“The Beatles are proof to me of the existence of ‘God.’
In July of 1964 they perfected pop (A Hard Days Night… after releasing Help! in August 1965, they began to take music to a place it had never been before and hasn’t been since… Rubber Soul (December 1965), Revolver (August 1966), Strawberry Fields Forever as the A-side and Penny Lane as the B-side of a single (February 1967) and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (June 1967)... I recommend the mono mix of Sgt. Pepper’s over the stereo mix). Hear … techniques never before realized and … perfected …. Universal influence is apparent. The creative advancement, out of nowhere, cannot otherwise be explained"
Excerpted from my 2013 self-portrait, also discussed: addiction, Hesse, Frankl, Walsch, friend's suicide and how he rescued me, love, co-dependency, mallomars, prime rib, toro, zabaione and my favorite lyrics.
