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...route from Miami to London. After stints as an English professor at Columbia and a critic for Life magazine, Goldman found his calling as a merciless demythologizer of such pop icons as Lenny Bruce (in 1974's Ladies and Gentlemen -- Lenny Bruce!!), Elvis Presley (Elvis, 1981) and John Lennon (The Lives of John Lennon, 1988). No one would call these biographies "appreciations": the sordid side of his subjects -- from Presley's addictions and gluttony to Lennon's appetite for violence and sex -- fascinated Goldman. All of it was served up in high- voltage prose. Goldman was at work...
Michael Jackson owned the rights to the Lennon and McCartney composition, Capitol Records owned the original masters, and so for $500,000 Nike was allowed to use the actual voices of the Beatles...
...best player in the league. Not even the best player of the decade. But the best there ever was. Numero Uno. The Man. The John Lennon of the hard courts. The Babe Ruth of hoops. In my short time as a sports junkie, I can't think of another league that can equal this feat...
There's a problem in this city that's even more pervasive than the playing of John Lennon's "Imagine" in Harvard Square. Driving in Cambridge is one of the most frenetic and perilous experiences in the reaches of civilization. If you can't catch that plane to Sarajevo, try taking a road trip up to the Star Market in Porter Square at 5:30 in the afternoon...
...McCartney, 50, is hardly ready to give up the ghost of his creative past. After decades of distancing himself from the Beatles, he has in recent years embraced the music that made him famous, and on Up Close he cheerfully continues that trend. His renditions of Lennon-McCartney classics like Fixing a Hole, Lady Madonna and Michelle are enlivened by the unabashed enthusiasm of his band. And McCartney has never rocked harder than on the extended version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which includes a blistering jam of dueling electric guitars...