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...green and creating a huge circle of drum players and mourner-celebrants. One sign read, "Fare thee well, fare thee well, we miss you more than words can tell." In Manhattan's Central Park, 700 Deadheads gathered under the full moon at the memorial to another fallen idol, John Lennon. In Washington, where more than 300 souls converged on the Lincoln Memorial, Rush Jones, 25, spoke his anxiety in prime Dead style. Garcia's death marked "the end of a chapter of my life," he said. "Not with a dot, a period, but slammed shut, the ink still dribbling from...
...this lamentation, at Lennon or Presley volume, for the leader of a group that in 30 years had exactly one Top 10 single (1987's acerbic but hummy Touch of Grey)? Well, for a few reasons. One is that the Dead was a phenomenon as a road band: it played before more people for more years than any combo in history. Another is that it was a time capsule for the elan of the '60s, hopeful and engaged, melodious and raucous. It was also the ragged champs of the art of improvisation. If rock musicians prove their wits by vamping...
...work of deceased performers, to remix, remaster and rejigger unfinished recordings with digital precision, and, via aggressive '90s marketing, to sell them to the public as authentic. In December, EMI will issue a Beatles boxed set with several new tunes, at least one featuring the voice of John Lennon, who died in 1980. Previously unreleased tracks of Lennon's singing are being combined with newly recorded vocals from the three surviving Beatles. On one cut of Selena's new album, her Spanish vocals have been lifted from a song released years earlier and mixed with new English-language vocals...
...George Harrison and Ringo Starr are making new recordings together. "I'm working in the studio on a couple of tracks from a '60s beat group you may have heard of, called the Beatles," he said. The three surviving Beatles had already recorded something new this year -- a John Lennon song called "Free as a Bird" -- but McCartney says they have since recorded two more...
...John Lennon...