from a November 19 Newsweek article i just read:
Tuned In, Turned On
By David Gates
The times they were a-changin’, but in the arts only music kept pace.
When you think of 1968, you think of riots, assassinations, the Vietnam War, the youth revolt, the backlash—and the songs. It was the year of “Hey Jude,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “Revolution” and “Street Fighting Man”—the last two making it clear that wealthy rock stars didn’t want to get too involved in this youth-revolt thing. On “Revolution,” the Beatles even played the sex card: “Go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,” they warned, and “you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.” That’s what you call a stark choice.
I've listened to Revolution hundreds of times and I never took "make it" within the context of the song to mean anything at all sexual. Did I miss something?????
C
cyanaura
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from a November 19 Newsweek article i just read:
Tuned In, Turned On
By David Gates
The times they were a-changin’, but in the arts only music kept pace.
When you think of 1968, you think of riots, assassinations, the Vietnam War, the youth revolt, the backlash—and the songs. It was the year of “Hey Jude,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “Revolution” and “Street Fighting Man”—the last two making it clear that wealthy rock stars didn’t want to get too involved in this youth-revolt thing. On “Revolution,” the Beatles even played the sex card: “Go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,” they warned, and “you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.” That’s what you call a stark choice.
I've listened to Revolution hundreds of times and I never took "make it" within the context of the song to mean anything at all sexual. Did I miss something?????
posted 2007.12.12
posted on December 12th 2007
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the beatles and newsweek: a question – cyanaura on December 12th, 2007-
Re: the beatles and newsweek: a question – kravitz on December 12th, 2007
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