Cliff Ton 10,458 Posted January 30, 2014 Report Share Posted January 30, 2014 Made me feel old to discover that it's 45 years ago today that the Beatles did their performance on the roof of the Apple building. http://youtu.be/Rpr-VURD6fo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted January 30, 2014 Report Share Posted January 30, 2014 Wonderful ! I'd forgotten they did that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted January 30, 2014 Report Share Posted January 30, 2014 Thanks' for the 'flashback' CliffTon, seems like it was just a couple of years ago. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nnsc 131 Posted January 30, 2014 Report Share Posted January 30, 2014 Just bought their American albums on CD - another £150 up the swannee. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MELTONSTILTON 452 Posted January 30, 2014 Report Share Posted January 30, 2014 45 years ago, makes me feel old Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted January 30, 2014 Report Share Posted January 30, 2014 45 years and you feel old??? It is 50 years since they toured down here in Australia - and our family beat them out here by a couple of months. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 45 years and you feel old??? It is 50 years since they toured down here in Australia - and our family beat them out here by a couple of months. And Australia sent us Rolf Harris in revenge. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 And Germaine Greer, another oddball !!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 Also Clive James , irritating sod. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 And you must not forget the wife's cousin......Geoffrey Robertson QC Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 45 years ago. 1960s. Great decade. Amazing music! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 It was just a great time to be young and alive. Will someone please hurry up and invent the time machine...................... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 When I see modern 'pop stars' I often wonder if its now my age that makes me feel we are in a 'talent vacuum'. Then I realised, we really are in a talent vacuum. There is not the diversity of highly talented individuals anymore. If they exist they don't seem to come to the fore. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 "IF" you asked me to name a number one over the last ten years or so I would be lost for an answer. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 I'm racking my brains on that one Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 Just taking my grandaughter to her Russian class on Abbey road, opposite the apple studios....will have to cross the road on the zebra crossing ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 Imagine..... all the talent that has crossed there !!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJBrenton 738 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 When I see modern 'pop stars' I often wonder if its now my age that makes me feel we are in a 'talent vacuum'. Then I realised, we really are in a talent vacuum. There is not the diversity of highly talented individuals anymore. If they exist they don't seem to come to the fore. This is a commonly held misconception, that music just isn't what it used to be. Firstly, our appreciation of music depends largely on how much attention we pay to it. Generally we are far more aware of current music from our teenage years until marriage ruins our social life so that period tends to be our favourite. You will find people decry any music outside of that and the era will depend on their age. There has always been plenty of dross in the charts, for example, the week TOTP launched in 1964, the charts included Maria Elena - Los Indios Tabajaras Kiss Me Quick- Elvis Presley Not Too Little Not Too Much - Chris Sandford All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle - Dora Bryan At The Palace - Wilfred Brambell & Harry H. Corbett Country Boy - Heinz Whilst the Beatles or Elvis may never be surpassed, most other bands/singers are better in memory than reality and we tend to forget their less memorable releases. I have, for example, every A and B side released by Motown from Marv Johnson - Come To Me in 1959 up to PJ - TLC in 1971 (WHO?). I have to say, 90% of the collection is garbage just like 90% of all music always has been. In 45 years time, those artists with merit today will be remembered, the rest forgotten, just like people extol the virtues of what they remember from the 60's and forget all the rubbish that was around. Heck, we may even have a local lad who will be remembered in Jake Bugg. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 You're right DJB, there was always dross in the charts. However some of those you mention are so called "Novelty Records" and there will always be those coming out, but as you mention, even established "stars" occasionally brought out crap. Beatles, Elvis, Stones were no exception . I was always a fan of groups such as The Yardbirds, Who, Kinks, Small Faces, whose records are still played on air 50 years after release. The lifespan of groups today is about three years. (thank God) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilboro-lad 294 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 It's pitch correction software and over compression that has made all modern music 'plastic'. Can you imaging Dylan with pitch correction? Look at how the Beatles changed popular music from '63 to '70. No modern band is doing anything at all transitional. Modern music is rubbish. Oh and Jake Bugg is boring and useless when his pitch correction software is switched off. Let's get back to talent being the critical factor, not hit factories. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 Stock, Aitken and Waterman and that egotistical, self promoting f**kface Simon Cowell have a lot to answer for. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJBrenton 738 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 Oh and Jake Bugg is boring and useless when his pitch correction software is switched off. He doesn't use pitch correction software as you'd know if you'd heard him live as often as I have. He's hardly a product of a hit factory. He made music in his bedroom till he got some airplay on radio and it's talent that's got him where he is today. The other day his manager was with Sly Stallone and Robert De Niro and Sly asked to have his photo taken with Jake. We should be proud of him as a local lad, not invent crap about pitch correction. And Basfordred, there have always been bands who disappeared after a year or two just as there are now bands like Radiohead (formed 1985), Foo Fighters (formed 1994), Coldplay (formed 1996) etc. The Yardbirds lasted 5 years with an ever changing lineup, The Kinks a mere 8 years first time around, and the Small Faces were only around for 4 years. See how we judge our own era differently and a tad unfairly? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 I was on about popularity mainly, not longevity, but point taken. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 However, Jethro Tull are still going I believe, as is Paul Rogers of Free / Bad Co and the great John Fogerty of CCR. Real talent. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted January 31, 2014 Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 Jake Bugg, Natalie Duncan, Harleighblu all make Nottingham proud, their unique talents are raw and what music should be about.. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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