Beatles History In My Life

It’s still cold in New Zealand.
Winter usually lasts until the end of August, but in August it will be warmer.

In Japan, the winter is also long but some times we have sun light enough even in the winter.

When I went to London years ago, it was in the winter time. I thought London’s sky was very low because we could see the clouds, very dark and heavy clouds everywhere. London’s winter was grim and I thought I could never live in this climate more than a year.

Then a hint of Here Comes the Sun came up in my mind.
Probably the people in London, or UK, are dying to see the sun while the winter time. Finally when the sun comes out, I suppose they welcome it with a joy of life.

Here Comes the Sun has a pleasure of emotion in the song, I thought that I could finally understand the meaning of the song, having been spent some time in the London Town without clear sunlight.

Japanese TV programs aren’t interesting recently. When I stayed in Japan for 2 weeks, I was bored with all those TV programs repeating the same everyday.

I usually don’t expect good entertainment on TV programs because the program producers are not always creative enough to attract viewers. I can easily estimate the potentiality of Japanese TV program creators, which should not be rich enough.

I felt down when I was seeing those TV programs in Japan. I thought it’s just a crazy boring box, not a creative program tube. Some great artists were born in Japan, such as Akira Kurosawa or Hayao Miyazaki, but they all are admired more in foreing countries than in japan. It’s sad.

I know the Japanese like harmony, but they can’t find a talent in the people.
The artists are always extraordinary people with different mental world. Harmony often kills the growth of the artists.

In Japan, I thought the creators quality is not high enough. TV program is a kind of average nation’s expression. It’s too poor.

If an artist would ever be born in Japan, maybe they again need to get out of Japan to live as they are. They can’t always live in a harmony because they aren’t the avarage men.

Beatles equivalent can’t be born in Japan. I thought so.

Recently I don’t listen to the Beatles so often.
It’s not such a strange thing for me. This happens sometimes according to my feeling.

Staying away from them doesn’t mean I feel like I’ve had enough of them. Many times in the past, I didn’t touch their records for a long time. So this is not the first time.

I know I will sooner or later come back to them with a fresh mind, and once again their music will take me by surprise with fresh discovery in their songs. This has been always happening over myself.

I’m a Beatle mania in a sense, but I love many other things too. Reading books, Movies, writing stories, and taking photos are all my important life parts. But again, sooner or later I will want the Beatles sound very much. It’s like a drug for me. Their music sets me satisfied and often more than excited. When my mind is filled with satisfaction by their music, I can devote myself in any other things I like.

I know the time with their music is the best drug for me to reset the life even after a hard time.
Being with them is a kind of oasis for me. It has water for my dried mind, dream and hope to next destination, and power to survive for my future life.

What kind of life had I led if it were not for them ?

Recently I don’t play the music because now Idon’t have my band.
When I would play at my band years ago, we recorded the sound of our play usually. In the replay, we would find the surprising effects which we never expected to be like that. Of course that effect is often interesting and it becomes a progressive trial of music making.

Bealtes often seemed to like their mistakes in the final cuts.
Actually we can find some or many mistakes in the records of them, and even in the photos of back cover of Abbey Road record. Those tricky surprises were often made by their accidental recordings. But many of them really create one and only music effect to the music. Of course they could cut the mistakes out of the final recordings, but they chose them.

They themselves liked being extraordinary and progressive, or even a being crazy band.
Choosing mistakes was out of the idea at the era, because they thought the things should be always in order. Now we know they chose mistakes in the records, but those mistakes at last became the order because we love that tricky sound and effects in all of the records with THE mistakes.

Beatles sound always startled us with new approaches. Sometimes those were too advanced for us to catch up with them simultaneously. Like Tomorrow never knows, many of them are still going ahead.

But the idea of their recording is still attractive for us.
They obeyed to their feeling in the choice, they did not like the ready made order.
But more instterstingly, their idea of recordings finally became the ready made order today.

I stayed some weeks in my hometown in Japan.
I found some old CDs in the shelf. Long time ago, maybe more than 20 years ago, I enjoyed Julia Lennon’s 1st album. At that time, it was an analog record. So I guess the CD I found at my home was what I bought after the anolog record. I don’t remember well abou it.

Valotte was his first single and it was a big hit.
His singing was really like a shadow of John.

More than 20 years ago, I didn’t notice about the meaning of the song. But this time I thought that Valotte might have been writen by Julian with thinking of John. The song has vague message about love, so it does not always a love for his father.

But I again thought that it’s natural to think the love in the song was for his father, John.

John lost his mother when he was young.
Like that, for Julian, he lost his father.

Valotte was like a song, Mother by John although Julian’s message was for his father.
I thought like that with the song after time blank of 20 years.

I’m in Japan now.
I’ve been away from Japan for a long time, this visit reminds me of many things of my past time.
Being in my room of my home, clear memories of the encounter of the Beatles still come up in my mind. I can remember how I first listen to Hey Jude, All my loving, A Hard Days Night, and all of those shocking songs for a young student, me at the time. Maybe the impact I had was really strong and shocking, that’ why all of the momories don’t dissapear. Atmosphere, weather, situation, and my feeling at the time are still clear in my mind. Beatles songs are a kind of my life time diary, which record all of the factors around myself when I listened to them.

I often notice that the fance of my house is not that tall when I come back as an adult, but it was so high for me when I was playing home in my childhood. So the memory of the fence bocomes different from present time feeling. This kind of gap in my memory often tells me the time I lived.

Like that, when I remember the first experience of the Beatles songs in my home, I again notice the time of the change in my life. Now I mastered English a little, but at the time I had no idea about English language. Now I can enjoy their words too, but the sound of the Beatles was stimulating enough for me to be moved without understanding the words of the songs lomg time ago.

However there is one thing that my memory still remains the same in my present time.
It’s the songs of the Beatles. I can touch their songs with the same fresh feeling as I first listen to them in this room. Their songs still bring me the same joy and touching feeling as they gave me more than 30 years ago here in this room.

Their songs keep me still young at heart like a teen ager.

For a while, I’ll stay in my hometown in Japan.
Maybe I can enjoy my old collection of anolog records in the shelf.

Unfortunately or fortunately, there is no PC in my parents home. At least I can rest there without PC jobs.

I can’t write this blog either until I come back in a few months.
See you all, good bye until then.

Today I’m really tired. Too much job is still on my desk, but I need to leave now.
Tomorrow it’s sunday, but again I seem to be working still.

If I were doing my favourite things, I would never get tired. Rather than feeling bad, I usually enjoy my time with that type of works. Not this time.

I’m down.
How can you laugh ?

I want to listen to that song now.

When I walk down the street or when I’m in the department store, I hear familier sound often. It’s not a special thing as their music is played anytime anywhere.
Just a part of the sound is enough to inspire me that it’s a Beatles song.

But the sudden sound coming from somehwere is often more stimulative then when I listen to it at home. I’m thinking of different things, and when it comes to me, my thinking mechanism suddenly stops. All are very familier songs already, but the sudden attack makes me stop anything.

Their sound have a lot of meaning for me, or for our generation. Their music changed our life, their music is still symbol of the change, or power.

Just a sound reminds me of all the past time I have with their music.
I think Beatles music is more than a simple music. It’s a kind of a personal history of mine.

This title is WE CAN WORK IT OUT.
In Japan, we often say that Life IS LONG rather than this title.
I noticed in New Zealand that they say LIFE IS SHORT often.

NZ is influenced by UK.
This is probably based on the total difference of ways of thinking.
Japanese culture is a kind of endevour or spiritual growth.
We should not mind when we failed, but we must try again and again until we get the success. So we say, don’t worry, life is long. But basically we think we must try more for the pursuit of our life.

In this country, or maybe in UK too, they think like ” We need to try more new things in our life because the life is short”. That’s why the time is precious for trying many things.

These 2 ways of thinking are totally different.
In NZ or UK, life is fun and they should enjoy life because it’s short. This is their thoughts.
But in Japan, life is hard and things are not easy, so we must keep doing our best to become someone. Don’t stop it only with a fault, you can do it because the life is long.

Westerners like smile, communication, and tear of joy.
Japanese like silence, endevour, and tear of accomplishment.

I don’t know which way is better. Probably it’s up to our choice now although old Japanese people didn’t have a choice. They must work until they die to become someone.

Japanese like this kind of life story. Even if the result was not good, doing our best all the time is the most precious. That’s why we like Beethoven music better than Morzart music.

A masterpiece must be a result of a hard work. Maybe this is general Japanese way of thinking although it’s a little changing recently.

When I met the Bealtes to know how they naturally produced their music without the hard work we expect, I was really amazed. I always thought that they must have struggled in the studio to get the sound they wanted. But not like that, they worked with fun all the time. I understood that Japanese way of thinking is not alwasy right. We succeeded in ecomony. But we can never produce an artist like Beatles if we don’t understand the western way of life, because art is produced by talent, not by hard work.
Beatles always enjoyed music as fun. That’s it.