane, E Minor,  Beauty, May France, What Have You Done, Island, Rooms, Torn Apart, Corners, Shadows, Lights, India, National Trust, Grey Letters, Happy Birthday, Monkeys, Checked Into His Room, Number Nine, Spaces, Dylan`s Mr. Jones, Overdubs, Noises, Choices, (puppy) GUN, Peanuts, Bach, See You Smile, Sleep Tight, George Martin, Geoff, Out To Play, King`s Road, Collage, A Dark Black Night, All The Children Sing, No Dancer, Russian Tanks In Prague, Fool Of Everyone, The Walrus Was P, Ch M, Mather Superior, ALBUM... (YES IT IS) ...

"The White Album is another step on from St. Pepper, you know, but it´s not in the way that people expect it. The only concept was playing together".
Paul McCartney

"That´s what this new record, the White Album, is about. Definitely rocking. What we were doing on Pepper was rocking, and not rocking."
John Lennon

"I think, in a way, it was a mistake doing four sides because, first of all, it was too big for people to really get get into. I find it heavy to listen to myself".
George Harrison

"I left on the White Album. I had to leave, I thought that the other three were together and I wasn´t with them".
Ringo Star

"They were really arguing mong themselves and swearing at each other. The expletives were really flying".
Geoff Emerick (engineer)

"Each guy was a fiercely independent composer -a fool on the hill of his own creation, so to speak. The Beatles were a group, physically and in spirit. They weren`t backslapping at each other or anything. But you just knew that they were very close. They were like Zen monks, just doing it, together. Like I said, I don`t feel the need to spell out anecdotes about the making of the songs (in the White Album). I love them all. And it was a privilege to have been there".
Yoko Ono

"Regardless of what I was supposed to be doing, I wrote some of my best songs there".
John Lennon

"The first record I ever bought on CD was Sgt. Pepper`s. It would have been `87, I got Sgt. Pepper`s, then Revolver and then the White Album. And I remember listening to the White Album and thinking, What the fuck is all that about? It was like opening a treasure chest. Dear Prudence was the hidden gem."
Noel Gallagher

"It`s the perfect marriage of weird sounds and amazing words. You go back to it because you never understand it, never get a grip on it properly. It stands apart, like the White Album itself. And it`s very powerful and dead sinister. The Beatles, you realise they did everything, pushed all the boudaries, and if you stay obsessed you`ve got nothing to push yourselves. So everyone has a phase of shunning them. Then you go back and love them all over again".
James Skelly and Nick Powe of The Coral (on Happiness Is A Warm Gun)

"When you`re faced with your deepest feelings, and you know there`s work to be done on yourself, then of course you want to be silly and sing songs from your childhood. When I first heard the White Album, it sounded like a record that said "we don`t have to be serious any more. There was a real sense that the solo albums were on their way".
Donovan (on the White Album)

"Donovan`s all over the White Album".
George Harrison

"I thought we should probably have made a very, very good single album rather than a double. But they insisted".
George Martin

Thank God they did.


2 comentarios:

Jaglo dijo...

Que discazo. En "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" Lennon metió a Yoko para que cante. También cantó coros en "Birthday" con Pattie Harrison.
Y en "I Will" si escuchan bien, se ve como el bajo esta hecho con la voz (Paul McCartney). Entre otros tantos misterios y perlitas que tiene el disco.

Anónimo dijo...

Si, si. Este Eso es lo que tiene ese disco. Tantos recovecos donde uno podria pasar horas y días. En la última Mojo (y la del mes que viene sale la segunda parte) salió la primer parte (o sea el primer disco) donde se cuentan cositas de cada uno de los temas. Los detalles sobre Happiness is a Warm Gun son increíbles. Un disco para toda la vida. Una maravilla.
Kroke