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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...
...PROBABLY NOT FAIR to knock other people's marriages. Yoko Ono helped John Lennon to find himself. John is helping Yoko to find herself, too. But in finding themselves, either John or Yoko should have realized that Yoko can't sing. The double album Approximately Infinite Universe must set some record for discordant self-indulgence...
...wrote the lyrics and the music to all the songs in this package, and the music, at least, is intermittently promising. Ironically for an artist so insistent on the importance of an independent identity, her style at its best is strikingly similar to John Lennon's. Her band will come in with a bouncy drum and guitar introduction or a warm harmony of guitar and piano. Then inevitably she starts singing. It's really a shame...