Music Stories

[Perianne]

(This will be a series of interesting stories related to music)





In 1969, The Rolling Stones released an album entitled “Let it Bleed”. The opening track was Gimme Shelter. Gimme Shelter is arguably one of the Stones’ greatest and most popular songs.

The Stones were recording the song late at night when producer Jimmy Miller said “I hear a girl on this track”. A heavily-pregnant Merry Clayton was summoned out of bed by telephone to come to the studio. Her hair in curlers, she then sang the memorable “Rape, murder, it’s just a shot away” three times. (More on Clayton's story can be found here)

At about 2:59 into the song, Clayton's voice cracks under the strain, once during the second refrain on the word "shot", then on the word "murder" during the third refrain, after which Jagger is faintly heard exclaiming "Woo!" in response to Clayton's powerful delivery. Upon returning home, Clayton suffered a miscarriage, attributed by some sources to her exertions during the recording.

Just a couple of years later, in 1971, the Stones, despite having sold millions of records, were broke, even owing the British government hundreds of thousands of (equivalent) dollars apiece in taxes.

At the time, the tax rate for people making the Stones’ type of money was 90%. For each (equivalent) dollar the Stones earned, the government got 90 cents. They decided to move the band to France to avoid taxes and shelter their earnings in a Netherlands holding company.

In the end the Rolling Stones got their shelter after all.




https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rock...edium=referral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimme_Shelter

[carolina73]

Clare Alden MacIntyre-Ross' death on March 9, 2016 in Falls Church, Virginia, might have gone largely unnoticed by the larger world if she hadn't been a Fresh Air Fund camp counselor in 1960 — and if her parents had let her take the subway.

The Scarsdale native was the daughter of former Scarsdale Mayor Malcolm MacIntyre, who was also the former president of Eastern Air Lines and under secretary of the Air Force under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Clare's claim to fame was that she inspired Harry Chapin to write the love song "Taxi," about former lovers who meet after years when he picks her up in his cab.

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/201...dies/82092500/

Harry Chapin's music is still in my phone. He was a great story teller.

[texan]

(This will be a series of interesting stories related to music)





In 1969, The Rolling Stones released an album entitled “Let it Bleed”. The opening track was Gimme Shelter. Gimme Shelter is arguably one of the Stones’ greatest and most popular songs.

The Stones were recording the song late at night when producer Jimmy Miller said “I hear a girl on this track”. A heavily-pregnant Merry Clayton was summoned out of bed by telephone to come to the studio. Her hair in curlers, she then sang the memorable “Rape, murder, it’s just a shot away” three times. (More on Clayton's story can be found here)

At about 2:59 into the song, Clayton's voice cracks under the strain, once during the second refrain on the word "shot", then on the word "murder" during the third refrain, after which Jagger is faintly heard exclaiming "Woo!" in response to Clayton's powerful delivery. Upon returning home, Clayton suffered a miscarriage, attributed by some sources to her exertions during the recording.

Just a couple of years later, in 1971, the Stones, despite having sold millions of records, were broke, even owing the British government hundreds of thousands of (equivalent) dollars apiece in taxes.

At the time, the tax rate for people making the Stones’ type of money was 90%. For each (equivalent) dollar the Stones earned, the government got 90 cents. They decided to move the band to France to avoid taxes and shelter their earnings in a Netherlands holding company.

In the end the Rolling Stones got their shelter after all.




https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rock...edium=referral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimme_Shelter

The governments and record company overreaches for money are sinful.

[carolina73]

The governments and record company overreaches for money are sinful.

American Socialists meet how the rich evade your taxes. No one in the USA ever paid 90%. The effective tax rate was only 37% at it's highest.

[Cotton1]

The governments and record company overreaches for money are sinful.

The record industry does not "overreach for money". My father was in the record industry. It costs a lot of money to do the sessions because you have sound engineers, studio musicians, very expensive eqpt, go-fers, brick and mortar, advertising, royalties etc. The deal is this. If a band or musician wants to break into the retail side it costs a fortune. They would basically sign their life away to my dad for a start. They didn't get it back eventually just because he finally broke even (if at all). He was in business to make a profit. For every act he'd sink loads of capital and time into many more never made it, his loss. The recording industry is not a charity.

[Cotton1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera. It is a 5 minute and 55 second suite,[1] consisting of several sections without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda.[2] The song is a more accessible take on the 1970s progressive rock genre.

[Cotton1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Saw_Her_Again

One of three songs co-written by the two male members of the group (the others being "Got a Feelin'" and "For the Love of Ivy"), "I Saw Her Again" was inspired by Doherty's brief affair with Michelle Phillips, then married to John Phillips, which, combined with an affair between Michelle Phillips and Gene Clark of The Byrds,[3][4] resulted in the brief expulsion of Michelle from the group.[5] While mixing the record, engineer Bones Howe punched in the coda vocals too early, inadvertently including Denny's false start on the third chorus ("I saw her..."). Despite attempting to correct the error, the miscued vocal could still be heard on playback. Producer Lou Adler liked the effect and told Howe to leave it in the final mix.[

[Perianne]

James Wells, Moderator of the United Free Church of Scotland, tells the story of a little girl carrying a big baby boy in his 1884 book The Parables of Jesus. Seeing her struggling, someone asked if she wasn't tired. With surprise she replied: "No, he's not heavy; he's my brother."

This top ten hit in 1969 by The Hollies is a beautiful story of love for another.

In the 1940s, the words, adapted as "He ain't heavy, Father, he's my brother", were taken as a slogan for Boys Town children's home by founder Father Edward Flanagan. According to the Boys Town website, the phrase as used by Boys Town was said to Fr. Flanagan in 1918 by one of the residents while carrying another up a set of stairs. The boy being carried is said to have had polio and worn leg braces.

“He ain’t heavy” is relevant beyond Boys Town, though. At some point in our lives, most of us have needed to be carried by someone, metaphorically speaking. And, at some point, we probably carried somebody else. We’re human. We stumble. And we look to each other for help when we do.

The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We'll get there
For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another
It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on the way to there
Why not share
And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy he's my brother
He's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother, he ain't heavy





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Ain...27s_My_Brother

https://www.boystown.org/blog/Pages/...int-heavy.aspx

[Captdon]

American Socialists meet how the rich evade your taxes. No one in the USA ever paid 90%. The effective tax rate was only 37% at it's highest.

Nope.

https://bradfordtaxinstitute.com/Fre...Tax-Rates.aspx