The most polarizing Stones album of all, despite its melodic, fun-filled Psychedelia. It’s mostly criticised for jumping on the Psychedelic bandwagon and ripping off the Beatles after Sgt. Pepper. I guess you’re never allowed to rip off your contemporaries but you are allowed to rip off your heroes as both The Stones and The Beatles […]
On Working Class Hero, Lennon seemingly tapped into the same issue that has challenged our elite political classes in the recent shock results in America and the UK. For me I have difficulty understanding how both the voters AND the political elite tick. I can only contribute by believing in the inherent good in people and […]
October 9th would have been John Lennon’s 76th birthday and since that date I have been in the studio working on the new Noctorum album. As I have less time for writing on the In Deep Music Archive website at the moment, I thought perhaps a concise topical message in the wake of current events might […]
There is no end to Allen Toussaint’s influence. He worked with Lee Dorsey throughout most of his career in different roles, producer, arranger, songwriter whilst Dorsey slipped in and out of his car repair business. Dorsey served in the US Navy in World War II, was a prize fighter and a nightclub singer but over […]
As we come to the end of this thread, if you wish to hear most of these songs in a collection there is an album – The Songs That Lennon and McCartney Gave Away. It was released in 1971 as a compilation excluding Penina by Jotte Herre and adding I Am The Greatest by Ringo on the reissue […]
You must understand that these posts highlighting obscure Lennon And McCartney compositions are of historical interest, being some of the first songs they wrote and also, at the height of their early fame, it shows that they enthusiastically “churned them out”. In this case they might have churned out a somewhat inferior attempt, The Strangers […]