Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front of The World's Greatest Jazz Band, I'm not sure, but I'm told she still has her stuff, in spite of some years and some eye problems. Her recent work is primarily interpretive, owing to a decline in big bands, but she can interpret Lennon-McCartney as well as anyone, and an evening with TWGJB ought to prod her into a few standards. Somehow, no one should miss this...
Over the throbbing beat of John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance, the mellifluous voice of a onetime hamburger impresario wafts daily across the Middle East air waves: "This is the voice of peace, broadcasting on 1,542 kilocycles from somewhere in the Mediterranean...
Paul Simon's solo work has been aimed at revitalizing himself musically. It turns out that Arthur Garfunkel was a restrictive influence in roughly the same way Paul McCartney restricted John Lennon. Paul Simon sang Simon's problems; not unusual in light of the trend toward works exploring "the pain of the heart," exemplified by Joni Mitchell and Baby James. Songs like "Everything Put Together Falls Apart," "Run That Body Down," and "Armistice Day" probed their author's psyche, while "Mother and Child Reunion," and "Me and Julio" revitalized Simon's music, as well as letting him look within...
...Rose Speedway (Paul McCartney and Wings, Apple; $5.98). Perhaps McCartney's best post-Beatle album. Although it seems obvious that he is never going to become the pithy lyricist John Lennon was, and sometimes still is, McCartney remains a musical nonpareil. Rarely is he better than when dealing with blues-based material like this album's Get on the Right Thing...
...help from his friends wasn't enough. Despite testimony by a parade of character witnesses that included New York City Mayor John Lindsay, Talk-Show Host Dick Cavett and United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service last week gave ex-Beatle John Lennon, 32, 60 days to leave the U.S. Lennon, who has been living with his wife Yoko Ono in Manhattan since 1971, was refused permanent residency because of his 1968 conviction in England for possession of marijuana. "If we are deported, it is synonymous with losing our child. That...