Rock Αναφορές IV: O John Lennon και ο αριθμός 9

- Ο John Lennon γεννήθηκε στις 9 Οκτωβρίου του 1940.

- Όταν γεννήθηκε η ώρα ήταν 06.30 (6 + 3 = 9)

- Στο Liverpool έμενε στον αριθμό 9 της Newcastle Road.

- Για να πάει στο σχολείο του, έπαιρνε το λεωφορείο με τον αριθμό 72 (7 + 2 = 9)

- Ο Brian Epstein οργάνωσε την πρώτη εμφάνιση των Beatles στο Cavern και έγινε ο manager τους, στις 9 Νοεμβρίου του 1961.

- Επίσης, κανόνισε να υπογράψουν το δισκογραφικό τους συμβόλαιο στις 9 Μαΐου του 1962.

- Ο πρώτος τους δίσκος “Love Me Do”,είχε τον αριθμό 4949 (Parlophone).

- Οι Beatles εμφανίστηκαν στο σώου του Ed Sullivan στις 9 Φεβρουαρίου του 1964.

- Ο Lennon συνάντησε την Yoko Ono για πρώτη φορά στις 9 Νοεμβρίου του 1966.

- Ο γιος του (Sean) από τη Υοκο, γεννήθηκε επίσης στις 9 Οκτωβρίου του 1975.

- Όταν αργότερα μετακόμισαν στην Ν. Υόρκη, το διαμέρισμά τους ήταν στην 72 Str. (7 + 2 = 9)

- Ο Lennon δολοφονήθηκε στη Ν. Υόρκη στις 8 Δεκεμβρίου του 1980, αλλά σύμφωνα με τη διαφορά της ώρας μεταξύ Αμερικής και Ευρώπης, στη γενέτειρά του το Liverpool, είχε ήδη ξημερώσει η 9η Δεκεμβρίου όταν πέθανε.

- Μετά τον πυροβολισμό ο Lennon μεταφέρθηκε στο Roosevelt Hospital που βρίσκεται στην 9η Λεωφόρο.

- 9 λεπτά μετά τον θάνατο του Lennon, ένας 56χρονος πέθανε στο Liverpool, στο Fazakerley Hospital.

- Το όνομά του ήταν επίσης John Lennon και πέθανε στο θάλαμο 9.

- Ο ταχυδρομικός κώδικας του Fazakerley Hospital, είναι: Liverpool 9.

- Το Liverpool έχει 9 γράμματα.

Τα τραγούδια τώρα:

“Number 9 Dream” (John Lennon/Mind Games/1974)

So long ago
Was it in a dream, was it just a dream?
I know, yes I know
Seemed so very real, it seemed so real to me
Took a walk down the street
Thru the heat whispered trees
I thought I could hear
Somebody call out my name as it started to rain
Two spirits dancing so strange

Ah! bοwakawa pousse, pousse
Ah! bοwakawa pousse, pousse
Ah! bοwakawa pousse, pousse
Ah! bοwakawa pousse, pousse

Dream, dream away
Magic in the air, was magic in the air?
I believe, yes I believe
More I cannot say, what more can I say?
On a river of sound
Thru the mirror go round, round
I thought I could feel
Music touching my Soul, something warm, sudden cold
The spirit Dance was unfolding

Ah! bοwakawa pousse, pousse
Ah! bοwakawa pousse, pousse
Ah! bοwakawa pousse, pousse
Ah! bοwakawa pousse, pousse

Αυτό το τραγούδι, βρίσκεται:
- Στο 9o προσωπικό άλμπουμ του Lennon.
- Κυκλοφόρησε τον 9o μήνα του 1974.
- Πήγε στην 9η θέση στα charts.
- Ο τίτλος του άλμπουμ έχει 9 γράμματα (Mind Games).

“One After 909” (Beatles/Let It Be/1970)

My baby says she's trav'ling on the one after 909
I said move over honey I'm travelling on that line
I said move over once, move over twice
Come on baby don't be cold as ice.
I said I'm trav'ling on the one after 909

I begged her not to go and I begged her on my bended knees,
You're only fooling around, you're only fooling around with me.
I said move over once, move over twice
Come on baby don't be cold as ice.
I said I'm trav'ling on the one after 909

I got my bag, run to the station
Railman says you've got the the wrong location
I got my bag, run right home
Then I find I've got the number wrong

Well I said I'm trav'ling on the one after 909
I said move over honey I'm travelling on that line
I said move over once, move over twice
Come on baby don't be cold as ice.
I said we're trav'ling on the one after 9 0,
I said we're trav'ling on the one after 9 0,
I said we're trav'ling on the one after 909.

- Αυτό το τραγούδι, μπορεί να αναφέρεται στον αριθμό της γραμμής του τραίνου (909), αλλά στην πραγματικότητα μιλάει για τα 9 “όμικρον” (Nine O’s) που περιέχονται στα ονόματα του John και της Yoko (John Ono Lennon & Yoko Ono Lennon).

“Revolution Number 9” (Beatles/White Album/1968)

-Bottle of Claret for you if I had realised…
-Well, do it next time.
-I forgot about it, George, I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?
-Yes.

Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9,
number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9,
number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9,
number 9, number 9, number 9

Then there's this Welsh Rarebit wearing some brown underpants
About the shortage of grain in Hertfordshire
Everyone of them knew that as time went by
They'd get a little bit older and a litter slower but
It's all the same thing, in this case manufactured by someone who's always
Umpteen your father's giving it diddly-i-dee
District was leaving, intended to pay for

Number 9, number 9

Who's to know?
Who was to know?

Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9,
number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9,
number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9

I sustained nothing worse than
Also for example
Whatever you're doing
A business deal falls through
I informed him on the third night
When fortune gives

Number 9, number 9, number 9

People ride, people ride
Ride, ride, ride, ride, ride
Ride! Ride!

number 9, number 9,
number 9, number 9

I've missed all of that
It makes me a few days late
Compared with, like, wow!
And weird stuff like that
Taking our sides sometimes
Floral bark
Rouge doctors have brought this specimen
I have nobody's short-cuts, aha…

number 9, number 9

With the situation
They are standing still
The plan, the telegram
Ooh ooh

Number 9, number

Ooh
A man without terrors from beard to false
As the headmaster reported to me
My son he really can try as they do to find function
Tell what he was saying, and his voice was low and his hive high
And his eyes were low
Alright!

Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9,
number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9,
number 9, number 9, number 9

So the wife called me and we'd better go to see a surgeon
Or Whatever to Price it… yellow underclothes
So, any road, we went to see the dentist instead
Who gave her a pair of teeth which wasn't any good at all
So I said I'd marry, join the fucking navy and went to sea
In my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair
I'm not in the mood for whirling
Um da
Aaah
How?
Dogs for dogging, hands for clapping
Birds for birding and fish for fishing
Them for themming and when for whimming
Only to find the night-watchman
Unaware of his presence in the building
Onion soup

Number 9, number 9, number 9,
number 9, number 9, number 9

Industrial output
Financial imbalance
Thrusting it between his shoulder blades
The Watusi
The twist
Eldorado
Take this brother, may it serve you well
Maybe it's nothing
Aaah
Maybe it's nothing
What? What? Oh
Maybe even then
Impervious in London
Could be difficult thing
It's quick like Rush for peace is
Because it's so much
It was like being naked
If you became naked.

Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9,
number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9,
number 9, number 9, number 9


¶φησα αυτό το τραγούδι τελευταίο.
- Το τραγούδι διαρκεί 9 λεπτά.
- Σ’ αυτό το τραγούδι, ο Lennon, επαναλαμβάνει πολλές φορές (όπως βλέπετε), τη φράση “Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9…..”
- Εάν παίξετε τον δίσκο ανάποδα, αυτή η φράση μας δίνει το: “Turn me on dead man, turn me on dead man, turn me on dead man, turn me on dead man…”

Το έχω κάνει!!!