"Life Is What Happens To You While You're Busy Making Other Plans ..."

[cruelnails]

So, inspired by the recently finished - and highly recommended - Lennon biography, I've posted a podcast of John Lennon tunes - 2-hours of hits, album tracks, live tracks, demos, alternate takes, and unreleased stuff.
As usual, this mix is available for you to throw on your iPod (the podcast feed is cruelnailsradio.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/ ) or

Comments

[drawingfromlife]

I look forward to checking out the new biography. Don't know how you feel about Beach Boy Brian Wilson, but I LOVED his bio "Wouldn't it be Nice"

[cruelnails]

Did that come out a number of years ago? I remember reading some biography about him - although, honestly, I'm not the biggest beach boy fan - and really enjoying it.

[drawingfromlife]

Probably '90 or '91. I have to say I am a bit of a Beach Boy fan, as I used to listen to them with my dad quite a bit as a boy. I guess another one of those guilty pleasures! The book really gave me a completely different insight into his lyrics, though. More so his Pet Sounds lyrics, and solo music. Not much insight needed for ones like "surfer girl" or "fun, fun, fun" for example!

[cruelnails]

Oh, I don't think there's anything guilty at all about the beach boys - just not quite my thing.

Having said that, God Only Knows is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.