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“It is the sound of the crowd that can be heard in the second, crescendoing rush of the orchestra that follows the final verse, rising from a hum to a gasp to a shout... fusing at last to a shriek (its similarity to the sound of the crowds at Beatle concerts is surely no accident). The onrushing sound of the orchestra at the end of "A Day in the Life" has transcended more than the conventions of Sgt. Pepper's Band. It is the nightmare resolution of the Beatles' show within a show. It is the sound in the eras of the high-wire artist as the ground rushes up from below. There is a blinding flash of silence, then the stunning impact of a tremendous E major piano chord that hangs in the air for a small eternity, slowly fading away, a forty-second meditation on finality that leaves each member if the audience listening with a new kind of attention and awareness to the sound of nothing at all.”
― Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
― Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
“I vaguely mind people knowing anything I don’t know. --Paul McCartney”
― Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
― Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
“Talking Heads would never make an equivalent break with the past. Instead, they would perform “Psycho Killer,” without fail, at every live performance they ever gave, from their audition night at CBGBs to their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame—as if it never once occurred to them to not give their audiences exactly what they expected from the band.”
― Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock – The Definitive Band Biography of the 1970s Avant-Garde
― Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock – The Definitive Band Biography of the 1970s Avant-Garde
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