Re: (TV) RE: Beatles Influence on Television

[Ken Thompsen <joseph-k@swbell.net>]

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> I'm not really disagreeing with either of you------just that in that 1987
> (Sept./Oct.) Option Magazine interview (the one that used to be on the now
> defunct "Rivethead"/Unofficial Television web-site) TV talked at length about
> how he wasn't that big a fan of the Beatles and how why he instead preferred
> the Stones or the pop hits of Petulia Clark to the Beatles.   Which doesn't
> mean he wasn't influenced by the Beatles.
> 
> (By the way, I can't find an electronic copy of this Option interview by Maria
> V. Montgomery ("Tom Verlaine on Music, Books, Films and ....." anywhere on the
> internet---anyone know where it resides or have an electronic copy?)
> 

I can say this...I just gave the chords for Without a Word to Cameron and I
can tell you it's very Beatle(ish). Like a Roy Orbison song or something,
who influenced the Beatles a lot. Even though Verlaine says he was
influenced by the Stones and such (which I believe), Rock and Roll changed a
whole lot because of the Beatles (who copied Chuck Berry and Roy Orbison) by
incorporating minor chords in their progressions, jumping into minor chords
at the bridge of a song, etc..If it was up to the Stones, EVERYTHING would
still be blues based...but it's not, and the Beatles are the first to try
all of that.
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