Lennon acted in the dark comedy How I Won the War. Their natural humor came out in interviews and was often caustic and dark. The Beatles established themselves as comic actors in A Hard Day’s Night and Help and on TV skits. I always thought that it was this dark humor that was behind the Paul Is Dead rumors that frightened me as a kid. I was three when Eleanor Rigby hit, four when I had cranberry sauce in Strawberry Fields and five when Revolution 9 changed my mind entirely. My real immersion into the Beatles was when they went dark. But the Beatles invented progressive rock when they put 12 chords into a rock and roll pop hit, and not a I-IV-V among them. They mixed major and minor chords, played in odd time signatures, All You Need Is Love starts in 7, Revolution has one measure of five, Happiness Is a Warm Gun creates a false seven by pitting the guitars’ triplets against a steady four beat. My first words were yeah yeah yeah and I’ve been saying it since, though maybe not with same youthful exuberance.
I am a Beatle Geek, say it three times and I appear.
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