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...most entertaining cuts show the Beatles' early gift for parody. You'll Be Mine, a Lennon-McCartney jape from 1960, suggests a Five Satins love song as it might have been tortured by a fourth-rate crooner in a Blackpool pub. John offers a basso-preposteroso spoken verse: "My darlin'...I looked into your eyes, and I could see a National Health eyeball..." The band brought the same proto-camp tone to covers of Three Cool Cats and Sheik of Araby, on a failed audition tape for Decca Records on New Year's Day, 1962. Raw and cheeky, the Beatles...
...provide a welcome, albeit temporary, respite from the pain of self-awareness. "Hey yeah -- I can't stay in my skin/ I've been here too long," Byrne sings, his voice playfully bouncing over the percolating beat. "But I know where to find a really good time/ And Darlin' I think you'll like it here." And My Love Is You, with its simple, sweet melody and acoustic guitar arrangement, is the most unabashed love song Byrne has ever written...
Things weren't quite so overt at that first executive board meeting, but Prabhu says people tossed the words "darlin'" and "honey" around. Prabhu says she now heard these terms as slurs. People also accused her of being a radical feminist. "Somehow," she says, "those became the ugliest words that you could toss at any woman...
...Bobby King and Sam Moore, it has a real diamond-cut luster and precision. It also has plenty of nerve. Two tunes, Man's Job and Real Man, trash all the stereotypes of rock lyrics ("Now if you're lookin' for a hero, someone to save the day,/ Well, darlin', my feet they're made of clay") and present love -- looking for it, nurturing it, keeping it -- as the real...
Father Ted Hesburgh, a commanding visionary and a "darlin' man," retires after 35 distinguished years as head of Notre Dame...