Writer's Block: Do you want to know a secret?
My favourite song by the Beatles...
Hmm, I never thought I'd find this so hard to answer. I've always found Abbey Road my favourite album, simply because it was one my parents had on vinyl when I was a kid, so I grew up listening to 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' and 'Because' a lot. There was a bit of magic in actually seeing the record on the turntable as well - some kind of awesome power in this inanimate object to produce sound.
The stylus on the record player is broken now, so there's a copy of Abbey Road sitting in my parents' house, silent, but I became a voracious listener. I now co-host a radio show, and my gimmick is a weekly cover of the Fab Four - I'm still trying to figure out what this week's will be. I like the three-part structure of 'Happiness is a Warm Gun', and the call-and-reply of 'A Day in the Life'. 'Come Together' makes me feel more in control when I walk down the street with it thumping in my ears, as does 'Get Back'. One of my karaoke go-to songs is 'She's Leaving Home.'
But for sheer belt-it-out quality, as well as being the song I picked as inspiration for a character in a theatre production, I pick the full seven minutes and forty-seven seconds of 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)'. It's full of raw emotion, and groans under the force of the lyrics, which repeat themselves insistently. Some people hate this song, and I can understand why. But when I hear that bass riff, then...
Hmm, I never thought I'd find this so hard to answer. I've always found Abbey Road my favourite album, simply because it was one my parents had on vinyl when I was a kid, so I grew up listening to 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' and 'Because' a lot. There was a bit of magic in actually seeing the record on the turntable as well - some kind of awesome power in this inanimate object to produce sound.
The stylus on the record player is broken now, so there's a copy of Abbey Road sitting in my parents' house, silent, but I became a voracious listener. I now co-host a radio show, and my gimmick is a weekly cover of the Fab Four - I'm still trying to figure out what this week's will be. I like the three-part structure of 'Happiness is a Warm Gun', and the call-and-reply of 'A Day in the Life'. 'Come Together' makes me feel more in control when I walk down the street with it thumping in my ears, as does 'Get Back'. One of my karaoke go-to songs is 'She's Leaving Home.'
But for sheer belt-it-out quality, as well as being the song I picked as inspiration for a character in a theatre production, I pick the full seven minutes and forty-seven seconds of 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)'. It's full of raw emotion, and groans under the force of the lyrics, which repeat themselves insistently. Some people hate this song, and I can understand why. But when I hear that bass riff, then...