heh ok. i thought he was shot when he was on his own, didn't think she was standing beside him when shot - when u said that, i thought you meant as a corpse, rather than 'in the moment'

why did ppl not like her anyway? did they feel she took the beetles of in other directions etc...i.e lie the john/yoko ballad song?

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Hard to imagine and yet in no time, Britney Spears is going to be classified under Classic Rock. Count on it.

What fascinates me about the 70s definitely has to do with the range - it amazes me that the same decade that produced Zeppelin (okay, technically, they started in the late 60s), Springsteen, Queen, David Bowie, Elton John (probably my all-time favorite), etc. also produced the Bee Gees, the Partridge Family and Bread. Go figure. It seems, looking back, to have been a decade of extremes. Music was either continually innovative with boundaries being demolished left and right, or it was absolute crap. Today, unfortunately, there is too much of the latter.

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It wasn't so much that she took the *group* in another direction as that she seemed to take John himself in another direction. At the time, a lot of people blamed her and/or Linda McCartney for breaking up the band (this is crap as they were heading in different directions anyway and the breakup was inevitable, in my opinion). John just followed her into this bizarro avant garde world, she was a pseudo mother figure to him and a lot of people didn't appreciate the fact that he suddenly seemed to be led around by the balls by this little Japanese woman they didn't know anything about and who seemed to show up out of nowhere. There are numerous theories that she was using him for her own benefit. By now, how many of those are true are hard to say. Mostly, in general, she just appeared to be a b*tch and, mostly, she still does though feelings toward her have mellowed some, at least for me.

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heh, so basically another case of fans "not wanting to share"

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Yeah, I love Elton's early albums. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is a good one, as is Madman Across the Water.

Funny to look at your best albums list. Here are the eight CDs I currently have at my desk at work:
Stevie Wonder Talking Book
Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life
Elton John Capt Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Elton John Madman Across the Water
Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup
and three classical selections (Holst and 2 from Beethoven)

I do think it was a bit more than that. I mean, as far as I can tell -- and maybe it's because I'm not nearly as big a McCartney fan as I am of Lennon -- Linda wasn't treated nearly as badly as Yoko has been. People still hate Yoko and it's as much about the image she projects as anything - you still have to wonder how much she used John because she still capitalizes on the name, she wouldn't cooperate with McCartney to keep the rights of Beatles' songs out of Michael Jackson's hands, and has generally done very little that would have gotten her as big a name if she hadn't married John. So I wouldn't call it a matter of us not wanting to share him - more like his fans didn't want to see him hurt and/or humiliated and used.

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These need to be added to the "Great Albums of 69-74" List:

Blood, Sweat, and Tears (self-titled first album)
Chicago Transit Authority (self-titled first album)
Chicago II
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours

Also, IMO, "Greatest Hits" and Live albums don't count because they are retrospectives of several albums/new interpretations of favorite songs... and they usually leave off a song or two as fodder for a follow-up...

Just my $.02...

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This just proves you have very excellent taste!! Even as one of Elton's biggest fans, I get some of his early albums confused but that's what happens when you release something like 10 albums in three or four years. Is that the one that ends with the song Goodbye though? One of my absolute favorites.

And which Beethoven? The Ode to Joy, though I know it is actually a small part of the entire Ninth Symphony is probably my favorite piece of music ever.

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i like beethoven, as mozart ....and more modernly....thomas newman. frankly if there was only goingto be one bands/types of music in the world, i always thought it should be classical....it feeds the soul. theres no other music like it, it's beautiful....and if i wasn't a guy, it could make you cry

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Yes!! We must have similar tastes because that also one of my favorites. Most albums don't end on that sort of note.

Beethoven didn't do a lot of choral music, but I love what he did. Right now I have his Requiem Mass (Missa Solemnis) on hand, in addition to his 7th Symphony. There is a great version of the Ode to Joy on the Immortal Beloved soundtrack, hitting most of the final movement of the symphony. Whether or not you saw/liked the movie, it's a great CD for Beethoven highlights, composed by Solti.