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Music can make a cold man weep, widen a child\u2019s eyes to a bright new world, and it can also be a literal cure. \u201cMusic<\/a> can lift us out of depression or move us to tears \u2013 it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more \u2013 it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity,\u201d NYU neurology professor Oliver Sacks claims. <\/p>\n However, you don\u2019t need to be a neurologist to realise that music has the capacity to change us. Moreover, it seems your comprehension of this capacity changes over time. Paul McCartney had grown up in a house with a proud love for jazz, so he was endeared to music in his earliest days. But it took a funfair in Liverpool and an Elvis Presley classic for him to realise that it could offer a whole host more than a pleasant background buzz. <\/p>\n \u201cI tell you why I have the loveliest memory of \u2018All Shook Up\u2019,\u201d he told Laura Gross, recalling the moment rock \u2018n\u2019 roll reached a new level of resonance for him. \u201cI had a mate of mine, who I still know, he\u2019s called Ian James, and he was my best mate. So we used to wander round like these fairgrounds, you know, hoping, thinking the girls would come flooding to us, \u2019cause they never took any notice of us,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n So, in a tale as old as time, Macca and his mate sulked\u2014the sort of can kicking sulk that stings with a profound purity in your teens. Wallowing in a \u2018this world is against us\u2019 mire, which McCartney refers to as \u201cteenage blues\u201d, the pair decided to retreat from the fun fair back to Ian James\u2019 place in Dingle. \u201cAnd we went in there, and he had \u2018All Shook Up\u2019, Elvis. He said, just put that on.\u201d<\/p>\n Like a sage, James somehow knew that the new rasping Elvis song would help. In fact, it is one of the few songs that Elvis himself prised purely from the grasp of youth\u2019s moody grip, with The King once explaining, \u201cI\u2019ve never even had an idea for a song. Just once, maybe. I went to bed one night, had quite a dream, and woke up all shook up. I phoned a pal and told him about it. By morning, he had a new song, \u2018All Shook Up\u2019.\u201c<\/p>\n The track exorcised the King\u2019s trepidation, and it did the same for two young wanderers in Liverpool. \u201cAfter we put that on,\u201d McCartney continues, \u201cI swear, the blues had gone, the headache had gone, we were like new people. And, so, you know, I just love that song so much for being able to do that.\u201d It was on this day that he realised music was more than satisfying melodies; it had the potential to make an impact in myriad ways, and he endeavoured to do the same for others<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Eventually, on the very same day that he met John Lennon on July 6th, 1957, Quarrymen member Len Garry claims that the band recorded a cobbled-together version of the song, prognosticating the cloud-shifting future that the two young frontmen would impart. Sadly, this historic tape was erased, but its impact could hardly be more profound. How many bouts of the blues would The Beatles go on to shift?<\/p>\n Fittingly, \u2018All Shook Up\u2019 would be the song that truly made Britain take note of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. It became the King\u2019s first number one on this side of the pond and would remain on that pedestal for seven weeks. Roaring with a simple pop and fizz, the song\u2019s title even seemed to hint at how the hip-swivelling new genre was set to take over the minds and bodies of youth\u2014a humble Fab Four, perhaps most profoundly of all. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n Subscribe To The Far Out Newsletter <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Robert Ellis \/ Sony Music Entertainment) Music can make a cold man weep, widen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[34221,77,269,11693,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-115849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-elvis-presley","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-paul-mccartney","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114537667664432518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}