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The Beatles only refused to tour with one group, that group was the KINKS.
In 1964 the Beatles and KINKS were touring together and the KINKS classic "You Really Got Me" came out. Back in England in those days they would have a lineup of many groups and the 2 headliners would each end a 1/2. The KINKS were to end the first 1/2 then the Beatles would end the last half as they were the biggest act.
The groups played 2 concerts and at both venues the calls for the KINKS (and the booing) while the Beatles played became so troublesome that by the 3rd show the Beatles had refused to go on after the KINKS. By the fifth show, the audiences boos and calls for the KINKS had gotten so bad, John Lennon flatly refused to go out at all. The KINKS were promptly dropped for the Rolling Stones.
The warring pair of "KINKY BOOTS" in the animated Beatles classic was a jab at Ray and Dave Davies, John Lennon was once quoted as saying the only band that could ever be bigger than the Beatles would be the KINKS, but, that would never happen because they were to busy trying to off one another.
John Lennon's favorite "non Beatles" song in the mid 60's was "Wonderboy" by the KINKS.
Sorry have to get this KINKS Trivia out.......
"Captain Jack" by Billy Joel is believed to be about masturbation when in reality it is about Jon Smalls heroin addiction.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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