Sinister: Sacre Bleu

[David White]

>>Protesting French<<

Aren't they great the French. I only wish I lived in a country where people
don't stand for merde and bring the country to a grinding halt if they don't
like what the politicians are doing. Superb!

>>The Beatles<<

>history has judged that Lennon was probably the more

>inventive and talented songwriter of the band (Case for the prosecution:
the

>entire Wings back catalogue)

It's obviously true then that death is the best career move for a musician
if you genuinely believe this. Surely it's only cos Lennon has been dead for
20 years and has like so many other dead musicians been idolised, that
people think like that. People tend to remember musicians who die young in a
positive light (how likely is it that if Kurt Cobain hadn't died that today
Nirvana would be anything other than another Pearl Jam or that if Jim
Morrison hadn't died that the Doors would be have ever been the subject of a
major Hollywood film?). Remember that although the public perception of
Lennon is of a humourous, peace loving hippy he was also self confessed wife
beater, adulterer and drug abuser.

Lennon was if anything the least productive member of the Beatles during the
last 2 or 3 years of the band (arguably their most inventive period),
spending too much time with Yoko Ono and dabbling increasingly in drugs, and
had become less of an influence than Harrison by the time of Abbey Road
(much of which was recorded in Lennon's absence). It's widely regarded that
Lennon lost the 'control' he had had over the other 3 Beatles when Brian
Epstein died and McCartney became the most influential member.

We'll never know if Lennon would have made the equivalent of the Frog Chorus
but how many artists of his generation make music of any note or credibility
these days? For every Imagine or Jealous Guy there is a Revolution 9 or
Across the Universe: Lennon was not infallible.

>>Content<<

Is it Hyndland Church Hall that Stuart M lived and the band rehearsed? I saw
letters about the aforementioned building in the Glasgow Herald the other
day although no mention of the band.

By the way, in the event that anybody on the list doesn't have any of the
band's albums, I noticed that HMV have them in their sale, for £9.99, a
bargain surely!

David White

www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk for LOAMDR, Lord Anthony and Paper
Boat MP3s


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