Tag: nuances
The Beatles
In the smash hit single When I’m Sixty-Four by plucky up-and-coming Liverpudlian band The Beatles (note the unusual spelling – a trap for inexperienced music journalists), was Sir Paul McCartney genuinely worried that his geriatry would be punished by starvation? (‘Will you still feed me, When I’m sixty-four?’) If so, what startling prescience of the [...]
Posted: February 8th, 2010 under music.
Tags: geriatry, nuances, paul mccartney, prescience, starvation
Comments: 2
Dire Straits
At least 3 to 6 times a week I have youngsters approach me, fascinated by the music of the 1980s, yet baffled by some of its subtler nuances. Invariably, most of their confusion will arise from megagroup Dire Straits. So let’s just set things straight once and for all. Firstly, if you do a Google [...]
Posted: April 11th, 2006 under music.
Tags: confusion, free mandela, microwave ovens, music of the 1980s, nonsense, nuances, vhs or beta, youngsters
Comments: 1