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The Word
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Vocal cover by Jeff Allen - 😉 HEADPHONES PLEASE 😉 • Beatles enthusiasts will be quick to point out that pre-dating the 1967 “Summer Of Love,” by nearly two years, The Fab Four spearheaded the Peace movement with their first-ever love song that spoke of a whole different kind of “love.” In December of 1965, John Lennon and Paul McCartney released a composition that author Barry Miles (in the book Many Years From Now ) called “one of the first hippie anthems.” For the rest of the '60s and until this day, “The Word” was, and is, “love.” • As history shows, “love” became the buzzword of the psychedelic era, which apparently wasn’t an accident. The realization that “a universal or brotherly love is possible and constitutes man’s best if not only hope,” according to the Masters and Houston study entitled “The Varieties Of Psychedelic Experience,” was shown to be the result of drugs such as LSD, which John and George had already experienced numerous times by November of 1965. It is readily accepted from all sources that drug use was very prevalent in The Beatles' lives during the making of this album. 'Rubber Soul’ was the first one where we were fully-fledged potheads, George Harrison admits. • Paul explains, Normally we didn't write while we were actually high. There was only one song where that happened. It was called 'The Word,' and I didn't think it was that good. • As for a deeper explanation of the lyrics, John relates: “It sort of dawned on me that love was the answer, when I was younger, on the ‘Rubber Soul’ album. My first expression of it was a song called ‘The Word.’ The word is ‘love.’ ‘In the good and the bad books that I have read,’ whatever, wherever, the word is ‘love.’ It seems like the underlying theme to the universe. Everything that was worthwhile got down to this love, love, love thing. And it is the struggle to love, be loved and express that (just something about love) that’s fantastic. I think that whatever else love is – and it’s many, many things – it is constant. It’s been the same forever. I don’t think it will ever change. Even though I’m not always a loving person, I want to be that, I want to be as loving as possible.” • For someone who was to supposedly denounce Christianity a few months later, this song assuredly shows John for what his innermost intentions and desires were. His highly reported personal campaigns for peace in 1969 and the early '70s show their face for the first time in December of 1965 in this groundbreaking anthem about loving each other. The buzz-word was proclaimed here and the world took notice and ran with it. • ===================================================================== • • All lead and backup vocals performed and arranged by Jeff Allen. • • Instrumental rights provided by: Ryohei Kanayama / goldmine196909 • • Vocal arrangements helped by: Galeazzo Frudua's “The Beatles Vocal Harmony” channel / @thebeatlesvocalharmony
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