The MJ Show #139 - Let It Be & The Rooftop Concert

Tonight's show is pretty straightforward. A little while ago I was humming "The Long And Winding Road", one of my favourite songs by The Beatles...and so I looked up the Let It Be album.
Was going through the songs and I thought, I must share the entire album with you here on the show.
The greatest thing about The Beatles is that you can sit and listen to complete albums...every time!
So...finish off your work...have dinner...get done with everything else...and sit back...and listen to the complete album right here!

The Beatles - Let It Be (Complete Album)
In this video the following songs come up at the following times:

Title Singer
Two of us 0:00
Dig a Pony 3:45
Across the Universe 7:31
I Me Mine 11:19
Dig It 13:50
Let it Be 14:33
Maggie Mae 18:39
I've Got a Feeling 19:19
One After 909 22:55
The Long and Winding Road 25:50
For You Blue 29:30
Get Back 32:00

And if you felt that wasn't enough. You want a bit more...well I've got a bit more.


The Beatles, with Billy Preston, gave their final live performance atop the Apple building at 3 Savile Row, London, in what became the climax of their Let It Be film.
30 January 1969 in London was a cold day, and a bitter wind was blowing on the rooftop by midday. To cope with the weather, John Lennon borrowed Yoko Ono's fur coat, and Ringo Starr wore his wife Maureen Starkey's red mac.


The 42-minute show was recorded onto two eight-track machines in the basement of Apple, by George Martin, engineer Glyn Johns and tape operator Alan Parsons. The tracks were filled with the following: Paul McCartney, vocals; John Lennon's and George Harrison's vocals; Billy Preston's organ; McCartney's bass guitar; a sync track for the film crew; Starr's drums; Lennon's guitar; Harrison's guitar.


The songs performed on the roof:
Get Back (five versions)
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Don't Let Me Down (two versions)
I've Got A Feeling
One After 909
Danny Boy
Dig A Pony (two versions)
God Save The Queen
A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody


Brief, incomplete and off-the-cuff versions of I Want You (She's So Heavy), God Save The Queen and A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody were fooled around with in between takes - as was Danny Boy, which was included in the film and on the album. None of these were serious group efforts, and one - the group and Preston performing God Save The Queen - was incomplete as it coincided with Alan Parsons changing tapes.


The Beatles' rooftop show began at around midday. The timing coincided with the lunch hour of many nearby workplaces, which led to crowds quickly forming. Although few people could see them, crowds gathered in the streets below to hear The Beatles play.


Traffic in Savile Row and neighbouring streets came to a halt, until police from the nearby West End Central police station, further up Savile Row, entered Apple and ordered the group to stop playing.

(Courtesy: http://www.beatlesbible.com/1969/01/30/the-beatles-rooftop-concert-apple-building/)

The Beatles Rooftop Concert
In this video the following songs come up at the following times:

Get Back - 01:03
Don't let Me Down - 04:18
I've Got a Feeling - 07:53
One After 909 - 11:35
Dig a Pony - 14:38
Get Back 18:30

Now that's what I call a show!
The next episode, Ep #140 will be dedicated to Michael Jackson and I'll put it up on 25th June, his 3rd death anniversary.
If you have any requests, ideas or thoughts for the show...let me know on: https://www.facebook.com/mihirjoshipage
I've had about 4 other shows on Michael in the past. Go through the archived shows if you want to see them :)

Right then...it is now time for me to say good night and take care! :)

This is your Musicman...Mihir Joshi...signing off!

Read more...

The MJ Show #113 (#MJquiz - The Beatles Quiz On Twitter)

Just last night (19th July, 2010) I had the first #MJQuiz on Twitter. That quiz was total time pass stuff. Questions going into every genre and time frame. Just things that were popping in my head.
But when I saw the phenomenal response and enthusiasm to my debut quiz I thought I'd get serious and give the music lovers something to really chew on.

Hence the first proper, structured quiz took place tonight. It was a quiz on the songs of The Beatles!
I'm going to give you all the questions I asked here and also give you the songs that featured in those questions.
Check it out.
If you want, don't see the answers first. Try to see how many of these you actually know :) If you get more than 10, I'd say you're a massive Beatles fan! :)

Participants in the quiz - @sayid_islam @mamatha_m @bonda0123 @vicramb @oops_santosh @teodranik @abhi_fartman @probablytrippy @BombayDrifter @Miilee @Amoli @alishaiyer @janhavee @mindscar666 @an1k3t @sandeepohri @singh_dr

Scoreboard - @abhi_fartman - 6 @vicramb - 5 @teodranik - 4 @sayid_islam - 3 @bonda0123 - 2

And the winner of #MJQuiz on The Songs Of The Beatles is - Abhijeet Barve (@abhi_fartman)!!
Congratulations!! :)

Q1 - What was the first official single by The Beatles in UK? - Love Me Do
Q2 - On the album version (on Please Please Me) of "Love Me Do" what does Ringo Star play? - Tambourine (Drums were played by a sessions drummer called Andy White)


Q3 - What was the first George Harrison written song to appear on a Beatles album? - Don't Bother Me


Q4 - Who sang lead vocals on "I Wanna Be Your Man" from the "With The Beatles" album? - Ringo Starr


Q5 - The song "You've Really Got A Hold On Me" from the "With The Beatles" album was originally a song by which band? - The Miracles


Q6 - Which was the ONLY Beatles album to have all songs by "Lennon-McCartney"? - A Hard Day's Night


Q7 - "Rock And Roll Music" on the album "Beatles For Sale" was originally done by which rock n roll legend?- Chuck Berry


Q8 - What was the second film of the Beatles originally supposed to be called before they decided to go with "Help!"? - Eight Arms To Hold You


Q9 - What was the name of the Buddy Holly song that the Beatles did on the "For Sale" album? - Words Of Love


Q10 - Which Beatles song featured ONLY Paul McCartney with a string quarter? It was initially an instrumental titled "Scrambled Eggs"! - Yesterday


Q11 - "Sont led mots qui vont tres bien ensemble" were words from which song by The Beatles? - Michelle


Q12 - Which song on "Revolver" features ONLY Paul McCartney, this time with a string octet!? - Eleanor Rigby


Q13 - Which song was initially titled "Bad Finger Boogie"? - With A Little Help From My Friends


Q14 - Which Beatles song features instruments like "dilruba, tamboura, tabla and swarmandal"? Incidentally this song featured ONLY Harrison! - Within You, Without You


Q15 - Which song on Sgt.Pepper's features a 41 piece orchestra? - A Day In The Life


Q16 - "Yellow matter custard", "crablocker fishwife", "semolina pilchard" are a few of the strange phrases on which Beatles song? - I Am The Walrus


Q17 - Which was the only Beatles song to feature Yoko Ono on harmony and chorus vocals? - The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill


Q18 - Which song on the White Album has ONLY Paul playing guitar, bass, piano and drums? - Why Don't We Do It In The Road?


Q19 - Which Beatles song has Mick Jagger, Keith Moon, Keith Richard and Mariaanne Faithfull on chorus? - All You Need Is Love


Q20 - Which James Taylor song gave the opening line to a song that George Harrison wrote and sang on "Abbey Road"? - Something In The Way She Moves
The Beatles song that I was talking about was "Something" by George Harrion.


Bonus Songs - George and his guitar - Something!


Something is my favourite song by The Beatles...and since that song was inspired in a way by another singer-songwriter I LOVE. I have to give you the inspiration too.
So here it is.
James Taylor - Something In The Way She Moves


So...what'd you think of it? The quiz and the show. Let me know in the comments guys and girls. I'd really like that :)


Right then...it is now time for me to say...take care...and Good Night! :)
This is your Musicman Mihir...signing off!

Read more...