I've been listening to a lot of Beatles lately, having spent my weekend downloading all their albums (official cannon plus Magical Mystery Tour) in lossless FLAC format, so everything in my life (boom!) is taking on kind of a Beatles flavor.
How do you explain to your twelve-year-old daughter than, no, she probably wouldn't have enjoyed the Magical Mystery Tour at all? Is this a teaching moment or should I let her enjoy the Beatles without having to try to figure out which lyrics are drug references?
And then there's this, for Lex:
Mixed message, for sure.
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Having been raised on the Beatles, and having a weird crush on John Lennon when I was in high school, which led me to become a sort of fanatical buff of Beatles trivia and their music, I say no worries about teaching her the specific drug references.
She'll figure it out soon enough. I think I was pretty naive when it came to that stuff (still am, for that matter) and it didn't make a whole lot of difference for me. I just loved their music.
Oh, and while "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is pretty blatantly about drugs, when I was in high school I would defend to the death that it's not. I read this huge biography on John Lennon, and I saw the picture Julian drew of his friend Lucy, flying.
I will argue to the death, still (and especially with Dan) that "Imagine" is NOT about Communism. I may lose, though. I think it's idealism.
N'Uncle,
Point Taken. Thanks.
- P
ps - Is that whole rooftop concert on le youtube at this point? I shall find out for myself. Lotta fur flying.
ps - careful with the FLACs, man. big files. reaaal big files.
seriously, them FLACs're really big. they're gonna actually make yr laptop heavier.
Download, burn, delete.
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