epub or mobi, with thanks to the original sharer
“I
just thought the Rolling Stones [were] stupid and foolish and
sounded like it. The Beatles up to Sgt
Pepper – none of them had seemingly done anything that would have offended
anybody’s granny and the songs . . . almost all of them
owed something to somebody else . . . I can’t get over some
of the laziness in the Beatles . . . Pete Townshend was a
very close friend. We met through A Whole
Scene Going – he was the first interview we
did . . . Pete can’t write pop songs. He’s got no talent
for writing pop songs and his music’s just drivel. It’s just that he wore
T-shirts with Union Jacks on them and that looked like and felt like it was
something important . . . I couldn’t see the point of the
Who – couldn’t see the point of the Stones either. The words and lyrics were
just rubbish. If Chuck Berry had been born white in Dagenham that’s what he
would have sounded like.”
Been listening to a lot of old kinks lately. Davies strength as a pop composer were his melodies NOT his lyrics which often come off as very LAZY!
ReplyDeleteAnother great one as usual Johnny, Thanks! Time to re-up the Kinks bio by Jon Savage as a piece companion maybe? That one is a classic and the link seems to be dead...
ReplyDeleteAnon,
Deletehave just put a new link (http://www32.zippyshare.com/v/RysqfO1b/file.html) in the Savage post (http://arouseyourpassion.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/you-have-to-remember-that-until-1967.html)
all the best,
Johnny
Awesome Johnny! Ruler of all the blogsphere! Thank you! :-)
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