The Lonely Goatherd

People do not know they are listening to timeless music until it is fifty years later and younger generations are still listening to the music their parents once listened to as a teenager. My dad listened to the Rolling Stones since he was a young teenager and many people still listen to the music that came out when he was in high school. Although, The Rolling Stones are unfading, new, urbane bands have come out such as One Direction. In fifty years, the adolescent may be listening to One…

Option #1 is an adaptation of the story of a man fishing on a beach when approached by a businessman. This businessman is trying to convert the fisherman’s love of fishing into a business that would be all consuming; preventing him from his passion of beach fishing and spending time with his family. After a considerable amount of time and energy spent fishing from the beach, the man would, once again, have the financial ability to retire and fish on the beach “without any worries” and spend time…

number one and stayed for thirty weeks. This foreshadows how The Beatles became the best Rock and Roll band in history. From here on now, all of the albums were great success and some significant ones are A Hard Day’s Night, Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Abbey Road. A Hard Day’s Night was released as an album and a movie in July, 1964, which was the first movie that The Beatles performed and it was a success. Rubber soul, on the other hand, was the first album without…

The Impact of The Beatles The Beatles, arguably the world’s most popular rock band, played a massively influential role in regards to Hinduism in popular culture. Consisting of four members, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr, the English rock band from Liverpool brought many aspects of Hinduism to their music. The Beatles’ lead guitarist, George Harrison, was solely responsible in shaping the ways the West looked at the spiritual life of Hinduism. George Harrison was…

Since amendments were made to the ‘British Nationality law’ in the 1940s, people from the commonwealth islands (including India) had been immigrating to the UK for nearly 20 years – this meant that people of the Hindu and other religions had already introduced these faiths into British society and the world was already changing to be more cultural before the Beatles choice to follow them. The band only created higher popularity for these faiths amongst the population. Also their views on…

Strawberry Studios, a stones throw from the TPi office in Stockport, and one of the few UK recording spaces outside of the nations capital, opened its doors for a year-long 50th anniversary tour, and open-days featuring a range of original recording fixtures at Mondiale Publishing. Since its inception in early 1968, Strawberry Studios has been the recording space for a range of big names, such as Paul McCartney, Neil Sedaka, and the Stone Roses, to name but a few of the artists, who recorded at…

Man Tunes Essay The Beatles were a Liverpool based rock band formed in the 1950s. Now over 60 years after their start, The Beatles are nearly unanimously known as the greatest musical group in at least the past 100 years. I selected their song “In My Life” as the subject of my Man Tunes assignment. The song “In My Life” was written by Lennon and McCartney for the 1965 album Rubber Soul. The song has a runtime of 2 minutes and 26 seconds and was placed 5th on Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of the…

Loyalty: The Symbolically Toxic Trait Songs about love have been a large part of our music industry for several decades now. As a result, it is no surprise that several artists write have had several different perspectives on the topic. There are several songs such as “All You Need is Love” by The Beatles, where they frame it as one of the most magical feelings a person can possibly feel. On the other side of the perspective, there are artists that decide to get analytical about it. “Loyalty” by…

In 1960, an English rock band was created in Liverpool and they called themselves The Beatles. The members consisted of Paul McCartney (bass), John Lennon (guitar), George Harrison (lead guitar) and Richard Starky better known as Ringo Starr (drums). Their music in the beginning was influenced by skiffle type rock and roll. Later they would tryout other genres such as pop, Indian, psychedellia, folk and even hard rock. Their name became widely spread from all the performances they played in…

Out of all the music I have heard recently, the one that I believe was the best exhibit source for this assignment was “Getting Better” by the Beatles. Unlike the other songs in the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, this one has an indirect tension that is prevalent as the band explores some cheerful, hopeful reminiscences, strung together to create this musical piece. The main anecdote that this song embodies is that of the once hospitalized Ringo Star, who had tonsillitis and…