There's nothing more we love then seeing a band reunite so they can relive former glories.
Of course, it would be cynical of us to see it as a money making money opportunity, but what do we know? Perhaps in fifty years time, the current writing staff of hecklerspray will get together in a grotty boozer to relive the past.
Plenty of bands such as Led Zeppelin, Take That and – despite no one wanting them – Crowded House have reformed for gigs and spanking new material. Now one of the world's finest bands have come back together, just minus a couple of key band members.
The Beatles were comprised of George, John, Ringo and Paul. Sadly, George died in hospital and John got a psycho Japanese lady on his case as well as being shot in New York. Taking these two core ingredients away is kind of like baking a yummy loaf of bread without yeast and flour. It results in a dull, lifeless and overhyped product. Something like Razorlight, Kasabian or The Enemy.
With half of The Beatles gone, it still didn't deter nutjob fans from gathering in New York of all places for a special charity show for the David Lynch foundation. With the band being formally out of action, we have since known Paul McCartney as the man who took on crazy pegleg vegan Heather Mills in a divorce settlement. This all comes whilst Ringo Starr continues his transformation into a miserable bastard who refuses to sign autographs and stars in appallingly bad insurance adverts.
However, it may be worth crediting the two performers with knowing more about the wider world then we actually thought they would. During the gig, Paul McCartney also dedicated the song Blackbird to US president Barack Obama. So what does this mean? Well using military technology from the 1940s, we can deduce the following:
A) Paul and Ringo have magic powers which they are slowly going to unleash on the world. Their next big performance is to paint every building brown to show their support to PM Gordon Brown.
B) They are supporting Barack Obama because he's, um, black like a blackbird.
C) They wanted to look popular in America, just like Monty Python, pork scratchings and ocean blue paint.
For Beatles nerds, it would have been ace seeing their heroes performing briefly together on the same stage. Let's face it, we know that the full band line up is going to be pretty hard to sustain.
That's unless John Lennon has been pulling a massive joke on us all along! Ho ho ho, the cheeky Scouse scamp.
GuyTar says
Silly post by a silly blogger. And I am almost as silly by wasting my own time with this comment.