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Me too. It's definitely not a Beatles' track, but would have stood up well on any Beatles album. Many of Paul's Wings era songs were much better sung live when given sufficient 'beef' by Jimmy McCullough & Denny Laine on guitar and Joe English on drums. I saw them in 1976 and it was a truly great show.
It certainly grows on you, but it's very uneven, and has one too many plodding dirges for my taste. But it's the lyrics that do it for me - all that hare Krishna and simplistic eastern spiritualism - obviously very 'him' but ruins it for me, I'm afraid.
Come, come. This is the album that contains some of their best work inc Back in The USSR, Dear Prudence, Blackbird, Helter Skelter, While my Guitar gently weeps, Julia, Mother Nature 's Son and Revolution. It's endlessly inventive, and has such a variety of styles unrivalled by any other band I can think of.
Impossible to choose one, so I'll try a top five And I Love Her - perfection Eleanor Rigby - redefined the possibility of what popular music could do A Day in the Life - astonishing work which never dates Here, There and Everywhere - another masterful ballad from Paul Paperback Writer - Great lyric and guitar lick to die for
Of the solo stuff, I love Lennon's soulful 'Isolation', and McCartney's brassy 'Letting Go'. Never warmed to George or Ringo's stuff much tho, although 'Isn't it a pity' wouldn't have been out of place on a Beatle album.
Took an elderly neighbour who'd had a bad fall on Monday night to Chelsea and Westminster hospital. After a few hours in A&E, he was admitted to the AAU unit on the 4th floor with a fractured spine and various other issues.
A spotless ward, excellent staff, and a quite excellent view of .... Stamford Bridge.
I imagined my last moments here. Can I request to to be taken to Hammersmith when the time comes?
All was not lost, however. The guy in the next bed took one look at my Qpr raincoat, Qpr bag and Qpr shirt and starts scoffing. 'Well, sorry,' he says sneeringly, ' I'll be watching my team (Man City apparently - I didn't ask) against Real Madrid tonight'.
Scoff ye not, I'm thinking, this morning. Bad karma.
Grand announcements like these always smell to me like someone desperate to impress - in this case the Chancellor, who must know that the chances of this going through are very slim given the local opposition, especially from those who will lose their homes, and sheer costs (SO FAR estimated at an eye-watering £14 billion - by contrast, Gatwick expansion has been estimated at £2.2 billion).
Another interesting thing about Venus is that it's the only planet in the solar system to spin clockwise, so the sun rises in the west. Why this is is something of a mystery. Most think that it used to spin 'normally' but something caused it to flip on its axis and spin the other way (I've had nights like these), whilst another theory is that it simply ran out of puff as it were and stopped rotating, and then started rotating 'backwards'.
Wonderful creatures - also known as the peewit in imitation of their display calls, their common name describes their wavering flight. Their black-and-white colouring and round-winged shape in flight make them distinctive, but its the splendid crest that make them particularly stand out. Unfortunately they've suffered significant declines recently (largely due to intensive farming methods, loss of wetlands etc) and is now a Red List species.
Women are infinitely superior to men in pretty much every respect. Not only stronger but more compassionate, sensitive, and caring, less egotistic, less inclined to be violent or abusive, better at socialising, better with children, more intuitive and or perceptive, more emotional intelligence, far better communicators, more self-aware, more responsible. Oh, and cleaner.
The Electric cab fleet of the 1890s were nicknamed "Hummingbirds" due to the strange humming noise they made. Electric vehicles had a number of advantages over their early-1900s competitors as they didn't have the vibration, smell, and noise associated with petrol-powered cars and didn't require gear changes. The cars were also preferred because they did not require a manual effort to start whereas petrol cars needed a hand crank to start the engine.
After enjoying success at the beginning of the 20th century, the electric car began to lose its position in the car market. By the 1920s improved roads improved travel times, creating a need for vehicles with a greater range than that offered by electric cars, whilst worldwide discoveries of large petroleum reserves led to the wide availability of affordable petrol. Electric cars were limited to urban use by their slow speed (no more than 15–20 mph) and low range (30–40 miles), and petrol cars were now able to travel farther and faster than equivalent electrics. The invention of the electric starter in 1912 eliminated the need of a hand starting crank, while the invention of the muffler significantly reduced the noise levels.
But it was the initiation of mass production of cheap petrol-powered vehicles by Henry Ford that proved crucial (by contrast, the price of similar electric vehicles continued to rise; by 1912, an electric car was almost double the price of a petrol car). Most electric car makers stopped production at some point in the 1910s.
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