Comments on: We’re Like, Influential … Or Something http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/10/19/were-like-influential-or-something/ Unfair ... Imbalanced Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:09:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gal Leo http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/10/19/were-like-influential-or-something/comment-page-1/#comment-3385 Gal Leo Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:08:25 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1930#comment-3385 Ah, you are wise, oh balding one. Indeed, each of the stanzas in the song pertain to news stories Lennon was reading...hence "I read the news today, oh boy...." I admit to not knowing the answer to your counter, but my educated guess would be the Rolling Stones....which gives rise to this counter-counter: name the Rolling Stone's first #1 hit in the UK. Ah, you are wise, oh balding one. Indeed, each of the stanzas in the song pertain to news stories Lennon was reading…hence “I read the news today, oh boy….”

I admit to not knowing the answer to your counter, but my educated guess would be the Rolling Stones….which gives rise to this counter-counter: name the Rolling Stone’s first #1 hit in the UK.

]]> By: FITSNews http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/10/19/were-like-influential-or-something/comment-page-1/#comment-3384 FITSNews Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:33:22 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1930#comment-3384 GL, Please. It's from a 1967 Daily Mail newspaper article (read by Lennon) discussing how the Blackburn Surveyor of Roads had counted 4,000 holes in the roads there, and that the volume of material needed to fill those holes could "fill the Albert Hall." Now, tell us who shared the stage at the Royal Albert Hall with the Beatles on September 15, 1963 - the only time these two bands ever played on the same bill? Good luck ... -FITSNews GL,

Please. It’s from a 1967 Daily Mail newspaper article (read by Lennon) discussing how the Blackburn Surveyor of Roads had counted 4,000 holes in the roads there, and that the volume of material needed to fill those holes could “fill the Albert Hall.”

Now, tell us who shared the stage at the Royal Albert Hall with the Beatles on September 15, 1963 – the only time these two bands ever played on the same bill?

Good luck …

-FITSNews

]]> By: Gal Leo http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/10/19/were-like-influential-or-something/comment-page-1/#comment-3386 Gal Leo Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:51:41 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1930#comment-3386 Ok girls..so you can read the liner notes to A Day in the Life, but from what we read yesterday, even the folks at Romney HQ could do that. So, a substance check is called for: can you follow up with an explanation of the line? Here is the stanza: Four thousand holes in blackburn, lancashire And though the holes were rather small They had to count them all Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the albert hall. You may have impressed Campaigns & Elections magazine (fill in the blank here with snide commentary about its circulation...or whether it really exists)....but the jury is still out on your Beatles mojo. Ok girls..so you can read the liner notes to A Day in the Life, but from what we read yesterday, even the folks at Romney HQ could do that. So, a substance check is called for: can you follow up with an explanation of the line? Here is the stanza:

Four thousand holes in blackburn, lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the albert hall.

You may have impressed Campaigns & Elections magazine (fill in the blank here with snide commentary about its circulation…or whether it really exists)….but the jury is still out on your Beatles mojo.

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