{"id":1427,"date":"2014-08-15T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2024-11-15T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T23:29:40","slug":"music-friday-john-lennon-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-john-lennon-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; John Lennon Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-john-lennon-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; John Lennon Edition\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>A few weeks ago I did a Happy Birthday post featuring Paul McCartney, and have been listening to Beatles tunes since. \u00a0So I figured why not do a couple songs from the other half of the dynamic duo? \u00a0Not Batman and Robin &#8211; Lennon and McCartney. \u00a0That is, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Lennon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Lennon<\/a>. \u00a0Lennon&#8217;s solo work is not as ubiquitous as McCartney&#8217;s, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it isn&#8217;t \u00a0just as good. \u00a0In my mind, McCartney was much more prolific and his music had more of a pop quality, while Lennon&#8217;s seemed more deliberative, introspective and artlike. \u00a0No judgement, just an observation. \u00a0Anyhoo&#8230; I picked a couple of my favorites here:<\/p>\n<p>First up: &#8220;Whatever Gets You Through The Night&#8221; (with Elton John):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eUqvZqaCrzo\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whatever gets you to the light indeed. \u00a0Next I give you &#8220;Watching the Wheels&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4dD9_9giZm4?si=8PBxQq5wgeX6I_fz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, &#8220;Nobody Told Me&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YGgjUFTfRl8?si=arKsGKrwIT1u-XbG\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most peculiar, Mama. \u00a0Which may sum up the whole story, sad ending and all. \u00a0Final fun fact: \u00a0Lennon&#8217;s middle name is Winston, after the other famous British Winston &#8211; Churchill. \u00a0RIP and THANKS!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet A few weeks ago I did a Happy Birthday post featuring Paul McCartney, and have been listening to Beatles tunes since. \u00a0So I figured why not do a couple songs from the other half of the dynamic duo? \u00a0Not Batman and Robin &#8211; Lennon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}