ZelphtheGreat wrote:Remember also the burning of Beatle records when John Lennon said 'we're more popular than Jesus Christ' in an interview.
Biggest boon to record sales of the Beatles ever as we all had to buy the records again later after the foolishness died down. At the time we were forbidden to play Beatle songs at church dances in Utah.
Even had talks in Sacrament meeting about how evil the Beatles were..., with one High Council member railing on and on about the decline of society/last days evil as shown in 'The Beatles and The Beatnicks".
Every era has its boogymen and most turn out to be foolishness used to control one group or another.
Luckily that kind of foolishness would never be found in the modern LDS Church....er....
Also evolving at a rapid rate has been the moral compass of society. Behaviors which once were considered inappropriate and immoral are now not only tolerated but also viewed by ever so many as acceptable.
I recently read in the Wall Street Journal an article by Jonathan Sacks, Britain’s chief rabbi. Among other things, he writes: “In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. All you need, sang the Beatles, is love. The Judeo-Christian moral code was jettisoned.
ZelphtheGreat wrote:Remember also the burning of Beatle records when John Lennon said 'we're more popular than Jesus Christ' in an interview.
Biggest boon to record sales of the Beatles ever as we all had to buy the records again later after the foolishness died down. At the time we were forbidden to play Beatle songs at church dances in Utah.
Even had talks in Sacrament meeting about how evil the Beatles were..., with one High Council member railing on and on about the decline of society/last days evil as shown in 'The Beatles and The Beatnicks".
Every era has its boogymen and most turn out to be foolishness used to control one group or another.
Luckily that kind of foolishness would never be found in the modern LDS Church....er....
Also evolving at a rapid rate has been the moral compass of society. Behaviors which once were considered inappropriate and immoral are now not only tolerated but also viewed by ever so many as acceptable.
I recently read in the Wall Street Journal an article by Jonathan Sacks, Britain’s chief rabbi. Among other things, he writes: “In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. All you need, sang the Beatles, is love. The Judeo-Christian moral code was jettisoned.
A terrible free enterprise power the Beatles had. I remember listening to a discussion with Putin when he explained kgb and the wall could keep out all sorts of western influence but the Beatles and blue jeans kept slipping through. It was a stream that eventually washed the wall away. Putin confessed to having obtained clandestine versions of both Beatles recordings and blue jeans himself back in the day.
It is completely silly to think the Beatles encouraged discarding our moral compass Old Testament my view.
In a letter of Feb. 7, 1964, addressed to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, an outraged parent (name withheld) exclaims, “My daughter brought home a record of ‘Louie Louie’ and I, after reading that the record had been banned from being played on the air because it was obscene, proceeded to try to decipher the jumble of words. The lyrics are so filthy that I can-not enclose them in this letter.”
So began a two-year investigation by the FBI, who to this day is involved in fighting obscenity. According to the FBI case file, The Kingmen’s record was sent to the FBI Laboratory for analysis to “determine its obscene character,” in part by playing the 45 rpm single at the slower speed of 33 1/3 rpm.
In a world before the internet, you could not idly google 'louie louie lyrics' and know the answer. In the Kingsmen's version, the lyrics were so poorly enunciated that everyone just assumed the lyrics were dirty. It was the absence of verifiable lyrics that led to the song's mystique.
This reminds me of a related story: Donovan had a hit in 1967 with 'Mellow Yellow', which contained the lyrics:
Electrical banana, going to be a sudden craze, Electrical banana, bound to be the very next phase
Seemingly simultaneously with the release of the song came the rumor that you could scrape the inside skin of a banana peel and smoke the shavings to get high.
For several weeks, the local market in my neighborhood posted a sign stating they would NOT sell bananas to anyone under 18 years of age.
I'm not making this up.
The kicker is, that while there was indeed a rumor that smoking bananas could make you high, that wasn't the...er...thrust of Donovan's lyrics. He was singing about a vibrator.
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization." - Will Durant "We've kept more promises than we've even made" - Donald Trump "Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist." - Edwin Land
huckelberry wrote:whats a link? I saw a television program a number of years ago.
Hearsay, then. Vladimir
Well Vlad, I have thought a few times over the years that your comments for the musical performance could have been politically motivated. Perhaps your are precisely the sort of person who never liked the Beatles. You always thought your self above that sort of thing but wanted at one time to appear more like a regular Russian guy. Perhaps now that no longer fits your program and you are pushing those old comment towards the dust bin of forgotten. You could be a person who once enjoyed such music but now have been converted to a superior spiritual state and wish to erase any memory of your previous commonality. You may with pressure succeed in erasing much but my memory is not yet quite gone. But my memory has holes. Perhaps with another decade of indifference your Beatle enthusiasm will slip out my memory. Then all will remember you as pompous.