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  • Does Billy have a point?

    From super70s@super70s@super70s.invalid to rec.music.beatles on Fri Jul 25 11:42:58 2025
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    Billy Joel recently guested on Bill Mahar's Club Random podcast. In
    addition to the expected questions about his current health, he also
    talked about the White Album when the pair began to discuss classic
    double albums. "I'm not a big fan of the White Album, but some people
    love it," he said. "I hear it as a collection of half-assed songs they
    didn't finish writing because they were too stoned, or they didn't care anymore. I think they had fragments and they put them on the album. I
    think John [Lennon] was dissasociating at that point... I think Paul [McCartney] was carrying the weight." Joel theorized that the band "had
    their ups and downs" as to why the White Album took a dip in quality,
    going on to explain: "Sometimes they were more prolific and sometimes
    they weren't, and I hear that in some of those things."

    Personally I think you could name the second side of Abbey Road as
    containing "fragments of songs they didn't finish writing" over the
    White Album. And "A Day In The Life" from Sgt. Pepper's was famously
    patched together from fragments of songs of John's and Paul's.

    I thought Joel was pretty consistent up through 1987's The Bridge
    album. After that his albums were pretty spotty. Still a great artist
    though.

    Full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UhXgiKmllw&feature=youtu.be

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  • From Blueshirt@blueshirt@indigo.news to rec.music.beatles on Thu Jul 31 09:12:29 2025
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    super70s wrote:

    [Snip]

    Personally I think you could name the second side of Abbey
    Road as containing "fragments of songs they didn't finish
    writing" over the White Album. And "A Day In The Life" from
    Sgt. Pepper's was famously patched together from fragments of
    songs of John's and Paul's.

    If you can patch together fragments of songs and end up with
    something of the quality of "A Day in the Life" then you've
    done well.

    Clearly the Beatles were so good their fragments of songs
    were better than other people's full songs!!!
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  • From vintageapplemac@vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) to rec.music.beatles on Sat Sep 6 07:35:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: rec.music.beatles

    In article <xn0p8y3d46twu8d000@post.eweka.nl>, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

    super70s wrote:

    [Snip]

    Personally I think you could name the second side of Abbey
    Road as containing "fragments of songs they didn't finish
    writing" over the White Album. And "A Day In The Life" from
    Sgt. Pepper's was famously patched together from fragments of
    songs of John's and Paul's.

    If you can patch together fragments of songs and end up with
    something of the quality of "A Day in the Life" then you've
    done well.

    Clearly the Beatles were so good their fragments of songs
    were better than other people's full songs!!!

    Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the White Album and rarely listen to it in
    full, but Abbey Road and Sgt Peppers are start-to-finish listens, every
    time, of course, even if some of the songs are "patched together from bits
    and bobs".
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