Word: cartney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Billy Joel: 52nd Street (Columbia). Mc Cartney's competition. Home-grown and nurtured on big-city streets, Billy Joel sings spiky ballads and ornery anthems about bitches, grifters and bozos on the make. Pop with a punch...
...film is a curious collage of war footage, old movie clips and the songs of John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney. The songs (recorded by pop stars like Elton John and Tina Turner) are affecting in their own terms, but they cannot underscore a subject like war. Too often they are used in glib juxtapositions, as when Japanese planes take off for Pearl Harbor to the strains of Here Comes...
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