Who actually wrote the Beatles music?
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Now, the next installments in my series, from the proboards forum.
January 30, 2021
Good Vibrations is considered to be the best Beach Boys song, and one of the best ever, by any rock/pop bands. That is why the Beach Boys were more popular, in late 1966, than the Beatles (even though Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby are just as good, not to mention Got To Get You Into My Life). But Good Vibrations had something else, orchestral/choral arrangements which were way beyond anything else published by any other band. Not the Doors, not Pink Floyd, not Led Zeppelin, not The Who were given anything resembling Good Vibrations (Kashmere comes close). The combined six voices of the members of the Beach Boys could be interpreted as another musical instrument all together, no one else was able to match these vocal arrangements, not even CSN.
Why did Good Vibrations break all records, and set the standard for decades to come? Because it is a modified Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin. Each separate musical part of Good Vibrations is matched by a similar part from the Rhapsody in Blue. That is why it sounded so good, and was so extraordinary.
No one else has yet managed to solve the mystery of the Smile album. Some say it was a conspiracy against Brian Wilson: but God Only Knows is a modified Gymnopedie No. 1 by Satie, someone else could easily have written the song. It was not a conspiracy, the records companies simply defended their vested interests. What Adorno did is to write his most elegant work ever; Smile had less hits than Sgt. Pepper or the White Album, as many hits as the songs featured on the Moody Blues album. But it had something else,
an elegance and a beauty which elevated the soul. Some music experts said that the Beatles would have been set back by the Smile album: not at all, Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields came out before the Smile album.
It was something else: the Smile album would have had a lasting influence on the events which were about to take place in 1967 and 1968. A social and cultural influence which those in charge of the music industry had no desire to see it go through.
Surfs Up is a masterpiece, a modified Sanctus by Faure. So is Wonderful/Child, Father of the Man. An elegance unmatched by anyone else (competitors: Fixing A Hole, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, All You Need is Love).
Another error was to hire the publicist who coined the phrase "Brian Wilson is a musical genius". No such statement was needed, since already Good Vibrations was considered to be most advanced song of its time.
So, Adorno's Smile album was considered to be too good to be published and performed in 1967, that is why it was shelved. Surfs Up is a song which belongs together with Wonderful in the year 1967, not in 1971, four years later.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_seHJgDe18 (Wonderful/Child, Father of the Man)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDn_UPjXZEw (Surfs Up)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcT_61jH5KI&list=PLptIp1kEl6BWNpXyJ_mb20W4ZqJ14-Hgg&index=2 (Prayer)
GM: Were you surprised by Brian's sudden jump in creativity?
AJ: Yeah, I couldn't figure it out. We came back from Japan, and here we had this massive amount of music already laid out for us to sing and we hadn't even heard any of it. It was the Pet Sounds material. That's really where I noticed it.
Musician Elvis Costello said that when he discovered a bootlegged tape of Wilson performing the song (Surfs Up), "It was like hearing a tape of Mozart. It's just Brian and his piano and yet it's all there in that performance. The song already sounds complete."
Record Collector's Jamie Atkins said it was "so far ahead of the work of their contemporaries that it is not entirely surprising Wilson found himself recoiling from its sophistication and majesty; the songwriting equivalent of scaling Everest, only to find yourself thinking, 'Well, what now?'"
In 2011, Mojo staff members voted it the greatest Beach Boys song. The song's entry stated, "Not so much timeless but a song out of time, Surf's Up is an elegy the richness and mystery of which only deepens with age."
June 21, 2021
Bridge Over Troubled Waters is a modified version of Mozart's Voi Che Sapete (Le Nozze di Figarro):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjAah1mZq2Q
It is only now, decades later, that people are beginning to ask questions about Surfs Up and A Day In The Life:
brianwilson.websitetoolbox.com/post/did-the-beatles-plagiarise-the-original-smile-recordings-7904797
Alex Durig's Beatles to Manson
forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/if-smile-had-been-completed-in-1967-who-thinks-it-would-have-blown-sgt-pepper-out-of-the-water.450890/
smileysmile.net/board/index.php?topic=10070.0
www.culturesonar.com/everything-fab-four-good-vibrations-and-the-beatles/
The only song which was very similar to Surfs Up, but which unfortunately never made it on the White Album:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTWNpTSyC3Q
For Yellow Submarine, the refrain was borrowed from Verdi's Aida Triumphal March, while the introduction is from Mozart's Non Piu Andrai (Le Nozze Di Figarro), Adorno merged them together:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eePzqVnb310
Another group which received a few Adorno songs was The Velvet Underground (Venus in Furs, a modified version of It's My Life by the Animals). Every innovation which had been introduced by Adorno, was first given to the Beatles, then he modified the songs and added new features for the other groups. However, with the Beach Boys (who had like four lead singers, not to mention Dennis Wilson (his Pacific Ocean Blue album still ranks as one of the best) and Bruce Johnston), Adorno could use their voices as a new musical instrument (Good Vibrations, Surfs Up, Wonderful).
Jimmy Page could not write songs after 1975. After 1980, neither Plant nor Page were heard from again. Here we have what was considered to be the best rock guitarist in the world simply exiting the stage when EvH and RR were just starting off their careers.
The Who disappeared after 1978. Roger Waters could not write songs after 1979. CrosbyStills&Nash went nowhere after 1969. The Rolling Stones were done after 1974 (Start Me Up is a modified Street Fighting Man from 1968).
Neither McCartney nor Lennon could write Beatles songs after 1971.
And nobody asks what is going on, how could this happen?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfZHGJxv3qQ (nothing else in recording history compares to it)
That is why he had to disappear after 1970: imagine Hendrix and Led Zeppelin on the same stage, or Hendrix and Deep Purple, he would have blown off the stage everyone else.
August 3, 2021
In order to find out which classical score was slightly modified so as to create Satisfaction, here is the acoustic/demo version:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpdUkOut_JQ
This is exactly the Pictures At An Exhibition (Promenade) by Mussorgsky:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GuQg0rWDbo
If one listens to the live version of Satisfaction in 1965, a surprising conclusion can be reached: the Rolling Stones were unable to render the correct version in a live setting. The distinct drum part, the beautiful lead guitar rhythm are missing: the original K. Richard and C. Watson do not seem to understand what is going on, only B. Jones looks like he had understood that the live version was being played incorrectly, but he could not do anything about it.
Satisfaction was modified again by Adorno in 1965: it became Day Tripper for the Beatles. Yet again, in 1968, Satisfaction was modified and turned into Jumping Jack Flash. Again, in 1969, Adorno modified Satisfaction for the Beatles (a solo George Harrison song), What Is Life.
Now that we know that We Are The Champions was a Beatles song: what if the best ABBA songs were actually Beatles songs as well? I do not mean Dancing Queen, which is a modified Rock Me Baby, but the other hits like Take A Chance On Me, Waterloo, S.O.S. and much more. That is, Take A Chance On Me is a modified Symphony No. 40 by Mozart, there is no way that such an important classical score would have been modified for the likes of ABBA; Adorno always offered the best songs to the Beatles. Moreover, the modification is way too good to have been achieved by someone else, in the seventies.
Here is what a user had to say about Hey Jude:
"I was an electric guitar player from 1965 because of the strange noises the girls made around the Beatles. I used to play the ‘Peter Gunn’ theme on my dad’s old Gretsch archtop like it was a stand up bass. In Facebook correspondence with Jim Fetzer about this, I stated I believed there had been a replacement, but the ongoing recorded releases had proved to me the fellow was still alive and kicking. I soon thereafter received a ‘Facebook friend’ request from Paul McCartney and a short recording of Mr. McCartney trying to teach the new guy how to sing the chorus of ‘Hey, Jude’. Impossible task. I thus believe that ‘the new guy’ is lip sync’ing for the real Paul McCartney’s voice. I won’t go into the details, but the boys were overburdened by their careers and the drugs they were constantly fed so there were some spin outs.
Paul still alive. New Paul lip synched. Old Paul back. There was a bad car crash 1966. girl killed. Paul said, “No more Beatlemania insanity.” Somebody sent me a tape of Paul McCartney trying to teach ‘New Paul’ how to sing the chorus to ‘Hey, Jude’. ‘New Paul could not get it so ‘Hey, Jude’ from Smothers Brothers is most likely lip-synched.
As a performing Beatle, Paul bowed out. They did not dig him up to pose for pictures. The dude on the bench playing and singing ‘Hey, Jude’ on The Smothers Brothers Show in 1968 mat not be Paul McCartney. The voice is. Check it out at the lab.
The substitute could not sing, so to keep the queen in new shoes, McCartney returned. ‘Hey, Jude’ seems to be the replacement with McCartney’s voice in a lip-sync."
So, this should be easy enough to figure out: if Paul II is not singing Hey Jude on that live show, then we know that they had to get Paul in to do the job.
For me, the most talented group of the 70s was KC and the Sunshine Band, yes Get Down Tonight sounds like a modified I Am Soul Man, but who cares?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFwl-nYS-lU (Please Don't Go, better than anything else put forward at that time by Pink Floyd, ABBA or anyone else)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBsIGF-KZZw
And yet, KC did not follow through with more songs in the 80s, which were to become a musical wasteland (speed metal, synth pop, hair bands)...
August 15, 2021
Hey Jude is a modified version of the beautiful Polovetsian Dances by Borodin:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWU1uj9WmOM ("Na na na na" refrain is taken from the dance which starts at 3:50)
All You Need Is Love is a modified version of Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2W1Wi2U9sQ
Sloop John B. is a modified Chinese Dance from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker suite:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8J8urC_8Jw (12:06)
Won't Get Fooled Again, modified themes from the Nutcracker suite and the Romeo and Juliette overture:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8J8urC_8Jw (3:30, Marche)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfb-YZYU5g
Honkytonk Woman, the Stones' last great single, is a modified version of Ruby Tuesday.
Ruby Tuesday is a modified version of Claire de Lune by Debussy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNcsUNKlAKw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxvI1GoHss4
The original Mick Jagger had a formidable charisma (seen in the movie Performance, as an example), none of the other rock groups/stars which appeared later could match it, not by a long shot:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruTMp4_sy1E
The best bands of the 70s were formed actually in the 60s (when Adorno wrote most of the their hits), The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen, ELP (at least some of the songs, Lucky Man is a modified version of The Court of the Crimson King, KarnEvil 9 1st impression part 2 has elements from What's New Pussycat by Mancini, C'est La Vie is a modified version of Nights In White Satin given by Adorno to the Moody Blues [theme from Swan Lake]), Jethro Tull and much more. The 70s bands were nowhere near the prowess of the rock groups of the 60s.