Then he drops it down a notch, but not much, and yells, “Okay, they tole me you was out there.” He drops his voice some more. “Tonight,” he tells the crowd, “we have with us Mick Jagger and Keith Richards from the great Rolling Stones.” Then he yells, “An I taught ‘em EVERYTHING THEY KNOW about eating!
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I’d say what the man in the photo may lack in manners he easily makes up with his rugged good looks.
As we learn in the holy book of “I Am the Walrus:”
Finally, on November 29, 1967, John added one more element to the final mix: a BBC radio broadcast of Shakespeare’s King Lear, Act Four, Scene 6, lines 219-222 and 249-262, found while Lennon was scanning the airwaves for something interesting to mix in, live. The words from the broadcast, at the time they are heard in the song, are as follows:
Gloucester. (2:25) “Now, good sir, wh–” (Here Lennon changes the channel away from the station.)
Edgar. (2:28) — “poor man, made tame by fortune –” (2:34) “good pity–”
Later, at the end of the song, John leaves the broadcast where it is, and we hear:
Oswald. (3:52) Slave, thou hast slain me: Villain, take my purse. If ever thou wilt thrive, (4:02) bury my body, and give the (4:05) letters which thou findest about me to (4:08) Edmund Earl of Gloucester. (4:10) Seek him out upon the British party. O, (4:14) Untimely Death!
Edgar. (4:23) I know thee well, a (4:25) serviceable villain. As duteous to the (4:27) vices of thy mistress as badness would desire.
Gloucester. What, is he dead?
Edgar. (4:31) Sit you down father, rest you.
Yes but I can lie!
Better watch yourself. Two can play at this game.