{"id":19934,"date":"2024-04-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=19934"},"modified":"2024-04-02T17:46:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:46:11","slug":"fighting-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/fighting-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"FIGHTING TALK:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Gary Hall, former front-man of The Stormkeepers, and subsequently a song-writer and recording artist at Roundtower remains my go to nomination for best British song writer in his genre of all time. Add to that his magnificent voice and dynamic stage presence and you will realise what made Gary Hall so exciting. He is a less prominent media figure these days, as he concentrates on producing studio recordings by others, but I have no doubt he is still voicing his opinions and putting the world to rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I saw a lot of Gary and The Stormkeepers and of Gary as a solo artist, sometimes in duo form, too, with American singer-writer Cathryn Craig. I have some fond memories of those times and recall a refined debate between Gary and my then fourteen year old son Andrew. Gary had just had a book published about how he \u00b4survived \u00b4 The Beatles, which kind of riled my son as he was a Beatles and McCartney fan. Gary and Andrew would resume the argument almost every time they met, although their crossing of swords would never match some of the great musical jousts that have taken place between some major arts of the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being the icons that they were and are, it\u2019s hard to imagine anyone having a problem with The Beatles<\/a>. Their legendary status in rock history is, in our book, well-deserved, but the three musicians below might\u2019ve had something to say about that\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everyone knows the famous rendezvous between\u00a0Elvis Presley<\/a>\u00a0(left) <\/em><\/strong>and Richard Nixon. Being the patriot that he was, Presley wrote to the President in an effort to save the soul of America from the hippie movement. Among the topics discussed at their meeting was the Fab Four\u2013whom Presley chalked up to be the very crux of what was \u201cwrong\u201d with America at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresley indicated that he thought the Beatles had been a real force for anti-American spirit,\u201d The\u00a0National Archives reported<\/a>. \u201cHe said that the Beatles came to this country, made their money, and then returned. \u201cPresley indicated that he thought the Beatles had been a real force for anti-American spirit,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paul McCartney<\/a>\u00a0has often touted his belief that a musician doesn\u2019t have to be classically trained to be great. While that is a solace to many self-made songwriters, to Cream\u2019s Ginger Baker (right<\/em><\/strong>), it\u2019s an expression of McCartney\u2019s lack of real talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey can\u2019t read music,\u201d Baker\u00a0once said of the group<\/a>. \u201cEven\u00a0Paul McCartney\u00a0needs someone to write it down for him. And he thinks that\u2019s good. We used to say about the Beatles in 1963: \u2018They don\u2019t know a hatchet from a crotchet.\u2019 A crotchet is what we call a quarter note.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s not hard to figure out why\u00a0Lou Reed<\/a>\u00a0might\u2019ve had a problem with the Beatles. The Velvet Underground and the Fab Four live on opposite sides of the rock spectrum. Reed once went on record saying he found the Beatles to be \u201cPainfully stupid and pretentious.\u201d \u201cI never liked the Beatles,\u201d\u00a0he once said<\/a>. \u201cI thought they were garbage. If you asked, \u2018Who did you like?\u2019 I would reply, \u00b4I liked nobody.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FIGHTING TALK: by Norman Warwick Gary Hall, former front-man of The Stormkeepers, and subsequently a song-writer and recording artist at Roundtower remains my go to nomination for best British song writer in his genre of all time. Add to that his magnificent voice and dynamic stage presence and you will realise what made Gary Hall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,13,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-and-tradition","category-literary","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20327,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19934\/revisions\/20327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}