Comments on: What Political Beatles Songs Can Best Be Applied To Modern Issues?

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:45:14 +0000

i don’t think the beatles ever got too political
john lennon’s solo work was well saturated in that kind of stuff though

By: hitquit4

hitquit4 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:38:53 +0000

Not a Beetles song but . . .
For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield.

By: ineedyou

ineedyou — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:01:29 +0000

all you need is love
obviously.

By: nate_roz…

nate_roz… — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:39:01 +0000

revolution is the best example of the political beatles

By: __A_YAHO…

__A_YAHO… — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:01:56 +0000

It really depends on what social issues you are going to talk about.
Off the top of my head:
Revolution Beatles
All You Need Is Love Beatles
Give Peace and Chance (Lennon solo work)
Taxman (Harrison Song First Beatles Protest Song)
We Can Work It Out (Beatles)
Let it be (Beatles)

By: Victor Z

Victor Z — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:59:09 +0000

I’ll add “She’s Leaving Home” form Sgt Pepper. Its about the kids leaving home despite the efforts of the parents. Some of the phrases used in the song like “We gave her everything money could buy” were apparently things John Lennon’s Aunt Mimi (who brought him up) used to say to him.

By: sirknigh…

sirknigh… — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:51:14 +0000

1) Revolution, Revolution 1 same song fast or slow
2) Taxman
3) Too many people-Paul
4) Give peace a chance-John
5) Imagine-John
6) Give me some truth-John
7) Power to the people-John
Working class hero-John
9) Women is the ****** of the world-John

By: sirknigh

sirknigh — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:33:15 +0000

1 Revolution – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_…http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/revolu…http://oldies.about.com/od/thebeatlesson…
#2 George’s “Piggies” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggies
Either song is a great choice and ones that you could expand on easily. Revolution – the war, and harsh feelings about it —> like today. Piggies – very political, anti-politicians; also like today. You get the idea.
In their own words: http://oldies.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsi…
Look at #s 6 and 43: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article…
Revolution * “The Fab Four’s first truly overt political anthem, originally released as the B-side on the ‘Hey Jude’ single, was a carefully constructed cry for change through peaceful measures, a theme that lyricist John Lennon would further mine with 1969’s ‘Give Peace a Chance.’ The song still sounds revolutionary today, despite its dubious distinction as being the first Beatles cut to be used in an advertising campaign.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:02:12 +0000

Come Together – was written to promote Timothy Leary’s run for govenor but Timothy was thrown in jail on marijuana possession while running against Ronald Reagan for governor of California
While My Guitar Gently Weeps- An expose on the vast differences between eastern and western culture
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – many attribute the lyrics to the use of LSD which became popular and accepted by hippies in the 60’s
Get Back – contained references (”Loretta Martin who thought she was a woman, but was another man”) to sexual ambiguity, which was surfacing in the 60’s “free and open love” movement
Eleanor Rigby – lyrics were aligned with all the lonely people , especially after World war II had ended
Hey Jude – highlited for many people the pains of divorce and the pain for children seeing their parents split-up
All You Need Is Love – “propaganda song”, to change the world (Lennons words) through peaceful/love means not by wars and force
Give Peace a Chance – promoted peace via Yoko and John staying in bed all day