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Old 02-10-2014, 11:24 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by tsolomon View Post
My wife and I talked about this last night and what we remember the most was the screaming fans which were mainly women, both of us were 10 years old at the time. We did watch the special last night and it was very enjoyable and well done.
Yes, all those screaming teenage girls was likely the main reason I didn't get it at the time. I was slightly older than you then, and wondered what all the hysteria was for.

I had no definite plans to watch the show last night, but did tune in for the opening . . . and got hooked, watching the entire 2 1/2 hours. It was one of the most enjoyable sessions of "extended" TV viewing I've had in a while, and I too thought it was very well executed. But it seems others do not hold the same opinion. Today the story is all these so-called Beatles fans being outraged at Katy Perry for modifying the lyrics to Yesterday to accurately reflect her gender, changing "I'm not half the MAN" to "half the GIRL" and "Why SHE had to go" to "Why HE". How totally ridiculous. This is a song, not some sacred text, and considering how many thousands of times this standard has been covered officially (not counting the untold millions of times it's been sung "off the books") it is inconceivable she's the first to do so. I found her performance to be one of the most moving last night, and am not ashamed to admit it brought this jaded old man to the brink of tears.

(And no, I do not consider myself a Katy Perry fan, though I hold no disdain for her either, and am not defending her out of some sense of loyalty.)

Odd as it sounds, the actual "original" lyrics to this song were "Scrambled eggs/Oh, my baby how I love your legs". Do you really think this "heresy" bothered Sir Paul one tiny bit? Sheesh. So get over your damn selves, Twitter trolls.
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