Beatles Fans and Apologists

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Remember the infamous Albert Goldman book ‘The Lives of John Lennon’?
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Goldman portrayed Lennon and his wife, Yoko Fucking Ono, as what they really were. High maintenance freaks, hypocrites and basically cunts of the highest order.

The outrage and indignation from Beatles fans, Lennon apologists and professional Scousers was like a tidal wave. And Lennon (and Fucking Ono) were painted like they were two heroes.

Now, this shit is happening all over again. Biographer Philip Norman has just put out a book about George Harrison.

Now, Norman (great name) upset and offended Beatle geeks years ago. He wrote an obituary for Harrison when he died in 2001. Which basically said George was a miserable cunt who always complained about his ‘lot’ as a Beatle. Norman also wrote about Harrison being a serial shagger, including his mate – Ringo Starr’s – first wife.

All true, but the fans went divvy, Calling Norman’s obit ‘drivel’ and ‘outrageous’. I read it and personally saw nothing wrong with it. But Norman is getting this stick again because his book tells us about how Harrison was a cunt to his first wife Pattie Boyd (Boyd confirms this), and how he also cheated on his second wife with hookers (McCartney all but confirmed this in Scorcese’s Harrison film). Harrison is also portrayed as misanthropic and paranoid. Even when McCartney and (mostly) Lennon tried to give him a leg up or compliment him (like the 1969 ‘Something’ as an A Side), he always saw wrong in it or it was too little too late. Norman also states that Harrison was not a great guitarist, singer, or writer. And Geoff Emerick (Beatles engineer and assistant to George Martin) said the same thing a while back. And, of course loony fans rounded on Emerick, just like they are doing now with Norman.

Nothing outrageous or new has been said in Norman’s book. But like the Goldman tome about Lennon, Beatles apologists are up in arms and ranting about how Harrison was as good as Clapton and Page as a guitarist (he wasn’t) and making out he was like Gandhii in a rock band.

And Gandhi was a cunt anyway.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/134696221
And here is the obituary that ‘offended’ so many Beatle fancunts.

Harrison Obituary Link.

Nominated by : Norman

186 thoughts on “Beatles Fans and Apologists”

  1. I was never much of a Beatles fan.
    They weren’t a thing when i was growing. We got the solo acts of McCartney, Harrison and Star. I was born shortly after Lennon was shot.

    I did have to sing their songs at school but wasnt impressed. However, I dont mind Macca as a songwriter and Lennon gone the others went on to greater things.

    My parents came of age in the seventies so weren’t too keen on the Beatles. Too soft for either. Dad liked Reggae, soul and Bowie, Mum liked rock. ‘Love me do’ was childrens’ music.

    The Beatles and stuff like Elton John were always seen as ‘music the teacher likes’. I see tge same thing with Cold Play and Adele these days. Safe, old glasto crap.

    Anyway, thanks for getting shot John. George financed and recorded the theme for Time Bandits and Ringo narrated Thomas the Tank Engine.
    And you were a colossal prick.

    • Off topic

      GB news is getting pale leftie and enemy of the British people Boris Johnson as a presenter.
      ☹️

      Fuck sake.
      That means his fuckin idiot of a father will be on too.

      • Dan Wotoon, “So Boris, the working class hero is something to be is the headline from tomorrows papers with Labour dominating in the poles, care to share your thoughts Boris, em mh maaha hmm”
        Boris tossed hair mumble jumbled response ” There all fkn peasants as far as I can see” snort snort, hah hah aaaah ah,”aren’t they daddy?”
        Wotoon, ” oh you are awful but I like you, hmm aah hmm aah ha ha “

      • @MNC
        Well predicted:
        Net-Zero fanatic, EU loving, Stanley Johnson is on GBNews as I type…
        Tune in at your peril!

      • Knew it.

        Stanley Johnson is second only to Greta Thunberg when it comes to green bullshit.

        Stan the EU man

  3. The Travelling Willburys. What was that about?
    Several rock antiques doing bad impressions of The Band.

    Harrison’s ‘Spongebob Squarepants’ slide guitar and Jeff Lynne’s slow speed ELO chugga chugga backing tracks. The Beatles 1995 tracks were pretty much the same.

    Macca is a cunt, but he knew what was best for the Beatles most of the time. He had little choice but to tolerate Lynne and his unsuitable production, in case George threw a tantrum and vetoed the whole project (as he was known to do). As is undoubtedly the case with this Red/Blue reissue, Loads of George tracks added, or else his estate scuppers it. Are ‘Roll Over Beethoven’ and ‘Within You Without You’ greatest hits material? Are they bugger.

    • Sorry Norman, with or without respect mate that is bollocks. Utter

      Though you are entitled to your opinion Sir.

  6. Honestly folks some of the bands named by some of you as better than the beatles wouldn’t have even picked up a guitar, let alone write a tune or have a hit.

    From love me do to the concept albums in the mid late sixties they never stopped pushing the boundaries of popular music. All everyone of the successful bands of the sixties and after cite their musical ability song writing and a never ending push of the existing norms in popular music as something to aspire too. George the quiet one wrote more tunes that stand the test of time alone than some bands that have been going for 20 30 years or more.

    Now let this sink in my fellow cunters they as a band lasted 7 years at the top. To say that their writing, and development of music was fantastically progressive is one massive fucking understatement..

    Ps Macca is now definitely a ego maniac cunt. But he was once a fab musician and song writer. .

    Any spelling mistakes are because I couldn’t give a cfuk

    • Love me Do to.Glass Onion.
      Please Please Me to Tomorrow Never Knows.
      She Loves You to I Want You She so Heavy.

      • Macca should have joined/formed a supergroup like CSNY or Humble Pie, Instead of frigging about in Wings and catering for his talentless wife.

        His monumental ego mixed with others of that ilk might not have lasted, but the musical results could have been spectacular.

        And Helter Skelter is ace.

    • Agree Everyonesacunt.

      George not being a great guitarist?
      It’s all relative. So he wasn’t a guitar hero like Jimi Hendrix or Steve Via eh…
      Well back some 60 years ago nobody was other than Hendrix.

      There were no tab books, notation books for guitar or Youtube tutorials etc. so you had to either know someone who could pick things up by ear, or it was trial and error until you figured it out….or didn’t….

      If it wasn’t for George there’d be no Beatles.

      Some of George’s pieces were beautifully orchestrated.
      Till there was you – took me a while to get that one.
      Nowhere Man – great guitar parts.
      His playing on One After 909 would have rivalled Chuck Berry.

      He was more of a Duane Eddy/Ventures/Hank Marvin kind of player.

      Fucking hell I sound like one of those YT reaction video knobbers that I always moan about.

      • Agree Harold. George was a fan of the Great Chet Atkins and a lot of his guitar riffs solos included finger picker irregular chord patterns . Sometimes much more difficult than playing single note blues rock riffs.

    • The Beach Boys were ahead of the Beatles for pushing the boundaries of pop music. Beatles fans often forget Pet Sounds when bleating on about just how great innovators they were. As for writing, were Lennon and McCartney that much better than the likes of Benny Andersson?

    • The Beatles were great but there’s no doubt they also produced a lot of complete shit. I could still list well over 50 tracks which are undisputed classics though, no other band compares. They were that prolific in a short space of time. The cult side of the fandom is when everything they did gets lauded as brilliant, when it obviously wasn’t.

  9. OT: The grassing culture continues.
    A 17 year old dickhead (can’t be named, of course) City fan, charged for making sick chants about the late Sir Bobby Charlton.

    Yeah, he’s a cunt, But charging him? Nah.
    Just put him outside a United pub one night, let him get royally kicked, and that should do.

    • If only he had been waving a cardboard ‘Free Palestine’ sign while he was doing it.

      • True, Liberal.

        This story is a very minor one for the BBC. Had he been chanting about turd burglars, sambeau or dickie daki, it would be top headlines and he’d have been named.

  10. Cobbling together a piss poor analogue recording with some AI wank to make money when you’re worth the best part of a billion quid definitely makes you a bit of a cunt.

    McCartney is the sort of person who would dig through a dog turd for a 10p piece (allegedly).

  11. Harold I have also tried Mr Sandman and gave up. Effortless brilliance by Chet..
    I know my limits and this level of playing is well beyond me.

    • I can play that one. The original version I mean not the Tommy Emmanuel version. I’d probably give myself carpal tunnel.

      • That Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler album ‘Neck and Neck’ was good.

        Lennon rated Harrison as player. Their work on ‘How Do You Sleep’ was a good collaboration between the two. With Klaus on bass, Nicky on keys, and Alan White on drums, that could have been a really hot band. But, needless to say, the Sea Hag turned it into a Yoko No-Go.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoJQAyrUHhA

      • And I bet Harrison had more freedom playing with John in those ‘Sleep’ sessions than he ever had working with/for Macca.

  13. Where’s Ruff Tuff cream puff the bootlegger?, when he is needed most on this nom
    Come on RTC,
    “Awake, shake dreams from your hair”

    • I’ve tried to goad him into posting by saying he looks like Bryan Ferry. It hasn’t worked yet sadly.

      I bet he does though. I miss him GJ, Spoony and B&WC.

      • I bet he has his odd eye in though, the one you don’t know if he is looking at you or the other way.
        That Island must have had an awful affect on him.

      • https://youtu.be/vRNUOcdccUU?si=miO-2Iaqm_kY0DNU

        Motorhead/Girlschool.

        I miss Ruff too.
        An Fiddler.
        Even Miles
        And Gutstick Japseye.

        Know Gutstick upset a lot of posters with his views but isn’t that the point of free speech ?
        Besides ,
        If you get upset that easy your a bit of a mardarse in MY opinion.

        Few I don’t miss though😁

        Fuck em

      • “Know Gutstick upset a lot of posters with his views but isn’t that the point of free speech ?”

        That ended with a certain poster and the ‘Mr Grimsdale’ button…

      • Yeah !.
        Bertie was great.
        Ex teacher, and a scouser.
        He tore strips of a few posters didn’t he?

        Put em in their place.

        Loved a pun or word game🙂

      • There have been a few nutters over the years Mis. I quite like the odd crackpot now and then.

      • Yeah ,
        It livens things up a bit.
        Candygram for Mōngo
        Was pretty funny
        And one called Shagger,
        Both terminated for being naughty.

        Foxy was good,
        Don’t know if everyone picked up on the fact he’d had a personal tragedy and was suffering mental health problems.

        Some encouraged his bullshit.

        Till Fiddler went nuclear on him😁

      • I forgot about Vern. I wish he was still posting when that ‘Wokegate’ e-mail nom came up and he was outed as Brian something or other.

        Black helicopters, end of days, bunkers and Davos WEF puppets. It would have been fucking hilarious.

      • His replies to Fiddler’s scathing attacks made me laugh.

        ” Some posters seem to be suggesting I’m a fantasist, I won’t dignify attacks of this sort”

        Fiddler – ” that’s exactly what I’m saying,
        I’m sick of your bullshit and crackpot fantasy,
        You can fuck off ‘
        😆 Hahaha

      • Cuntlestiltskin and Mr Polly.

        There was one bloke who said he wanted Kate Beckinsale to shit on him while she was wearing vampire fangs like in Underworld (not Cunt Engine surprisingly).

        That was a weird post. Probably why I remember it.
        Takes all sorts I suppose.

      • I certainly don’t miss Gutstick. What a dimwit, saying ‘woke’ nonsense just disappears if you ignore it.

        Utter stupidity.

      • Comedy gold 👍

        Titslapper still posts.

        Baron Bastard was a good poster, I liked him.

  14. Funny, how Yoko Fucking Bloody Bastard Cunting Ono was all for the Beatles reunion/cash in after John’s death. But she moved heaven and earth to keep them apart when he was alive…🤔🤣

  15. McCartney should’ve been strung up for Wings, then dug up and strangled in front of his crying children for letting Linda sing.

  16. A word in your ear Norman. If you happen to have, or seen the book Man and Babe by Wilf McGuinness, I’m in the middle of the picture on page 124 with books under my arm, watching Albert Quixall and Wilf, kicking a ball to each other. It was 1959.

  17. @ I/Y the thing is Rick Beato is a top technical guitar player in is own right and for me personally that makes his opinions worth listening too.

  18. I must say I love the story about a prossie going down on George Harrison as he played his ukelele and sang a George Formby tune…

    I wonder if he said ‘Turned out nice again’?

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