Line #19 Heartwarming/TheBeatles


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7	Music/TheBeatles did their share of SugarWiki/{{WAFF}}-worthy work. Here's a list:
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9	* "Hey Jude", written by Paul for Julian Lennon in the middle of his father's messy divorce.
10	** While it can count as both heartwarming and a TearJerker, Julian has stated several times that Paul was [[ParentalSubstitute more of a father and mentor to him]] than [[DisappearedDad John]] ever was.
11	** And T-Mobile [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orukqxeWmM0 getting 13,500 people to sing along in Trafalgar Square]]. The Heartwarming is solidified by a comment on the video:
12	--->'''Commenter:''' [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome Sometimes the world doesn't suck, you know?]]
13	* George's support of "Octopus's Garden", only the second song Ringo had ever written, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68edB_Q1e4g&NR=1 because Paul and John were so dismissive of the drummer's work.]]
14	** "Octopus's Garden" is an example in itself. "Knowing they're happy and they're safe...."
15	* And "Here Comes the Sun". Quite a few of their songs will give you the warm fuzzies, really.
16	* John managed at least two with "In My Life" and "Julia".
17	* You can't forget "Honey Pie," "Something," "Do You Want To Know a Secret," or "All You Need is Love." Really, the list could go on and on...
18	* Solo example, but definitely related: "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_With_You Walk With You]]" from Ringo's 2010 album ''Y Not''. Ringo and Paul, the last two surviving Beatles, harmonizing on a song about ThePowerOfFriendship? Excuse me, I have [[SandInMyEyes something in my eye]]...
19	* During the recording of ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', Ringo got fed up with being dismissed and temporarily quit the band. After two weeks, he was convinced to return. When he came back to the Abbey Road studio, he found his drum kit had been decorated with flowers, along with a note from George reading "Welcome home."
20	* A lot of these seem to center on Ringo for some reason. The day after the rooftop concert, Ringo, who was famously self-deprecating about his skills, received a postcard from one of his bandmates. It read: "You are the greatest drummer in the world. Really." This was from ''Paul'', who was notoriously hard to please. Ringo ''published'' that postcard, along with many others from fellow Beatles, in the book ''Postcards from the Boys''.
21	** In his final interview, John Lennon didn't hesitate to heap praise on Ringo.
22	--->'''John Lennon:''' "Ringo was a star in his own right in UsefulNotes/{{Liverpool}} before we even met. He was a professional drummer who sang and performed and had Ringo Starr-time and he was in one of the top groups in Britain but especially in Liverpool before we even had a drummer. So Ringo's talent would have come out one way or the other as something or other. I don't know what he would have ended up as, but whatever that spark is in Ringo that we all know but can't put our finger on... whether it is acting, drumming or singing I don't know... there is something in him that is projectable and he would have surfaced with or without the Beatles."
23	* "Dear Prudence" was written for a real girl (Creator/MiaFarrow's sister), who had had a mental breakdown while studying transcendental meditation in India at the same time as the boys were. She locked herself in her hut and refused to come out or speak to anyone until John coaxed her out with the song.
24	* Music/GeorgeHarrison's cover of "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", from the last album he recorded before he died, is, while slightly lacking in lyrical depth (though it's by no means shallow), one of the most cheery, heartwarming songs ever made.
25	* When the Beatles were on tour, they still took time to celebrate Brian Epstein's birthday. Actually, considering how often people hear about cold, corrupt managers, the close relationship between Epstein and the Beatles in general fit this trope. It made his possible suicide even more tragic (it was ruled as accidental and none of the Beatles ever disputed it).
26	* "With A Little Help From My Friends" is arguably this.
27	** If the song itself somehow doesn't qualify, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cNMGseO-E this home recording]] of a young Sean Lennon singing it to his father and giggling over the "I need somebody to love" lyric certainly does. What makes it especially heartwarming is that in his 1980 interviews, John liked to boast that Sean had no idea that his father was a Beatle and didn't even know who the Beatles were, and that they didn't play Beatles records in the house... and yet here Sean not only has a favorite Beatles song, but he apparently knows who Paul and Ringo are along with his dad. Oh, John...
28	** At concerts, Ringo used to announce that he was about to sing by saying, "[[SelfDeprecation Here he is, all nervous and out-of-tune...Ringo]]!" (TruthInTelevision--stage fright was, and continues to be, a huge problem for him.) So when John and Paul wrote a song around the concept of themselves as Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand, ''they made Ringo the lead singer''--and wrote him some lyrics in which he apologizes for possibly singing off-key. Then he does a call-and-response thing with the others about how much they all need each other. ''Aww.''
29	--->''"Do you need anybody?"''\
30	''"I need somebody to love..."''
31	* "Let It Be". Written by Paul during a period of high tension between the band members. The song itself was inspired by a dream in which Paul was visited by his long deceased Mother telling him to [[TitleDrop 'Let It Be.']]
32	* Listen to "All You Need is Love" from the "Love" album when you're about to fall asleep, in a completely dark room, and have headphones on. The song is segued wonderfully with the beginning instrumentals of "Good Night" and just as the music is fading out one then gets to listen to the boys goof around in the studio for a few seconds and then hear John say "good night to you's all, and God bless ya!" Warm fuzzy feelings abound.
33	* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' - an installment of the "Chris Farley Show" skit has Chris in his usual mode, squirming anxiously as he asks the most inane questions - here to guest Music/PaulMcCartney - and cursing his own stupidity. Eventually he asks "Remember when you were in the Beatles? And you sang 'And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make'? ...Is that true?" Paul matter-of-factly replies that, in his experience, yes, it is. Farley just ''beams'' with delight - his show ends up as great as he always wanted it to be.
34	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PfI8rZgTEg#t=1m43s This exchange from a 1966 interview]] is ''aww''-inducing:
35	--> '''Reporter:''' What musician and composer do you respect most?\
36	'''Paul:''' No, I don't know, really! (''pause'') John Lennon.\
37	'''Reporter:''' John?\
38	'''John:''' (''bashfully'') Paul [=McCartney=].
39	* This quote from John Lennon's September 1980 interview in ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' magazine:
40	--> "Ringo was a star in his own right in Liverpool before we even met. He was a professional drummer who sang and performed and had Ringo Starr-time and he was in one of the top groups in Britain but especially in Liverpool before we even had a drummer. So Ringo's talent would have come out one way or the other as something or other. I don't know what he would have ended up as, but whatever that spark is in Ringo that we all know but can't put our finger on... whether it is acting, drumming or singing I don't know... there is something in him that is projectable and he would have surfaced with or without the Beatles. Ringo is a damn good drummer. He is not technically good, but I think Ringo's drumming is underrated the same way Paul's bass playing is underrated. Paul was one of the most innovative bass players ever. And half the stuff that is going on now is directly ripped off from his Beatles period. He is an egomaniac about everything else about himself, but his bass playing he was always a bit coy about. I think Paul and Ringo stand up with any of the rock musicians. Not technically great... none of us are technical musicians. None of us could read music. None of us can write it. But as pure musicians, as inspired humans to make the noise, they are as good as anybody."
41	* "Free as a Bird". Ringo, George and Paul got together to record incidental music for the [[Music/TheBeatlesAnthology Anthology Project]], but realized that they wanted to record some new songs instead. Only problem? No John. At this point they could have either written something without him or abandoned the idea of a new song altogether. Instead, Paul asked Yoko if she could give them any demo tapes of John that they could finish. It should be noted that the remaining Beatles had to fill in a gap where John hadn't finished the lyrics and [[TearJerker made all of us weep]] by going with the following:
42	--> ''Can we really live without each other?''
43	--> ''When did we lose the touch,''
44	--> ''That seemed to mean so much?''
45	--> ''It always made me feel so . . . free.''
46	* "She Loves You" is pretty adorable. It's from the point of view of a guy telling another guy that, no, it's not over between you and the girl you love, even though you hurt her badly--I just talked to her and she still loves you, ya lucky dog! Now go apologize to her and make everything right!
47	* The fact that they refused to play in front of a segregated audience. This was back in the damn 60s mind you.
48	* In the early 70s, at a time when the band had recently broken up and Paul and John were still supposed to be at each other's throats, a fan encountered John strolling around Greenwich Village with an "I Love Paul" button from the days of Beatlemania. Wondering if he was making some kind of ironic statement, the fan asked him why he was wearing it--to which John replied, without missing a beat and without a trace of sarcasm, "[[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Because I love Paul]]."
49	** Paul told the story of how he and John were once having a bitter argument about something, which had got the point of name-calling -- and then John paused, lowered his glasses, looked at Paul over the top of them and said [[NoHeroToHisValet "It's only me, you know."]]
50	* ''Good Ol' Freda'' is a 2013 documentary where Freda Kelly looks back on her past as secretary to the Beatles and founder of their official fan club. A Liverpool girl, she started at age 17 as a big fan when they were barely known outside the Cavern Club and stayed through the end. She was a hard-working professional who both guarded their privacy (and still does) and cared for the (fellow) fans. Plenty of 'Awww' moments (love her relationship with Ringo's parents). She's still a secretary, still in Liverpool, and seems the very nicest person.
51	* Ringo was the last of the Beatles to be inducted as a solo artist in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (John got in in 1994, Paul in 1999, and George in 2004), receiving the Award for Musical Excellence. [[note]] Formerly known as the Sideman Award. Make of that what you will...[[/note]] Paul inducted him, and the famous final jam (featuring the likes of Music/GreenDay, Music/MileyCyrus, Music/DaveGrohl, Music/JoanJett, Music/PattiSmith, [[Music/ZacBrownBand Zac Brown]], [[Music/YeahYeahYeahs Karen O]], Music/BillWithers, Music/StevieWonder, Music/{{Beck\|Musician}}, and more and more and more...) was everyone singing "With a Little Help from My Friends."
52	** After finishing the second number, "I Wanna Be Your Man," Ringo and Paul ended the evening with a classic Beatles bow. The crowd went nuts. The whole thing is just so gratifying when you consider how much of a ButtMonkey Ringo is portrayed as by a lot of people when he really seems to be a smart, kind, professional man. Stuff like this helps remind people about how The Beatles couldn't function without all four members bringing their A-game, and seeing this outpouring of respect from Ringo's peers is really sweet. Helps that Paul looks thrilled for his friend and former bandmate the whole time.
53	* Ringo was once asked what was the best thing about being in the Beatles. He immediately answered, "Having three brothers."
54	* John Lennon’s comment from Apple Corps rooftop in 1969, he said,”I’d like to say thank you, on behalf of the group and ourselves, that I hope we passed the audition.”
55	* "When I'm 64" is hard to described as anything but heartwarming, as the song after all is about a man speaking of how he looks forward to what awaits him and his wife should they remain together for the foreseeable future.

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