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How 'Rubber Soul' Redefined The Beatles' Musical Journey [Highlight From Episode 309] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of book Don Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Jude Sutherland Kessler the author of the John Lennon series.
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  Speaker 1: It's the only historical narrative on the life of John
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  Speaker 1: Winston Lennon, and her latest volume is titled Some Forever
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  Speaker 1: Shades of Life Part Two. Let's get to the Rubber
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  Speaker 1: Soul album, which was released in early December sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: It was recorded in October and November, and you take
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  Speaker 1: readers through those sessions. In this book, John seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be inspired by the Birds. He saw them as contenders
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  Speaker 1: and felt the Beatles should be doing more. He's ready
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  Speaker 1: to put the poppy Beatles sound behind him, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they all are. They all are. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think George more than anyone. George became close friends with
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  Speaker 2: the Birds when they were out in La And in fact,
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  Speaker 2: they are given a party by Alan Livingston, the head
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  Speaker 2: of Capitol Records in America, and it's a cocktail party
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  Speaker 2: and it's very lovely and all that George is I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going. I'm flatly not going because the Birds have
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  Speaker 2: invited me to go to a recording session and that's
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  Speaker 2: where I'm going. And he does. He doesn't go to
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  Speaker 2: the party, Paul goes and stay very long, and he
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  Speaker 2: joins in over with the Birds, and then finally John leaves,
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  Speaker 2: Ringo hangs out at the party. But the rest of
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  Speaker 2: them want to hear this new sound. The Birds admittedly,
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  Speaker 2: they say they were influenced by the Beatles. They tell
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  Speaker 2: you that. And the Beatles are influenced by the Birds.
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  Speaker 2: And for the first time, the Beatles aren't necessarily leading
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  Speaker 2: the way. They're being influenced. And then they're taking those
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  Speaker 2: influences and they are doing something new with them, something
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  Speaker 2: totally new. I mean, to me, Rubber Soul is the
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  Speaker 2: turning point. It is not revolver, which a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people say. I mean, by the time you get to
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  Speaker 2: Rubber Soul, you've got the citar on Norwegian wood, you've
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  Speaker 2: got the sound of world music. You have songs about
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  Speaker 2: complicated relationships. No longer is it Moon Spoon, June kroon,
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  Speaker 2: people falling in love and batting their eyes, and sign
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  Speaker 2: got people who are struggling in their relationships. Many of
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  Speaker 2: those songs are very serious. You've got a song about
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  Speaker 2: what's the real Where can I find meaning in life?
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  Speaker 2: In the word? And the word is love. It's the
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  Speaker 2: precursor to All You Need Is Love. It is they
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  Speaker 2: are becoming the new Beatles, the studio Beatles that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be. And imagine this. They start recording on
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  Speaker 2: the twelfth of October nineteen sixty five, and they are
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  Speaker 2: finished on the twelfth of November. Who besides the Beatles
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  Speaker 2: could do Rubber Soul in a month. And it's really
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  Speaker 2: not a month because when they have the NBE on
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  Speaker 2: the twenty fifth, they're off for rehearsals for the MBE
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure getting their clothes together and Brian gives
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  Speaker 2: a sore ray for them that night, and then the
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  Speaker 2: next day, October twenty sixth, the whole day is spent
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  Speaker 2: receiving the mb doing many, many, many many interviews afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: So those two days are out and then they spend
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  Speaker 2: November I believe it was the second and the third, yes,
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  Speaker 2: the second and the third going to Manchester to record
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  Speaker 2: the music of Lennon and McCartney. So they don't even
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  Speaker 2: have a full month