{"id":12001,"date":"2010-07-13T12:02:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T17:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12001"},"modified":"2010-07-13T07:36:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T12:36:36","slug":"attention-beatles-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12001","title":{"rendered":"Attention Beatles Fans!"},"content":{"rendered":"

First it was Badfinger.\u00a0 Notwithstanding the fact that they were discovered and signed to Apple Records by Paul McCartney, were British, and were a four-piece band featuring tight-yet-raw vocal harmonies and jangly-yet-melodic guitars, they were a fun pop band with none of the Beatles’ baroque pretensions.\u00a0 But because their debut singles, “Come and Get It” and “No Matter What”, sounded just a tad like lost, pre-“Sergeant Pepper” Beatles songs, you – the assembled hordes of slavering Beatles fandom – sniffed and said “it’s almost like they’re trying to be<\/em> the Fab Four”.\u00a0 And despite the fact that they managed to release some of the most glorious pop music of the seventies, at a time when the former Beatles were mired in tortured megalomania, dreary pop or labored soul-searching…<\/p>\n

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…they never quite escaped it.\u00a0 To the world’s eternal loss.<\/p>\n

Then it was The Knack – the overwhelmingly infectious power-pop sensation led by the mildly-creepy and now-late Doug Fieger – the cover of whose debut album “Get The Knack”…<\/p>\n

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…was reputed to look sufficiently like “Meet The Beatles”…<\/p>\n

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…to start a nasty little whispering campaign against the band.<\/p>\n

And then there was Oasis, who in the early nineties were rumoured (with a “u”, since they were British) to sound like the Beatles.\u00a0 The unreasoning parochialism of Beatles fans struck again (although I didn’t care so much, since it was only Oasis).<\/p>\n

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And now – Lady Gaga has committed the unpardonable sin of L sitting at John Lennon’s piano<\/a>….<\/p>\n

Lady Gaga’s stirring up controversy yet again — but this time all she did was play a little piano. A photo of the “Bad Romance” crooner seated at John Lennon’s famous white Steinway recently hit the Web, and Beatles fans are up in arms.<\/p>\n

John’s son Sean Lennon posted the photo on Twitter with the caption: “With gaga at mom’s house, she’s belting on the white piano…” The instrument was a gift from The Beatles’ frontman to Sean’s mother, Yoko Ono, and it sits out in the open at Yoko’s home.<\/p>\n

In the pic, the singer wears typically skimpy Gaga-gear (a skintight body suit and thigh-high fishnets) while singing and tickling away at the keys. The image drew an outcry from some Beatles fans who considered Gaga unworthy of the iconic instrument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My only wish:\u00a0 that if it was the piano at which Lennon “composed” “Imagine” or “Merry Christmas (War Is Over)” or “Just Like Starting Over”, that Jerry Lee Lewis would get to go all ape-wild on it sometime before he dies (Wait – Jerry Lee’s alive, isn’t it?\u00a0 Why, yes, he is<\/a>).\u00a0 Or maybe Pete Townsend.<\/p>\n

OK, I have two wishes; that I am able to live long enough to have at least one moment of my life, even at the very end, without baby boomers caterwauling about how in-freaking-credible John Lennon was.<\/p>\n

He was not!<\/p>\n

And tell that Gaga chick to keep her mitts off Keith Moon’s drum kit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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