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6.18pm
10 August 2011
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What’s interesting about RedLennon’s post is that this Paul Simon song was released during the Beatles’ (and Rolling Stones'
heyday.
It’s not a sentimental look-back.
Is there any more recent equivalent of someone singing about a contemporary band?
(PS Robert McNamara was US secretary of Defense)
"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
7.50pm
16 February 2011
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Well…
Happoradio (Acid Radio, I don’t know if they were thinking about LSD or not when they named the band) Sings “Take me away from Kallio(a place, it means rock), the son of a porn dealer is selling gold records in Europe” They are talking about HIM
edit: of course HIM is nowhere near as big as the Beatles 
4.55pm
24 April 2012
Offline In James Taylor’s Carolinia In my Mind the line “With a holy host of others standing round me” refers to the Beatles He was recording at Apple at the time. 
Take this brother; may it serve you well.
9.50pm
24 April 2012
Offline Rick Nelson Garden Party – 
Yoko brought her Walrus…
and Peter,Paul & Mary- I Dig Rock And Roll Music
I dig Donovan in a dream-like, tripped out way
His crystal images tell you ’bout a brighter day
And when the Beatles tell you
They’ve got a word “love” to sell you
They mean exactly what they say
Take this brother; may it serve you well.
2.31am
10 August 2011
Offline Good ones – (especially good to see Donovan as I’m on a Donovan kick these days)
"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
6.18pm
13 May 2012
Offline Glycerine by Bush says “when you rise it’s like Strawberry Fields” at one point.
11.20pm
18 December 2011
Offline Celebrated_Mr_K said
In his comeback album, John Fogerty sings in “I Saw it on TV”:
We gathered round to hear
the sound comin’ on the little screen,The grief had passed, the old men laughed, and all the girls screamed
‘Cause four guys from England took us all by the hand,
It was time to laugh, time to sing, time to join the band.
Interesting, I love John Fogerty and CCR, but never noticed that part of the lyric.
However, the only song I know of with a Beatle reference by far is “Life Is Real (Song for Lennon)” by Queen. I think it’s only mentioned in the song title, though. The song was written as a tribute to Lennon.
"Real music is made by real people playing real instruments using own creativity and skills."
9.24pm
19 September 2010
Offline Possibly innocent Lennon reference, but in Feist’s Mushaboom, here’s the chorus:
Old dirt road
Knee deep snow
Watching the fire as we grow old
(Old Dirt Road being a song of John’s off Walls And Bridges , I do believe.)
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
5.52am
5 November 2011
Offline Billy Joel’s song She’s Got A Way has a blatant reference to Anyway; a Paul McCartney masterpeice on Chaos And Creation.
She’s got a way of pleasin’
I don’t know what it is
But there doesn’t have to be a reason anyway
All living things must abide by the laws of the shape they inhabit
12.37am
8 January 2012
Offline i know the beatles are mentioned in:
all the young dudes by mott the hopple ” my brothers back at home with his beatles and stones”
the seeker by the who: “I asked The Beatles”
alternative title(randy scouse git) by the monkees: “four kings of emi”
1977 by the clash: ” no elvis, beatles or rolling stones in 1977″
god by john lennon: ” i dont believe in beatles”
properly these have all been said :p 
5.17pm
19 September 2010
Offline Arkells – John Lennon:
She tells me her favourite song And I say:
“Yeah, that’s a good one”
She says it follows her around
No shit, it’s by the Beatles
And the chorus:
And I’m John Lennon in ‘67,
I’m John Lennon in ‘67
I’m John Lennon in ‘67,
I’m John Lennon in ‘67
This is one of the most kick-ass songs I know. Closed out their concert that I saw on Friday with it.
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
7.41pm
13 July 2012
Offline ELO’s Shangri-la says “faded like the Beatles on Hey Jude ”
5.30pm
14 February 2012
Offline I’m into a lot of indie music, and there’s a FANTASTIC band called “Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes”. They (along with Fleet Foxes) are probably the most modern-day “hippie band” I can think of, and many of their songs were clearly inspired by The Beatles. In the opening track to their debut album, “Up From Below”, the chorus goes:
Ah, it’s the magical mystery kind
Ah, must be a lie
Bye bye to the too good to be true kind of love
Oh I could die
Oh now I could die
And directly after the chorus, voices come on sounding a lot like the “ho ho ho, hee hee hee, ha ha ha” that would be in “I Am The Walrus “. Except it’s kind of like their own take on it, if that makes sense…
And for the pop scene, the closing track on James Blunt’s “All the Lost Souls” contains this chorus:
And if I can’t hear the music and the audience is gone
I’ll dance here on my own
And I hope the Lonely Hearts’ Club Band will play out one last song
Before the sun goes down
"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know? I'm just one of those people."
6.34pm
19 July 2012
Offline frank zappa
joe’s garage
we got matching suits
and beatle boots
and a sign on the back of the car
and we was ready to work in a go-go bar
7.42pm
1 December 2009
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Has “Annie Christian” by Prince been mentioned yet?:
“She killed John Lennon /Shot him down cold/She tried to kill Reagan/Everybody say “gun control, gun control”
That was from 1981. (LOTTA high profile people getting shot back in those days.)
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
5.29pm
14 February 2012
Offline I kind of found another reference in a Florence + The Machine song last night, but I’m not completely confident that they were consciously making a Beatles reference. Anyhows…in “Dog Days Are Over”, there’s a line in one of the verses that says:
Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back
which I connected to “Happiness Is A Warm Gun “. Could just be my Beatles nerdiness coming out tho…
"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know? I'm just one of those people."
10.09pm
19 September 2010
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I think you’re over thinking this one, Dipsy. There’s a point where it’s just reading too much into it – but it’s great someone else actually knows Flo. Welcome!
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
10.20pm
14 February 2012
Offline Yeah, I was worried I may have been thinking too much into that one…
And thanks, Sun King ! 
"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know? I'm just one of those people."
1.33am
9 May 2012
Offline mr. Sun king coming together said
I think you’re over thinking this one, Dipsy. There’s a point where it’s just reading too much into it – but it’s great someone else actually knows Flo. Welcome!
Isn’t it one of most popular bands atm?
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
1.47am
19 September 2010
Offline Are they? They certainly aren’t around my area.
Edit: I mean among my group of friends. They get some airplay on the local Alternative station.
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
