Consumos web. 01/27/2022

• How The Animals inspired one of The Beatles greatest songs

  I like some of the things the Animals try to do,” McCartney recalled in 1966, “like the song Eric Burdon wrote about places in Newcastle on the flip of one of their hits. I still want to write a song about the places in Liverpool where I was brought up

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• The Beatles song that uses just one chord

  For almost the entirety of the track, the song stays on the C Major chord. No variations, so suspensions, no additional notes. But the complication comes when Lennon sings “it is not dying”. That’s because one of the loops, that of a Hammond organ, is playing a Bb Major chord. The rest of the song continues to play C Major, but Lennon’s vocal lines highlights the Bb Major to the extent that chord has to be considered a Bb Major/C chord, thereby ruining the pipe dream of recording a song with only one chord.

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