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I didn’t see this posted before… a one-hour documentary on Band On The Run during one of the anniversaries.
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Offline Its from when the archive remarster came out a few years back and was shown on ITV in the UK. The interviewer is Dermot O’Leary who presents The X-Factor.
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Ahhh Girl said
Oh, my, I didn’t know this was coming out when I revived this thread the other day.
There’s a children’s show that does the same thing with words creating the actual object:
And it was bothering my eyes near the end and I noticed little red and blue lines, I’m pretty sure it’s 3D… If only I could find an old pair of 3D glasses.
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Ahhh Girl11.00pm
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Offline Something Else looking back at Band On The Run : Paul McCartney ’s willingness to fail made Band On The Run an enduring masterpiece
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Ahhh Girl said
This thread was a riot to read through. Before I comment on the album, I just have to make this note about post #9 in this thread:
Joe said
When I went to George Martin’s talk last week, we were allowed to submit questions to be selected randomly. One of mine was read out: I asked whether there were any Beatles songs he wished had been recorded/produced differently. George’s response was simple: “God forbid!”
@Joe got to go to a George Martin talk. And he’s had a pint with Mark Lewisohn. And he went to the lecture in Studio 2 on his birthday this year.
That post also finds Joe being very poetic about Strawberry Fields Forever :Needless to say, I think it’s a masterpiece. I couldn’t agree that it’s garbage because the lyrics don’t make sense – the words are an impressionist painting in song; few would argue that Monet would have been better if only he’d been a bit more accurate in his depictions.
Now, back on topic.
Listening to “Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five ” is like gorging on music. It is the whole Thanksgiving dinner, including dessert. I just have to take quiet rest break after listening to it.
There is this lyric in the song:Oh my mama said the time would come when I
would find myself in love with you
I didn’t think
I never dreamed
That I would be around to see it all come truePaul, now come on. Your Mother Should Know . You know that. She told you to Let It Be . Things will work out in their own way and their own timing.
I found this that skye saidback in 2010. Funny. Actually, the posts before (starting on page 10) and after that one (ending on page 11) are quite entertaining.skye saidJet ? I haven’t seen her since Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five .
Just a note to say I got into a bit of a muddle over this. I decided to make this the ‘official’ BotR album thread. After I made it so I realised that I’d stumbled into a crazy thread that was about the merits of the song BotR, whether Strawberry Fields Forever is “garbage” (not my word), and a lot of other side issues.
Weirdly it got back on topic after a couple of pages, so I was able to chip it into shape. However, I had to delete some posts to make it fit (a lot of posts about Paulsbass and MrBig, surprise). The old thread is here (but locked), but there were a lot of messages that had to go. My mistake, sorry. I wanted to mention it because a lot of the things @Ahhh Girl discusses above are no longer in this thread.
Let’s keep it to Band On The Run from here on, though.
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Offline Had no idea ‘Helen Wheels’ references ‘Band On The Run ‘ (the song)
Sailor Sam, he came from Birmingham, but he never will be found
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When I first listened to this album I didn’t care for it much; since getting it on vinyl and spinning it a good deal, it’s grown on me considerably. But I’ve always played it more for the sake of playing some agreeable noise on my turntable — or because Little Girl insisted — than anything, and I’ve never gotten a proper hankering to listen to it until now. Wouldn’t you know, I had to leave it at home… it seems absence does make the heart grow fonder. 
Also, does anyone know who plays slide guitar on ‘No Words’? It’s a great track, the most Beatlesque thing I’ve heard since nineteen hundred and seventy, and the slide guitar sounds exactly like George’s work — but I know it can’t be.
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Offline Just a similarity between ‘Band On The Run ‘ and…… ‘Coming Up ‘.
After the ‘Band On The Run ‘ refrain……following the Sailor Sam section there’s some slide guitar notes that remind me of the riff played almost throughout ‘Coming Up ‘
Never noticed it before now i can’t un-notice it.
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Offline He has it as Mrs Vande*r*bilt. That’s what I thought it was for a long time.
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Offline It does kinda seem right, like the way so many people say “sherbert” instead of “sherbet”
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