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Post by katie8758 on Apr 10, 2010 2:13:56 GMT
We all know that Paul wrote Get Back as a stab at Yoko. We all know he wrote Hey Jude for Julian. So my question is, how do you think John felt having to stand right there beside Paul on the apple rooftop singing background vocals for a song that was written as a jab to Yoko? How did John feel while Paul was recording Hey Jude (a.k.a: Hey Julian sorry your Dad left you and your mom for some other chic) in the studio and putting it on their album? For me, if I were in a band and one of my bandmates kept writing songs about his opinions on MY personal life, I'd be a little miffed at having to stand there next to him to sing and record them. I've never heard John's opinions on these songs, so I'd be interested in everyone's thoughts
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 9:22:51 GMT
We all know that Paul wrote Get Back as a stab at Yoko. We all know he wrote Hey Jude for Julian. So my question is, how do you think John felt having to stand right there beside Paul on the apple rooftop singing background vocals for a song that was written as a jab to Yoko? How did John feel while Paul was recording Hey Jude (a.k.a: Hey Julian sorry your Dad left you and your mom for some other chic) in the studio and putting it on their album? For me, if I were in a band and one of my bandmates kept writing songs about his opinions on MY personal life, I'd be a little miffed at having to stand there next to him to sing and record them. I've never heard John's opinions on these songs, so I'd be interested in everyone's thoughts Actually, we don't all know about these two songs. It's speculative guesswork based on the many media stories. What we do know about 'Hey Jude' (and this comes from Paul himself on the Anthologies) is, and I quote - "I was going through it for him and Yoko when I was living in London. I had a music room at the top of the house and I was playing 'Hey Jude' when I got to the line 'The movement you need is on your shoulder' and I turned round to John and said: 'I'll fix that if you want.' And he said: 'You won't, you know, that's a great line, that's the best line in it'" I believe the song was to comfort Julian during John and Cynthia's relationship but it seeems to me that John actually empathises with Paul and didn't see the song as a slur about him (John). As far as 'Get Back' is concerned, again it's pure speculation that Paul is referring to Yoko in the line 'Get back to where you once belonged' and there have been reams and reams written about the effect that Yoko had on The Beatles themselves, no more evident than in the 'Let It Be' film. Two plus two don't always add up to four in the eyes of some people. What we do know is that 'Get Back' was going to be the original title of the 'Let It Be' album - maybe as a reference to The Beatles "getting back" to their roots and playing new songs in a 'live' environment? Who knows? Getting back (no pun intended!) to your original point about being in a band and singing and recording songs that were blatantly derisory and aimed at you from another band member - I certainly wouldn't like it but, hey that's Rock 'n' Roll!
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Post by mrmustard on Apr 10, 2010 10:38:52 GMT
We all know that Paul wrote Get Back as a stab at Yoko. We all know he wrote Hey Jude for Julian. So my question is, how do you think John felt having to stand right there beside Paul on the apple rooftop singing background vocals for a song that was written as a jab to Yoko? How did John feel while Paul was recording Hey Jude (a.k.a: Hey Julian sorry your Dad left you and your mom for some other chic) in the studio and putting it on their album? For me, if I were in a band and one of my bandmates kept writing songs about his opinions on MY personal life, I'd be a little miffed at having to stand there next to him to sing and record them. I've never heard John's opinions on these songs, so I'd be interested in everyone's thoughts I don't think it was intended as a dig at Yoko. The original lyrics were a take on Enoch Powells 'Rivers of Blood Speech' in which McCartney sung about 'Don't dig no Pakistanis taking all the peoples jobs' and developing the theme to 'don't need no Puerto Ricans living in the USA'. I think he only had the sweet loretta verse down and then ad libbed these until something more in keeping with the first verse came to him.
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