tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960772098173697898.post7500892538646058026..comments2024-03-22T14:01:26.256-07:00Comments on Just Backdated: LONG TALL SALLY & DON'T LET ME DOWNChris Charlesworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05459094285776329847noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960772098173697898.post-52402143858942892012014-03-25T00:45:11.168-07:002014-03-25T00:45:11.168-07:00'Thankfully' indeed! Thanks Ian.'Thankfully' indeed! Thanks Ian. Chris Charlesworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05459094285776329847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2960772098173697898.post-29147038825584418662014-03-24T17:05:20.403-07:002014-03-24T17:05:20.403-07:00Certain character traits which in the “real world”...Certain character traits which in the “real world” are judged to be a vice, can often be a virtue in the creative arts. One such is John Lennon’s oft reported impatience in the studio.<br /><br />The bootlegs of Don’t Let me Down show McCartney trying out (positively cooing) a variety of truly awful ideas for the song’s arrangement. They are based around their by then well-seasoned trick of “call and response”. As in “Getting better all the time – It couldn’t get no worse”. In this case it goes something like:<br /><br />I’m in love for the first time<br /><i>for the first time in my life</i><br />Don’t you know it’s gonna last<br /><i>last forever and a day</i><br /><br />Thankfully Lennon ignored all suggestions and recorded, in his inimitable style, his last great song with the Beatles and first since the White album. I’m a huge McCartney fan, in my opinion the most musically creative Beatle, but I wish he could more often shared Lennon’s “impatient” ability to separate the wheat from the chaff.<br /><br />Ian Gordon Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745996447541753567noreply@blogger.com