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[alabama1]

Judas Priest

[mr.bluesky]

West Midlands, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, ELO, (Wizard), Slade, to name but a few.

UB40 ,  The Specials,  The Moody Blues

[alabama1]

UB40 ,  The Specials,  The Moody Blues

i prefer not to mention UB40 lol

[PepeMAGA]

UB40 ,  The Specials,  The Moody Blues

And Duran Duran

[mikecee]

You really need to follow the news a bit, bad timing as The Beatles just got the title for longest time between their 1st and last No.1 hit with "Now and Then" which was No.1 last week   

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So the Beatles are still together then?  When was that song actually written?  My point is since the 80's with bands like A flock of Seagulls, Icicle works, Echo and the Bunnymen and Frankie goes to Hollywood Liverpool has produced very little.  We can't keep living off Merseybeat for ever.

[Thephoenix]

So the Beatles are still together then?  When was that song actually written?  My point is since the 80's with bands like A flock of Seagulls, Icicle works, Echo and the Bunnymen and Frankie goes to Hollywood Liverpool has produced very little.  We can't keep living off Merseybeat for ever.

59 no. 1 hits since the charts began , with a number 1 in every decade since with the likes of Atomic Kitten, Melanie C, The Real Thing, Sonia, The Lighting Seeds.
It's all in the Guiness Book Of Records.
No other UK city can match that.

[Blackpool Rock]

So the Beatles are still together then?  When was that song actually written?  My point is since the 80's with bands like A flock of Seagulls, Icicle works, Echo and the Bunnymen and Frankie goes to Hollywood Liverpool has produced very little.  We can't keep living off Merseybeat for ever.

You asked a straight question and I gave you a straight answer, the fact one of them is dead and the band is no longer together is irrelevant, in fact surely it make it even more impressive 

[bigden40]

You asked a straight question and I gave you a straight answer, the fact one of them is dead and the band is no longer together is irrelevant, in fact surely it make it even more impressive 

Two of them are dead. Harrison also went some time ago.

[mr.bluesky]

Two of them are dead. Harrison also went some time ago.

And Paul McCartney has been musicaly  "dead" since the 70's 

[mikecee]

And Paul McCartney has been musicaly  "dead" since the 70's 

That just leaves Ringo.   Oh dear.

[Marmalade]

So the Beatles are still together then?  When was that song actually written?   We can't keep living off Merseybeat for ever.

Wasn't it written this year by ChatGPT?

Although it was a hit it hardly compares with their original stuff.

[mr.bluesky]

Wasn't it written this year by ChatGPT?

Although it was a hit it hardly compares with their original stuff.

Wasn't it written by John Lennon many years ago and never recorded at the time and lay hidden for many years
 

[myothernameis]

So the Beatles are still together then?  When was that song actually written?  My point is since the 80's with bands like A flock of Seagulls, Icicle works, Echo and the Bunnymen and Frankie goes to Hollywood Liverpool has produced very little.  We can't keep living off Merseybeat for ever.

OMD are still going strong

[Blackpool Rock]

Wasn't it written by John Lennon many years ago and never recorded at the time and lay hidden for many years
 

Yeah it was written way back when and apparently they tried to do something with the recording previously but the Tech wasn't advanced enough to get the voice right on the old / poor recording

[Marmalade]

Wasn't it written by John Lennon many years ago and never recorded at the time and lay hidden for many years
 

Yeah you're right. Though "Lennon's voice was extracted from the demo using the machine-learning-assisted audio restoration technology" so still a bit fake. I mean it's ok, but it kind of rests on the Beatles' fame. A bit average I thought by their standards. Maybe if you play it constantly for 24hrs it gets catchy? 

[mr.bluesky]

Yeah you're right. Though "Lennon's voice was extracted from the demo using the machine-learning-assisted audio restoration technology" so still a bit fake. I mean it's ok, but it kind of rests on the Beatles' fame. A bit average I thought by their standards. Maybe if you play it constantly for 24hrs it gets catchy? 

Yeah, I get where your coming from, I find the video a bit creepy superimposing the two dead band members alongside Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney and like you say it's not the best song they made perhaps that's why it was never released back in the day. Probably got to number 1 through sentimental reasons. Having said that there has been a lot worse songs that have got to the top of the charts over the years.

[Thephoenix]

Yeah, I get where your coming from, I find the video a bit creepy superimposing the two dead band members alongside Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney and like you say it's not the best song they made perhaps that's why it was never released back in the day. Probably got to number 1 through sentimental reasons. Having said that there has been a lot worse songs that have got to the top of the charts over the years.

I suppose it depends if you've always been a fan of the Beatles since growing up with them and watching them develop from the raw group of lads playing at all the local church halls etc in the days when the most popular Beatles were Stuart and Pete.

For Liverpool folk of my generation the new release is extremely sentimental and conjures up emotions which transcend the actual song.

[PepeMAGA]

Yeah, I get where your coming from, I find the video a bit creepy superimposing the two dead band members alongside Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney and like you say it's not the best song they made perhaps that's why it was never released back in the day. Probably got to number 1 through sentimental reasons. Having said that there has been a lot worse songs that have got to the top of the charts over the years.

To me it sounds like a modern Paul McCartney song rather than a Beatles song

[Jumping Jack Flash]

To me it sounds like a modern Paul McCartney song rather than a Beatles song

It sounds like some over produced 1990’s Verve track with John Lennon on vocals, a poor song and they should have left it where it was.

As I understand it, Lennon recorded it on to a cassette post-Beatles and wrote “For Paul” on the label. Yoko Ono found it and passed it on to Paul McCartney. In the mid 1990’s the then remaining three Beatles recorded it but George Harrison hated the results so the project was shelved. With the advent of AI they revisited it again with a slightly improved vocal track and released it.

Maybe I’m being churlish but it’s no coincidence that they release this to coincide with the re-release of their red and blue greatest hits collections. I love the Beatles and their music still appeals to many generations today, from teens on but to me this is just a shameless attempt at promoting re-releases.

[scutty brown]

Wasn't it written by John Lennon many years ago and never recorded at the time and lay hidden for many years
 

Apparently McCartney thinks it was mainly written by Yoko

[Marmalade]

Apparently McCartney thinks it was mainly written by Yoko

Really? But it’s got a tune!

I suppose it does fit the ‘pop’ category. A lot of the bands mentioned on the thread are more alternative. I’m sure ‘pop’ was meant as a cool category — back in the 60’s.

Today I tend to associate it with simplistic, repetitive music written to a formula. Like an X-Factor finals song.

[timsussex]

Really? But it’s got a tune!

Brilliant   

[Jonestown]

Here you are, maybe something for the City of Liverpool to club together and bid on, Bonham's are offering at auction the ex-Abbey Road control board used to record Beatle solo albums and their last official group album; Estimated price £1M



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[Watts.E.Dunn]

Neat!, an EMI transistor desk with Painton quadrant faders! They'd be worth a few bob alone!

Then they used NEVE desks still around, peple now paying silly money most everything in the late Sixties severties eighties and no nineties was done on Neve desks made down the road from here in Melbourh Cambe,  now the desk of choice is Solid State Logic based in Begbroke near Oxford!..

A lot of their old gear is still in use what was good then is still good these days:)

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Some people you might remember!.

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Excellent vid by the son of the Fifth Beatle!

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[chrishornx]

Name the last Liverpool group to have a number one?   Frankie goes to Hollywood, back in the 80's?

Rick Astley? Atomic Kitten? Lightning Seeds?

[PepeMAGA]

Rick Astley? Atomic Kitten? Lightning Seeds?

Surprising


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[Thephoenix]

Rick Astley? Atomic Kitten? Lightning Seeds?

Melanie C, The Real Thing, Sonia

[alabama1]

Melanie C, The Real Thing, Sonia

Fuckin hell ! Scraping the barrel now 

[Thephoenix]

Fuckin hell ! Scraping the barrel now 

I certainly agree about Sonia.
...But nevertheless the question was about pop music, and it's hard to believe but she did have a  number one in the charts with 'You'll Never Stop Me Loving You' in 1989.

I bet you'll also be excited to learn that Lita Roza was the first Liverpool singer to top the charts in 1953 with ''How Much Is That Doggy In The Window?"...."Wuff Wuff" , which has got nothing to do with Amsterdam.

I remember it well.