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...JOHN LENNON claims that the Beatles' songs do not carry any messages and says he resents people who try to interpret them in that way. Neverheless, his latest song, 'Revolution', is so explicily and brutally to the point that one cannot help but sense a morning in it--and be painfully startled by this particular message. The song is a vicious and unqualified rejection of politics-in-the-street and its inevitable aspects of violence and disorder--a style that has been practiced supremely in the recent pass in France and at Chicago...
...organized earlier this year to coordinate the group's multiplying business enterprises, which include films, television, music publishing and electronics. The specific mission assigned to the Apple disk label was not only to record the Beatles, but also to enable them to promote new talent. As John Lennon put it last spring, "We want to give people the kind of freedom that we would've liked when we first started recording...
...driving, bluesy delivery of a Harrison song, Sour Milk Sea. Then there is the 113-year-old Black Dyke Mills Band from the Yorkshire town of Queensbury. Producer McCartney decided that their traditional brass sound would be just right for Thingumybob, a theme that he and Lennon wrote for a weekly London TV show...
...first time at 15. I suppose that was a bit early. I was about the first in my class." Or Ringo Starr on the Beatles' tours: "The only fun part was the hotels in the evening, smoking pot and that." Or John Lennon on the art of writing lyrics: "We know we're conning them, because we know people want to be conned. Let's stick that in there, we say, that'll start them puzzling...
...first Beatle to marry, fathered the first Beatle baby, and now an older John Lennon, 27, is meditating about the first Beatle divorce. After six years of marriage and one son, John has split with Wife Cynthia, 27, and is all about London with Japanese-born avant-garde artist Yoko Ono, 34. "I love Yoko," said John. Yet there's a hang-up-she's still hitched to U.S. Film Director Anthony Cox. Small matter. "I don't think that marriage is the end product of love," explained John...