Here is the national bestseller that Newsday called "the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives...of the oft-scrutinized group." In The Love You Make, Peter Brown, a close friend of and business manager for the band-and the best man at John and Yoko's wedding-presents a complete look at the dramatic offstage odyssey of the four lads from Liverpool who established the greatest music phenomenon of the twentieth century.
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And when I touch you
I feel happy inside
It's such a feeling that, my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide The Beatles – I Want to Hold Your Hand
I feel happy inside
It's such a feeling that, my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide The Beatles – I Want to Hold Your Hand
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Perhaps we can thank these lyrics for the Beatles' introduction to cannabis (and their ensuing drug-inspired music!).
None other than Bob Dylan – and arguably his mishearing of this lyric – was responsible:
Hanging with the Beatles at the Hotel Delmonico in NYC (now a condo building owned by Donald Trump) on 28 August 1964, Dylan suggested the group smoke some pot.
Brian [Epstein] and the Beatles looked at each other apprehensively. “We’ve never smoked marijuana before,” Brian finally admitted.
Dylan looked disbelievingly from face to face. “But what about your song?” he asked. “The one about getting high?”
The Beatles were stupefied. “Which song?” John managed to ask.
Dylan said, “You know…” and then he sang, “and when I touch you I get high, I get high…”
John flushed with embarrassment. “Those aren’t the words,” he admitted. “The words are, ‘I can’t hide, I can’t hide, I can’t hide…’”
And the rest is history…
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@allendebarber Source is “The Love You Make” by Peter Brown:
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Wash uffizi, drive me to Firenze
Wash uffizi, drive me to Firenze
Wash uffizi, drive me to Firenze
Wash uffizi, drive me to Firenze Phish – You Enjoy Myself
Wash uffizi, drive me to Firenze
Wash uffizi, drive me to Firenze
Wash uffizi, drive me to Firenze Phish – You Enjoy Myself
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Some Phishheads proclaim that “Uffizi” is a pun on an Italian-accented pronunciation of the words “your feet.” The Uffizi is a museum the pair visited in Firenze, or Florence, Italy.
At a spring near the Uffizi, legend has it, is where band washed their feet. One theory is that the quoted Italian hailed from this area — in which case the meaning of the song as a whole becomes clearer.
Others believe that Fishman and Anastasio picked up a hitchhiker while in Italy, and the man kept saying “Wash uffitzi, drive me to Firenze.” meaning “Would you please drive me to Florence?”
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Uh, we’re still trying to figure that out.
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The only logical explanation is that the advertisers of Long John Silvers are relatives of Aquaman.
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Sadly, this slogan forces Burger King to miss out on attracting pirates to the restaurant.
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9 years
9 years
9 years
ball sack
8 years
ball sack
8 years
jewel
8 years
jewel
8 years
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Subway would like you to know that the food you’ll consume there is not old or rotten, but fresh. The word “food” is implied after the word “fresh.”
Nevertheless, “fresh” is an adjective, not a noun. Unless the staff of Subway are some sick cannibals who want you to eat…
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The chorus relates to the young people mentioned in the first verse, who moved away from quaint home lives to live amongst the countercultures.
In essence, these people abandoned their former lives and now have nothing, and The Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed sees the beauty in that. These people now get to start from scratch.