John Lennon died 12-8-1980 from gunshot wound

Dec 8 14:45 UTC 1999

 -- just a collection of beatles wisdom --
 
 
Love You To
Harrison
 
Each day just goes so fast
I turn around, it's past
You don't get time to hang a sign on me
Love me while you can
Before I'm a dead old man
 
A life time is so short
A new one can't be bought
But what you've got means such a lot to me
Make love all day long
Make love singing songs
 
Make love all day long
Make love singing songs
 
There's people standing round
Who'll screw you in the ground
They'll fill you in with all their sins, you'll see
 
I'll make love to you
If you want me to
 
 
 
The Inner Light
Harrison
 
Without going out of my door
I can know all things of earth
With out looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven
 
The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows
 
Without going out of my door
You can know all things of earth
With out looking out of my window
You could know the ways of heaven
 
The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows
 
Arrive without travelling
See all without looking
Do all without doing
 
 
 
Within You Without You
Harrison
 
We were talking
about the space between us all
and people who hide themselves 
behind a wall of illusion
never glimpse the truth
then it's far too late
when they pass away
 
We were talking
about the love we all could share
When we find it
to try our best to hold it there
with our love, with our love
we could save the world
if they only knew
 
Try to realize it's all within yourself
no one else ca make you change
And to see you're really only very small
and life flows on within you and without you
 
We were talking
about the love that's gone so cold
and the people who gain the world
and lose their soul
They don't know, they can't see
Are you one of them
 
When you've seen beyond yourself
then you may find
peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come
when you see we're all one
and life flows on within you and without you
 
 
Tomorrow Never Knows
Lennon/McCartney
 
Turn off your mind, relax
and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying
 
Lay down all thought
Surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining
 
That you may see
The meaning of within
It is being
It is being
 
That love is all
And love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing
 
That ignorance and hate
May mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing
 
But listen to the 
color of your dreams
It is not living
It is not living
 
Or play the game 
existence to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
 
 
Across The Universe
Lennon/McCartney
 
Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me
 
Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
 
Images of broken light which 
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a 
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as 
they make their way across the universe
 
Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
 
Sounds of laughter shades of earth
are ringing through my open views
inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe
 
Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
 
 
Polythene Pam
Lennon/McCartney
 
Well you should see Polythene Pam
She's so good looking
But she looks like a man
Well, you should see her in drag
dressed in a polythene bag
Yes you should see Polythene Pam
Yeh, yeh, yeh
 
Get a dose of her in jackboot and kilt
She's killer diller when 
she's dressed to the hilt
She's the knid of a girl 
that makes the news of the world
Yes you could say she was attractively built
Yeh, yeh, yeh
 
-- just a collection of beatles wisdom --
 
 
 ONE THING I CAN TELL YOU IS YOU GOT TO BE FREE 
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response 2 of 24:

Dec 10 23:36 UTC 1999

like ted nugent, or something.

response 4 of 24:

Dec 11 08:58 UTC 1999

oh ...so you mean like...capt beefheart!

response 6 of 24:

Dec 11 17:45 UTC 1999

or Hampton's Grease Band...

response 8 of 24:

Dec 12 02:12 UTC 1999

 The thing about the Beatles isn't that they were wildly successful --
 other bands have been wildly successful (perhaps not *as* wildly..)
 Nor is it that they made good music, though they did make good music
 they hardly hold a monopoly on that.

 What's remarkable about them (to me, at least) is that unlike any of
 the other acts mentioned it's almost impossible to find someone who
 either doesn't know about the Beatles or who thinks they're too cool
 to enjoy the Beatles' music.

response 10 of 24:

Dec 15 22:02 UTC 1999

I know a lot of 60s-generation people who hate the Beatles (most of 
whom prefer the Stones), and I wouldn't care to take a survey of 
Beatles knowledge among today's teenagers (or teenagers of any period 
for the last 20 years, actually).

But regardless of their popularity among certain limited groups, the 
Beatles were supreme in their field, something that observant people 
noticed from the beginning.  (They wrote most of their own songs!  They 
made up their own answers to press questions!  Even parents liked their 
music!  None of these were true of most pop phenoms at the time.)

Elvis may be a greater cultural icon, but the Beatles were the best 
musicians in popular rock, period.

response 12 of 24:

Dec 16 16:34 UTC 1999

Best songwriters, maybe?   As songwriters they begin to stand outside 
the rock tradition and more in the line of the pop classicists like 
the Gershwin brother, Cole Porter, the great Broadway musical writers.

response 14 of 24:

Dec 18 00:28 UTC 1999

They were one of the few acts in any style that combined excellent songwriting
with good execution.  Most of the songs I'd consider really well-written were
written by either someone who specialized in songwriting or someone who
_should_ have specialized in songwriting and left the performance to someone
else.  In styles that insist artists write their own songs, most of those
songs end up pretty mediocre.  
Thankfully, there's nothing wrong with a mediocre song, especially when it's
performed well, but the Beatles were an example of how much better songwriting
can be.

response 16 of 24:

Dec 27 16:29 UTC 1999

he use to have really cool hair...
but not anymore.