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...first time in years, John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, 49, was photographed with ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, 39, and Wife Linda, 39. The rendezvous took place over a pricey meal (asparagus and fettuccine with wild mushrooms) at Manhattan's ultra-chic Le Cirque restaurant, and may have been nothing more than "simply a friendly lunch," as a McCartney business aide insisted. The McCartneys and Ono were not the coziest of friends when the group was still together, so the event took on the significance of an unscheduled summit meeting. According to eyewitnesses, the diners chatted amiably enough...
...Brightest, after all, who brought us Viet Nam. For a long time, many of the world's young fell into a dreamy, vacuous inertia, a canned wisdom of the East persuading them - destructively - that mere being would suffice, was even superior to action. "Let It Be," crooned Paul McCartney. Scientific excellence seemed apocalyptically suspect - the route to pollution and nuclear destruction. Striving became suspect. A leveling contempt for "elitism" helped to divert much of a generation from the ambition to be excellent...
...music may have declined drastically since the days of Lennon and McCartney, but AM could not do full technical justice to a terrific song even if it had one to play. The quality of music reproduction on AM radio is so far behind FM capability that an all-talk format is about the best the wave band can handle. You can't dance to palaver, of course, but at least you can hear...
Watts and the others did not forget their tutelage in R and B; for years they insisted they were not a rock band, and certainly not a pop band, like their rivals, the Beatles. When McCartney and Lennon dropped in on an early recording session and suggested that the Stones play original material instead of just R and B covers, Jagger was caught by surprise, responding "Oh! You're right; that's a good idea." But still the Stones have always tended to fall back on what they know best: Black American blues. For quite a while, Brian Jones favored...
Moments later, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, both 38, bounded down the steps and on to the reception at a private Mayfair club. Starr, using a pair of overturned champagne buckets as drums and with a little help from his two friends, staged an impromptu jam session. The poignant reunion came after the recording of All Those Years Ago, a musical tribute to John Lennon written by Harrison. It is due out in June as a single and will be a track on his new album. Somewhere in England. The cut was recorded with a pair of Wings...