Said Sullivan in the episode: “Now, for fans of Beatles music, there’s a wonderful new Beatles film which is opening soon and is just jammed with new songs. The edition contained previews of the then-imminent arrival of the original film, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. The show also included segments that are highly relevant to the recent debut of Peter Jackson’s Disney+ docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, his self-described “documentary about a documentary” based on film and audio footage created for their 1970 film Let It Be. 2 Kings, 3 Queens, 1 Duo Bunk, 2 Bunk Sets. 7 Bedrooms 6 Baths 1 Half Bath Pets Not Allowed. The 1970 clip was part of a special edition of the show called The Beatles Songbook, which also featured other artists singing their material including Dionne Warwick as well as Duke Ellington who, with his orchestra, played a wide-ranging medley including jazz-flavored, big band versions of “She Loves You,” “All My Loving,” “Eleanor Rigby,” “She’s Leaving Home,” “Norwegian Wood,” and “Ticket To Ride.” Address: 1731 Bobby Lee Trail Town: Kill Devil Hills Location: Oceanside Type: Home Milepost: 7. In addition to the knitting pattern, you will need the following materials to knit the Octopus Garden shawl: 2 balls of Noro Ito in assorted colours. The lending library keeps a continual flow of children’s books of all kinds circulating into the neighborhood. I thought that this shawl could be my Octopus’s Garden and as in the song that bears that name, It will make me warm, below the storm, in my little hideaway beneath the waves- Louise.
Our garden chalkboard encourages kids of all ages to draw and leave messages for others to enjoy or build upon. It was later used in a Muppet Show of 1978, at their height of its success, featuring Robin the Frog, Kermit the Frog, and Miss Piggy. Beyond being the home of many plants and trees, the Octopus Garden helps to grow and inspire art. You can subscribe to Rock’s Backpages here.This was the second of three versions of “Octopus’s Garden” by Henson’s Muppets, who had already performed it on their own Sesame Street in 1969. Hip people will dig it and the straight people and serious music critics will too.” I think this is the tune that will impress most people. The harmony was very difficult to do, we had to really learn it. I found some sort of release and the song just came.”ĭespite the Quiet Beatle’s high opinion for Starr’s work and his own, it’s John Lennon’s ‘ Because’ which Harrison reveals to be his favorite Abbey Road song: “ I think this is my favorite track on the album, it’s so simple, especially the lyrics. Being in Eric’s garden felt like playing hooky from school. We’d been through real hell with business, and it was all very heavy. It was written on a very nice sunny day in Eric Clapton‘s garden. “ ’Here Comes the Sun’, the first cut on side two,” George shares, “ is the other song I wrote for the album. So Ringo writes his cosmic songs without knowing it.”Īt this point Ringo Starr, who is sitting across the room from him at Abbey Road Studios, grins.Ĭonversation then turns to one of Geroge Harrison’s own compositions from 11 th Beatles album Abbey Road, ‘ Here Comes the Sun’. “ Lines like ‘Resting our head on the seabed’ and ‘We’ll be warm beneath the storm’,” George beams, “ it makes me realize that when you get deep into your consciousness it’s very peaceful.
I find very deep meaning in the lyrics which Ringo probably doesn’t even know about.” On the surface, it’s a daft kids’ song, but I find the lyrics very meaningful. He mainly likes country music, so this has a country and western feel. “ But knows about three chords,” Harrison continues.
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“ Ringo gets very bored playing the drums, so at home he plays the piano,” Beatle George Harrison shares with Ritchie Yorke of the Detroit Free Press in a 1969 interview recently unearthed by music journalism archive Rock’s Backpages.