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31 July 2019
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Hello guys!
Thank you for all your research! In the last months I’ve been going through the whole thread in order to create a list with all of the references, because this will be part of my master thesis. So thanks for all the collecting!
Funnily enough the song which got my attention to this whole topic is not yet in here, so here is my contribution:
Echame La Culpa – Demi Lovato, Luis Fonsi:
“Play my like the Beatles, baby, just let it be.”
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Also I found this one which is not in here yet:
APES****T – The Carters (Beyoncé und Jay-Z):
“Ran through Liverpool like a fuckin’ Beatle”
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And I am not sure anymore if this one is in here, so I’ll just post it nevertheless:
Going Bad – Meek Mill feat. Drake:
“Back home, smokin’ legal (legal), I got more slaps than The Beatles (Beatles).”
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Have a great weekend!
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17 December 2012
Offline A few musical references…
First we have MF Doom featuring MF Grimm, and Tick, Tick, which is built on a sample of George Martin’s Glass Onion strings…
while 2 Live Crew’s Fraternity Record (explicit language warning) was built around the Day Tripper riff…
and Mac Miller sampled Lucy at the beginning of Loud…
while, lyrically, Boogie Down Productions pastiche Hey Jude at the beginning of Criminally Minded…
and for a little old school, here’s the Bootles with I’ll Let You Hold My Hand…
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I’ve liked that Bootles track since hearing it a month ago, but I find the intro has an even more elusive backbeat than “Drive My Car “.
Here’s the Lovin’ Spoonful from 1965, celebrating the return of rocking music to American airwaves, and the band most responsible:
I´ve been listening to my radio
for two or three years
And the music they´ve been playing is so doggone bad
That it´s offendin´to my ears
But them kids come over from the Mersey river
Made us think back till then
So let´s put on our shoes
And think about the blues
And start all over again
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
10.13am
22 July 2019
Offline I’m sure this has been mentioned before, but the rap group Run-DMC has a song called “King of Rock” where the following lyrics can be found:
“There’s three of us, but we’re not the Beatles.”
The silly writer of the song thought the Beatles had 3 members, instead of 4. Quite the oddball, honestly.
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1 December 2009
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I’m sure this has been mentioned before, but the rap group Run-DMC has a song called “King of Rock” where the following lyrics can be found:“There’s three of us, but we’re not the Beatles.”
The silly writer of the song thought the Beatles had 3 members, instead of 4. Quite the oddball, honestly.
Haha, I did mention it before! 
Run-DMC’s explanation was that only three Beatles were alive at recording time.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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The line that references them is “I got more slaps than The Beatles”, which means he’s got more jams than they do
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17 December 2012
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Well, this is a video reference. At 2:13 you see the guitarist go through the look of Angus Young from AC/DC, Joe Strummer from The Clash, and Beatle John or George (there’s a fourth look but I haven’t placed it yet — EDIT: Maybe Ziggy era Mick Ronson?):
Great song!
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Offline Aw, “video is not available” – but always liked that song.
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Offline Hello all those who love bananas, I’m brand new and have read the 19 pages and thought I’d pile on a few that I’ve been keepin in my craw that haven’t been mentioned before (poke me in the yolk if I gleaned)
lessee, got some Oasis ones that may be of interest
Bside of Live Forever single (which interestingly features a photo cover of Mendips in-glourious sepia) is a song (I believe you would call this one a “rocker”) called “Cloudburst” sewing the mystical Beatle thread over to Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass ” first verse “a cloudburst doesn’t last all day” Nicely done both George and Noel. Well actually come to think of it there are seemingly more George references in my head at the moment. Wonderwall. Already done ‘n’ dusted. The album of Oasis called “Be Here Now” from a George song from the 80’s I believe. “Roll With It” has the line “it’s all too much for me to take”. George “It’s All Too Much” from Yellow Subs.
I think Liam sang about plasticine from LSD twice – once in Shakermaker and the other I can’t place. And I know he tried to be Lennon “incarnate” at the end of the band and had “borrowed time” and “busy working overtime” in his Liam-penned tune “Born On A Different Cloud” being a John guy I always caught these little “tributes”
oh and Noel wrote “Helter Skelter ” in the “Fade In/Out” lyrics. And sang a cover of it on the “Who Feels Love” single b-side.
Then there is this crazy match up I found which leads to a great story….(next post)
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17 December 2012
Offline Afraid one of your references isn’t quite right, @cloudburst5150, though it is still a Beatles reference; while another of your references I wouldn’t consider a Beatles reference.
The album title Be Here Now was not inspired by the 1973 George Harrison song of the same name but, rather, according to Noel, it was inspired by a response John gave in an interview when asked what the meaning of rock and roll was, to which John replied, “to be here now”.
And it would have to be “plasticine porters” for it to count as a Lucy reference, for me at least, since “plasticine”, a type of putty-like modelling clay, is a part of nearly every UK child’s childhood. John would have played with it as a child, as did I, as would Noel and Liam. It’s too generic a childhood toy here for its mention in a song, without being followed by “porters”, to be seen as a Beatles reference.
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Offline What the hell is plasticine @cloudburst5150? I don’t like Oasis at all but I have weird memories of that word appearing in my head during some trips and I all I know is that its one of John’s words from I Am The Walrus
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17 December 2012
Offline I already said what plasticine is, @sir walter raleigh, in the post above yours…
And where’s it mentioned in I Am The Walrus ?
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11 September 2018
Offline It”s no doubt been mentioned during this thread, but there are a number of Oasis songs that make more obvious references to the Beatles – D’you Know What I Mean?, Supersonic, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory, Be Here Now.
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26 January 2017
Offline Ron Nasty said
I already said what plasticine is, @sir walter raleigh, in the post above yours…
And where’s it mentioned in I Am The Walrus ?
Lucy is what I meant. Slow morning for me
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Offline And the even more obvious Don’t Look Back In Anger and Wonderwall!!
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Offline sir walter raleigh said
What the hell is plasticine @cloudburst5150? I don’t like Oasis at all but I have weird memories of that word appearing in my head during some trips and I all I know is that its one of John’s words from I Am The Walrus
On 5 December 2015 I the picture/song thread…
https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..0/#p199112
Post 3797 on that page is where I mentioned plasticine in my explanation for my picture pick.
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1.41am
19 July 2020
Offline Thanks for the words people. I’m looking forward to more discussion. @Ron Nasty yeah maybe! You piqued my curiosity on the Be Here Now title as I thought I had heard a few times about the George reference. Looked around the google for a Noel quote on it but mostly saw the title being alluded to the George song. But none of the mentions were from the horse’s mouth so I’ll keep my eyes peeled on that one.
plasticine is such an odd word to me as I’ve never heard of it in the States (at least my generation) so it always stuck out to me first time I heard LSD. Have other British songwriters used it that I have missed? I guess this stuff is like the US version of Play-Doh from what I gather. To have the self proclaimed “Beatles of the 90’s” use the word twice in their catalogue makes me connect the dots the way I did but given that it is a “generic” common held term across the pond maybe my “thread” was a bit too “loose”!
@sir walter raleigh I think this all calls for a Plasticine Party! Whoever can shape a “mop top” the quickest wins. I call dibs on brown
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Offline In the post I linked to, I describ plasticine.
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