Beatles songs ticket to ride3/17/2024 ![]() You can no longer showcase your marriage. As you held up the beautiful vase to show people it’s beauty, that now is simply a collection of glued pieces that resembles your relationship. And when you think about the broken pieces collected from your relationship, you know that will also never be the same. And like your relationship, it has become fragile as you watch a piece fall off the vase when you lifted off the table. The vase will never hold flowers again because it cannot hold water. Held together by history and commitment but still broken. Like the pieces missing from your relationship. There are holes in it created by pieces you did not find and never will. You slowly turn it around on the table and realize it is an archaic reproduction of its original form. Something so precious you often proudly displayed it to friends Over a period of three weeks, you managed to glue the vase back together. You find two small pieces, place them on the table and stare down at the broken pieces of something you cherished and was beautiful. When you believe all the pieces have been collected and placed on the table, you do one last search for the smallest pieces you may have missed. After all, you’ve had it for thirty years. You realize it may not be the same as it once was, but would vase be good enough to keep. You must be methodical and cautious because your path is covered with egg shells. Imagine trying to pick up the pieces of your life, left behind in the wake of betrayal. For a moment you’re not sure what to do but then you decide to try and repair it. It reminded me of something I wrote many years ago about a vase that was knocked off the shelf and broken into many pieces. Betrayal is the ultimate form of deceit and deception. Love and marriage are often broken by betrayal, lies and unkept promises. I refer to the story, as “The Broken Vase.” I answered, “when promises, borders and commitment are broken, and especially betrayal, the relationship may be repaired but never return to what it once was or could have been.”īefore she left, she thanked me for giving her a copy. She said, “everything is fine, but I cannot get your story or quote about the broken pieces out of my mind.” She took a deep breath raised her head and, in half whisper, said, “it really described the broken pieces in my marriage? I asked, “is everything all right,” knowing she did not ask me to meet to discuss a job offer. We sat in the restaurant for forty-five minutes discussing her new job opportunity when her face grew solemn. It was quite radical at the time.A few weeks back, a longtime friend asked if I would meet her for lunch to discuss a new job offer. ![]() We almost invented the idea of a new bit of a song on the fade-out with this song it was something specially written for the fade-out, which was very effective but it was quite cheeky and we did a fast ending. We picked up one of the lines, ‘My baby don’t care’, but completely altered the melody. “I think the interesting thing was a crazy ending: instead of ending like the previous verse, we changed the tempo. It’s a heavy record and the drums are heavy too. ![]() If you give me the A track and I remix it, I’ll show you what it is really, but you can hear it there. ![]() You hear it now and it doesn’t sound too bad but it’d make me cringe. It was pretty fucking heavy for then, if you go and look in the charts for what other music people were making. “Ticket To Ride was slightly a new sound at the time. It was pretty much a work job that turned out quite well…John just didn’t take the time to explain that we sat down together and worked on that song for a full three-hour songwriting session, and at the end of it all we had all the words, we had the harmonies, and we had all the little bits.” – Paul McCartney Because John sang it, you might have to give him 60 per cent of it. We’d often work those out as we wrote them. “We wrote the melody together you can hear on the record, John’s taking the melody and I’m singing harmony with it. Paul’s contribution was the way Ringo played the drums.” – John Lennon “That was one of the earliest heavy-metal records made. ![]() It was later revealed by journalist Don Short, a friend of the band, that John had coined the phrase “ticket to ride” during the band’s 1962 Hamburg trip in reference to one who was billed medically fit to ride the trains. Noted by John as “one of the earliest heavy metal records ever made”, Ticket To Ride indeed featured a driving riff and heavy beat and was influenced by the Kinks’ You Really Got Me. ![]()
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