By David Browne, author of goodbye 20th century
Page 31 the Simon & Garfunkel go to the store to buy a sweater, and since the each one of the different sweater, they didn't buy any.
Really boys, you don't think you could have compromised on a sweater style? Or bought both sweaters?
Interesting, hearing about royalty amounts, and inside stories from the recording studio.
ReplyDeletePage 143 and earlier, the author goes out of his way to say that they were mainstream efforts on the media's part to stop the Paul is dead theories. But, even though Wikipedia and this book seem to think that Life Magazine stop the rumors in 1969, that must have been a long 3 years for that conspiracy.
ReplyDeleteI never heard of that conspiracy till about 1980.
A cursory glance at internet articles about it, says Paul never addressed it, and that he did address it in the 90s, and that he just addressed it for the first time last week.
Well, it's these types of stories, that can't get their story straight that keep Khan theories alive.
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ReplyDeleteI had no idea anybody in Devo was old enough to be in college during the Kent State incident.
Pages 174 to 175
ReplyDeleteI don't really know much about sea SNY, that is supposed to be Crosby Stills Nash & Young.
But getting ready to sing Suite Judy Blue Eyes with some karaoke friends, and reading this book right now, it doesn't surprise me to hear that young tells the crowd they play like this in their living room, don't practice much. Why wouldn't they have one living room, then various living rooms?
I can see them tuning and tuning in tuning, like Bluegrass Pickers almost, and then leaving the tour with only one playdate.
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ReplyDeleteStills 3 songs, young 2 songs, Crosby one song and Nash one song.
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ReplyDeleteThe recitation on the stump? Drivel for an hour? Brilliance for 5 minutes? The world will never know.
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ReplyDelete10 million 738 thousand 198 dollars!
That's the royalties for American Sales of beatle records between September 1st 1969 and June 3rd 1970.