ey, who played all the instruments and shared harmonies with wife Linda. Despite his ambivalent feelings about McCartney's solo success, John Lennon was complimentary of this song, and it partially inspired Lennon's own 1980 comeback. "Coming Up" is also well known for its video. It is an early example of electronic trickery, with Paul McCartney playing ten roles and Linda McCartney playing two. The "band" features Paul and Linda's imitations of several famous rock musicians; some are more easily recognizable than others. The characters include Hank Marvin (guitar), Mick Fleetwood (drums), Ron Mael of Sparks (keyboards), a, 'Mania-Era' version of Beatle Paul (bass and backing vocals), Andy MacKay (sax), Frank Zappa (sax), as well as a long-haired guitarist (strongly resembling Neil Young), two sax players and a male backing singer (performed by Linda) that have yet to be identified with any certainty. Lyrics Want a love to last forever One that will never fade away I want to help you with your problem Stick around, I say Coming up, coming up, yeah Coming up like a flower Coming up, I say You want a friend you- can rely on One who will never fade away And if youre searching for an answer Stick around. I say Its coming up, its coming up Its coming up like a flower Its coming up. yeah You want some peace and understanding So everybody can be free I know that we can get together We can make it, stick with me Its coming up, its coming up Its coming up like a flower Its coming up for you and me Coming up, coming up Its coming up, its coming up, I say Its coming up like a flower Its coming up I feel it in my bones You want a better kind of future One that everyone can share Youre not alone, we all could use it Stick around were nearly there Its coming up, its coming up everywhere Its coming up like a flower Its coming up for all to share Its coming up, yeah Its coming up, anyway Its coming up like a flower Coming up

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-McCartney, it was actually penned almost entirely by John Lennon. (Paul McCartney helped to "polish off the rough edges".) It was recorded on October 21 and 22, 1965. "Nowhere Man" is among the very first Beatles songs to be entirely unrelated to romance or love, and marks a notable instance of Lennon's philosophically-oriented songwriting. It was released as a single 15 February and reached #1 in Canada and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Interpretation When the song first appeared during the 1960s, many of the Beatles youthful fan base interpreted the rather hard-edged lyric, which satirizes the "Nowhere Man" as someone who "just sees what he wants to see" and who "don't know what [he's] missing", as directed against their parents' generation and conformism generally. Lennon, however, claimed that he himself was the subject of the song. He wrote it after racking his brain in desperation for five hours, trying to come up with another song for Rubber Soul. "I'd actually stopped trying to think of something," he said. "Then I thought of myself as Nowhere Man — sitting in his nowhere land Lennon told Playboy: "I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then 'Nowhere Man' came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay down." If factual, Lennon's explanation places the song with Lennon's earlier "I'm a Loser" and later introspective and self-critical songs, both as a Beatle ("Yer Blues") and as a solo artist ("Jealous Guy"), rather than Lennon's "counter-culture" songs such as "The Word" and "All You Need is Love" (as it was perceived at the time). McCartney said of the song: "That was John after a night out, with dawn coming up. I think at that point, he was a bit...wondering where he was going and to be truthful so was I. I was starting to worry about him. " Other recordings The British folk group The Settlers recorded the song in 1966. In 1976, Jeff Lynne of ELO recorded it for the evanescent musical do#@!&entary All This and World War II. The song was also performed by the Bee Gees in the 1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band film, with Barry Gibb on lead vocals. Also, in 1967, the Carpenters performed a piano/vocal version in Joe Osborn's garage studio. In the late '90s/early '00s, Richard tried to de-noise the tracks after it was nearly destroyed from a fire in Joe Osborn's house in 1973, and added strings and woodwind lines to the song. In the animated movie Yellow Submarine (1968) The Beatles, on their way to save Pepperland from the Blue Meanies, encounter Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph. D., a strange, little, brown-furred man with a blue face, pink ears, and tail, who lives in the Sea of Nothing, speaks in rhyme, and describes himself as an "eminent physicist, polyglot classicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-biting satirist, talented pianist, good dentist too." The band realizes one of their songs sums Jeremy up well and they sing "Nowhere Man" about him as they cavort with his magic in his nowhere land. Recorded Abbey Road Studios 21 October 1965, remade 22 October

n order the single and join the mailing list to be sure you don't miss any of the exciting things coming up. It's difficult to know where to begin when it comes to describing Dame Shirley's incredible career which has spanned over 50 years. Having just celebrated her 70th birthday The Living Tree single and album prove age is no barrier for creating incredible music. The original Welsh Diva and one of Wales' greatest musical exports, she stands tall alongside fellow Welsh singers Charlotte Church, Katherine Jenkins, Tom Jones, Cerys Matthews, Dorothy Squires, Bryn Terfel and Bonnie Tyler to name but a few. The Living Tree was written and produced by Catherine Feeney and Nikki Lamborn of band Never The Bride. DSB fell in love with it after a chance encounter in Monte Carlo, where she now lives. During her career Shirley has also collaborated with Swiss band Yello on The Rhythm Divine. She sang with Chris Rea on his Ferrari inspired film, La Passione, and probably most famously with The Propellerheads whose international club hit History Repeating propelled her into the spotlight. It featured on the soundtrack to the movie There's Something About Mary starring Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz and was the music behind a Jaguar car ad. Shirley is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond Theme. She recorded three! Applauded by John Barry, Sean Connery and David Arnold, her hit records Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever ranked as the two best Bond themes ever in a recent poll, where she comfortably beat fellow Bond singers such as Tina Turner, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Matt Monro, Gladys Knight, Sheryl Crow, Lulu and Sheena Easton to the top spots. Casino Royale star Daniel Craig recently suggested DSB should record the next theme - after hearing The Living Tree you can't help but see he's got a point! In recent years Shirley's recording of Diamonds Are Forever was sampled by hip-hop star Kanye West. DSB has performed duets with acts such as Neil Diamond, Andy Williams, Alain Delon, Michael Ball, Bryn Terfel, Charles Aznavour, Jack Jones, Robert Goulet and Eydie Gorme and shared a stage with Ray Charles and Liza Minnelli on a successful tour. Dame Shirley was the star of the M&S Christmas TV ad with her sparkling version of Pink's Get The Party Started. The ad, filmed in a spy movie style, featured models Twiggy, Lizzy Jagger, Erin O'Connor, Laura Bailey and Noemie Lenoir as undercover agents on a secret mission to attend an exclusive performance by DSB at a glamorous Christmas party. DSB premiered The Living Tree at the 2005 Royal Variety Performance, acknowledged as the best in recent years. She topped the bill in her birth town of Cardiff closing the Welsh-flavoured show in spectacular style. Another highlight of the event was Catherine Tate asking the Queen "Is one bovvered?" In a recent episode of American Idol (the US equivalent to The X-Factor) contestants Jordin Sparks, Lakisha Jones and Melinda Doolittle all chose Shirley Bassey hits to impress judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul. Chris Sligh said "Shirley Bassey rocks hard core" and presenter Ryan Seacrest proclaimed that it was Dame Shirley Bassey songs that ruled the night. If you'd like to continue climbing The Living Tree join DSB at www.myspace.com/shirleybassey Love to all Youtubers from Camp DSB

http://cdbaby.com/cd/brianray http://www.myspace.com/whooray http://www.youtube.com/WhoorayRecords ****Put the code &fmt=18 at the end of the video url for better video/sound quality**** Email Brian Ray received: Dear Sir, I am the attorney at law for Mrs. Rose Bush and on her behalf must make protest of her outrage at the suggestion implicit within the lyrics of your latest record release. My client would like to make it publicly clear that your blatant disregard for her sensitivities is very hurtful in regard to the nonchalant use of "everything", "up" and the apostrophed 's' in the words of your song. My wronged client would like a disclaimer printed on the sleeve of your record to the effect that whilst she may or may not have enjoyed an occasional tryst with the gentleman clearly defamed in your song, there is no evidence whatsoever of the deviant behaviour that you infer. In particular she would like it known that the "everything" referred to will only serve to revive talk of the use of the rubber hose, butt-plug and bag-pipes which my client has always fimly denied ever came anywhere near her. Kindly be more careful when writing your rock and roll and try to not look so sexy when playing the guitar. Yours faithfully, Eagle The Legal. x