FB is where people go to make their lives LOOK better. Twitter is where they go to show how bad it really is.

Well said, @vurnt22.

"Sgt. Pepper is the album that had the most impact on me, at any point in my life. It opened me up to the possibilities of music." --#PeterGabriel "The Beatles were probably the best band ever. They were magic. They played with an energy that hadn't really been expressed before. The harmonies sounded like nothing that you'd ever heard before, the way it was produced, the way it was performed . . . it’s difficult, quite, to explain to anybody who wasn’t actually young then. Those songs and the sound of the records still baffle me and impress me." --#PhilCollins "To this day, most people I know regret not having being a Beatle [laughs]. I mean, they were just the most amazing force. When they came out, there was a huge social and cultural change led by their music and their fashion and their style. I play them all the time still in my car, and here we are on radio stations, still talking about them." --#MikeRutherford "The Beatles were everything to me in the '60s . . . they revolutionised the landscape with music that progressed from using the standard progressions to more and more interesting things. Their songs broke the standard rules of pop music." --#TonyBanks "When I was growing up listening to the Beatles, I felt that the divide between rock and pop — this tremendous gap — had been healed, fused. You have to remember that this was more than just music. They were the template for all things weird and wonderful." --#SteveHackett #Genesis #Prog #ProgressiveRock #Songwriters #HallOfFame #Beatles #TheBeatles #Influencers

Finding something positive on Twitter becomes more difficult with each passing week. This (anti-)social media platform brings out the worst in people. Thank you @BeatlesPraise (and, of course, John, Paul, George, and Ringo) for parting the clouds for us every so often.

"I fell in love with the Beatles' music (and simultaneously, of course, with their four faces-cum-personae) along with my children, two girls and a boy, in whom I discovered the frabjous falsetto shriek-cum-croon, the ineluctable beat, the flawless intonation, the utterly fresh lyrics, the Schubert-like flow of musical invention and the Fuck-You coolness of these Four Horsemen of Our Apocalypse . . . "The notes healed, the words teased; or perhaps it was vice versa. But something teased, and something healed, year after year, Rigby after Rigby, Paperback after Norwegian . . . today I am almost 64, and three bars of 'A Day in the Life' still sustain me, rejuvenate me, inflame my senses and sensibilities." --#LeonardBernstein #Maestro #Genius #Music #Classical #Conductor #Composers #Songwriters #TheBeatles #Beatles

"I never really looked at The Beatles in the sense that they’d moved on . . . I simply looked at The Beatles as having become the absolute greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world. To this day, I’ve never heard anybody better than them, doing any kind of song. And I haven’t heard singers like those guys. I haven’t heard anyone sing harmony like that. I just never heard anybody better. And that’s what’s enthralling to me about the Beatles — their music, and the life and fire in it. They kept it all alive and burning." --#JoeyMolland #Badfinger #RIPJoeyMolland #RIP #Guitarist #Songwriters #TheBeatles #GOAT

Feels great, doesn’t it, @Deggans? They go from not knowing who you are out of all their Tweeting fans. Then, they start noticing the funny (or serious, or topical) posts from *you*. And they start to think, “Maybe he’s not as bad as I thought…”. Yeah…I’ve heard it feels nice.

Howdy, everyone! New track: video game rock. Sound on! This loops if anyone wants to use it. Or, better yet, ask me to write some music just for your project! soundcloud.com/irrational-ma…

"Every time you bought a Beatles album you would learn something. Not just a musical idea, but some philosophical idea they’d come up with, some book they’d read, some journey they’d made. And you would learn . . . I think they were perhaps the most important political force in entertainment of the Sixties. They created a lifestyle that changed the world." --#Sting #ThePolice #GordonSumner #HallOfFame #Grammys #Songwriters #TheBeatles #Beatles #Influence

#OnThisDay, February 13, 1967: The Beatles issue the double-A sided single, "Strawberry Fields Forever" b/w "Penny Lane," widely considered among the most stunning 45s ever released. "'Penny Lane' is such a cinematic song. It was such a beautiful window into another world. It’s musically fascinating, the piccolo trumpet voluntary is ecstatic, the narrator has such an interesting point of view. This tune is right up there with my very favorite Beatles songs." --#JamesTaylor #Folk #FolkRock "'Penny Lane' — wow. It IS the greatest pop song ever written. It’s got this observational lyric, and it’s as clear and crystal as Mozart. This, to me, is pop music — it’s everything, personified in one song. The Beatles are, quite clearly, the greatest band in the universe." --#NickHeyward #HaircutOneHundred #NewWave "'Penny Lane' is one of the greatest songs ever written in the history of modern music." --#DwightYoakam #Country #CountryRock "I remember hearing 'Penny Lane' when I was driving my car across London. I suddenly heard this song and I didn’t know who it was. And it electrified me. I just sat up and said, 'Who on earth is that?!' And it was only later I discovered it was the Beatles." --#TerryJones #Film #Comedy #MontyPython #Songwriting #TheBeatles #Beatles #PennyLane #OTD

#OnThisDay, February 13, 1967: The Beatles issue the double-A sided single, "Strawberry Fields Forever" b/w "Penny Lane," widely considered among the most stunning 45s ever released. "The first time I heard 'Strawberry Fields Forever' it was like the sound of some incredible jewel from Mars. I couldn’t imagine how you made a sound and a structure like that." --#AndyPartridge #XTC "You couldn’t liken 'Strawberry Fields Forever' to anything else — it was like it had been beamed in from outer space or something. Just changed the whole map, really. They probably devised the map." --#PaulWeller #TheJam #StyleCouncil #Modfather "One of the greatest songs in the form of [rock music]. But of course what the Beatles did was move way beyond the narrow confines of what was possible with rock music, and make music for infinity. 'Strawberry Fields' is definitely — as a piece of art, as songwriting, as a confluence of events that led it to the perfection that it is — it stands out as something that should be in the Louvre, rather than on your device." --#BobGeldof #BoomtownRats #LiveAid "What’s beautiful about 'Strawberry Fields Forever' is that it's an Impressionist painting. Lennon is standing on the edge of consciousness . . . we're talking about very high-level work; he was letting us inside his personal conflicts and awakenings." --#BillyCorgan #SmashingPumpkins #NWA #Songwriters #Rock #StrawberryFields #TheBeatles #Beatles #OTD #Immortality

#OnThisDay, February 9, 1964: The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show "I was a folk guy, Bob Dylan was my main hero — up until I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. When [they] showed up, it was a whole different atmosphere. It was life-changing for every musician I’ve ever spoken to from that era. I bought an electric guitar and tried to write in their style." --#KennyLoggins "It was like lightning. I think the whole world went out and bought a Beatles album as soon as the sun came up that next day." --#DianeWarren "The world changed that day. There were no bands February 8th. Everyone had a band February 10th. Overnight — literally — everybody’s hair suddenly looked very short, everybody’s clothes looked very boring, and everybody needed to have a band. It was a revelation . . . if a spaceship landed in Central Park today, I don't think it would have as much impact as the Beatles that day." --#LittleSteven #Songwriters #HallsOfFame #TheBeatles #FabFour #EdSullivan #Influence #BigBang

Happy New Year, Miss G! Hope it’s a great one for you, @RobertMannFilms, and everyone at @MannateeFilms1!

Deep cuts by irrational: Dream Sea #instrumental A dreamy, ethereal soundscape, setting a mood that feels both vast and intimate. It has a tranquil yet slightly melancholic vibe, evoking the sensation of floating in a serene, otherworldly sea. youtu.be/7QgJljfmcz4

"I really wish I had been in the Beatles. They taught me how to play guitar. I learnt everything; the bass parts, the lead, the rhythm, everything. They were fantastic." --@DavidGilmour "When I was in college I listened to the Beatles . . . they'd transcended all the nonsense [of Beatlemania] to making really smart, clever, beautiful, musical songs. I believe they freed a whole generation of English men and women to be given permission to write songs about real things — and have the courage to accept your feelings." --@RogerWaters "The Beatles were God-like figures to us. They were in a strata so far beyond us that they were out of our league . . . [they] influenced us very heavily because earlier, as a rhythm and blues band, we'd never have dreamed of doing anything apart from drums, bass, guitar and perhaps Hammond organ . . . without the Beatles, we wouldn’t be here." --@NickMasonDrums #PinkFloyd #DavidGilmour #RogerWaters #NickMason #HallOfFame #TheBeatles #Influence

Yep, I see Journey, Cheap Trick, and Rush. My buddy @elson_rob would approve.

"The Beatles showe me the way, but the important thing to me is that they showed everybody the way. They were a tidal wave of the New World. They weren’t like any other band, and it’s hard to show people that if they weren’t there. The phenomenon of people standing in the rain and screaming and fainting . . . it was because the Beatles had some kind of a spirit in them, some kind of magic that was put into the music — but there was something larger than that that was happening, and it changed the world. You know, before the Beatles, people were listening to Annette Funicello. There was a little rhythm and blues, but not much on the radio then. The Beatles changed everything. They were a phenomenon like nothing I’ve seen in life since. Nothing — not in art, not in politics, nothing." --#RickieLeeJones #Music #Songwriting #Beatles #Influencers #GOAT

"If it hadn’t been for the Beatles, there wouldn’t be anyone like us around." --#JimmyPage #LedZeppelin "Without the Beatles, there wouldn't be half the groups there are today." --#JeffBeck #Yardbirds #JeffBeckGroup "There'd be no Stones without the Beatles." --#KeithRichards #RollingStones "Without the Beatles, we probably wouldn't have existed." --#NickMason #PinkFloyd @JimmyPage @officialKeef @nickmasondrums #TheBeatles #Influencers

Here’s that absolute mess of a new track idea you asked for, @vurnt22 (and anyone else interested). (Looking at you, Marie Osmond. 😏) It’s actually not a mess at all. Just crunchy guitars, chopped-up beats (in, like, 11/4 time), and overall, a cool, short exploration of ideas.

When I worked at Camelot Music in ‘91, we played that album, Garth Brooks, Michael Jackson, Genesis, and a few other LPs. They tried to make it fair to get “play time” to all the artists, and I got to hear stuff I wouldn’t have heard in local radio stations. Simple solution 😏