#1970s song

[sofiaflorina2021]

It hurts me so to be Under your spell Ain't no heaven for me, but a hell But after all, I can't let you go 'Cos I love you so, demon lover Demon lover, demon lover I love you

Demon Lover (1970) - Shocking Blue

[thingsmk1120sayz]

Halsey - Ego

[gojisaurus]

singing together one last time

[habitual-sadness]

Oni Love Song, Hayashi Seiichi, 1971

[ringosmistress]

[psychedelic-soul]

Neil Young - “Heart of Gold”

[get-back-homeward]

Peacock: Can you tell me about the first track, “Let ’em in?”

Paul: It was half-written with Ringo in mind actually. He asked me to write him a tune and there was that one and another one. In the end, I told him I was nicking it and he could have the other one. I just got this idea for a song about someone knocking on the door, someone ringing the bell, and then in the middle, I got into the idea of naming people, just sort of symbolic of a crowd coming in… Sister Suzie, Brother John. Who’s Brother John?

Peacock: I was wondering…

Paul: Whoever you want it to be really, Uncle Ernie? Keith Moon flashing, I suppose, but the trouble with talking about things like that is .. that’s you’ve got to make an excuse for it all after. Someone says, “What did you mean by that?” And really I don’t know. It just comes into your head. Brother Michael — that’s obvious — that’s my brother Michael! Auntie Jin — I’ve got an Auntie Jin, Brother John — that could be whoever you want.

Peacock: Do you get fun out of the thought that people are going to sit down trying to work out the meaning behind lyrics like that?

Paul: It would be great if I wasn’t the ultimate authority on it. It would be just like “Match of the Day” watching them all go around delving into who the Walrus or Brother John is. I mean, to me Brother John is John Lennon, or Linda’s got a brother called John. I suppose it’s anyone’s brother John, but to me, it’s John Lennon. But not in any weird way. It just came out like that. So rather than hide it or change it, I left it. But now, they’re going to ask me. That’s the only problem, that’s the reason it’s not so much fun as it could be because there’s always someone coming up saying “What did you mean by…” or “Linda is Venus, you’re Mars — right?” Wrong, they’re planets, remember?

Peacock: Do you ever take things out because they might be misinterpreted?

Paul: No, I don’t think I ever do that, because normally when it’s writ itself then it’s writ. I don’t really much around with it too much. It’s like most things — you do a painting and think it’s not quite right so you do it again and it’s worse. Like a record — you can go on beyond the right take, but it’s never better. No, I don’t take things out for that reason, in fact, I’d leave things in because people were going to talk about them.

April 3, 1976: Paul McCartney talks to Steve Peacock for Street Life (Vol. 1, Issue 12, Apr 1976)

[half-facedfig]

It’s surprising how much you can do with a pen and a slightly dried out sharpie.

Below: the unedited drawing and the original image

[sofiaflorina2021]

Background music like this should be played again in supermarkets, very relaxing. There are several songs on this playlist that make me nostalgic for the 1970s, I love it.

[lapseinart]

X-Men doing Karaoke

Jubilee sings Fireworks because of course she does. Complete with special effects. She’s pitchy but makes up for it with enthusiasm.

Scott and Jean duet Summer Lovin because they are disgustingly in love. Scott is only mostly coerced into it. He’s a decent singer. Jean not so much.

Hank does Ice Ice Baby. It’s the only point in which he grabs the mic, though he still sings along with the others without a microphone.

Warren and Bobby do a terrible but really funny rendition of I Want It That Way.

Storm puts on Mr. Brightside and everyone chants along to the lyrics.

Remy sings a song by Indochine for fun and/or serenades Rogue with a French love song.

Logan for the most part does not participate, just drinks his beer and judges all of them. Not for singing but for their singing like: Scott came in late. Jean’s off key. Remy breathes too loudly between phrases.

At the end of the night after too many beers, Jean gets fed up with his internal monologue of criticism and forces him to sing. He does a beautiful rendition of Kitaguni no Haru that makes Rogue (the only one who kind of knows Japanese by virtue of having absorbed Logan’s knowledge of it) nearly cry.

[poll-position]

Putting these in alphabetical instead of Top 12 order so not to skew the results.

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

India Song dir. Marguerite Duras (1975)

[omg-hellgirl]

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards singing together "Far Away Eyes" in Texas, 1978.

[slightlymad]

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1975) — QUEEN ↳ happy birthday my dearly beloved and wonderful jana ( @twelverriver ) !!! <333

[stone-cold-groove]

Title page from 1978’s A Marvel Super Special, Vol. 1 No. 4 - The Beatles Story.