with no direction home not only did he take it, but he managed to just chokehold them all and make them see his vision. like a rolling stone other musicians started bringing poetry and politics and soul searching to popular music. men shall know and men shall see, we all are brothers and we all are free it was obvious to me and the hollies that we had a responsibility as artists to reflect our world around us, and we utilized our music to be able to reach people. pop musicians in today s generation are in a fantastic position. they can rule the world. i don t want to rule the world. why don t we do more of it? we can stop world wars before they ever started. i disagree. i don t believe that you know who starts world wars? people that are over 40. really?
i don t believe that you know who starts world wars? people that are over 40. really? that conversation was unstoppable. you couldn t shut it down. he s oh so good and he s oh so kind and he s oh so healthy in his body and his mind i think ray daveys from the kinks and pete townshend from the who were the two social commentators. people try to put us down just because we get around things they do look awful cold, talking about my generation i hope i die before i get old, talking about my generation my generation, my generation why don t you all fade away
you re sorry, how would i know, why should i care please don t bother to try to find her she s not there well let me tell you about the way she looked, the way she acted the color of her hair, her voice was soft and cool her eyes were clear and bright but she s not there i loved the zombies, because they were keyboard oriented. rod argent, the first guy to really develop the idea of rock n roll soloing on a keyboard. the first time welcome now, with their top hit, you really got me going, the kinks. girl, you really got me going, you got me so i don t know what i m doing the kinks were already a very big band in the uk. but if you break in america, you break big and you sell a lot of records.
any great art movement. the greatest practitioners of it pushed one another to be better. dub the mic on the piano, quite low, the tone. in the studio, the beatles natural creativity was sort of brimming over, and george martin was a brilliant collaborator and champion of that. run back the tape, please, would you? you can slow down or speed up the tape. you can put in backwards stuff, you can put in electronic sounds, or you can just be live. something happens on air, i couldn t tell you what because have a special man who goes like this and the piano turns into a guitar or something. and then you may say, why don t you use a piano, because the piano sounds like a guitar. we re sergeant pepper s lonely hearts club band there were f.m. radio stations that did nothing but play sergeant pepper s lonely hearts club band over and over for the first three or four days it came out, because that s all anybody wanted to listen to. lucy in the sky with
to be on your own with no direction home not only did he take it, but he managed to just chokehold them all and make them see his vision. like a rolling stone other musicians started bringing poetry and politics and soul searching to popular music. men shall know and men shall see, we all are brothers and we all are free it was obvious to me and the hollies that we had a responsibility as artists to reflect our world around us, and we utilized our music to be able to reach people. pop musicians in today s generation are in a fantastic position. they can rule the world. i don t want to rule the world. why don t we do more of it? we can stop world wars before they ever started. i disagree.