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...originally intended as a gift for his wife's 50th birthday, but John Lennon never got to begin work on a collection of Yoko Ono songs recorded by other artists. The idea, however, lived on, and with a little help from her friends, Ono, 51, finally finished the album. Every Man Has a Woman features twelve songs performed by such divergent talents as Harry Nilsson, Elvis Costello, Eddie Money, Rosanne Cash, Roberta Flack and a young lad more or less new to the business, Sean Ono Lennon, 8, who sings It's Alright. Next Tuesday the musicians will...
WHEN JOHN LENNON died, it helped mark the end of an era familiar to our older siblings, but the excitement of which we could feel only vicariously through the albums and the stories that were handed down. Certainly when we hoped or exulted, as children of the seventies, we turned to the Beatles. Yet by the time we were teenagers, the Beatles had dissolved in a legal war that hurt their credibility...
Gaye's sudden death is perhaps most disturbing seen against the sudden rebirth of his career. Like John Lennon, Gaye seemed to be beginning a third decade of musical influence. He translated "Let's Get it On" into "Sexual Healing," with the eighties touch apparent in the lyric, "Whenever blue teardrops are falling and my emotional stability is leaving me/There is someting I can do. I can get on the telephone and call you up baby." He added the strength of his new religion in the song "My Love is Waiting," and a sense of Third World struggles in "Third...
...over and championed like talismans that could change lives. It is like a piece of elegant sportswear: slip right into it, shrug it off. Jackson has written and performed ebulliently with Paul McCartney; he often appears in bright band jackets; he has palled around a bit with Sean Ono Lennon and has taken him to a Broadway show. It should be clear from all this that Jackson is smitten not only with the Beatles' legacy but with their mystique. Unlike the Beatles, however, he has a vast audience but a small constituency...
...involvement in Lebanon also a disaster? In answer, Administration officials last week borrowed a line from the late Beatle John Lennon, saying again and again that they had only been trying to "give peace a chance." The U.S. attempt to create a strong, moderate, peaceful government, they said, was meant as a first step toward stability in the Middle East. And if the goal proved out of reach, well, better to fail than not to try. Said Reagan: "I don't know what we could have done differently, and our search was for peace and I think we were...