What song are you listening to right now? #2

[Roadcrew]

[donnaallen]

I love the song Temporary by Eminem

[Artemis]

The Waitresses - "I Know What Boys Like" (1982)

Singer died in 1996 as a result of lung cancer. She was 40.

[Esteban]

The Beatles - Glass Onion

[M5Rick]

Allman Bros.

Ain't Wasting Time No More

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by Esteban

The Beatles - Glass Onion

I recall listening to a Dutch radio program on the radio station "Hilversum 3" in the late 80s, explaining for half an hour or so the wild conspiracy theory that Paul McCartney had allegedly died in a car crash on his way home from the record studio in the early Beatles years and that he had been replaced by someone adopting the Paul McCartney name (someone who had allegedly auditioned for The Beatles at the beginning).

As that insane theory went, Lennon, Harrison and Starr left several clues about Paul's alleged death in several songs and album materials as Easter Eggs, sometimes "hidden" in obscure lyrics, sometimes "hidden" in sound effects (the music jounalist played a section of a song backwards to hear Lennon allegedly saying: "Paul is dead, man" of the "I'm So Tired" song and "Turn me on, dead man" of the "Revolution 9" song), interpretation of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, etc. I remember that one of the alleged "main clues" was John Lennon singing "I told you about the walrus and me, man. You know that we're as close as can be, man. Well, here's another clue for you all. The walrus was Paul." in "Glass Onion". And of course: "He blew his mind out in a car. He didn't notice that the lights had changed. A crowd of people stood and stared. They'd seen his face before. Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords". in "A Day In The Life".

The conclusion of the radio program was that, if Paul McCartney truly died in the 60s as suggested by the ludicrous conspiracy theory, then the substitute Macca guy did an outstanding job in singing and composing music.

My take: it's nonsense. At most a joke by The Fab Four to stage a death to create some mystique and hype + to have a good British laugh with all music journalists who took their bait. If they did it, it could (very maybe) have been inspired by the tragic death of Scott LaFaro, aged 25, excellent bass player of the Bill Evans Trio. He tragically died in a car crash in 1961. He was on his way for a brilliant jazz player career. Bill Evans was devasted by the loss and it possibly contributed to heavy substance abuse by Evans (he perished in 1981, aged 51 - longtime alcohol and hard drugs use/abuse took its toll).

From Wikipedia:

"Paul Is Dead":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Onion_(song)
"Lennon wrote the ["Glass Onion"] song to confuse people who read too much into the lyrical meanings of Beatles songs, which annoyed him. Many lines refer to earlier Beatles songs, including "Strawberry Fields Forever", "I Am the Walrus", "Lady Madonna", "The Fool on the Hill", and "Fixing a Hole". The song also refers to the "Cast Iron Shore", a coastal area of south Liverpool known to local people as "The Cazzy". Lennon dismissed any deep meaning to the mysterious lyrics: "I threw the line in—"the Walrus was Paul"—just to confuse everybody a bit more. ... It could have been "the fox terrier is Paul". I mean, it's just a bit of poetry. I was having a laugh because there'd been so much gobbledygook about Pepper—play it backwards and you stand on your head and all that.""

[Artemis]

The conception and creation of "Here Comes The Sun" by The Beatles: