Saturday, April 30, 2022

Everybody Had a Hard Year

This is the best video I've seen so far of the Lennon-McCartney I've Got a Feeling duet from the other day. I know other bands have done it before, but nothing like this - not only were he and John best friends but The Beatles were "John's band", and now to see this all these years later, it's just a miracle. It's great, it's a gift, I mean what more can these people give us?

And a note about the song itself, which is actually a song by each of them merged together as one:

While McCartney's song was very optimistic, Lennon had actually endured a "hard year" — he divorced his first wife, Cynthia; his new partner Ono had a miscarriage; he was battling a heroin addiction; he was arrested for drug possession; he was estranged from his son Julian; and he had grown deeply unhappy in the Beatles. 

Not only very typical for their particular styles of songwriting (Getting Better, We Can Work It Out, e.g.), but that much more poignant watching Lennon sing a song with so much sadness in it but you can see how happy he is at the moment to be playing along with his friends on the rooftop that brilliant day in January.

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