They were a tad bit better than me, that I can say with some degree of certainty.
I Miss John Lennon
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I'm sure he'll tell you, but I was curious as well. So you just highlight Occitania, right click, choose Google search (or whatever search engine is your preference), and then when the search comes up select "Maps" and VOILA!! You'll know where it is!!Berne, just realized you're in Occitania. Whereabouts is that, is it close to Nutopia?
Southern part of France that touches the coast on each side with the Balearic Sea on the East and the Bay of Biscay on the West.
Yes, but I'm pretty sure Al was making a joke, although I'm guessing not many people got it. Pretty good one, Al! Nutopia is a fictional country created by John and Yoko in 1973:
Nutopia is a conceptual country, sometimes referred to as a micronation,[1] founded by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. One of the reasons that the country was founded was to address Lennon's then-ongoing immigration problems (the previous week he received a deportation order)[2] through satirical means.
There is no leadership and not all citizenships have been recorded. As a result, the population is unknown.
"Nutopia" is a combination of "new" and "utopia" which suggests Nutopia is a new, utopian society.
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Nutopia is a conceptual country, sometimes referred to as a micronation,[1] founded by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. One of the reasons that the country was founded was to address Lennon's then-ongoing immigration problems (the previous week he received a deportation order)[2] through satirical means.
There is no leadership and not all citizenships have been recorded. As a result, the population is unknown.
"Nutopia" is a combination of "new" and "utopia" which suggests Nutopia is a new, utopian society.
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Always reckoned the double white album showed they could do songs from any earlier era in the 20th century. Honey pie was very 1920s for example. Beatles were a part of my teens. I was 14 in 1963 and 20 in 1969.
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Paul's daddy was a player in a ballroom jazz band, so he got exposed to a lot of those standards early on, and obviously used the influence in the Beatles occasionally.
Just an old country that has no genuine political reality, other than having officially become a region of France since some time ago in the last few years...Berne, just realized you're in Occitania. Whereabouts is that, is it close to Nutopia?
Originally, in the old days -when the U. S . didn't even exist -, France had a language in the North, called "langue d'Oil" along with an other one roughly spoken in the south, called "langue d'Oc" (the country was then divided in several parts run by 'Counts' - "Comtes" in French -, more than a genuinally united kingdom too)...Occitania may be seen as the land where this language was being spoken.
The North took over, the language got banned, and the 'Occitan' country (culturally speaking more or less) lost the relative unity it had...
The language itself, that had been the language of the reknown Troubadours of the Middle-Age (or "Trobadors" in langue d'Oc - or 'Langa d'Oc', in "langue d'Oc" -
) that you surely heard of, the language I said survived throughout the countryside, and is now taught in University, (but barely spoken in yonger generations)...If you'd like to know a bit more on how it sounds - or sings -, here are 2 links (a friend Patric throughout the years)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu_g7KdyHgg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjW_xRdVru0
If you can't get through 1st link, turn the x into an X within the URL in the page that appears (can't get it right from my desk), it should work then...
(bonus track - dedicated to the land he loves -) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUZExDuM0kA
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I seem to remember that John was singing ' (Well you k,pw), We all want to change the World' in the studio recording, whereas here I seem to hear 'We don't want tp change the World'...
Did I get it wrong ?
He's singing "We'd all love to change the world". It's the "d" sound in "We'd" throwing you off!
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the vocal on this song by Mr Lennon is tops. so gritty and cool. like the james dean or steve mcqueen of vocalists.
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My favorite John song to play and sing.
Yes! The little bass line between verses is cool! Even better if you can the yawn that goes with it!
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