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This isn’t exactly a full Beatles moment, but I guess it counts. My history teacher usually plays music during work days in class and songs from the late 70s to the early 80s were playing. Then, I immediately recognized Paul’s (and Stevie’s) voices on Ebony And Ivory . Then, my teacher picked up her phone and asked what song it was. A kid sitting next to her who was sitting across the class from the speaker immediately responded “It’s Ebony And Ivory by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder” about 5 seconds after the song started. My teacher then commented “Wow, that was fast!” and I was very impressed. Maybe I should talk to him as he seems like a nice kid with good music tastes (he knew Band On The Run too when it played and I’ve seen him wearing a Led Zeppelin t-shirt), but then again, I probably won’t. I’m far too shy and introverted for that.

Wow, two Beatley moments in a row! Today during my English class my teacher was looking up examples of infographics for our project. She looked up a list of the best infographics and started scrolling down the list. The infographics were usually normal, business-y models, even though they had a Doctor Who one up there (I’m not that into Doctor Who, but my friend got very excited). My English teacher then exclaimed “Oh, this one is interesting”, and it was an infographic on the Beatles! It was an infographic describing the percentage of songs that each Beatle wrote and recorded when in the Beatles, and the most common type of word used in their respective discographies. It also judged their vocabulary in the songs (the lowest being Wild Honey Pie and the highest being Rocky Raccoon ), the highest number of words that each Beatle sung (Ringo’s most sung word was ‘garden’ out of the songs that he wrote, not the ones that were written for him). Of course, ‘love’ is the most used word in the Beatles songs. The infographic listed their writing output in this order: Lennon/McCartney, McCartney, Lennon, Harrison, and Ringo (note that it said Ringo as opposed to Starr, strangely). I wonder how they compiled the Lennon/McCartney one, as their songs in the later years can get confusing as to whether they wrote it together or separately. It was also interesting to note that John had the most words on average (which makes sense), while Paul had the overall wordiest song, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (not counting Lennon/McCartney, which counted Rocky Raccoon ). They also counted Taking a Trip to Carolina as part of the infographic as one of Ringo’s songs. I wonder where they put What Goes On , as they didn’t count it as a Ringo song and not all of the songs are labeled. There were too many under the Lennon/McCartney part of the infographic for me to see where that song was.

Moving on…

I got way too excited and, yet again, I couldn’t get any work done because I was too busy looking up other Beatles infographics. I went over to my teacher’s computer later to see if the facts were correct and to get a closer look at it, and they even counted Free As A Bird and Real Love . My teacher then tried to see the entire infographic, but was unsuccessful as the website was blocked (because, of course, this is public school). She then posted the copy that was available as an example for the entire class to use on their project!  

What a week it has been for Beatles references, and it’s only Tuesday! Well, have a great day everyone!

Wow, two Beatley moments in one day!

I had a dentist’s appointment today, and the waiting room is ocean themed. There was a yellow submarine on the wall. I then went over to check it, and sure enough it had four portholes!

This one is a bit of a longer one, and it happened during history class (See my earlier post in this topic) when my teacher was playing music again. My teacher was playing oldies/70’s music with lots of great songs, including Let it Be (along with songs by David Bowie, Carly Simon, Styx, Simon and Garfunkel, and more). The same kid from my earlier post also could name pretty much every song that played, especially Let it Be. I, being the shy person that I am, still haven’t talked to him. Maybe next time I will. Anyway, I slowly shifted my chair towards the speaker throughout the class, and by the end of class I was right next to the speaker. I probably looked like a fool, but what does that matter, my teacher likes me and I can’t resist a good song. I also ended up getting no work done, I’m one of those people who can’t work when a song I like is playing, I need to actively listen to it. This makes classwork either distracting (when music is playing), or mind-numbingly boring (when music isn’t playing). Oh well, first world problems. I also don’t have school tomorrow for the end of the semester, so I guess I’ll spend that time working on what I was supposed to be doing in history class. 

Well, have a great day everyone!

Edit: I forgot to add in one more Beatley moment. My friend and I were discussing dark yet catchy songs, and I sent her Maxwell’s Silver Hammer . I’m still waiting to hear her reaction, but knowing her, she’ll probably enjoy it. 

Well, have a great day everyone! (again)