Don't forget that Let It Be also one the Grammy for best film score, and Paul accepted, accompanied by Linda. His speech was precisely 2 words:
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RE: GET BACK or LET IT BE or BOTH
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RE: RIP...for all that have passed
Sigh... Dabney Coleman was great. I had no idea he was 92! And seeing that "9 to 5" clip also reminded me how kick-ass Dolly Parton was in that movie. I'm surprised she didn't have a bigger movie career.
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RE: John Lennon’s ‘Mind Games’ Expanded for 50th Anniversary Box
I've never cared for this album. Most of it strikes me as just dreary, and some tracks feel like Lennon is sleepwalking through them. To me, John's solo career went seriously downhill after "Imagine." Sadly, he seemed to be finding his muse again just as he was killed.
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RE: Run Devil Run 25th Anniversary
@jwjames said in Run Devil Run 25th Anniversary:
@bruce-m said in Run Devil Run 25th Anniversary:
I've loved Run Devil Run since I first heard it. Even though it's mostly covers, it's one of my favorite Macca albums. It works simultaneously on 2 levels: It's both a great, fun, crank-it-up-loud rock & roll album and at the same time it's a musical walking tour of the stages of grieving. Absolute genius.
Yeah not only is Run Devil Run one of my favorite McCartney albums, it's one of my favorite albums by any artist period. Obviously it's not his best work creatively speaking, but it is just a straight-up fun album to listen to front-to-back and everything about it worked. It has been said before that some of Paul's most satisfying work comes from when he isn’t trying too hard and I'd say this album along with Flaming Pie are good examples of this.
I truly do hope McCartney's camp consider revisiting this one soon. It deserves a little attention.
That would be great, but the attitude of Paul and his team toward his later material seems to be pretty much "file 'em and forget 'em." It drives me crazy.
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RE: DISNEY TEASES ANOTHER BEATLES PROJECT
"Let It Be" remains my favorite song of all time. I could here it 50,000 times and never get bored (though I agree that the version on the original single was the best of the released versions).
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RE: RIP...for all that have passed
Sigh... a whole generation of musicians is leaving us. Be thankful we still have Paul (about to turn 82) and Ringo (soon to turn 84) with us. Unfortunately, the human death rate always works out to be one per person.
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RE: RIP...for all that have passed
@jimmix said in RIP...for all that have passed:
Roger Corman Dies: ‘The Little Shop Of Horrors’ Director & Independent Filmmaker Was 98
Wow. Corman was maybe the smartest low-budget movie director Hollywood ever produced. The list of directors and actors who got their start working with him includes Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, James Cameron, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Bruce Dern and Ellen Burstyn.
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RE: What's going on recently?
Just now I got error messages the first few times I tried to log in. Once I got in pages loaded really slowly. Whatever's been wrong isn't fixed.
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RE: Anyone like the Lemon Twigs?
The first review I've seen of the new Lemon Twigs album: "...this time combining elements of the Beach Boys, while channeling the Everlys’ close harmonies, and the late-60s Merseybeat sound, in turn contextualising the Twigs’ upbeat charms as part of a lineage of rock and roll history."