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Smile because it is hard for him to fathom now the thought of having once carried a weapon--a switchblade--to school. Smile because today he will graduate from Harvard. Smile because he will marry his high school sweetheart, Maiysha Lennon, this summer. Smile because in September he will enter the Harvard Medical School Class...
There's nothing you can lose that can't be found. Paul McCartney just dug up at least four never recorded songs he wrote with John Lennon when the lads first met as teenagers. "I wrote them in my school exercise book," McCartney, 54, recalled last week. Timing is everything: the discovery came just days before McCartney released his new album, Flaming...
...White Album and Abbey Road, including a Why Don't We Do It in the Road, in which Paul McCartney alternates verses of cooing falsetto and rapacious shout (he's Smokey Robinson; no, he's Howlin' Wolf). John, Paul and George Harrison harmonize on a beautiful a capella Because. Lennon, high on his new love, intones, "Yoko o no-no, Yoko o no-yes during a rough sketch for Happiness Is a Warm Gun. He does a Yokoized What's the New Mary Jane, a previously unreleased number with Lewis Carroll-like lyrics and avant-garde inventiveness. But there...
...Lennon, backed by Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, rips into Yer Blues. Yoko, in one of her first rock gigs, wails like an abused hyena. And the Stones play a six-pack of their standards, including a pulverizing Sympathy for the Devil...
...romp and a requiem. The Stones' Brian Jones would die the next summer, the Who's Keith Moon and Lennon a decade or so later. But on tape and CD, the stars are alive. So are the craft, magic and zip of '60s rock...