92: Carrying Pictures of Chairman Mao

92. "Revolution" by the Beatles {#12; 9/68} [iTunes? Yes.] {Video: Revolution. (It's a good try, but the lip movements and the actual singing are just a bit off.)}

The Beatles. They were kind of a big thing. More than a little bit influential. And, pretty darn good.

This song has a lot of big selling points:
* A great, driving, guitar opening.
* The repeated jarring falsetto of "Don't you know it's gonna be."
* More times repeating "all right, all right, all right," than this side of a Matthew McConaughey impersonator convention.
* Lots and lots of patented Beatles screams. (Not actually patented.)
* And, one of the greatest lines in the history of rock and roll:

         "If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone, anyhow."

Do NOT carry this around!

And you know, to be honest, things did start to pick up for me when I finally took that picture of Chairman Mao out of my wallet on my 40th birthday.

(Actually, when I wrote the two chapters of my book that I didn't have a plot for, one of the ideas I had was that the aging, single protagonist of the story had a friend who was always planting pictures of Chairman Mao in his clothing, wallet, possessions and property as a way of razzing him for still being single. It was a decent idea that could have been milked for some humor. It's too bad I didn't have an actual plot for the story.)

COMING UP NEXT: Is that you, Mr. Whipple?