Word: laliberté
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...that's only half the point, for the show relies as much on what is heard - the Martins' reworking of Beatles standards - as what is shown. Love is the most lavish expression of Cirque founder and boss Guy Lalibert?'s latest obsession: to merge the ballet-acrobat-theatrical Cirque style to modern music. He wants Delirium, with its Barnum & Bailey disco format, to fill nightclubs and arenas in large cities. Cirque is planning another Vegas show for 2008: a bio-evocation of Elvis...
...Lalibert? could have no suaver guide through the Beatles' catalog than the Martins, father and son. George was not only present at the creation; he was crucial to it. He was the one who insisted that Ringo Starr (anyone, actually) replace Pete Best as the band's drummer. He gave the early hits a clean, full sound. And as Lennon and McCartney grew apart, but even more impressively grew, as songwriters, each found in the elder Martin an ideal ear and musical mind, a kind of co-creator. It was Martin who put a string quartet under Paul's solo...
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