All-Time Top 25 Tunes (post 9)

The ninth track in my All-Time Top 25 Tunes is number three, ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy’) by The Beatles.

Where were you when JFK was shot? Where were you when the first man walked on the moon? What were you doing when George Michael was caught trying to give someone a blowjob in a Californian toilet?

These and many other trivia questions bounce around the communications fora.

All meaningless.

Where were you the first time you heard ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’? Now that’s a question of heft; a pointer of real weight.

I was sitting in a car.

And even on a car stereo I knew I was listening to something that would define the shape of *future* music.

And how right all people who felt the same way were.

For without this one track, Eric Clapton’s seminal album 461 Ocean Boulevard might not have happened.

And his iconic signature track ‘Layla’? We might never have heard it without this Beatles track.

It is too easy – oh, far too easy – to forget the utter dregs of musical quality that washed around this planet in 1969.

Nineteen Sixty Nine!

Yes, that’s when ‘Abbey Road’, and through it, ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ was thrust upon the grateful ears of a music-listening public.

Nineteen.

Sixty.

Nine.

That’s the context.

Now listen.

And enjoy.