MUSC 238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Keith Richards, Double Album, Blues
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Height of beatles career - sargent pepper. Next album is double album , but largely a solo album. Abby road - final song together before separating. Beatles not totally responsible for everything that was cool" being british. Bond series started around the same time. Several groups followed beatles and had influence on american music. Fans more into blues music than beatles fans. Much more based on r & b. Adapt to what is going on at particular time. Mcjagger and keith richards: song writing team. Doom and gloom (3 or 4 years ago) Fans were different than those into beatles and the rolling stones. Tended to be criminal element" in the uk. Fans were into different drugs, were not part of hippie movement. Got into making rock music into songs longer than 3-4 mins. Ending of song imitates ending of their concerts (craziness) One of the first bands to use distortion on guitars but not on purpose.
