Word: lennon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are those who find it absurd to put John Lennon in the august company of the Kennedy and King. The man was, after all, a rock star with long hair, into drugs, who once posed naked for an album cover and painted yellow flowers on his Rolls Royce. How easy it is to forget the impact Lennon and his Beatles cohorts had on popular and also avant-garden culture, an impact that transcended nations and people. When Lennon claimed in the mid-1960's that the Beatles were "bigger than Jesus," he wasn't boasting: it was the truth...
...easily put most of the FM top forty to shame. Eleven perfect singles are served up, each one seemingly stronger than its predecessor. Furthermore, Crenshaw's melodies are hopelessly addictive; they're just short enough to hook the listener but not entirely satisfy him. Back in the '60s, John Lennon and Paul McCartney made a career of just such tactics...
...what may become the ultimate footnote to rock history, it is worth nothing that Crenshaw got his start by playing the part of John Lennon in Beatlemania. Clearly, singing "Help," "Strawberry Fields" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" night after night rubbed off. And if you listen carefully enough, there are moments when Crenshaw brings the Walrus back to life...
...quote in context goes as follows: "Lennon: I've heard a few people say it's an amazing work. Mailer: Well, it's amazing. I mean, chapter by chapter, there's extraordinary stuff in it. The question is whether it will hold up." (Italics mine...
Most of the 48 songs are versions of American rockers or renditions of early Beatles smashes performed in styles that never stray far from the records. There is, however, a Beatles version of an obscure Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas single, a Lennon-McCartney composition titled I'll Be on My Way. It is the sweetest surprise of the package. With a chorus that sounds as simple and sentimental as a child's school rhyme ("As the June light/ Turns to moonlight/ I'll be on my way"), the song shows the Beatles at their most...