I posted those song lyrics yesterday because they were rolling around in my head. The lyrics to Beatles songs often roll around in my head. It’s astonishing to me what a close emotional connection I have with their song lyrics.<\/p>\n
Most people I know have a particular musical influence that connects to them powerfully. For me it’s definitely the Beatles, the music I grew up with. I know all the lyrics to all the Beatles songs, and there’s a part of me that is (unfairly) astonished when I find that somebody doesn’t realize that a song was written by Lennon and McCartney.<\/p>\n
In fact, that moment in the movie “Yesterday” where the main character can’t remember the lyrics to Eleanor Rigby never sat well with me. I understand that it was useful for driving the plot forward, but there is no way that somebody who is such a fanboy would not know those lyrics backwards and forwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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