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...resolves issues which ought to remain at loose ends, and it manufactures corrugated conclusions where there should remain the gnawing anxieties of ambiguity. And what can Let It Be possibly have to do with Waiting for Godot? The voice of that song is, at the very least, peaceful, and McCartney's crystal words of wisdom are light years from Beckett's terrifying existential despair. Godot isn't about the brotherhood of man; it's about the spirtual death of mankind...
Shot 15 months ago, mostly in and around the Apple recording studios, the film concentrates heavily on Paul McCartney, so much so that the billing might be changed to "Let It Be, starring Paul McCartney and some other Beatles." There are flashes of John dancing with his wife Yoko Ono, and George and Ringo picking out Octopus Garden on guitar and piano, but most of the good footage belongs to Paul. He is the one who seems to be running the recording sessions, and he is surely the one who gets to sing-mostly in lingering closeups-all the great...
...Back is topnotch. For You Blue is a small gem featuring a moonlit slide guitar that twangs all the way from Nashville to Waikiki. Underlying the basically nostalgic thrust of the album is an authentic piece of oldtime rock 'n' roll, One After 909, which Lennon and McCartney wrote together back...
...odds are good that Let It Be will be roundly panned. The odds are equally good that the album will sell in round millions. After all, since the recent Paul McCartney outbreak (TIME, April 20), no one can be really sure that Let It Be is not the group's last trip to the platter...
...talented people who are determined to succeed do not stay in the Village. They get out, and some, like 23-year-old James Taylor, make it. Taylor went first to England, Paul McCartney arranged the recording of his first album on the Apple label. And in his first song Saturday night-McCartney's "A Little Help From My Friends" -Taylor was telling us that friends had helped him make it out of the Village...