Beatles History In My Life

I like this song, Sexy Sadie.
This song’s cord progression is almost the same as I’m so tired.

The starting cords are amazingly beautiful. It comes with G to F#. This down line is screaming my feeling all the time to the huge pleasure.

Beatles music is a kind of addiction. When it starts, I often get into a strange feeling world. This addiction never ends, whenever the songs are played, it comes up inside me.

Sexy Sadie was recorded in a short time, also most of the White Album numbers took a short time for recording. What an amazing talent !

Who said they were not good at playing ???

In 1960’s, the Beatles appeared in Japan too. Firstly, their EP record was released. LP record was still expensive for a standard family in Japan. The time of music industry was still going with EP single hits.

Of course the change was made by the Beatles. When they released LP from next to next, the fans came to enjoy their music by LP records. Beatles came to Japan in 1966, at the time, still the EP single hit was the most important. Just before coming to Japan, they made Beatles For Sale and Rubber Soul. The big hit was Rock’n Roll Music because Rubber Soul was released just before the concerts. Nobody probably noticed that Rock’n Roll music was a cover song of Chuck Berry. Peolpe of Japan enjoyed that without dounbt and it became the biggest hit of the Beatles until Let It Be becomes the biggest hit of the Beatles in Japan in 1970.

Amazingly Beatles already recorded Revolver Album when they gave concerts in Japan in 1966. All of the fans still believed that the Beatles was just an idol music group, not like a radical artistic band which makes Revolver album.

In 1960s, the Rock music market was too small in Japan compared to present time. It’s certain that there were many Beatles fans in Japan then, but they are not the majority of youngsters. Western music band means the Beatles then, no other rock bands appeared in Japan. Stones, Who, or Monkeys are not yet major bands in Japan even when the Beatles came to Japan.
It means all of the rock fans are more or less following the Beatles as the music van. It was a right choice for the Japanese young generation, but the fans were still outsider and risky existance for the society of that era.

We often remember 1960’s, and we know that the Beatles were not a major popular band then. They were a minor existance but certainly leading the sensitive young generation. Other conservative young students were still enjoying Japanese young idols songs in a standard format.

Maybe the people who really followed the Bealtes at the time in Japan were truly a most sensitive van of the arts. As a fact, many of the artist that grew influencial to the society later watched the Beatles concerts in 1966, ignoring their teachers or parents’ preach. They all remember the tremendous carisma of the Beatles in the concert hall.

Beatles were the hero of minority first of all, the time when they became real popular band in Japan was postponed till late 1970’s. It means that avarage young people then got accustomed to rock music finally and they noticed the good songs among the Beatles numbers. Even Yesterday or Hey Jude were fans’ gem before that time, but later than 1970, all of the Bealtes hit songs became known to many and popular.

Japanese rock culture was late born type. But the originater was certainly the Beatles.

In Japan, now the Beatles are thought to be the god of all kind of popular music. But it took time to be regarded as that. Beatles was the symbol of revel in 1960s.

In Japan, when we experience new art, we first hesitate to accept it. I think Japanese are really conservative type of nation. It’s natural because we have been in our own traditional culture for about 2000 years.

The first time we adopted wentern culture was only 100 and something years ago. Before that, our country did not contact any other countries than China mainly. Only way we contacted China was through religeous aspect, which means the cultural exchange was a very narrow communication among the buddists.

Now we understand that all the human mind are the same, but it’s because of the new cultures’ introduction to Japan after the 2nd world war. Japan was defeated in the war and opened the country to the world by the guidance of the USA. That was the first chance for Japanese standard people to know the difference of cultures in the world.

Beatles appeared into Japan around 1964 to 1965, since then Japanese came to know the real existance of new liberalism of young generation in the world. They brought us new types of music, at the same time, they opened the door of freedom for us in Japan.

I live in New Zealand now.
People are slow and seem to be enjoying their life very much. I was always working hard in Japan. Since I came here, I’ve never experienced such a murderous time as I had in Japan.
People here can buy a house even if they are standard kind of people, but in Japan buying a house is allowed only for succeeded people or born-rich people only. Many homeless people are lying in the street without a house and spend their life time on the streets or in the public parks. Japan is said to be an advanced country and avarage income for a person is much higher than NZ people. But we can not buy a house, nor we can get enough pension after we retire. Country has less concept for sicoal welfare and people recently don’t expect government because nothign was realized by government in the past. Politicians enjoy the politics for themselves, not for the nation.

This is a standard observation of Japanese people toward Japan and it’s government.
I don’t want to get back to Japan soon for fear of getting stressed again.

In Japan I enjoyed my favourite music or movies for foegetting my stress, but here, I can enjoy them just for the sake of arts.

Yesterdan and today, I went on a tour to wine country. I enjoyed some wines there and my feeling went high.

After drinking a lof of wine, I played Sgt. Papers in my car ( my wife was driving, so I was not violating the traffic rules). Usually I like it from the 1st song, but my unusual feeling made me put it from side B ( in analog disc time), Within you whithout you.

Wine makes me really strange so I was like floating inthe sky then.
I found that Within you Without you sounds like a mirror with a lot of reflection. Ths sound was too confortable in the ears and it kept going aroung in my head. I though they made all of Sgt sound in this kind of situation with Drugs like LSD at the time.

A day in the life came out in the last, and that was a real tripping sound into the air. That exlplosive orchestra sound led me to somewhere my soul wanders.

And the last wispering recoring after all of songs gave me a relaxing ending of a day.

I might have experienced a little bit of THEIR MUSIC played in their head while they were recoring this album. I wish I could stay with them in the studio in 1967.

Now we are faced with food crisis with the rising price of them. It has been said that we would soon be suffered from population problem of the earth and we’ll be in shortage of natural resorces, land, water, and food. Also global warming is deeply related with this matter.

What kind of world is waitin for us ?

Now China, India, Brasil, and more developing countries are joining in the advanced world and they will soon start consuming more and more. Our result is alreay clear if this proceeds as it is. Probably we need to discuss the realistic matters soon rather than talking over the future utopia.

When John wrote IMAGINE, the world was faced with cold war and no clear future was designed then. John was right in making the song, Imagine, at the time.

But if he was here today, I don’t think John would have composed a song like Imagine. It’s not the time to talk about utopia world but the time to debate the real problems we now already have.

I envy John’s time sometimes.

Obama seems to be wining in the President race in the party.
To be honest, I don’t like Hillary as far as I see her on TV. Maybe it’s OK with me if he will be selected. But now USA’s president seems to be a little weak image for me. Why ?

Well, I saw George Bush for a long time on TV. For the first time I saw him, it was too shocking and I thought he was such an idiot. BUT now I don’t think like that as compared to the first time. Anyhow, he controled USA and the world in his power. Good or bad, he did it. But I don’t see that power in Obama, Hillary, or in Macane either. It’s strange, I don’t say I like Bush that much, but now I sometimes think Bush is better than those 3 of them as he can decide with his own powerful words. I’m not sure if the 3 can do that ???

I’m not an American. This is just an image impression for me.

Anyway, being accustomed to is sometimes cuase this aspect. When I first heard the Beatles song on the radio, I thought it was a too loud noise. Now I admit it’s an art with beauty.

Maybe I will soon like the next president too if everything is controled with safe.

Now Chinese Olympic is focused in the world.

When I think of Asian countries, I sometimes wonder why Japanese people love the Beatles more than the other countries people in Asia. We Japanese are still influenced much by the Beatles both in music and mentality. Maybe China or other Asian countries are not interested in the Beatles as much as we are.

It’s not the matter of social system because Russian people accepted the Beatles in the time of socialism. But even in a liberal country like Korea or Philipines, maybe they are not that popular as they are in Japan.

I visited Liverpool several times and I felt the similarity of minds between Japanese and the people in Liverpool. Liverpool was a very melancholic city at the time, but that is really same as Japanese atomosphere. Fab 4’s music was based with that Liverpool mind, then probably that told us Japanese much because of the same kind of heart.

Being a huge fan of the Beatles sometimes makes myself confused because I stay with them too long time. Other than the Beatles, I have many hobbies. I like taking photos for my personal exhibits, playing the piano or guitar, cooking international food, writing books, and many more. All of them are my precious things.

Being with the Beatles often stops my mechanism for other works like above. But it’s not annoying for me as it’s confortable with the Beatles. Listening to their songs makes me extremely confortable, relaxed, and often excited about. Beatles has all of the life aspects. They have all kinds of music, all kinds of emotions, all kinds of life stories for me to stay with. That’s why it’s OK anytime with them.

It’s apparent that I’ve experienced many things other than Bealtes, other things I experienced is of course more than the experience of the Bealtes. I know.
Some say that Beatle mania is like a blind because of no other concerns or hobbies. For me, it’s not true because I have many things as hobbies or favourite pastime things to do. I am a Beatle mania just because I feel confortable when I’m with their music.

They are often my music master, life master, and a good leader of leberalism. They had music talent, and they had inteligence to show me the life.

Recently I feel like moving to somewhere next.
Maybe my DNA is a gipsy like one because I’ve been roaming in Japan, and in the world.
Now I live in NZ but it took only several months before I live here after I first think of NZ.

Liverpool is my biggest destination in my life.
I went to Liverpool several times so I know what the city is like. Liverpool is moody and has dark image with depressed climate. I think I’m going to be depressed there without anti-depressing pills ! The reason for my desire to Liverpool is nothing but the Beatles.

I talked with some people there and they told me about the Beatles in Liverpool. That memory is enough for me to stick myself to Liverpool. If I was not a fan of them, I never think of that city.

My roaming in the world still continues.