Harry Nilsson - друг Битлз, музыкант, писатель, сценарист...

Привет!

Не за что, Uncle Rooty. А про сериал "Little Britain" я даже и не знал, спасибо за информацию, прочел о нем на Wikipedia, теперь хоть имею представление.

2Pataphisist:

Уважаемый Патафизик!

1.>этот самый альбом у меня самый любимый из всего наследия Харри. Я считаю его шедевром от первой песни до последней.<

Полностью разделяю Ваше мнение. Хотя знаком с наследием Нилссона не столь досконально, как Вы.

2.>Вопрос ваш мне не показался неприличным.<

Это была скромная попытка шутки юмора.:-)

3.>А с трубкой или без оной…<

Э, не скажите… Это неслучайный добрый патафизический знак…

4.Вообще, хоть сам я и не являюсь адептом патафизики, к последним отношусь с большим почтением.
А в частности, публикуемое на страницах сайта избранное из Вашей музыкальной коллекции внушает мне всегда глубокое уважение, а иногда и белую зависть.

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Наткнулся на интересную фотографию :Alice Cooper, Keith Moon, Harry Nilsson & Marc Bolan In The Studio (1973). Снято во время сессий Billion Dollar Babies. Нильссон, как водится, с бутылкой в руке :)

Привет!

Джон Леннон и Гари Нильсон в Центральном Парке, 1974 год. Просто стеб.

Материал к 70-летию Harry Nilsson: интервью Адаму Блоку [Adam Block] 1975 г. опубликовано в журнале "FROM ME TO YOU" #37 (2011/3):
https://www.beatles.ru/news/news.asp?news_id=7502

Спасибо за предоставленный материал IgSi:
https://www.beatles.ru/postman/forum_messages.asp...3&cfrom=3&showtype=0&cpage=246#1232583

Did Beatles bootleg prompt Harry Nilsson's anti-gun song for John Lennon?

An anti-gun song that Harry Nilsson wrote after the death of his good friend John Lennon may have been inspired by a tune on a Beatles bootleg that a journalist says he was the first to tell the singer about, he told Beatles Examiner.

Rip Rense, who was then a writer for the now defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, said the story, which he first mentioned on Facebook and expanded later by email, dates back to the early '80s, when Nilsson was to be a guest at Beatlefest (now the Fest for Beatles Fans) in Los Angeles.

“When I heard Nilsson was going to be at L.A. Beatlefest in 1982 (or 83, I don't recall), I made a tape from a bootleg album of The Beatles singing "Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)" from the BBC broadcasts, and took it to him. I had a thought that Nilsson might persuade the parties of Apple to release the song, on which Lennon sings lead, with all proceeds going to ban handguns.”

Harry Nilsson's anti-gun song "Lay Down Your Arms" sung by Ringo Starr and Stevie Nicks.
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"Lay Down Your Arms".

Rense himself was very familiar with the Beatles' BBC broadcasts, having written an illuminating series on them for the now defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.

“Nilsson was extremely gracious when I met him signing autographs at Beatlefest, seated at an anti-handguns campaign table. He suggested we go to his room at the Bonaventure, where in between snorting line after line of cocaine, he listened to the idea,” he says. “He had never heard of the song. He said he liked the idea and would follow up. I figured the odds of any of this happening were slim and none, never mind what a wonderful idea it was.

“I'm pretty sure I played him the song, which he had never heard of, but I can't recall definitely,” Rense says. “He liked the idea, seemed keen to do it, but again, I didn't hold my breath.”

He thought the release of the song would have made an important contribution.

“It would have made for an incredibly powerful and poignant message in the wake of Lennon's fiendish killing. It would have underscored the loss in an almost unbearable way. It would have gotten enormous attention to the anti-handgun campaign. But given the complexities of Apple at that time, let alone the feelings of the principal parties, I figured the idea had little chance. Still, I wanted to suggest it.”

As it turned out, the Beatles did release it in 1994 on the “Live at the BBC” album. And while Rense doesn't know if Nilsson ever suggested his idea to the Beatles, something interesting did happen after their meeting.

“He did write his own anti-handguns song, which became the theme music for his campaign. The title: 'Lay Down Your Arms.'”

As anyone who has heard “Soldier of Love” knows, the words “Lay Down Your Arms” make up the first four words of the song. Nilsson's version of his song was included in the soundtrack to a movie, “Deep in the Heart,” but not otherwise released, according to the fan website For the Love of Harry Nilsson.

As Rense noted and as was mentioned in the excellent documentary “Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?”, “Nilsson stopped his career entirely to devote all energies to banning handguns for several years. It was a thoroughly noble act on his part, never mind how futile it proved to be in this gun-crazed society.

“I felt like my efforts had not been in vain,” he says of the Nilsson song. "So I'll take some responsibility of (the song's) existence. Later, Ringo recorded it with Stevie Nicks.

"What a fine guy Nilsson was.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/did-beatles-bootleg-prompt-harry-nilsson-s-anti-gun-son...

НИЛЬСОН РУЛЛИТ!
ФЛЭШ ХАРРИ 1980-го года не зря сейчас переиздается. Оригинальный альбом очень трудно достать!
Шедеврально!
http://www.discogs.com/Harry-Nilsson-Flash-Harry/release/2661703

2McLenHarSt:

>НИЛЬСОН РУЛЛИТ!
> ФЛЭШ ХАРРИ 1980-го года не зря сейчас переиздается.
>Оригинальный альбом очень трудно достать!
> Шедеврально!

Непонятно только, зачем так долго ждали, альбом то действительно хорош!

2Pacific:

Учитывая, что вышла коробка СиДи, решили перепеть и этот альбом, но вот почему именно его и в виниловом варианте-полный мрак

В этот день в 1994 году умер Харри Нилссон, певец с вокальным диапазоном в 3 октавы, лауреат Грэмми, хулиган и большой друг битлов.