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[Steve @ShadowsOfLife0]

@Kimgee8 FB is where people go to make their lives LOOK better.

Twitter is where they go to show how bad it really is.

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@Deggans You're awfully generous with the term "star" here. 😏

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@Tom10557494 @TheMickyDolenz1 Sadly, yes.

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@TheMickyDolenz1 The article states "After the TV show finished in 1968, the quartet ... continued on through 1970..." but...um...that's not right. Right, @TheMickyDolenz1?

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@Deggans Was that organizer able to tell you why the hell they put the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland?😏

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@dfallman @BeatlesPraise True, it’s not. But the mixture of 4/4 and 3/4 in some parts can make it feel like 7/4—and there is the intentional use of 7/4…and there’s also that odd use of 8/4.

But no 7/8.

[Steve @ShadowsOfLife0]

Well said, @vurnt22.

[Let Us Now Praise... The Beatles @BeatlesPraise]

"The Beatles affected me a great deal. When I heard 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,' it blew my mind that the same band that did 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' did this completely experimental piece of music. That's the thing about the Beatles: they travelled so far in such a short span of time.

"And they affected conventional songwriting in a profound way. Like, there’s no ‘Ma Cherie Amour’ without ‘Michelle.’ And they went into territories — I mean to be a band that did 'Julia,' and be the same band that did 'Revolution 9' . . . that kind of thing doesn’t happen. Completely mind blowing."
--#VernonReid

#LivingColour @vurnt22 #BRC #BlackRockCoalition #Guitarist #Songwriter #TheBeatles #Beatles

[Steve @ShadowsOfLife0]

@jaybproductions I know exactly how you feel. And I hope you feel better soon!

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"Sgt. Pepper is the album that had the most impact on me, at any point in my life. It opened me up to the possibilities of music."
--#PeterGabriel

"The Beatles were probably the best band ever. They were magic. They played with an energy that hadn't really been expressed before. The harmonies sounded like nothing that you'd ever heard before, the way it was produced, the way it was performed . . . it’s difficult, quite, to explain to anybody who wasn’t actually young then. Those songs and the sound of the records still baffle me and impress me."
--#PhilCollins

"To this day, most people I know regret not having being a Beatle [laughs]. I mean, they were just the most amazing force. When they came out, there was a huge social and cultural change led by their music and their fashion and their style. I play them all the time still in my car, and here we are on radio stations, still talking about them."
--#MikeRutherford

"The Beatles were everything to me in the '60s . . . they revolutionised the landscape with music that progressed from using the standard progressions to more and more interesting things. Their songs broke the standard rules of pop music."
--#TonyBanks

"When I was growing up listening to the Beatles, I felt that the divide between rock and pop — this tremendous gap — had been healed, fused. You have to remember that this was more than just music. They were the template for all things weird and wonderful."
--#SteveHackett

#Genesis #Prog #ProgressiveRock #Songwriters #HallOfFame #Beatles #TheBeatles #Influencers

[Steve @ShadowsOfLife0]

@vurnt22 I think you could also add they paved the way for artists you wouldn't necessarily think were their fans.

https://t.co/C2ASGdE63T

(Watching Snoop Dog interview with the reporter, you could see he was a huge fan and he was humbled that Paul McCartney knew who *he* was.)

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

The Beatles paved the way for artists who absolutely DESPISE THEM. Think about it- non reactively. Their impact was seismic in a way that it’s impossible to duplicate. You don’t have to like Beatles - you can HATE Them- but their influence is INESCAPABLE.

[Steve @ShadowsOfLife0]

@RQ_Machines Let them enjoy their "May the Fourth" tradition. They get beat up enough at school as it is.

[Steve @ShadowsOfLife0]

Finding something positive on Twitter becomes more difficult with each passing week. This (anti-)social media platform brings out the worst in people.

Thank you @BeatlesPraise (and, of course, John, Paul, George, and Ringo) for parting the clouds for us every so often.

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"You've got to give it up: the Beatles were heavier than any heavy metal band; they were happier cheerful pop music more than any other happy cheerful pop music; they had deep angst . . . they had it ALL. Every aspect. They did it 100,000%."
--#StewartCopeland

#ThePolice @copelandmusic #Drummer #HallOfFame #FilmScores #Beatles #TheBeatles #GOAT

[Steve @ShadowsOfLife0]

@Deggans Congrats, Eric!

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@BeatlesPraise @GTRsteven To be fair, The Beatles’ singles weren’t on their early UK albums because they didn’t feel you should pay for the same song twice. That’s commendable. Unfortunately, it was a concept fairly alien to Americans (and Capitol Music) at the time.

I’ll take your word on the numbers.👍

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@thegirlshewas I’m sorry you’ve had to go through such an ordeal.

I hope you are able to find some justice, some peace, and some time to heal.

[Let Us Now Praise... The Beatles @BeatlesPraise]

"I fell in love with the Beatles' music (and simultaneously, of course, with their four faces-cum-personae) along with my children, two girls and a boy, in whom I discovered the frabjous falsetto shriek-cum-croon, the ineluctable beat, the flawless intonation, the utterly fresh lyrics, the Schubert-like flow of musical invention and the Fuck-You coolness of these Four Horsemen of Our Apocalypse . . .

"The notes healed, the words teased; or perhaps it was vice versa. But something teased, and something healed, year after year, Rigby after Rigby, Paperback after Norwegian . . . today I am almost 64, and three bars of 'A Day in the Life' still sustain me, rejuvenate me, inflame my senses and sensibilities."
--#LeonardBernstein

#Maestro #Genius #Music #Classical #Conductor #Composers #Songwriters #TheBeatles #Beatles

[Steve @ShadowsOfLife0]

@BeatlesPraise @GTRsteven Not to take anything away from a band that has given us so much already, but I think The Beach Boys put out at least the same amount of music in that time (including three studio albums released *per year* in 1963, 1964 and 1965 alone).

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"I never really looked at The Beatles in the sense that they’d moved on . . . I simply looked at The Beatles as having become the absolute greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world. To this day, I’ve never heard anybody better than them, doing any kind of song. And I haven’t heard singers like those guys. I haven’t heard anyone sing harmony like that. I just never heard anybody better. And that’s what’s enthralling to me about the Beatles — their music, and the life and fire in it. They kept it all alive and burning."
--#JoeyMolland

#Badfinger #RIPJoeyMolland #RIP #Guitarist #Songwriters #TheBeatles #GOAT

[Steve @ShadowsOfLife0]

Feels great, doesn’t it, @Deggans? They go from not knowing who you are out of all their Tweeting fans. Then, they start noticing the funny (or serious, or topical) posts from *you*. And they start to think, “Maybe he’s not as bad as I thought…”.

Yeah…I’ve heard it feels nice.

[Switching Codes with Eric Deggans @Deggans]

I share this simply to display my gratitude that Lynda Carter retweeted me! Honored to be noticed by an icon.

[Steve @ShadowsOfLife0]

@Deggans Congrats! I’ve collected a few “Close, Personal, TWITTER friends”™️ on here. My friends and I have contests to see who get the biggest “catch”.

I’ve had some success, but you…YOU, sir—you got *WonderWoman’s* attention and agreement! WOW!!

We are not worthy to shine your shoes.