Talk:Doctor Robert

message: I completed four semesters of music theory at UA in Tuscaloosa.
Ok here's my issue. The article reads the song is in A Major but the key center (I'm assuming tonic) is B - "this makes it the Mixolydean mode". In a major a B tonic would produce B dorian. 
E Mixolydean (tonic being E) is the mixolydean mode of A major. Unless the song modulates the theory stated is incorrect. If it does modulate (and I didn't hear a modulation) this section of the article is poorly worded at best and dead wrong at worst.
I haven't played with it, but this doesn't seem correct to me. I would encourage investigation into this. Burnedfaceless (talk) 10:01, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible incorrect music theory

message: The following section contradicts what Lennon himself has said about the subject of the song. Hence I think it needs a source, preferably a a more reliable one than, say, the Beatles songfacts site (), which could have borrowed the info from us anyway.--194.145.161.227 21:48, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved from article until sourced 

message: Hello,
In 2007 I found out that the song Doctor Robert is not about a drug dealer or Dr. Robert Freymann.
It is clear that the Wikipedia page has some serious speculations that are damaging the reputation
of a living person, if John Lennon has referred to him in his lyrics of Doctor Robert.
I discovered that I am the person John Lennon was singing about in this Beatles song. 
I wrote to Wikipedia because I have a dispute with an administrator that is
quite distressing. You can read the discussion on the following page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rodhullandemu#Good_faith
The disagreement from the side of administrator Rodhullandemu started
with the following text I want to add to the 'Doctor Robert' page:
The one and only Doctor Robert that the Beatles have referred to in their song in 1966 has revealed himself in 2007, when he
first realised that he must be the one that the lyrics of the song are about. He was just two years old when a true miracle happened, making him worldfamous while he and his family didn't even realize this happened. Beware of fraud!!! If you don't believe this, just check all the contradictions regarding the true identity of Doctor Robert. Certainly the Beatles were smart enough in 1966 to avoid an ode to a doctor prescribing amphetamine like Robert Freymann. Being serious musicians, they already knew the severe consequences of using such a destructive drug. And why would John Lennon call himself Doctor Robert? Doctor John would have been more logical if he was carrying around all the pills in the early days. The year 1966 certainly doesn't belong to the Beatles' early days anymore, since they started to record with George Martin. Lennon had a very fine British (or should I say Celtic?), cynical sense of humour and liked to play around with this name. He created a mysterious birdnest, expecting that one day the true identity of Doctor Robert would inevitably be revealed. In the meantime it remained one of the best kept secrets of the Beatles...
This is a case that seems hard to resolve. The only true experts that can help out are George Martin, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono,
Ringo Starr and Sean and Julian Lennon. I don't want to reveal all the facts, because there is a chance that a motion picture
will be created about my life.
I hope you can inform me about the steps to take in order to get the above text on the Doctor Robert Wikipedia page.
For more information about me and my work I refer to the following URLs:
Yours sincerely,
Robert van der Velden Virtualizer (talk) 09:23, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I just moved this new addition to the bottom of the talk page, where new contributions need to be placed. I also put loads of URL's in HTML tags as this appears to be some strange attempt to provides one's own websites with loads of hits. This user put his theories on Dutch Wikipedia as well. Come on, the Beatles did a song about a Dutch two-year-old? Hahaha... Erik1980 (talk) 18:43, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
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