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...nearly. This is also a brand-new day, and a whole new generation. For a great many members of this crowd-perhaps most -this wonderful, wistful ballad recalls a time they never knew. Beatles are legend. McCartney, 33, is here, right now, in barnstorming triumph, making his first concert tour of the States since he and his three noted mates sang their last song together at San Francisco's Candlestick Park in the late summer of 1966. McCartney still draws many of the Beatles faithful, to be sure. He has also found a whole new audience, his audience. They...
...Dreams", I don't blame you for not wanting to hear the rest. But those don't belong on the same record with the other songs. "Sin City" and "One of these Days" are perfectly suited to her--beautiful songs with painful, longing lyrics. Her own composition, "Amarillo", a ballad about losing her lover to a pinball machine, shows a nice sense of humor...
...next cut begins, Jagger reasserts full vocal control. "Fool to Cry" (available as a single) is a slow, haunting ballad heavily tinged with a soul orientation. An undulating string filled (string synthesizer) arrangement builds with the song as a lonely Jagger talks, cries and confesses. This, and the album's other ballad, "Memory Motel," a tough-tender song about life on the road, may be the most important works on the album, in signifying the direction the Stones are moving. These songs--intensely personal in their lyrics and musically straightforward--recall the autobiographical nature of early Jagger-Richard compositions, though...
...still admires people who sacrifice money and security for independence and freedom, but he takes a more charitable view of those who don't, as in one of the album's best cuts, a ballad called "Night Riders' Lament". One gets the impression that his friend Mike Burton wrote it as a sort of tribute to anyone who's ever done what he wanted instead of what he was expected to do. The narrator is a cowboy who fled the city for a simpler, older way of life, to the bafflement of his friends. One of them writes...
BACKING UP the cast, the orchestra does a yeoman-like job of performing Sullivan's score. Aside from Point and Elsie's ballad, the best numbers in the show include Point's cynical patter song ("Oh a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon"), "Were I thy bride," during which Phoebe dallies with Wilfred while her father steals his keys, and "A man who would woo a fair maid," Fairfax's own testament to his success as a lover...