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John Lennon said The Beatles’ “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” features an instrument he couldn’t “face.” He was asked about the band’s post-Abbey Road musical direction. Abbey Road was a hit in the United Kingdom during the 1960s and again during the 1980s.
John Lennon said The Beatles’ “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” features a “fantastic machine.” In addition, the instrument appears on other songs from Abbey Road. John felt George Harrison could have taken a lifetime to master the machine.
The Beatles’ ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ includes a state-of-the-art instrument
The Moog synthesizer is an early synthesizer invented by engineer Robert Moog. The Beatles helped popularize the instrument by using it on Abbey Road. The book Lennon on Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon features an interview from 1969. In it, John explained why the band used a Moog.
John Lennon said The Beatles’ “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” features an instrument he couldn’t “face.” He was asked about the band’s post-Abbey Road musical direction. Abbey Road was a hit in the United Kingdom during the 1960s and again during the 1980s.
John Lennon said The Beatles’ “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” features a “fantastic machine.” In addition, the instrument appears on other songs from Abbey Road. John felt George Harrison could have taken a lifetime to master the machine.
The Beatles’ ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ includes a state-of-the-art instrument
The Moog synthesizer is an early synthesizer invented by engineer Robert Moog. The Beatles helped popularize the instrument by using it on Abbey Road. The book Lennon on Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon features an interview from 1969. In it, John explained why the band used a Moog.
- 8/16/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Paul McCartney said he was trying to be obscure with one lyric in The Beatles‘ “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.” The rest of the band didn’t like the song, but Paul was proud of it.
Paul McCartney | Express/Getty Images A French dramatist inspired Paul McCartney to write an obscure lyric in ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’
In his book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul explained that he tried to be obscure with one lyric in The Beatles’ “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.”
He was zooming up the highway, traveling from London to Liverpool, in his Aston Martin one day when he heard something on BBC Radio 3. It was a production of Ubu Cocu, which was first broadcast in December 1965 and repeated in January 1966.
Ubu Cocu is one of three plays, including the better-known Ubu Roi, by the French dramatist Alfred Jarry. It’s subtitled “a pataphysical extravaganza.” Paul said...
Paul McCartney | Express/Getty Images A French dramatist inspired Paul McCartney to write an obscure lyric in ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’
In his book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul explained that he tried to be obscure with one lyric in The Beatles’ “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.”
He was zooming up the highway, traveling from London to Liverpool, in his Aston Martin one day when he heard something on BBC Radio 3. It was a production of Ubu Cocu, which was first broadcast in December 1965 and repeated in January 1966.
Ubu Cocu is one of three plays, including the better-known Ubu Roi, by the French dramatist Alfred Jarry. It’s subtitled “a pataphysical extravaganza.” Paul said...
- 3/26/2023
- by Hannah Wigandt
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
While queer musicians have always been around, representation often comes in the way of gay, lesbian or bisexual artists. Unfortunately, transgender artists have been especially underrepresented. These days trans, nonbinary, or non-gender-conforming artists like Sam Smith, Arca, Janelle Monáe, Kim Petras, and Big Freedia have been able to create space for transgender artists. However, back in the 1960s, one artist was already pushing music forward. Let’s look back at Wendy Carlos, her monumental record “Switched-On Bach,” and how it helped both her and the trans community along the way — while also winning three Grammys.
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Wendy Carlos was always a genius. According to her bio, after mastering her piano skills she attended Brown University and double majored in physics and music. Afterwards she earned a master’s degree in music composition at Columbia University. With such knowledge, it’s no surprise she was working...
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Wendy Carlos was always a genius. According to her bio, after mastering her piano skills she attended Brown University and double majored in physics and music. Afterwards she earned a master’s degree in music composition at Columbia University. With such knowledge, it’s no surprise she was working...
- 6/18/2022
- by Jaime Rodriguez
- Gold Derby
Meet Paul McCartney: the ultimate Beatles geek. The excellent new Hulu documentary series McCartney 3, 2, 1 gets up close with the most legendary of rock stars, alone in the studio with Rick Rubin, telling stories and listening deep to the Beatles. It’s a fascinating thrill just to listen with him. Like anyone else, he’s mystified by how these four nowhere boys from Liverpool managed to create this music. As Paul says, “For me, I’ve grown to be a fan of the Beatles. Because then, I was just a Beatle.
- 7/13/2021
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Let’s get this out the way early – yes, you are correct, “Sisters with Transistors” is the best title for a documentary you have seen so far this year. Doing exactly what it says on the tin, Lisa Rovner’s debut feature is a secret history of electronic music, told via the women that made it happen. No Kraftwerk, no Robert Moog, and only the most cursory mention of Leon Theremin. Instead we hear – and hear from – ten unsung (or rather un-bzzzzzzzed. There’s little singing going on) geniuses of electronic art, drawn from across continents and musical styles, dating back to classical violinist Clara Rockmore’s adoption of the Theremin in the 1920s, and passing through avant-garde art pieces, movies, TV scores and commercials.
Laurie Anderson provides the narration – herself a pioneer of the form – as Rovner stitches her film together from archive audio and footage, with the odd...
Laurie Anderson provides the narration – herself a pioneer of the form – as Rovner stitches her film together from archive audio and footage, with the odd...
- 4/29/2021
- by Marc Burrows
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
They turned drawings into symphonies and made black boxes sing. Why were they never given their due? The maker of a new film, full of revealing archive footage, aims to put this right
Wearing a black cocktail dress and a foil-bright silver headscarf, a woman stands in the corner of a drawing room performing The Swan by Saint-Saëns, while a group of men look on. Although the scene has a sedate Edwardian air to it, this is actually 1976. The woman whirls her red nails around a mysterious black box, making it sigh and lament, whisper and sing. This is Clara Rockmore, the first virtuoso of the theremin, and her audience – all there to learn – includes Robert Moog, inventor of the synthesiser.
A year later, aged 66, Rockmore would release her first album, recorded by Moog, 35 years after she made her concert debut on the instrument at New York’s City Hall,...
Wearing a black cocktail dress and a foil-bright silver headscarf, a woman stands in the corner of a drawing room performing The Swan by Saint-Saëns, while a group of men look on. Although the scene has a sedate Edwardian air to it, this is actually 1976. The woman whirls her red nails around a mysterious black box, making it sigh and lament, whisper and sing. This is Clara Rockmore, the first virtuoso of the theremin, and her audience – all there to learn – includes Robert Moog, inventor of the synthesiser.
A year later, aged 66, Rockmore would release her first album, recorded by Moog, 35 years after she made her concert debut on the instrument at New York’s City Hall,...
- 4/23/2021
- by Jude Rogers
- The Guardian - Film News
Like every industry built under the watchful eye of a global patriarchy, the Edm scene is grossly tilted in favor of its male artists. And like many of those same industries, this fact exists despite the presence of women pioneers at the inception of electronic sound as a medium. For every Robert Moog that acknowledged their genius (he enlisted Clara Rockmore’s expertise to better the advancement of his synthesizer), there were unfortunately countless others like Don Buchla, who agreed to sponsor a class for recent grads like Suzanne Ciani before declaring it closed to women—of which she was to be the only one. So gatekeeping manifests at the level of education, the level of access, and ultimately the level of success.
The numbers don’t lie. Less than three percent of the field’s production and technical roles are women. Less than three-tenths of a percent are women of color.
The numbers don’t lie. Less than three percent of the field’s production and technical roles are women. Less than three-tenths of a percent are women of color.
- 9/20/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Part of our on-going series Notebook Soundtrack Mixes.Wendy Carlos sits away from the limelight. Some might say she is somewhat a mysterious figure in the realms she is recognized in: film composition, classical composition, and electronic music. A pioneer of electronic music invention and application, Carlos is behind the development of much that we now take for granted in contemporary music, helping open up a word of new possibilities for future generations of composers and bedroom producers alike. Studying music and physics at Brown in the 1960s, Carlos went on to earn a masters in music at Columbia under the tutelage of electronic composer pioneer Vladimir Ussachevsky. It was there, a year before graduating, that Carlos met Robert Moog. The two began a partnership with a mutual vision: to create an instrument with the same expression as the piano, to update the form in the same way the piano updated the clavichord.
- 6/16/2020
- MUBI
In 2019, it seems almost inconceivable that a book could heavily influence pop culture, but that’s exactly what 1973’s The Secret Life of Plants did. Written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, the book proposed that not only are plants sentient, but it’s possible they might even enjoy music. Of course, this theory was widely criticized by scientists, but it nonetheless became a bestseller, sparking a phenomenon and opening the floodgates for the plant music genre.
From Ann Chase’s A Chant For Your Plants to the Baroque Bouquet’s Plant Music,...
From Ann Chase’s A Chant For Your Plants to the Baroque Bouquet’s Plant Music,...
- 12/12/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Tony Sokol Sep 30, 2019
The Beatles Abbey Road 50th Anniversary celebrates an end of an era, but the album marked the beginning of a new phase.
The Beatles' Abbey Road celebrated its 50th Anniversary amidst a flurry of activity. The band dropped a music video for "Here Comes the Sun." Recently unearthed audio shows the band may not have been ready to call it quits. While it is true they still had the Let It Be album to release, Abbey Road was a step forward and a clue to a new direction. It is fitting the band named the album after the studio, because the Beatles progressed quickly during recording sessions and the Abbey Road sonic staff often rushed to keep up.
The Beatles grew from album to album, musically and lyrically, as songwriters and as musicians. Their voices were freed from the confines of pop as they demolished standards one record at a time.
The Beatles Abbey Road 50th Anniversary celebrates an end of an era, but the album marked the beginning of a new phase.
The Beatles' Abbey Road celebrated its 50th Anniversary amidst a flurry of activity. The band dropped a music video for "Here Comes the Sun." Recently unearthed audio shows the band may not have been ready to call it quits. While it is true they still had the Let It Be album to release, Abbey Road was a step forward and a clue to a new direction. It is fitting the band named the album after the studio, because the Beatles progressed quickly during recording sessions and the Abbey Road sonic staff often rushed to keep up.
The Beatles grew from album to album, musically and lyrically, as songwriters and as musicians. Their voices were freed from the confines of pop as they demolished standards one record at a time.
- 9/28/2019
- Den of Geek
Tony Sokol Sep 26, 2019
The Beatles' Abbey Road turns 50 and the new "Here Comes the Sun" music video shines a light on the magic studio.
The Beatles' Abbey Road 50th anniversary celebration dawns with the debut of a new "Here Comes the Sun" music video. George Harrison's song opens side 2 of the 1969 album, which was named for the studio it was recorded in. The sun at the center of the music video, which was directed by Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney of Trunk Animation, was filmed in Abbey Road’s Studio Two.
Harrison wrote the song on an acoustic guitar in the garden of Eric Clapton's “Hurtwood Edge” home in Ewhurst, Surrey, which was about a half hour drive from George's "Kinfauns" home, according to his 1979 book I Me Mine. Sessions for the "Get Back" album (which became Let It Be), were tense, and Apple Corps, the Beatles' business organization,...
The Beatles' Abbey Road turns 50 and the new "Here Comes the Sun" music video shines a light on the magic studio.
The Beatles' Abbey Road 50th anniversary celebration dawns with the debut of a new "Here Comes the Sun" music video. George Harrison's song opens side 2 of the 1969 album, which was named for the studio it was recorded in. The sun at the center of the music video, which was directed by Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney of Trunk Animation, was filmed in Abbey Road’s Studio Two.
Harrison wrote the song on an acoustic guitar in the garden of Eric Clapton's “Hurtwood Edge” home in Ewhurst, Surrey, which was about a half hour drive from George's "Kinfauns" home, according to his 1979 book I Me Mine. Sessions for the "Get Back" album (which became Let It Be), were tense, and Apple Corps, the Beatles' business organization,...
- 9/26/2019
- Den of Geek
“My favorite keyboard of all time will always be the Minimoog,” Rick Wakeman says in an extended version of a scene that will appear in Electronic Voyager, an upcoming doc on the life of legendary synth inventor Robert Moog. “I couldn’t live without one.”
In the film, Moog’s daughter, Michelle Moog-Koussa, retraces the footstep of her father from his birthplace in Queens, New York, to his eventual home of Asheville, North Carolina. Along the way, she meets with various prominent musicians who have used Moog synths in their work,...
In the film, Moog’s daughter, Michelle Moog-Koussa, retraces the footstep of her father from his birthplace in Queens, New York, to his eventual home of Asheville, North Carolina. Along the way, she meets with various prominent musicians who have used Moog synths in their work,...
- 5/9/2019
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Like a candy-colored Jack Kirby acid trip, Thor: Ragnorak bounces all over the Nine Realms – taking its hammer-wielding hero from Asgard to Earth and some truly mind-blowing places in between. Yes, the latest adventure from the comic-book blockbuster factory ticks all the customary Marvel boxes. It's a spirited adventure punctuated by heady bursts of CGI spectacle. It's got just enough fan-service cameos to delight knowing viewers. And there's at least one arguably gratuitous shirtless shot of its handsome hero (not that anyone is complaining).
But the movie (which hits...
But the movie (which hits...
- 11/1/2017
- Rollingstone.com
From August 4th through August 6th, Flashback Weekend Chicago Horror Con took over the Windy City, and Daily Dead was on hand for all the horror-fied festivities. Throughout all three days, this writer served as one of Flashback’s co-hosts, and brought back some highlights from several of the panels held over the course of the convention.
Below is the first part of our excerpts from the panel featuring the women of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, and Ronee Blakley. The trio discussed their careers at the point of being involved with the first film in the Nightmare franchise, how the project came about, and their experiences seeing Wes Craven’s landmark film for the very first time.
Be sure to check back here on Daily Dead for more from the women of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
I would love to start off by hearing...
Below is the first part of our excerpts from the panel featuring the women of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, and Ronee Blakley. The trio discussed their careers at the point of being involved with the first film in the Nightmare franchise, how the project came about, and their experiences seeing Wes Craven’s landmark film for the very first time.
Be sure to check back here on Daily Dead for more from the women of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
I would love to start off by hearing...
- 8/17/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Five Albums You Should Be Listening to Right Now: MoogFest Hark! A vintage synthesizer, off in the distance! by Matt Hendrickson This weekend, Asheville, North Carolina, will be playing host to the third annual MoogFest, "the festival of electronic and visionary music that celebrates the innovative spirit of Robert Moog." Robert Moog, of course, invented the Moog synthesizer, the iconic instrument heard on virtually every piece of music created through the 1970s. Everyone from the Magnetic Fields to Explosions in the Sky will be present at this year's MoogFest, and to that end, we got Matt Hendrickson, Director of Marketing at AC Entertainment, to give us the rundown on the five bands who represent the cream of the crop at Moogfest. 1. Carl Craig, Sessions (2008) One of techno’s titans, Carl Craig has consistently pushed the genre’s boundaries while recording under his own name, delivering various [...]...
- 10/24/2012
- by Matt Hendrickson
- Nerve
Seventy-nine years ago today, the first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. To celebrate, Google has (once again) created another inventive, animated doodle chock-full of in-jokes and hidden Google logos. The doodle, which you can see in the clip above, sets the scene as such: A drive-in playing a horror movie for a variety of moviegoers, from a girl yawning and putting her arm around an unsuspecting boy to a few kids playing in the back of their family's pick-up. Soon enough, a monster appears on screen, which is then followed by a familiar scream. But before the audience gets too scared, it's intermission. (I caught four hidden Googles along the way -- the intermission, the license plate, the candy and the popcorn bucket.) When the drive-in first opened in 1933, the cost for a ticket was 25 cents per person (it cost another 25 cents to bring the car in...
- 6/6/2012
- by Alex Jeffries
- Moviefone
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