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...fifth Beatle? Martin, now 80, had with his son Giles confected the elaborate and imaginative soundscape for Love. When the extravaganza officially opens Friday night, the Martins will be joined by the surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and by George Harrison's widow Olivia and John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono. My guess is that they'll be pleased and moved...
...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 guitar rendition of "Yesterday" - the first of many flabbergasting expansions...
London Aug. 14, 1964 A Hard Day's Night, starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - the Beatles - is one of the smoothest, freshest, funniest films ever made solely for purposes of exploitation. Scorning plot, 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took place in London 1956-1966 New sounds in the air, protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon it affects to study...
...Bridge to Nowhere, the album's best bet for a big hit, explores the lives of the directionless and dissatisfied. With his knack for storytelling, Roberts takes after iconic singer-songwriters like John Lennon and Bob Dylan, whom he credits as his influences. "I'm trying to make my contribution to the great tradition of rock 'n' roll," he says, adding that it's a "lofty goal." He's already proved himself sharper than most...
...There is also no real discussion of the influence of their X-Large clothing line, Grand Royal magazine, and record label, which introduced such innovative artists as Luscious Jackson and Sean Lennon...