The Beatles Bible - Topic: The Beatles in Vatican Newspaper L'Osservatore Romano

skye on The Beatles in Vatican Newspaper L'Osservatore Romano

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:38:04 +0100

McLerristarr said:

Idiots often think there are things in the songs that aren't actually there. Just like the "Paul is dead" thing, people thought they could hear evil things when playing the music backwards. Of course, when you play music backwards it always sounds either evil or Indian; it's obviously not deliberate.

So that whole f-you like superman and so on was seen a satanic. Wow. It can't just be stupid? I thought us protestants were the ones to look for the devil in everything.

Got to agree with you, Joe. Someone's a fan.

Joe on The Beatles in Vatican Newspaper L'Osservatore Romano

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:35:47 +0100

I thought about reporting this, but the Vatican newspaper seems to put out a Beatle-related press release every other month these days. The last time it was in praise of Revolver, and the time before that they were forgiving Lennon for the 'more popular than Jesus' comment.

Obviously someone there is a fan, which is great, but this one seems a bit of a non-story. Thanks for the translation though - it's good to read what they're saying.

McLerristarr on The Beatles in Vatican Newspaper L'Osservatore Romano

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:21:08 +0100

skye said:

Thanks for translating that. It's lucky that it wasn't in Latin. I'm still not sure what they mean by Satanic messages.

Idiots often think there are things in the songs that aren't actually there. Just like the "Paul is dead" thing, people thought they could hear evil things when playing the music backwards. Of course, when you play music backwards it always sounds either evil or Indian; it's obviously not deliberate.

skye on The Beatles in Vatican Newspaper L'Osservatore Romano

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:16:20 +0100

Thanks for translating that. It's lucky that it wasn't in Latin. I'm still not sure what they mean by Satanic messages.

PeterWeatherby on The Beatles in Vatican Newspaper L'Osservatore Romano

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:48:32 +0100

Oh, right, and here's the cover page for the edition in question - nice little Abbey Road graphic in the lower right corner.

http://www.vatican.va/news_ser.....082q01.pdf

PeterWeatherby on The Beatles in Vatican Newspaper L'Osservatore Romano

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:47:22 +0100

This was all over the news yesterday, about the Vatican featuring a laudatory article about The Beatles in their weekend edition of the "official" Vatican newspaper. For example: Pope finally forgives Beatles for past excesses.

Anyway, I did some digging around the Vatican web site to find the article, and I eventually found it - in Italian. Luckily, I've got just enough Italian under my belt to make a mess of the translation, so for anyone who is interested, here's my entirely unofficial and unsanctioned translation of the article. Hopefully the Vatican web site will publish an official English ...