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...seems as if we started mourning the Beatles not long after we met them. Not even seven years elapsed between their first arrival in the U.S., when they managed to seem both snippy-worldly and fresh-out-of-the-cellophane innocent, and the official announcement of their breakup, a squabble as painful for the world at large as it was for them. Ten years after that John Lennon was gone. And now, although it may take a while for it to sink in, when George Harrison died last week, we said goodbye to the Beatles for good. A Beatles reunion...
Harrison, of course, had offered his own guidance on how to think about these things. All Things Must Pass was a song he wrote after the breakup of the Beatles. John had his bitter wit. Ringo Starr had his affability. Paul McCartney had his winking charm. What Harrison possessed was something more unexpected in a rock star: the air of a man in search of mature understandings. He may have been the youngest Beatle, but from early on he struggled toward the melancholy wisdom of later life. There was gravity even in his love songs. The stately tempos in Something...
Such confusion would end with the band's acrimonious breakup, announced in 1970. For Harrison, the split opened the door to artistic liberation. He had been piling up songs for months--years--songs that couldn't be squeezed onto Beatles albums, brimful as they were with Lennon and McCartney's efforts. Now, in a work that is the very definition of magnum opus, Harrison poured forth the three-disc set All Things Must Pass. (A 30th-anniversary reissue earlier this year only confirmed that this was Harrison's masterpiece...
Mead told students that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 have created a general consensus on foreign policy among the American public that has not existed since the breakup of the Soviet Union...
...Mercedes were formed from the breakup of indie-rock band Braid; in fact, but for the swapping of one guitarist, the line-up remains exactly the same. Their sound has changed just as little, so anyone who used to swoon or mosh to Braid can look forward to further bruised foreheads under Mercedes’ aegis. The songs on Everynight Fire Works are so solid and businesslike that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between them (at least for the uninitiated): The album is a barrage of dentist-drill distorted guitars marshalled by driving drums that border on militaristic...