In the Beatles song "Back in the USSR", what does BOAC stand for?
Aug 15, 2008 by honky275 | Posted in Rock and Pop
I unprejudiced looked it up, wanted to see if anybody else knew what it is.
The lyrics are "Flew in from Miami Beach, B.O.A.C., didn't get to bed last darkness."
British Abroad Airways Corporation
Jimmy Jazz | Aug 15, 2008
What is the song "Back in the USSR" by the Beatles about?
Apr 17, 2009 by Case | Posted in Teen & Preteen
its humorous, cause the beach boys and everything would sing about the american girls being the greatest and love them california girls. And the beatles i take it wrote this song because back in the day american were really against communism and scared of russia and so they wrote this sing about how the USSR is a wild and taking place place to be and the Ukrainian girls really knock them out, so it was just really different.
Praying for a healthy baby. | Apr 17, 2009
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Second Fenway show leaves fans thoroughly entertained BOSTON – The Red Sox may have entranced a beating from the New York Yankees Thursday night, but all was well at Fenway Park, as the home team was away and in its make good was one of the few people in the music industry who could truly be called a living legend. With pretty close to perfect withstand conditions – warm but not humid with a comfortable breeze – and the palpable anticipation of the audience mounting steadily, former Beatle Paul McCartney took to the step just before 8 p.m. for his second of two nights at the historic ballpark.
Dressed in a neat black suit and looking fit and youthful, McCartney, 67, was met with steady, thunderous applause and boisterous cheers from the mostly older (and clearly sentimental) flock. For the next 21/2 hours, the knighted British icon dug into his deep catalog, playing a mix of songs from his days as a Beatle, a fellow of Wings, a solo artist and, in his most recent endeavor as the Fireman, a pseudonym under which he released the impressive "Thrilling Arguments" in 2008. McCartney, backed by an energetic and tight four-member band, opened his set with the Beatles’ "Plunge My Car," during which the audience’s cheers did not subside until about halfway through, when they morphed into repeated choruses of "beep beep’m beep beep yeah." He followed the Fab Four turn a blind eye to with the Wings’ hit "Jet" and a rousing rendition of "Only Mama Knows" off of the 2007 freeing, "Memory Almost Full." It was just before the fourth song of the night, "Flaming Pie" off of the 1997 album of the same name, that McCartney began what would be his persistent interraction with the crowd. He said that playing at Fenway...