The Beatles: Still busy fixing a hole.

When everything else fails, there’s always music, and to be specific, the music of the Beatles with detours into their solo work and everything that’s out there today on YouTube about how they created and produced what they did all those years ago and never ages.

A few days ago, out popped a lovely new video for George’s song “Give Me Love” that’s gorgeous. Maybe it’s even Georgeous.

It’s not one of my favourite songs by “Hari Georgeson”, but watching the effort that the team including son Dhani had placed on the concept of his Dad retreating to his home at Friars Park to be a gardener and spending his time there before he passed is so positive and full of, well, good vibes.

These nights, I fall asleep listening to all the backstories about how this and that Beatles album was made and listening to the isolated vocals, the harmonies, the bass lines, guitar parts and why what Ringo plays on every recording is what makes him the greatest lyrical drummer of all time.

It takes a very special person to live with me and is cool about me going down that rabbit hole again with their music playing and introducing and reintroducing myself to Polythene Pam, the Fool On The Hill and fly Across The Universe guided solely by their songs and which are always inspiring and thought provoking and makes me look at life and love with new eyes and a different mindset.

These nights, after meditation, I deep dive again into a video where Paul McCartney is breaking down almost every Beatles track to producer Rick Rubin and pointing out what John did where and everything that Ringo and George added, which many of us might have missed the first and 200th time around.

It’s being told who played the guitar break on “Taxman” or listening to the first time to all the harmonies on “Sun King” because of all the isolated tracks now made available.

For myself, it really is my very own nightly Magical Mystery Tour and which I can embark on anytime I want and return refreshed and inspired and invigorated with answers I might not have had before, and how all these answers, at least to me, form the one true preventative cure to what’s ailing us and how we’re surviving, but not really living.

We need to get Fab again and leave the Blue Meanies behind.

And if in the end it means deciding to stay down that long and winding rabbit hole, and see what’s ahead, well, what a trip this would be.

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