Focus on the Brits

A wave of prominent performers, those who „invaded America” and

the few who stayed out of it.

Iconic Beatles• Handbook „…undoubtely most popular group of rock ‘n’ roll

era”– Very influential together, later careers less successful for all,

embarrassing for some– Lennon- McCartney stand out as songwriters– Ringo only a mediocre drummer?

• What is there to include?• Most chart topping early songs on both sides of the Atlantic are

love songs: simplicity and energy– She loves you, 1963

• Ye, ye, ye angered conservatives

– I Want to Hold Your Hand,1963– Can’t Buy Me Love, 1964

Later Beatles: Variety• Cessation of live concerts – 1966, studio then

– A Hard Day’s Night, 1964, from eponymous album• Also the title of a comedy, with the band acting• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70QfHtKdh_0

– Help and Yesterday, from Help 1965• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xqLfz_LPm4

– Video footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWP6Qki8mWc

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S09F5MejfBE

– Elanor Rigby and Yellow Submarine, from Revolver, 1966• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51UH_u7WxCo• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T464iZu85Js

– Lucy in the Sky…, from Sergeant Pepper… 1967• Reportedly, first concept album

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75J_oMq4_pk

• Variety of what?

A Hard… and Help!It's been a hard day's night, and I been working like a dogIt's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a logBut when I get home to you I find the things that you doWill make me feel alright

You know I work all day to get you money to buy you thingsAnd it's worth it just to hear you say you're going to give me everythingSo why on earth should I moan, 'cause when I get you aloneYou know I feel OK

When I'm home everything seems to be rightWhen I'm home feeling you holding me tight, tight

It's been a hard day's night, and I been working like a dogIt's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a logBut when I get home to you I find the things that you doWill make me feel alright, oww

So why on earth should I moan, 'cause when I get you aloneYou know I feel OK

When I'm home everything seems to be rightWhen I'm home feeling you holding me tight, tight

It's been a hard day's night, and I been working like a dogIt's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a logBut when I get home to you I find the things that you doWill make me feel alrightYou know I feel alrightYou know I feel alright

Help, I need somebodyHelp, not just anybodyHelp, you know, I need someoneHelp

(When)When I was younger, so much younger than today (I never needed)I never needed anybody's help in any way (now)But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured (and now I find)Now I find, I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

Help me if you can, I'm feeling downAnd I do appreciate you being 'roundHelp me get my feet back on the groundWon't you, please, please help me?

(Now)And now my life has changed in, oh, so many ways (my independence)My independence seems to vanish in the haze (but)But every now and then I feel so insecure (I know that I)I know that I just need you like I've never done before

Help me if you can, I'm feeling downAnd I do appreciate you being 'roundHelp me get my feet back on the groundWon't you, please, please help me?

When I was younger, so much younger than todayI never needed anybody's help in any way (now)But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured (and now I find)Now I find, I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

Help me if you can, I'm feeling downAnd I do appreciate you being 'roundHelp me get my feet back on the groundWon't you, please, please help me?Help me, help me

Yesterday and Lucy in the ...

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far awayNow it looks as though they're here to stayOh, I believe in yesterday

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to beThere's a shadow hanging over me.Oh, yesterday came suddenly

Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't sayI said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to playNow I need a place to hide awayOh, I believe in yesterday

Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't sayI said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to playNow I need a place to hide awayOh, I believe in yesterday

Picture yourself in a boat on a riverWith tangerine trees and marmalade skiesSomebody calls you, you answer quite slowlyA girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and greenTowering over your headLook for the girl with the sun in her eyesAnd she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds x3

Ah

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountainWhere rocking horse people eat marshmallow piesEveryone smiles as you drift past the flowersThat grow so incredibly high

Newspaper taxis appear on the shoreWaiting to take you awayClimb in the back with your head in the cloudsAnd you're gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds x3

Ah

Picture yourself on a train in a stationWith plasticine porters with looking glass tiesSuddenly someone is there at the turnstileThe girl with the kaleidoscope eyes

Lucy in the sky with diamonds x3

AhLucy in the sky with diamonds x3

AhLucy in the sky with diamonds x3

Individual agendas: the end is nigh• The individualisation went on: Who needed the

band any more?– Strawberry Fields /Penny Lane, from Magical

Mystery Tour, 1967.• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nehRB1FTeTo• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-oLhJQne0

– Octopus’s Garden, 1969, Abbey Road• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUYdQDd4ZNg

– Get back and Let it Be, 1970, from eponymous album • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdBnNzQz67A• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcBnJw-H2wQ

Strawberry and Penny LaneLet me take you down'Cause I'm going to Strawberry FieldsNothing is realAnd nothing to get hung aboutStrawberry Fields forever

Living is easy with eyes closedMisunderstanding all you seeIt's getting hard to be someoneBut it all works outIt doesn't matter much to me

Let me take you down'Cause I'm going to Strawberry FieldsNothing is realAnd nothing to get hung aboutStrawberry Fields forever

No one I think is in my treeI mean it must be high or lowThat is you know you can't tune itBut it's all rightThat is I think it's not too bad

Let me take you down'Cause I'm going to Strawberry FieldsNothing is realAnd nothing to get hung aboutStrawberry Fields forever

Always know sometimes it's meBut you know I know when it's a dreamI think I know I mean a "Yes"But it's all wrongThat is I think I disagree

Let me take you down'Cause I'm going to Strawberry FieldsNothing is realAnd nothing to get hung aboutStrawberry Fields forever x3

Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographsOf every head he's had the pleasure to know.And all the people that come and goStop and say "Hello".

On the corner is a banker with a motorcar,And little children laugh at him behind his back.And the banker never wears a macIn the pouring rain, very strange.

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.There beneath the blue suburban skiesI sit, and meanwhile backIn Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass,And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen.He likes to keep his fire engine clean,It's a clean machine.

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.A four of fish and finger piesIn summer. Meanwhile backBehind the shelter in the middle of the roundaboutThe pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray.And though she feels as if she's in a play,She is anyway.

In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer,We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim,And then the fireman rushes inFrom the pouring rain - very strange.

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.There beneath the blue suburban skiesI sit, and meanwhile back.Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.There beneath the blue suburban skiesPenny Lane!

OctopusI'd like to be under the seaIn an octopus' garden in the shadeHe'd let us in, knows where we've beenIn his octopus' garden in the shade

I'd ask my friends to come and seeAn octopus' garden with meI'd like to be under the seaIn an octopus' garden in the shade.

We would be warm below the stormIn our little hideaway beneath the wavesResting our head on the sea bedIn an octopus' garden near a cave

We would sing and dance aroundBecause we know we can't be foundI'd like to be under the seaIn an octopus' garden in the shade

We would shout and swim aboutThe coral that lies beneath the waves(Lies beneath the ocean waves)Oh what joy for every girl and boyKnowing they're happy and they're safe(Happy and they're safe)

We would be so happy you and meNo one there to tell us what to doI'd like to be under the seaIn an octopus' garden with you.

A forerunners: The Cream• Blues-based „supergroup” trio– Clapton, Bruce … From where? – Inclusion in this course is justified because

their music previews much of what was to follow.

• Dance the Night Away from Disraeli Gears, 1967– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBf5MviDSGM&index=4&l

• 2005 reunion– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCc00pX_pFA

• Significance: The ascendancy of blues-based rock music for the next 15-20 years, well into the 1980s.

Dance the Night AwayGonna build myself a castleHigh up in the clouds.There'll be skies outside my window;Lose these streets and crowds.Dance the night away.

Wil find myself an ocean,Sail into the blue,Live with the swordfish,Forget the time of you.Dance the nught away.

Dance myself to nothing.Vanish from this place.Gonna turn myself to shadowSo I can't see your face.Dance the night away.

The Kinks

• The band that did not go to America – Ban anyway– Socially perceptive lyrics not

applicable in US – would not be understood

– A BA. Thesis my own vynil double set

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame song „Well Respected Man”– https://www.youtube.com/watc

h?v=_bQsGiiPVFo

Well Respected Man'Cause he gets up in the morningAnd he goes to work at nineAnd he comes back home at five-thirtyGets the same train every time'Cause his world is built 'round punctualityIt never fails

And he's oh, so goodAnd he's oh, so fineAnd he's oh, so healthyIn his body and his mindHe's a well-respected man about townDoing the best thing so conservatively

And his mother goes to meetingsWhile his father pulls the maidAnd she stirs the tea with councilorsWhile discussing foreign tradeAnd she passes looks, as well as billsAt every suave young man

'Cause he's oh, so goodAnd he's oh, so fineAnd he's oh, so healthyIn his body and his mindHe's a well-respected man about townDoing the best thing so conservatively

And he likes his own backyardAnd he likes his fags the best'Cause he's better than the restAnd his own sweat smells the bestAnd he hopes to grab his father's lootWhen Pater passes on

'Cause he's oh, so goodAnd he's oh, so fineAnd he's oh, so healthyIn his body and his mindHe's a well-respected man about townDoing the best thing so conservatively

And he plays at stocks and sharesAnd he goes to the regattaHe adores the girl next door'Cause he's dying to get at herBut his mother knows the best aboutThe matrimonial stakes

'Cause he's oh, so goodAnd he's oh, so fineAnd he's oh, so healthyIn his body and his mindHe's a well-respected man about townDoing the best thing so conservatively

Homework

• Study Powerpint• Read encyclopaedia entries that belong to the

unit.• Revise for test.