Bevis Frond addresses the Anxiety of Influence in song - appropriately using the most Oedipus Complex-obsessed, Norman O.Brown-stanning man in rock, Jim Morrison, although it's a different Jim who forever shadows his (re)creative efforts.
"I took an album from the ancient unit
And I walked on down the hall
"Jimi, I want to kill you"
He stood before me in a vision
With treasured secrets of the blues
A voice rang out from battered speakers
"You are not fit to shine my shoes".
Jeff Lynne, virtually a Bloomian archetype of the "weak rocker", here on "Beatles Forever" fesses up to his unrecoupable artistic debts. But then chickened out and didn't release the track.
Key couplet:
I try to write a good song, a song with feel and care
I think it's quite a good song, 'til I hear one of theirs
Full lyric:
Beatles forever
Da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da
There's something about a Beatles song, that lives forevermore
The beauty of the harmonies, the sound of the Fab Four
All their music will live on and on (John 'n' Paul, George and Ringo)
They really taught the world to sing (She came in through the bathroom window)
Beatles forever, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Beatles forever, "All You Need Is Love", yeah yeah yeah
Beatles forever, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," wooh
Beatles forever, "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" (number nine)
'Cause when you feel the beat, you've gotta move your feet
You get the rhythm and blues, and a pretty tune
Rock and roll eternity, that started out as Merseybeat
I try to write a good song, a song with feel and care
I think it's quite a good song, 'til I hear one of theirs
Makes you wonder how they did it (John 'n' Paul, George and Ringo)
I wish I knew the secret, yeah yeah yeah (She came in through the bathroom window)
Beatles forever, "Strawberry Fields Forever" and ever
Beatles forever, "Nowhere Man" and "Penny Lane", yeah yeah yeah
Beatles forever, "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
Beatles forever, "Get Back" and "Yesterday"
'Cause when you feel the beat, you've gotta move your feet
You get the rhythm and blues, and a pretty tune
Rock and roll eternity, that started out as Merseybeat
All the children sing
Beatles forever, "Please Please Me", "Eleanor Rigby"
Beatles forever, "I Am The Walrus" (yeah yeah yeah) goo-goo g'joob
Beatles forever, "She Loves You", ooh, "Day Tripper"
Beatles forever, "Eight Days A Week", "Magical Mystery Tour"
'Cause when you feel the beat, you've gotta move your feet
You get the rhythm and blues, and a pretty tune
Rock and roll eternity, that started out as Merseybeat
Ah ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah ah-ah, ah-ah-all-ah
Ah, feel the beat, ah-ah-ah-ah, gotta move your feet ah-ah ah-ah
Rhythm and blues, ah-ah-ah-ah, pretty tune
Ah, rock and roll, ah-ah-ah-ah, eternity, ah-ah ah-ah
Started out, ah-ah ah-ah, as Merseybeat
Beatles forever
Beatles forever, yeah yeah yeah
Beatles forever
