It was 43 years ago Today..

[sunspark*]

Sgt Pepper taught the band to play... no, wait..


I Love My Dog was released, starting it all. ;D


1966 - I Love My Dog was released by Cat Stevens. He was 19 years old. Five years later, he recorded such hits as Wild World, Morning Has Broken, Peace Train and Oh Very Young. By 1979, Cat Stevens [born, Steven Demitri Georgiou], disenchanted with the music business, converted to the Islamic religion and changed his name to Yusef Islam. He may not have liked the music biz anymore but Cat still loves his dog.

[richina]

Oh, how time flies....thanks for the reminder of where it all began! I always loved that song, as I've had many dogs in my life that have loved me. Matter of fact, that was always a reminder I gave the guys I dated.."love me, love my dog"! And whether they knew it or not they had to love my "Cat" too!! LOL!! Thanks for the post!!

[helen]

1966 - I Love My Dog was released by Cat Stevens. He was 19

years old.

I remember because I had just started secondary school., and
I had written on all my books

"I love Cat"

[tiffany]

I can't believe how quick the time goes, it's flown by. I was only small and four years young, and we lived in a bungalow, in Forlease Road, my birth place where I was born, and I was at nursery school. Then in 1967-69, I was a Donovan fan for a few years, but as soon as Cat Stevens came into my world of music, I was so chuffed after he grew long black dark hair and trim beard, it nearly made me blush. But in 1977-79, I heard that he become a Muslim, so I was very sad when he quit the music biz.

Now, the man is back for the third time, making music, not as Cat Stevens any more, but as his religious name Yusuf. An older man he is now, but the sweet music lives on today.

[richina]

Amen and I'm soooo glad he chose to take the stage again. He could have sat back, run his schools, tended to his charities, and let the money keep rolling in from his old stuff. But he didn't. I'm so glad for whatever he is driven by!!!
love it!!

[tiffany]

Sweet peace be with you, Richina. Yes, the dear Cat is back, after a long absence of thirty years. Now his music is vibrant as is was back in 1966. I think that when he was 19, he was struggling to get well from his TB, and when he returned in 1970, wearing his suits, jeans and T-shirts, and with the image that turned me on to his singing style, his music has been iconic, with memorable lyrics that lifted me. I really loved him!!!!!

[tiffany]

The FAB Four (or The Beatles), were making music, and George Harrison was playing Indian musical instruments like the Sitar on the album "Rubber Soul, and on Norweigian Wood, track 2 on that album. Then came "Revolver" back in "66 he played the Tabla instrument on "Love You To, and on Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, he played the sitar in the song "Within You Without You, before the official break-up. Then when Stevens began it all, he burst on in that year, and in 1968, his illness burnt him out in a flash.

[rubylove25]

43 years ago - and probably about then my love of Cat began and here I am 56 in a couple of weeks time and nothing has changed apart from a few wrinkles and grey hairs :-) Im counting the days to seeing him in Liverpool & London and cant beleive will be 3rd time Ive seen him this year - what a year this has been !!!!!

[tiffany]

This was also the year when the Beatles album "Revolver was released, and this album featured songs such as "Taxman, Eleanor Rigby and Here, There, And Everywhere. Other songs also featured were Got To Get You Into My Life and Yellow Submarine, based on a children's classic singalong song. 1966 was also the year when the Beatles were involved with LSD, and when John Lennon's comment about religion proved to them ,"We meant more to kids than Jesus did."

[tiffany]

Well, just been listening to Pick of the Pops with Dale Winton this afternoon on Radio 2, with the big hits from 1966, which is very hard to believe that it was 43 years ago, the same year when the Beatles were still making hit albums. It was also in 1966, that a rumour on Paul McCartney spread all over the media that he was dead. It was really a hoax, with tapes being played backwards, and this really caused a frenzy.

[tiffany]

A new year has begun, and we're into a brand new decade, what can we call this one? Possibly we could say this one is the "10s, as the year 2000 kicked off, they were the 00s. 1966 is now 44 years ago, so back in the old days of the Beatles and I Love My Dog, which started it then, Cat Stevens was just a teenager, making it into the music world. His next single "Matthew And Son got to No.2 in 67, making him the real cool "Cat.

[tiffany]

In 1966, a rumor spread about former Beatle Paul McCartney dying in a car crash. People made various remarks that during that time of this incident, that Paul was tired, sad, and dejected. At the beginning of this program, we hear death clues from Sgt Pepper to Abbey Road, before the excitement ended 40 years ago in 1970, the year they quit the FAB Four. This was actually a hoax. Death clues will be here on next page

[Marge]

When I first read this I also started singing "Sgt Pepper".... LOL! Tiffany - you are an encyclopedia of the 60's... LOL Know the Beatles - refreshing my memory...

John Lennon took the White album - and did some electronic stuff to it on "Revolution" - and if you reversed it - it said "Paul is Dead" - of course this was John's Lennon's humor - then the bare feet across the street. I do miss John Lennon and Harrison....

Cat is back - because he needs to be. We are so fortunate that he has come back. I truly believe he will do more live performances in the future - in the UK and about Europe. No 70 city US tours - been there - done that one. But he was having a lot of fun with the last 3 concerts - and happy people - do happy things.

Thanks for the memories - 43 years ago today!

[flemmishfangent]

AND THEN THAT NOSE ACCIDENT HOW MANY YEARS WAS THAT LOL

[Marge]

Jan 13, 2010 7:38:24 GMT -5 flemmishfangent said:

AND THEN THAT NOSE ACCIDENT HOW MANY YEARS WAS THAT LOL

It was 39 years ago today - Sgt. Pepper's band started to play!

You are so funny - oh well - I left my mark permanently in Philadelphia!

[tiffany]

Here are some clues from the Paul Is Dead saga, which I hope everybody on this site here will find interesting, and easy for all Majikatters to understand the meanings of each clue, starting with my favourite from The White Album.

Revolution 9# This is a very long piece, written by both John and Yoko, with some startling phrases, weired noises based on this particular track.

Played forward 13 times: Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
Played backwards - TURN ME ON DEAD MAN, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN, TURN ME ON DEAD MAN

[aurarisma]

I think its time for him to get a new dog... just a suggestion

[tiffany]

So with Revolution 9 played both backwards, here are some more clues from the IsPaulDead saga, this time we hear more!!

After the reversed played Revolution 9, we hear the following phrases of erie Lennon-McCartney sounds

MUSIC
(GIBBERISH) This is some garbled mumbling from John Lennon of words that no-one seems to understand what he's saying

[tiffany]

Here are some more death clues from the IsPaulDead hoax. He wasn't really dead at the time, but in 1966, he was driving his Aston Martin car in the rainy, chill night, tired, sad and dejected, he was dead as a doornail.

Clue 2. In front of the gibberish and music, features these phrases:

"HEAR ME, HEAR ME."

"SAY IT AGAIN, TESTING ALL DAY "N" NIGHT

"WE HAVE THE NEW TESTING, WE KNEW THE ANSWERS SIMPLY,"

[tiffany]

I was listening to the radio this morning, and Tony Blackburn was on Radio 2 with the top 60 best-selling singles of the 60s. He play all the songs that we all were born and brought up with during that decade, along with news clips and headlines like Winston Churchill's death, President Kennedy, and Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. Plus those big hits that were the best selling singles, that made it to number 1

[tiffany]

In the summer of 1967, the Beatles released Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, their only masterpiece of the decade. The tracks on that album feature different instrumental sounds, which include George Harrison's sitar on Within You, Without You, a steam organ on Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite, and Paul McCartney's string quartet on She's Leaving Home, not to mention sound effects, reel-to-reel tape loops on Good Morning, Good Morning.

Today marks Sgt Pepper's 43rd birthday, and I'm listening to all those beautiful melodies by the Beatles on the radio. You'll never hear or see a brilliant group in years to follow, but only look back to their era, and always remember them for the music and songs that inspired this world.

[Katmandu]

Luckily, I had a sister nine years older than me who loved the Beatles. My first slbum at the age of 10 was Abbey Road. I bought my first Cat Stevens album in 1972, Catch Bull at Four.
Then, I bought Tea, Teaser, and Mona Bone Jakon and became an even bigger fan. I've never stopped loving his music, even the little "ditties" he wrote in the sixties.

[Katmandu]

Jun 1, 2010 6:24:52 GMT -5 tiffany said:

In the summer of 1967, the Beatles released Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, their only masterpiece of the decade. The tracks on that album feature different instrumental sounds, which include George Harrison's sitar on Within You, Without You, a steam organ on Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite, and Paul McCartney's string quartet on She's Leaving Home, not to mention sound effects, reel-to-reel tape loops on Good Morning, Good Morning.

Today marks Sgt Pepper's 43rd birthday, and I'm listening to all those beautiful melodies by the Beatles on the radio. You'll never hear or see a brilliant group in years to follow, but only look back to their era, and always remember them for the music and songs that inspired this world.

Their only masterpiece? I have to politely disagree with that. You
certainly could make a strong argument that Sgt Pepper was their finest album. However, I think a strong argument could be made for the White Album( I believe if that had been compacted into one album that that would be considered their finest work.)
Abbey Road, and Revolver. All are great albums.

[ilovemycat]

Picking a favorite Beatles album is as difficult as picking a favorite Cat/Yusuf album.

As far as the Sgt. Pepper album goes, while there are brilliant songs on it - Sgt. Pepper and Lucy in the Sky are my least favorite Beatles tunes. I'm a huge beatles fan and this may be blasphemy - but if I never heard either one of those two songs again in life, it would not matter

[tiffany]

Well, to be honest the Beatles made some brilliant albums in the 60s, and I think my three favourite ones speak it all. Take for example the tracks from the movies "A Hard Day's Night and "Help" songs like I Should Have Known Better, If I Fell, Tell Me Why, all featured in the same film, along their hits Can't Buy Me Love, She Loves You, And I Love Her and I'll Cry Instead. The other numbers like Any Time At All, When I Get Home and You Can't Do That are not in the movie.

"Rubber Soul" is another interesting album, with songs like Drive My Car, You Won't See Me, The Word and In My Life, those songs with Paul McCartney on piano. The rest of them are all with Lennon and George, playing sitar on Norwegian Wood, and guitar on If I Needed Someone and Think For Yourself, so all in all the Beatles' music was something you'll never hear again.

"Revolver" from 1966, and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the White Album from 67-68 and Magical Mystery Tour are also very interesting ones, they all reflect the time when the Beatles were involved with LSD and Indian music. Finally, their break-up in 1969 was an abrupt end to the era. Let It Be was the final LP released in 1970

[valleycreeper]

The backwards Beatles thing was actually "Turn me on dead man" in Revolution #9, one of my favorites. Forwards it was "number nine", a bit of stock audio they found lying around. The only "real" Paul is Dead clue was in "Glass Onion", where John sings "And here's another clue for you all... the walrus was Paul". Since the death rumors hadn't started yet, quite spooky.

As a deprived American, I didn't know Cat until the 70s. My sister was obsessing on Harold and Maude and Mona Bone Jakon and Tea For the Tillerman, and I heard all her records of course. A couple days ago, I happened across Harold and Maude on VHS, and I'm saving it and making an event of it.

[tiffany]

I think that in the early sixties that nobody realised that Paul McCartney was really dead and gone, but literally, this was a hoax. Revolution 9's death clues played backwards had a sign of Paul's car-crash episode, including moans of help, a funeral presession, and erie McCartney noises from Paul, wailing "GET ME OUT, GET ME OUT." repeated five times. Others on that song had Yoko making the shrude remark of "You become naked!"

[valleycreeper]

Oops... "Turn me on dead man" was mentioned already. Anyway, I taped it and ran it backwards on my Talking Books player (it can do that), and yes, it seems to say "Turn me on dead man". I'd say of course it was accidental, but John fooled around a lot with backwards tape, so it's very possible he heard it backwards and decided to use it. That was one talented guy they replaced Paul with!

I remember sitting in our basement playing Beatles 1967-70 over and over after hearing about all the death clues. This was mid-70s. Quite freaky.

As for Sgt Pepper being their "only masterpiece", I think they got better and better as they went, and the best is Abbey Road for me. Sgt Pepper... great obviously, but many individual songs rely on the playing around with sound that they did, and don't hold up as songs quite as much as those on other albums. I mean, there's a novelty value to the amazing sonic barrage of it all, that makes much of it not so amazing in later years.

I think Magical Mystery Tour is a better 1967 album with that same sound, even though it's not really an "album".

[tiffany]

OK, then! The album "Magical Mystery Tour is packed with clues to Paul's automobile incident back in '66. These clues are obvious, obscure and amusingly funny, beginning with "Strawberry Fields Forever.

During the fade-out of this song, we hear John Lennon saying,"I buried Paul." This almost sounds like the words,"Cranberry Sauce." But when played on 45rpm of the record speed, this is how it is heard:

"I buried Paul

[tiffany]

OK, I like this page of "It Was 43 years Ago, because people here have written some very interesting topics, including some of mine, which feature the IsPaulDead saga. These clues all bring back the time of McCartney's fatal car crash incident, which was really a hoax, and I hope everyone is looking and listening out for more of the same. Here is yet another clue from Magical Mystery Tour coming up soon