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Take all of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems
Better put them in quotations

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Walking like a one man army
Fighting with the shadows in your head
Living out the same old moment
Knowing you’d be better off instead
If you could only

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Have no fear for giving in
Have no fear for giving over
You better know that in the end
It’s better to say too much
Than never to say what you need to say again

Even if your hands are shaking
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closing
Do it with a heart wide open

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

My friend Paul gave me a link to this video. It's so beautiful that I wanted to share with everyone.




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News Letter
08 August 2009

It is one of the world's most iconic and recognisable album covers - and hundreds of Beatles fans have gathered at the famous zebra crossing in Abbey Road to mark the 40th anniversary of its creation.



The Beatles crossing Abbey Road

The crowds celebrated the occasion by singing some of the Fab Four's best-loved hits as they jammed into the road on and around the now-famous crossing.

Tony Bramwell, the band's former road manager, who was present on the day the shots were taken, said: "Other than Paul and Ringo, I'm the only person alive who was here on that day."

"It's great to see that the whole thing carries on."

"Through the musical genres and revolutions of the last 40 years the Beatles are still number one."

He said at the time the cover was "just a photo" and the shoot only took minutes, but he expected that McCartney and Starr would be watching coverage of the event on television.

The ex Beatles have not tired of the image even four decades on, he said.

Mr Bramwell added: "Who could get bored of being a Beatle?"

According to a Telegraph article, fans gathering to commemorate the event will be led across the road by Beatles tribute band Sgt Pepper's Only Dartboard Band, who will be wearing replicas of the clothes the Beatles wore four decades earlier.

The tour will be led by Richard Porter, a professional Beatles tour guide and owner of the Beatles Coffee Shop at St John's Wood Underground station.

Events organiser Richard Porter, who owns the nearby Beatles Coffee Shop, said he was "flummoxed" by the number of fans at the event.

He said: "I get fans literally from all over the world at the shop. And today we've got TV crews from 15 different countries and God knows how many press photographers."

By Aislinn Simpson
Independent.ie
Monday July 20, 2009

The doctor who attempted to revive legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix on the night he died has said it is "plausible" that he was murdered.

John Bannister, the on-call registrar at the now closed St Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington, said in an interview that the patient seemed to have "drowned" in a large amount of red wine.

The account fits with one given by James "Tappy" Wright, a 65-year-old former road manager who worked for Hendrix's manager Mike Jeffrey.

Jimi Hendrix

Wright has claimed in a new book that indebted Jeffrey had taken out a $2m (€1.4m) life-insurance policy on the star amid concerns about his increased drug-taking, and that he told him Hendrix was "worth more to him dead than alive".

He alleges that Jeffrey confessed to him that he had ordered the killing a month before his death in a plane crash.

The official version of Hendrix's death at the age of 27 is that he died from choking on vomit after a drugs overdose.

Wright's version is that Hendrix was killed on the orders of Jeffrey by a gang who broke into his hotel room and forced wine and painkillers down his throat until he drowned.

Mr Bannister, 67, said he had no idea who Hendrix was when he arrived early on the morning of September 18, 1970, but remembers being perplexed by his height.

“He was hanging over the table we had him on by about ten inches,” he told The Times newspaper.

He said he fought to resuciate him but there was no hope of survival.

"We worked very hard for about half an hour but there was no response at all. It really was an exercise in futility,” he said. “Somebody said to me ‘You know who that was? That was Jimi Hendrix,’ and, of course, I said, ‘Who’s Jimi Hendrix?’”

He said that Wright's description, in his memoir Rock Roadster, of Hendrix's demise "sounded plausible because of the volume of wine”.

“The amount of wine that was over him was just extraordinary. Not only was it saturated right through his hair and shirt but his lungs and stomach were absolutely full of wine," he said.

"I have never seen so much wine. We had a sucker that you put down into his trachea, the entrance to his lungs and to the whole of the back of his throat.

“We kept sucking him out and it kept surging and surging. He had already vomited up masses of red wine and I would have thought there was half a bottle of wine in his hair. He had really drowned in a massive amount of red wine.”

Bannister now lives in Sydney and worked as a doctor until 1992 when he was deregistered for fraudulent conduct.

BBC
5 July 09



Music entrepreneur Allen Klein, blamed by many for contributing to the demise of The Beatles, has died in New York at 77 after suffering from Alzheimer's.

In a career spanning five decades, Klein earned a reputation as a ruthless operator, extracting lucrative deals from labels for his clients.

In the mid-1960s, he managed The Rolling Stones for five years.

Later managing The Beatles, he tried and failed to secure control of copyrights on their behalf.

'Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because I'm the biggest bastard in the valley.'
--Allen Klein, parodying the 23rd Psalm

Though reviled by many, others admired his ability to negotiate with record labels.

"Don't talk to me about ethics," he once told Playboy magazine. "Every man makes his own. It's like a war."

He said John Lennon had hired him to protect his interest in The Beatles, because he wanted what he called "a real shark - someone to keep the other sharks away".

Charity gig

Klein helped the Stones negotiate a new contract with their label but the relationship soured after he bought the rights to the band's 1960s songs and recordings - classics like (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction and Jumpin' Jack Flash - from a former manager.

Keith Richards later described Klein's time with the group as "the price of an education".

The Beatles hired Klein in 1969 over the objections of Paul McCartney, who preferred his father-in-law, Lee Eastman.

At the time, a New York Times profile referred to him as "the toughest wheeler-dealer in the pop jungle".

Klein himself once sent out a holiday card parodying the 23rd Psalm:

"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because I'm the biggest bastard in the valley."

His copyright battle for the Beatles came as tensions among the four reached breaking-point.

Eventually he did score a rich recording deal for The Beatles but by then John, Paul, George and Ringo were not even on speaking terms, and the band dissolved in 1970.

One year later, however, George Harrison hired Klein to put on the all-star Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden in New York - the forerunner of the mammoth charity gigs of the 1980s and 1990s.

Accountant at heart

"I never wanted to be a manager," Klein told The Star-Ledger of Newark in 2002. "It was going over the books that I loved. And I was good at it."

Allen Klein was born in Newark, New Jersey, on 18 December 1931 and spent several years in an orphanage after his mother's death during his infancy.

Later raised by a grandmother and an aunt, he served in the US Army before joining a Manhattan accounting firm, according to his company.

He started his own firm, which later became ABKCO, in the late 1950s.

His other clients in the music business including Sam Cooke, Bobby Darin and Herman's Hermits.

According to the Associated Press, he was reputed to be the basis for the slick manager Ron Decline played by Jon Belushi in the 1978 film The Rutles, as well as the inspiration for John Lennon's 1974 song Steel and Glass.

His funeral will take place in New York on Tuesday.

**What would you guys do if you didna have me to tell you about all these great old songs you never heard of?

by Billy Squier



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You see 'em comin' at you every night
Strung on pretension they fall for you at first sight
You know their business--you think it's a bore
They make you restless--it's nothin' you ain't seen before
Get around town, spend your time on the run
You never let down...say you do it for fun
Never miss a play, though you make quite a few
You give it all away when everybody wants you

You crave attention--you can never say "no"
Throw your affections anyway the wind blows
You always make it--you're on top of the scene
You sell the copy like the cover of a magazine

Puttin' on the eyes 'til there's nobody else
You never realize what you do to yourself
The things that they see make the daily reviews
You never get free when everybody wants you

Everybody knows you
Everybody snows you
Everybody needs you...leads you...bleeds you

Nights of confusion and impossible dreams
Days at the mirror, patchin' up around the seams
You got your glory--you paid for it all
You take your pension in loneliness and alcohol

Say goodbye to conventional ways
You can't escape the hours--you lose track of the days
The more you understand, seems the more like you do
You never get away...everybody wants you

On Sundays I listen to a radio programme on the Blues. I like this music, and tonight they featured Muddy Waters. This week saw the 96th anniversary of his birth year. Muddy passed from this life, however, in 1983. I'm sure wherever he is, he is still the king of the Blues. ♥



"McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered 'the Father of Chicago blues'. He is also the actual father of blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry 'Mud Morganfield' Williams.

Considered one of the greatest bluesmen of all time, Muddy Waters was a huge inspiration for the British beat explosion in the 1960s and considered by many to be one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

In 2004 Waters was ranked #17 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time." [Source]

Here is one of my favourites: 'Hoochoe Coochie Man' as performed by Muddy at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960.

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