Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEEP IN THE winter of 1965 the Beatles released an album titled Beatles for Sale that contained such songs as "I'm a Loser," "Baby's in Black," "Mr. Moonlight." They were nice songs all and strikingly performed as usual, but that album left one with the distinct feeling that the Beatles were treading water, that they were not uncovering any fresh musical resources, that they were not making any further additions to the existing stock of their achievement. Instead, that album represented a consolidation, a wrapping up of all the Beatles' loose ends in a last burst of splendid...
Three years later The Beatles seems to mark a similar stage in their development--an album of working out themes that have been previously revealed and so an album making up in style for what it lacks in content. One is, of course, grateful for everything the Beatles do. These 30 songs, complete with your basic piquant photographs in a ridiculously overpriced package, are a rich pleasure; but still one misses the sense of discovery, the excitement of hearing something that lingers on half-understood in the senses, the irritating stimulating grain of dust that turns into a pearl. Such...
...posters--slightly censored reproductions of the banned "Two Virgins" album cover--were sold for $2 each from a panel truck parked next to Nini's newsstand. A loud-speaker on the truck blared snatches of old Beatles songs to attract passers...
...made them from original art from Apple [the Beatles' recording company]" Pierce said. The posters feature Lennon and Yoko, arm-in-arm in the nude, with a CENSORED sign covering their genitals. The original, uncensored English album cover has been banned by the U.S. customs. If a court case to life the ban is success ful, "we'll print uncensored posters," Pierce said...
...need not worry about his new album. Cliburn's natural equipment is just right for Chopin. He has a powerful and precise technique, a gift for tracing long, soaring lines out of detailed figurations, and an innately tasteful musicality that spurns either maudlin moonbeams or brittle bravura. He puts it all to work in the Byronic B-Minor Third Sonata, playing with dash, sweep and refined lyricism. His performance of the Second, in B-flat minor, offers something more. Although not the performance of a mellow master like Rubinstein, it displays a subtle feeling for the shifting, subterranean currents...