this small gathering is only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may one day view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire. the beatles are breaking up. it was like a death for a lot of people. rock and roll as we understood in the 1960s was no longer with us. there will never be another beatles, never. i wonder what i m doing here with no drummers or nothing like that. you might know i lost my old band, or i left it. imagine there s no heaven it s easy if you try for so long you waited for the next beatles album to see where music was going. and we just hoped the music they came up with individually would be that good. i don t no longer have, oh,
the beatles need an album. you and paul better go write 20 songs tomorrow kind of thing. i just write when i feel like it. imagine all the people yoko, you have been called the dragon lady who took the beatles apart. please give her credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and paul made and i ve made since we broke up. she did it. the fact is that yoko ono did not break up the beatles. time broke up the beatles, money broke up the beatles. business broke up the beatles. the desire to go off and do their own stuff broke up the beatles. he s a fleshier and heavier beatle these days, respectfully married. when the kids come to his concerts, they don t scream any more, they listen. the significant thing is both john lennon and paul mccartney made music in their own particular ways that was focused on the fact they were deeply in love with a woman. but i m not the only one
there have been articles and things that identify me with the l.a. sound, me and jackson browne and the eagles. we need some new blood in this town. we re starting to get stale. she rings like a bell through the night but you love to love her the original fleetwood mac was a four-piece full-on blues band. they were an english band that became a dual citizenship band. they were as american as they were british. ever know taken by the wind we had an album out, two years to joining fleetwood mac years previous called buckingham nicks. nick really liked the music. they asked us to join. fleetwood mac, first, stevie
but i only got a quota of one or two tunes per album. were you held down by the other fellows? well very subtly, yes. i would just like to thank you all for coming here. as you all know, it s a special benefit concert. ravi shankhar went to george harrison and said a terrible thing is happening in bangladesh what can we do? that created the first major superstar benefit concert ever done. the concert for bangladesh was the grandaddy of all issue-themed concerts. not only did you get george harrison, you got eric clapton. it got dylan out of hiding. it put two beatles on the stage again. it was unparalleled at the time and may still be unparalleled. a great deal of music of the
that record is the embodiment of a band making masterpieces on a daily basis. and i remember reading the review saying this is like a debauched album. i didn t know what debauched means but i got to get me some of this debauchery stuff. baby, i can t stay you got to roll me and call me the tumbling roll me and call me the tumbling dice having come out of the 60s which was its own animal. the 70s had to show a new skin. it had to shed the old one. ooh, yeah i was never very confident of my voice as a singer. i thought rather than just sing, which would probably bore the pants off everybody, i would like to kind of portray the songs.