Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sold a mere 2,000 copies in the U.S. Then a passage from the recording turned up as a recurrent, haunting theme on the sound track of the Swedish film Elvira Madigan, which opened in New York City last October. Deutsche Grammophon slapped a promotional sticker on the album ("Contains theme from Elvira Madigan...
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (Capitol). As a TV extravaganza, the Beatles' Tour was a flop in Britain, but the album's songs from the show are agreeably Beatley. They include a softly' sudsy ditty called The Fool on the Hill; a toe-tapping piece that may serve as a generational link, Your Mother Should Know ("though she was born a long, long time ago"); and a wild lark called I Am the Walrus, with fast, fractured Lennonesque lyrics: "Man, you been a naughty boy. You let your face grow long." Side 2 contains such classics as Penny Lane...
...GIFT FROM A FLOWER TO A GARDEN (Epic). Time was when British Folk Singer Donovan, with his dreamy surrealistic ballads, was known as a psychedelic Pied Piper. His new album suggests that he is still a 24-carat hippie; he is photographed decked out in a robe with beads, posies and peacock feathers, and his gentle singsongs ooze various kinds of blissfulness ("His kisses on your brow/You may rest assured peace is coming"). Yet the self-styled minstrel has a stern message to his followers: "Stop the use of all Drugs and banish them into the dark and dismal places...
JOHN WESLEY HARDING (Columbia) is Bob Dylan's long-awaited new album, the first public peep from him since his motorcycle accident in 1966. His new songs are simple and quietly sung, some about drifters and hoboes, with morals attached, some with religious overtones, including I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine and a parable about Judas Priest. The catchiest number is the last, a swinging proposal called I'll Be Your Baby Tonight...
John Wesley Harding is a satisfying album--mainly for Dylan's sake, because many of the songs are implicitly personal renunciations of the "narcotic of a subtle skepticism" that Pope Paul advised against in his Christmas plea for "Peace of Heart" in all men. Perhaps Dylan has found "Peace of Heart." And his record gives some hope to its listeners, a little strength of mind to face a grisly political milieu that threatens to overwhelm us. Cold comfort...