Yeah, that's a great song. When I was 12 years old my parents bought a 
CD player and some albums like The Best of Los Indios Tabajaras (??) 
and Neil Diamond Greatest Hits. Among them were the compilations
Beatles 1962-66 and 1967-70. I thought "The Beatles, they did Yellow 
Submarine, didn't they? Oh well, let's give them a listen". I liked 
their early songs quite a bit but when I heard Paperback Writer I was 
blown away!! The a capella breaks and the rockin' guitar were like 
nothing I had heard before. I also remember that Strawberry Fields 
Forever, A Day In The Life and I Am The Walrus used to scare the hell 
out of me and I would skip them, until I realised that they were
psicodelic masterpieces.

Ayoze 

Bob wrote:

> <<4. Paperback Writer (The Beatles). >>
> 
> I would be hard pressed to pick even my top ten BEATLES songs, but 
> this one would surely make the cut. It had the distinction of 
> being the first song I ever "recorded", that is to say the first 
> one I ever transferred to another media. My sister had the "Hey 
> Jude" LP, and I had been given a little portable reel-to-reel 
> recorder. I put Paperback Writer on tape, and used to listen to it 
> every night with one of those little white earplugs...remember 
> those? After awhile it got so gunked up with earwax that it was 
> too gross for EVEN me.

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