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22 juin 2022
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EAN13
9798822536326
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English
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1 Mo
Sample Book Insights:
#1 George’s first musical love affair was not with the blues, but with religion. He grew up in Liverpool, and observed how priests would come to his neighborhood to collect money for churches. He didn’t like the hypocrisy.
#2 George’s blunt manner of speaking and behaving came from his family life. His mother, Louise, was warm and welcoming, but his father, Harold, was thin and thoughtful. They were tolerant, sensible, and loving people.
#3 George’s early musical interests were inspired by skiffle, a jazz-oriented musical style derived from the blues, ragtime, and folk music during the 1920s in the American South. He began taking weekly lessons from a local guitarist who worked out of a nearby pub.
#4 George’s friendship with Paul began when they were both students at the Liverpool Institute. In 1957, George joined the band the Quarry Men, which included Paul, and their sound improved immensely.
Publié par
Date de parution
22 juin 2022
Nombre de lectures
0
EAN13
9798822536326
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo
Insights on Kenneth Womack & Jason Kruppa's All Things Must Pass Away
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10
Insights from Chapter 1
#1
George’s first musical love affair was not with the blues, but with religion. He grew up in Liverpool, and observed how priests would come to his neighborhood to collect money for churches. He didn’t like the hypocrisy.
#2
George’s blunt manner of speaking and behaving came from his family life. His mother, Louise, was warm and welcoming, but his father, Harold, was thin and thoughtful. They were tolerant, sensible, and loving people.
#3
George’s early musical interests were inspired by skiffle, a jazz-oriented musical style derived from the blues, ragtime, and folk music during the 1920s in the American South. He began taking weekly lessons from a local guitarist who worked out of a nearby pub.
#4
George’s friendship with Paul began when they were both students at the Liverpool Institute. In 1957, George joined the band the Quarry Men, which included Paul, and their sound improved immensely.
#5
The Quarry Men, John, Paul, George, and Colin, were a band that was formed in 1958. They had a dream of making a record of their own, but they lacked the funds to do so. They recorded a demo at P. F. Phillips Professional Tape and Disk Record Service, which was a back room in the home of Percy Phillips.
#6
The band’s first single, That’ll Be the Day, was a major success, but their second, In Spite of All the Danger, was a surprisingly catchy ballad about the anxiety of newfound love. By early 1959, the future of the group was very much in question.
#7
George’s ambitions were simple: he just wanted to play as much as possible and improve his skills as a guitarist. If it hadn’t been for Allan Williams, his future as a musician might not have unfolded in the company of the other Beatles.
#8
The band’s salvation came in the form of Pete Best, Mona Best’s son who played with Ken Brown’s new band, the Black Jacks, at the Casbah. He was offered membership in the band, provided he was willing to go abroad.
#9
The Beatles first went to Hamburg in 1960 to play at the Kaiserkeller. They were there to learn how to play in front of people, and they did. But after a few evenings in Eckhorn’s employ, Paul and Pete decided to sneak back to the Bambi Kino to retrieve the belongings that they had left behind in their haste to escape the Kaiserkeller.
#10
The Beatles played a series of dates at the Casbah in December 1960, and their performance was a turning point in their career. They had taken Liverpool by storm with their energizing and highly professional post-Hamburg stage act.
#11
The Beatles’ next opportunity to record a song was with German bandleader Bert Kämpfert, who caught their act with Sheridan at the Top Ten Club. They were signed to Polydor Records and made a record called My Bonnie (Lies over the Ocean).
#12
In 1961, the Beatles had established themselves as a bona fide Northern phenomenon. They had performed at the Cavern Club, and the sub-basement-level club became their de facto headquarters. They sold more than a hundred thousand copies of the single My Bonnie b/w The Saints.
#13
In 1962, Epstein played My Bonnie for Ron White, the marketing manager for the monolithic EMI, as well as to Tony Barrow, the Liverpool Echo’s music reporter who also served as a publicity representative for Decca Records.
Insights from Chapter 2
#1
On January 1, 1962, the Beatles arrived at Decca’s Broadhurst Gardens recording studios. They performed fifteen songs for the label’s consideration. Most were standards from their stage act, but three early Lennon-McCartney originals were also included: Like Dreamers Do, Hello Little Girl, and Love of the Loved.
#2
The Beatles were extremely excited to meet Epstein, and they were shocked that he had agreed to give them a recording contract without having met them or auditioned them. They traveled to London in June 1962 to record with him.
#3
The Beatles’ manager, Epstein, was impressed by the band’s raw potential and their acerbic sense of humor, but he wasn’t fond of Pete Best’s drumming. He thought he should be replaced, and he informed the drummer that he would be replaced soon by Ringo Starr.
#4
The Beatles’ next recording session was on November 26, 1962, when they recorded an up-tempo version of Please Please Me. For Martin, that session demonstrated that the Beatles could take constructive criticism and write a hit.
#5
In February 1964, the Beatles’ song I Want to Hold Your Hand reached the top of the Billboard charts. The band’s appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 was a global phenomenon.
#6
By the early months of 1964, Epstein and Martin’s plan had come to include the production of a feature film - a jukebox movie along the lines of The Girl Can’t Help It or Jailhouse Rock. In November 1963, Richard Lester, an American transplant who had cut his teeth bringing independent programs to British television, directed a commercial for Smith’s potato chips starring a 19-year-old model named Pattie Boyd.
#7
Pattie Boyd, the actress, was born on March 17, 1944. She had her life upended when she was eight years old.
