{"id":5868,"date":"2011-02-16T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2011-02-16T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T01:58:08","slug":"fess-up-why-do-you-hate-shes-leaving-home-as-much-as-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/fess-up-why-do-you-hate-shes-leaving-home-as-much-as-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fess Up: Why Do You Hate &#8220;She&#8217;s Leaving Home&#8221; as Much as You Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Msnt4lLm-g?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I&#8217;ve got a theory about why so many Beatles fans despise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesbible.com\/songs\/shes-leaving-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;She&#8217;s Leaving Home&#8221;<\/a>: more than anything I think it&#8217;s in defense of <strong>George Martin<\/strong>, whose feelings were hurt when he\u00a0was shut out of arranging the strings. That&#8217;s sweet of you, but really, the song&#8217;s not that bad! The way I hear my fellow Beatles fans talking about it I have to stop and check that they&#8217;re not actually talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-fool-on-the-hill-in-true-stereo\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Fool on the Hill&#8221;<\/a> or one of Paul&#8217;s &#8220;Auntie&#8221; songs.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m onto something: your hatred of &#8220;She&#8217;s Leaving Home&#8221; is rooted in your desire to defend the honor of Sir George Martin.<\/p>\n<p>As for substitute arranger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Leander\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Leander<\/a><\/strong>, what is so bad about his work on that song? What might tasteful George Martin have done differently? I was surprised to learn that Leander had his hand in all sorts of records, most notably serving as <strong>Gary Glitter<\/strong>&#8216;s partner in (musical) crime (eg, co-writing his hits, including &#8220;Rock &#8216;n Roll, pt 2&#8221;). I think he also did the saccharine string arrangements for <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;As Tears Go By.&#8221; So there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a theory about why so many Beatles fans despise &#8220;She&#8217;s Leaving Home&#8221;: more than anything I think it&#8217;s in defense of George Martin, whose feelings were hurt when he\u00a0was shut out of arranging the strings. That&#8217;s sweet of you, but really, the song&#8217;s not that bad! The way I hear my fellow Beatles <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/fess-up-why-do-you-hate-shes-leaving-home-as-much-as-you-do\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[61,429,127,45,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}