YES IT IS 50 YEARS TO THE VERY DAY - FEBRUARY 7TH.
IT WAS THE BRITISH INVASION !!!
NO OF COURSE NOT AN ARMY!
IT WAS THE ARRIVAL OF THE BEATLES !!!
THEY TOOK THE USA BY STORM WITH THEIR ROCK'N ROLL MUSIC.
TODAY THEIR MUSIC IS STILL MIGHTY POPULAR!
A FEW YEARS BACK I CAUGHT AN INTERVIEW ON TV. THEY WERE INTERVIEWING PAUL M....HE WAS ASKED, "WHY IS IT THE BEATLES' MUSIC IS STILL SO POPULAR?"
HIS ANSWER, "WELL I THINK IT IS BECAUSE WE HAD MELODIC RHYTHM IN OUR SONGS."
WELL WHEN YOU COMPARE THE BEATLES' MUSIC WITH THE GARBAGE OF ROCK BANDS THAT CAME AFTER THEM [WITH THEIR SCREAMING AND SHOUTING AND UTTER OVER-AMPLIFIED NOISE] I FULLY AGREE WITH PAUL M.
THE BEATLES HAD RHYTHM, THEY HAD HARMONY, THEY HAD SWING, THEY HAD SOUL, THEY HAD MELODY.
AND ALL OF THAT LIVES ON.
ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO I HAD A YOUNG GUITAR STUDENT; HAD BEEN WITH ME ABOUT 3 YEARS. ONE LESSON HE TOLD ME HE WAS FORMING A BAND, TO DO A TALENT NIGHT AT SCHOOL. HE TOLD ME THEY HAD.....BUT HE DID NOT TELL ME THEY HAD A SINGER. SO I ASKED HIM, "DO YOU HAVE A SINGER?" HIS ANSWER TO ME, "OH, THAT'S NO PROBLEM YOU JUST HAVE TO SHOUT AND SCREAM."
I LAUGHED AND TOLD HIM HE WAS RIGHT ON THE BULLS-EYE ON THAT POINT.
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