Posts tagged as beatles
Yoko Ono Memoir Coming In Foreseeable Future, Probably
In a memoir she plans to publish in 2015, Yoko Ono is apparently set to reveal why the Beatles broke up. For those of you who are worried that you might not be alive five years from now to learn the shocking truth, we provide this brief spoiler of the reason for the band's dissolution: They weren't really getting on well with each other at the time. Now you know!
New Bob Dylan-Sampling Rap: Juelz Santana, "Mixing Up The Medicine"
Harlem rapper Juelz Santana has a new song out that samples Bob Dylan's 1965 classic "Subterranean Homesick Blues." Produced by Kane Beatz, and featuring Alabama rapper Yelawolf (who looks a bit like Keith Richards, doesn't he?) voicing Dylan's lyrics on the hook, the song is pretty good. But it's frustrating, too. First of all, it's a shame they couldn't have used Dylan's own voice. Maybe they couldn't get permission, or they couldn't afford the clearance fees? Strange, if so, because the signature guitar lick prominent in the production does sound to be from the original recording. This is sad in the same way as the Wu-Tang Clan's "The Heart Gently Weeps," which recasts the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Dhani Harrison playing his dad's chords and Erykah Badu changing the words of the chorus-again, rather than a sample from the original: Not terrible. Kinda cool in itself. But, man, what might have been. READ MORE
