“Help me if you can I’m feeling down.”
A Brief One from Doug Draper
Posted July 25th, 2025 on Niagara At Large
In this world, I imagine many of us are feeling at least a little bit down every now and then.
The lyrics from a song called ‘Help’ by The Beatles which was released, believe it or not, 60 years ago this last full week of July, 1965 for a film by the same name, may serve as a soundtrack for the times we find ourselves living in now.
For those of us who were around listening to music back then and who haven’t checked out yet, ‘Help’, along with an album full of songs that included ‘Ticket To Ride’, ‘You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away’, ‘The Night Before’, ‘I Need You’ and ‘Yesterday’, marked the end of the Beatles’ suit-wearing, so-called “mop top” period and the beginning of a musical evolution with the release in 1965, 1966 and 1967 of albums like ‘Rubber Soul’, ‘Revolver’ and ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band’ that rank at or near the top of lists of the best albums ever to this day.
To watch and hear The Beatles performing the song ‘Help’, click on the screen immediately below –
Here is hoping that we all come together and help each other overcome the forces that are working to divide and conquer both us and the best our communities and country have to offer today.
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Doug Draper, Niagara At Large
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Stunning to think from 67 to 69, they released Sgt. Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour, the White Album, Abbey Road, Let it Be, Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane, Hey Jude, All You Need Is Love – all recorded over a three-year period. And all of it (the group’s whole discography) over only six years. No one will ever come close.
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