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[edit] Good articles (GA)

29 (now 31) Beatle GAs, with wonderful contributions from all of us. 'Nuff said from me.--andreasegde (talk) 16:03, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] George Martin -- FA?

I would really like to take George Martin to a PR and then FA, but he's not on the list. Any Nays?--DizFreak talk Contributions 19:59, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely no Nays. Go ahead, with full steam... :) --andreasegde (talk) 18:20, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GA

George Toogood Smith (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) has been nominated.--andreasegde (talk) 12:18, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

It passed.--andreasegde (talk) 22:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A good laugh

You should read this page. It's full of things that anyone who knows anything about this project would get a good laugh out of. Basically it says you should never trust a Liverpudlian taxi driver. :))

  • "The first place Alan [the taxi driver] took us on our tour was St. Peter’s Church. There was also the grave of John Lennon’s uncle, Uncle George Toogood Smith, who was more like a father to John. He was called Toogood because of his jazz playing skills. Eleanor Rigby’s grave was also in this cemetery. Eleanor Rigby was from a very well to do family. She chose to become as a musician, and she ended up on the streets. John was always warned by his mother that she would end up like Eleanor Rigby."
  • "Paul McCartney and John Lennon both went to the same school for boys, which was where they met."
  • "John and Paul met on the bus to the Liverpool Academy for Boys."
  • "Alan then showed us the place where Paul bought his first Elvis Presley album."
  • "Next we went into the barbershop where some of the Beatles used to get their haircut. Alan had said we could have taken pictures in the chairs, though the hair stylists were all doing their hair and makeup and wouldn’t actually get out of the chairs."
  • "His [Lennon's] mother had married a sailor, and three weeks after the marriage, he left to sail around the West Indies. He only came back to convince John’s mother to give John to his sister, Mary. Soon after, John’s mother had a breakdown. At one time, she was dating an American sailor, whom which she had a baby girl."
  • "I don’t think she [Margaret, who lives in Ringo's house] and Alan [taxi driver] got along, however. She kept saying that taxi drivers don’t know anything, and for the rest of our tour, Alan kept saying that we shouldn’t listen to anything he says because he doesn’t know anything."
  • "Next, Alan took us to see the university where John Lennon had attended. He never did graduate. He thought it was much too strict a school. We also saw the Liverpool School for Boys, which is now the Lennon School of Performing Arts."

Laugh? I nearly bought a round of drinks...:)--andreasegde (talk) 14:16, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question about the writing credit for "A Hard Day's Night"

The page devoted to the song "A Hard Day's Night," says that Lennon wrote the song. However on the list of Beatles songs (search on list of beatles songs) the writing is credited to both Lennon and McCartney. Does anyone know which it is?

Bri4daz (talk) 17:26, 27 May 2008 (UTC)Briana Carson

All Beatle songs written by Lennon and/or McCartney are credited to both. This was an agreement between the two of them early on. However, after the first few years, they rarely wrote anything 50/50. Often they bounced ideas off each other, helped finish songs and were in a more-or-less friendly rivalry. Some songs were completely written by one (for example "Yesterday" is 100% McCartney). There's been much published on who actually wrote what, and for most individual song articles, Wikipedia mentions who wrote the song, while giving the official songwriting credit as Lennon/McCartney. I believe the article Lennon-McCartney goes into further detail on how they wrote the songs. freshacconcispeaktome 17:39, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

I couldn't agree more with freshacconci. Even McCartney can't remember the exact details (and Lennon got one or two wrong) but legally they are as they are: Lennon-McCartney, or Lennon/McCartney, depending on your opinion. :)--andreasegde (talk) 21:18, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Paul McCartney (solo)

This could be a GA, IMO.--andreasegde (talk) 14:27, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The wind is blowing through this page

"It's quiet - too quiet", as the outlaws would have said it...--andreasegde (talk) 20:17, 11 June 2008 (UTC)