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...cuts on Marshall Crenshaw are positively eerie. "Soldier of Love" might very well be a track the Fab Four couldn't find room for on Beatles '65. "The Usual Thing" sounds strikingly like the Everly Brothers. But Crenshaw has done more than just successfully emulate his illustrious forebears. Rather, he is their logical successor, the latest link in an exquisite chain that began with Holly, hooked around Liverpool, latched onto California and then began to rust...
...Many of these are printed not only in elegant type but also in their original scribbled state, with inks and stationery letterheads reproduced with the craft and fidelity usually reserved for a Monet. Though he wrote Here Comes the Sun and Something, Harrison was not the foremost of the Fab Four as everyone - perhaps including George himself - would agree. "The small change of a short lifetime" is the way he describes the contents in a foreword. "I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn...
Yellow Submarine. Attractively packaged drivel. When it premiered in 1968, "Yellow Submarine" was supposed to be the vanguard of a new age in animation. Since it featured cartoons of the Beatles--and a ridiculous plot regarding the salvation of "Pepperland" by the Fab Four, loosely constructed from their songs--the film was a big hit. Ten years later it's difficult to see why. The animation is quite good, the colors are splendid, but only a rock-ribbed Beatlemaniac could love this movie. Druggies beware, though. Our sources claim that this is a great movie to trip, snort, smoke, shoot...
...street Tyrone Power," dithers Allan Carr, a manager-producer who landed Travolta for his $6 million film version of Grease, to be released in June. This time, five years after the road tour, John will have the lead, dancing and singing pre-fab rock-'n'-roll ditties in a voice that sounds like he's been gargling with Ovaltine...
...former professor of zoology at the University of Washington, Dixy Ray, an admitted political neophyte, was a surprise winner of last September's Democratic primary. Ray, a small, chunky woman who lives with two dogs in a pre-fab home on an island, waged an energetic, 18-hour-a-day campaign on a skimpy budget to defeat the less colorful, pipe-smoking Spellman. As Governor, Ray is expected to pursue a generally conservative course, trimming the state budget and considering an income tax to replace other levies if the need arises. Predictably, she favors development of nuclear energy...