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40 anos do Revolver
Julio Daio Borges

I wrote this for fun. I'm not a music journalist, or a professional writer. The idea emerged from a few nagging questions I had about Revolver, which the band and their biographers seemed rather too happy to gloss over. Where did Paul McCartney really get the idea for "Eleanor Rigby"? Who taught George Harrison to play the sitar? And who did give John Lennon LSD for the first time?

Almost every morning for two years, I sat on the tube ploughing through one interminable Beatles memoir or another with highlighter and notebook in hand; I spent my lunch-breaks visiting libraries to read books on Hinduism; I spent weekends hammering away at a keyboard, trying to make all the new information make sense; I lay awake at night worrying about rumours of a Sunday Times journalist interviewing all of the same people as I was trying to get hold of.

And it has been fun. If no-one ever reads this, at least I know I'll never lose another pub argument about the Beatles. Or, for that matter, have to listen to Revolver ever again.

Ray Newman, na introdução de seu Abracadabra, um livro inteiro sobre aquele disco dos Bealtes lançado em agosto de 1966 (via Aluado).

Julio Daio Borges
18/8/2006 à 00h58

 

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