Friday, May 19, 2006
Kewl Post About Badfinger
Complete with video, at Sippican Cottage:
A great book on that era is "Precious and Few: Pop Music of the Early '70s."
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And when you've got the Beatles helping you out -- at least the ones not named John Lennon, who thought you too, well, unserious -- you're likely to do OK. It doesn't hurt to have Paul McCartney singing back-up on your songs, like this one, (knock down the old grey wall) and George Harrison and his friends playing on your others.
Thirty-five years ago, simple, lyrical, happy, glittering pop used to come out of the radio every few minutes, like No Matter What. It didn't save the world, or grant any inner peace or enlightenment, it didn't rage against the... well, let's just say, there was no rage in it at all. It was fun and vibrant, harmless and marvelous.
A great book on that era is "Precious and Few: Pop Music of the Early '70s."