There's too many clues for the iconic group not to be The Beatles. Except that a 22nd December date doesn't fit at all. After EMI (Goerge Martin) signed the group, he sacked Pete Best in August '62, replacing him with Ringo Starr. Unless they were kept out of the studio until 22nd December that year ... in short, it can't be The Beatles.
So we need another iconic group whose name fits their chosen genre. Simon How about ...----- Original Message ----- From: <cblists@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 10:17 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Some years ago ...
On a December 22nd some years ago, Viennese devotees of new music made their way to a concert hall in Vienna for the most significant concert of the year. It was four hours of music, new music to their ears. The theatre was unheated, the orchestra was under-rehearsed, and the soprano soloist had a bad case of stage-fright. The whole experience led one listener to comment later that 'one can have too much of a good thing - and still more of a loud'.The 'some' years are, to be precise, how many? And what made this concert so significant?Some years later, on another December 22nd, four musicians gathered in a recording studio to make the first recordings of a group whose name accurately reflects the type of music for which they were to become world famous. (They had played and recorded together before; but, as stated, these are the first recordings to be released under that iconic name.) Can any of you state which year that was, and who the musicians were - or at least what the name of the group was?Chris Bruce, celebrating, in Kiel, Germany -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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