The Beatles and the
British Invasion
First, the Beatles
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Music of the sixties - Prof. Mel Rosenberg
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Course Outline
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Introduction. Dylan, folk and protest
Musical evolution of rock music: From Bach
to Beatles
Beatles and the British Invasion
The history of Israeli sixties rock
Influence of North American sixties culture
as reflected in the eyes of the media
The poets of alienation: Leonard Cohen;
Paul Simon, Phil Ochs
Amazing women artists of the sixties
Tom Lehrer (if there is enough time)
Woodstock
Summary
Lecture points
What made the Beatles such a great
success?
What was special about them and
their music?
Why do we still listen to them after
fifty years?
The Beatles make chart
history
The Billboard Hot 100, April 4, 1964
Position, Title
No. 1, "Can't Buy Me Love"
No. 2, "Twist and Shout"
No. 3, "She Loves You"
No. 4, "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
No. 5, "Please Please Me"
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Some Early Original Beatles
Hits
1. Love Me Do"
2."From Me to You"
3."She Loves You"
4."I Want to Hold Your Hand"
5."Can't Buy Me Love"
6."A Hard Day's Night"
8."Ticket to Ride"
9."Help!"
10."Day Tripper"
11."We Can Work It Out"
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The basis of music- not
here
The basic back beat of rock and
roll
The waltz beat
12 bar blues
Vibrations and frequencies
octaves, 12 notes in octave
(Western music)
relativity of music
Today: major vs. minor chord,
matching the melody to the
The Beatles
Early sixties
sixties
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Late
The Beatles in ten
Please Please Me
Love Me Do
+ P.S. I Love
minutes
You
It Won't Be Long I Saw Her Standing There
Misery
Anna (Go To Him)
Chains * Ask Me
Why * You really got a hold on me
Till
there was you
Do You Want To Know A Secret
There's A Place
Twist And Shout
From Me To You
She Loves
You
All My Loving
I Want To Hold Your Hand
A Hard Day's Night
Can't Buy Me Love
Eight Days A Week
Help!
The Night Before
Ticket To Ride
Act Naturally
Day
Tripper
Michelle
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band
With A Little Help From My
Friends
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
All You Need Is Love
Hey Jude
Ob-La-Di,
Ob-La-Da
I Will
All Together Now
Come Together
In My
Life While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Don't Let
Me Down Something
Eleanor Rigby
I Want
A Paradigm Shift?
Thomas Kuhn
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External factors
Empowered teenagers?
Better transatlantic travel
and communication?
Stagnation in American
music?
Luck?
Skiffle Music?
Dylan?
The $64,000,000,000
question
What made the Beatles
such an amazing success?
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Internal Factors
Talent
Practice
Brian Epstein
George Martin
Sense of Humor
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Rivalry
Openness
Beatles influence
Writing their own music
Long songs
Non-dancing songs
Borrowing genres
(Eastern, classical)
Subject material
Drugs and psychodelic
Recording techniques
In My Life
Rubber Soul
1965
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In My Life
G
G7
There are places I remember
C
Cm
G
All my life though some have changed
G
G7
Some forever not for better
C
Cm
G
Some have gone and some remain
In My Life
Em
Am
All these places have their moments
F
G
With lovers and friends i still can recall
Em
Am
Some are dead and some are living
C
Cm
G
In my life i've loved them all
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In My Life
G
G7
But of all these friends and lovers
C
Cm
G
There is no one compares with you
G
G7
And these memories lose their meaning
C
Cm
G
When i think of love as something new
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In My Life
Em
Am
Though i know i'll never lose affection
F
G
For people and things that went before
Em
Am
I know i'll often stop and think about them
C
Cm
G
In my life i love you more
Solo: G D Em G7 C Cm G 2x
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Here, There and
Everywhere
Revolver, 1966
Here, There and
Everywhere
C
Em
To lead a better life,
D#
Dm G7
I need my love to be here.
Here, There and
Everywhere
Dm Em
Dm
Here,
making each day of the year
Em
F
Bm7
E7
Changing my life with a wave of her
hand,
Bm7
E7
Am7
Nobody can deny that there's
some-------Dm7 G7
-thing there.
Here, There and
Everywhere
Dm
Em
F
C Dm
There,
running my hand through
her hair
Em
F
Bm7
E7
Each one believing that love never
dies
Bm7
E7
Am7
Watching her eyes, and hoping I'm
al----- Dm7 G7
-------ways there
Here, There and
Everywhere
Eb
Cm7
I want her ev'rywhere
Fm
G7
Cm
And if she's beside me I know
I
need never care.
Fm
G7sus4
G7
But to love her is to need her
Here, There and
Everywhere
C
Dm
Em
F
C
Dm
Ev'rywhere, knowing that love is to
share,
Em
F
Bm7
E7
Each one believing how good it can
be
Bm7
E7
Am7
Someone is speaking,
but she doesn't
Dm7
G7
know he's there
C
Dm
Em
Revolver 1966
Eleanor Rigby
Eleanor Rigby
C
Em
Ahh, look at all the lonely people
C
Em
Ahh, look at all the lonely people
Em
Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice in the
church where
C
a wedding has been, lives in a dream.
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Eleanor Rigby
Em
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she
C
keeps in a jar by the door- who is it for?
Em7
Em6
All The lonely People
C
Em
Where do they all come from?
Em7
Em6
All The lonely People
C
Em
Where do they all belong?
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Eleanor Rigby
Em
Father Mckenzie, writing the words to a sermon
C
that no one will hear- no one comes near
Em
Look at him working. Darning his socks in the
night
C
When theres nobody there-what does he care?
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Eleanor Rigby
Em7
Em6
All The lonely People
C
Em
Where do they all come from?
Em7
Em6
All The lonely People
C
Em
Where do they all belong?
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Eleanor Rigby
Em
Eleanor Rigby, died in the church and was buried
C
Along with her name- nobody came
Em
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands
as
C
he walks from the grave- No one was saved
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Eleanor Rigby
Em7
Em6
All The lonely People
C
Em
Where do they all come from?
Em7
Em6
All The lonely People
C
Em
Where do they all belong?
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Shes Leaving Home
Seargent Pepper 1967
E
D
A
C#m
Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the
day begins
F#m
B7
Silently closing her bedroom door
F#m
B7
Leaving the note that she hoped would
say more
Shes Leaving Home
E
D
A
C#m
She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching
a handkerchief
F#m
B7
Quietly turning the backdoor key
F#m
B7
Stepping outside she is free
E
She (we gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives)
E/D
Home (we gave her everything money
could buy)
C#m
F#
Shes leaving home after living alone for so
C#m
F#
many years
Shes Leaving Home
Father snores as his wife gets into her
dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there.
Standing alone at the top of the stairs,
She breaks down and cries to her husband
Daddy our baby's gone.
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
How could she do this to me?
Shes Leaving Home
She (we never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (never a thought for ourselves)
Home (we struggled hard all our lives to get
by)
She's leaving home after living alone for so
many years
Shes Leaving Home
Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the motor trade
Shes Leaving Home
She (what did we do that was wrong?)
Is leaving (we didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (fun is the one that money can't buy)
She's leaving home after living alone for so
many years
Hey Jude in a Minor Key
Major
Minor
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A Day in the Life
Seargent Pepper, 1967
A Day in the Life
G
Bm
Em
I read the news today oh boy
C
Em
Am
Cmaj7
About a lucky man who made the grade
G
Bm
Em
And though the news was rather sad
C
F
Em
Well I just had to laugh
C
F
Em
Cmaj7
I saw the photograph
G
Bm
Em
He blew his mind out in a car
C
Em
Am
Cmaj7
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
G
Bm
Em
A crowd of people stood and stared
C
F
They'd seen his face before
Em
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords
C....
A Day in the Life
G
Bm
Em
I saw a film today oh boy
C
Em
Am
Cmaj7
The English Army had just won the war
G
Bm
Em
A crowd of people turned away
C
F
But I just had to look
Em
C....
Having read the book
C
Bm
G
Am7 Em
I'd love to turn.... you.... on....
A Day in the Life
E
D(Esus)
Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head
E
F#m7
E
F#m7
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup And looking up, I noticed I
was late
E
D(Esus)
Found my coat and grabbed my hat, made the bus in seconds flat
E
F#m7
E
F#m7
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke And somebody spoke and I
went into a dream
CGDCECGDC
Ahhh.... E D C D G
A Day in the Life
G
Bm
Em
I heard the news today oh boy
C
Em
Am
Cmaj7
Four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancashire,
G
Bm
Em
And though the holes were rather small
C
F
They had to count them all
Em
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
C
Bm
G
Am7 Em
I'd love to turn.... you.... on....
C....
Songs we did today
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A day in a life
Hey jude
In my life
Here, there Everywhere
Eleanor Rigby
Shes leaving home
ALL beatles songs!
Homework
Post your favorite cover
of a beatles song (only
one)
OR (not both!!!)
your favorite songs of
the british invasion
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Thank You!!
