"No Reply"

For you fans of earlier rock and roll, there was a song called "Silhouettes" by the Rays recorded in 1957. According to many Beatles critics, John Lennon tried to write a song similar to Silhouettes and came up with "No Reply" as the first track on the follow up to A Hard Day's Night album recorded in the fall of 1964. The album was packaged differently in the U.S. and origianlly came over to us as Beatles '65. No Reply tells the story of a guy seeing his girl with someone else. The Beatles were under pressure to release an album before Christmas and abandoned their all original format to make the cut. Beatles For Sale had eight originals and six covers. The originals also went into darker territory telling stories about realistic situations as opposed to the happy go lucky love stories of earlier songs. Heck, they aren't even smiling on the original album cover...Listen to John, he changes his voice a bit and sounds more cutting edge than earlier John vocals.

I made it through my 25 hour methotrexate chemo infusion just fine, am starting to get metal mouth taste but other than that feel fine. I start a series of chemo infusions ending with ara-c hopefully by Tuesday. Happy Football Sunday!