The DU Lounge

A couple points.

I read “Old Gods Almost Dead” by Stephen Davis about The Stones. Great book. On 2 or more occasions Keef pulled a song off an album. He want sure if it was derivative or just something he picked up. He famously found the opening riff to “Satisfaction” on the tape recorder by his bed.

Years later, Keef hears a Stones song “Anybody Seen by Baby (Babylon 1997) on the radio. He’s sitting by the pool in his country estate with his kids playing in the pool. The kids are singing different lyrics. K. D. Lang had a very similar song called “Constant Craving”. It was an all Mick song. Keef was pissed.

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The Beatles, especially the early bubble gum pop stuff, were a bunch of kids who had everything drop in their laps. George was 2 weeks short of turning 21 when they were on Ed Sullivan. Musicians are about ideas and one idea can be used. When they got to albums, this Brian Wilson guy (who they loved) in America kept having new ideas. “Pet Sounds” was the fuel for the massive change from “Revolver” to “Sgt. Peppers”