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...though, was talent. The Beatles became legends before their own time. Once they grew too famous to perform safely or even audibly in public concerts, they retreated to the recording studio and proved themselves artists. Norman re-creates the excitement of these sessions, when the imaginations of Lennon and McCartney met electronic technology; for a few years, the sounds that emerged from a studio on London's Abbey Road dazzled intellectuals, teeny-boppers and nearly everyone in between. At the same time, the end was nearing. Epstein was dead, an apparent suicide; the Beatles were quarreling, no longer that...
Next year, McCartney went his own way and that, one would have thought, was that. End of Beatles, end of era. But the Beatles would never
...riding out all the massive changes of the 60s and bringing about a few on their own, the Beatles also trashed an elementary law of geometry: this was one whole that was greater than the sum of its parts. Lennon was unfairly used as a means to put McCartney in his place, although Lennon had taken pains lately to redefine details of his collaboration with Paul, and to make sure credit was distributed accurately. The melodic range of the music ran from marching band to rhythm and blues, from tonal stunt flying to atonal acrobatics, once in a while...
...hard to keep the credits straight with all the Beatles, it was harder still for them to keep their friendly equilibrium. McCartney, married to Linda Eastman and staying close to the hearthside, released a series of albums that were roundly drubbed as corny, until he broke through splendidly in 1973 with Band on the Run. Lennon, married to Ono and living in New York, released a great solo record, Plastic Ono Band, then threw himself headlong into uncertainty. He and Ono lived in a series of elaborate post-hippie crash pads, became obsessed not only with artistic experimentation but with...
Lennon loved language, the sounds and rhymes and elastic elusiveness of words, and, like a dandy with a lace handkerchief, he liked to keep a pun up his sleeve. The early songs, all written in collaboration with Paul McCartney, were playful, ebullient, rich in imagination. On his own, Lennon planed down the richness of the words into a sparseness that matched the immediacy of the music...