Sunday, October 03, 2021

Weekend Music: Soundtrack of Your Life

US Person thinks that most readers cherish music that is closely connected to a period in their lives--a soundtrack that accompanies the videotapes of the mind.  This recording by perhaps the greatest rock band in history, was a double A side release with "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Lennon). In the lyrics McCartney reminisces about his adolescence in Liverpool, specifically the neighborhood around Smithfield Road were the roundabout is. Although more conventionally sentimental than Lennon's psychedelicly influenced memories of Strawberry Fields, another Liverpudlian landmark, it is nevertheless poignant. The pretty nurse selling poseies from a tray, "feels as if she is in a play, she is anyway". The video begins with a classic closeup of a young Lennon walking to meet his mates. Lennon upsets the tea table when the servants fail to bring him his instrument.US Person, who sojourned in Europe as a teenager, is reminded of his equestrian lessons, tea time with Mum, and pirate radio rocking in from the North Sea: