No, not really a set of groundbreaking programmes, was it?
However the "Shine On" section was possibly the worst bit of music TV I've seen since the Lennon Tribute concert all those years ago. Lou Reed doing exactly the same as he did then, all the Dadrock bores present and correct, Jo Bloody Whiley being her usual plastic gushing self and almost every single performance was an overmanned washed out mess (usually the fault of Jools and his bloody band). It says something that Moloko were by far the best thing on there...
Possibly the most cringworthy piece of TV I've seen in many years. Mind you I didn't check out "A Song For Jill"...
OK, yes I won't deny that I'm bored, so maybe we should have our own tribute, and each sing a bit from our fave Lennon/Beatles song. We can't make a worse job than C4 anyway!
#..The long and winding road that leads to your door,
Will never disappear,
I've seen that road before It always leads me here,
leads me to your door.
The wild and windy night the rain washed away,
Has left a pool of tears crying for the day.
Why leave me standing here, let me know the way
Many times I've been alone and many times I've cried
Anyway you'll never know the many ways I've tried, but
Still they lead me back to the long and winding road
You left me standing here a long, long time ago
Don't leave me waiting here, lead me to you door#
*bows*
And next up, in the Forumsters Tribute is....
Boy, you've been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, i am the walrus...
goo goo g'joob eh?
Well done subbes, an inspired performance, although the actions were *quite* unnecessary!
semolina pilchard, climbing up the eiffel tower!
Black cloud 'cross my mind, blue mist 'round my soul. Feel so suicidal, even hate my rock and roll...
Although my fave Lennon song would be Walrus or Stwarberry Fields... or maybe A Day In The Life, especially the bridge between the middle section and the last verse where JL floats off and the orchestra swells menacingly... can't hear it enough. Cry Baby Cry?
I couldn't pick out a fave Beatles tune anyway. "Don't Bother Me" is a good one though most people disagree.
Best not to bring up 'What a shame Mary Jane had a pain at the party...', eh?
Emagine there's na 'Eaven
It'sa easy if ya try
Na 'Ell below uz
Habove honly sky
You may say I'm a cockney
But Hi'm not the honly one
I 'ope some day you'll join us
Hand der world will live as one.
In the town where I was born
Lived a man on the sex offenders register
Yesterday all my troubles seem so far way
I am dead and now turning grey
You only passed your test yesterday.
Suddenly my face went through the screen
Turn the wipers off they're tickling me
You braked too hard - accidentally
By Bill Clinton
Woman I can hardly express
My regret for the semen on your dress
Slip inside the eye of your mind............d'oh!
John - DUCK!!
Is Imagine quite possibly the single most overrated piece of music in the history of pop? (Although Instant Karma's quite good.)
Let's put it like this - without wishing to sound too much like Alan Partridge, Mull Of Kintyre is slightly better.
Look in wonder at my interesting opinions, aaaaaaah....
I've never thought much of "Imagine", it's one of those things that everybody goes "Oh, that's wonderful" but it's just this annoying thing that's always there to me. I think "Jealous Guy" is a billion and one times better than "Imagine".
Hum, perhaps this should have gone in the "Blind spots" thread... oh well.
'Woman' is one of the best songs. Imagine is a bit overrated, yeah.
"Is Imagine quite possibly the single most overrated piece of music in the history of pop?"
No. You have overlooked, for example, the entire work of Led Zepellin. Who were shit.
Overrated or just overplayed?
MM
The documentary on the Lennon night was superb. What an inspired idea to take up the bulk of the show interviewing people who knew him when he had his arse hanging out of his trousers.
A man who goes about the world proclaiming love and peace, and at the same time avoids seeing his son for four years, what a rat.
I can't stand the way people go on like he was the only member of The Beatles. McCartney and Harrison at their best are his equal (if not better). Oh and before any clever sod mentions 'The Frog Chorus', try listening to John & Yoko's 'Sometime In New York' album all the way through.
Love and peace
McGinty