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...other side of the new disk urges activism of a different sort. Hey Jude, sung by Paul McCartney, liltingly exhorts a friend to overcome his fears and commit himself in love...
...three singles released along with their own last week, the Beatles make a modest start toward that goal. One, produced by Paul McCartney, introduces 18-year-old Mary Hopkin, a Welsh folk singer with a high, clear soprano reminiscent of Folk Singer Joan Baez. Singing Those Were the Days, a sort of Mediterranean-style café song, she gives a gently swaying, lyrical performance. Another record, produced by George Harrison, offers Liverpool Rock Singer Jackie Lomax, 24, in a driving, bluesy delivery of a Harrison song, Sour Milk Sea. Then there is the 113-year-old Black Dyke Mills Band...
Within a musical framework of this frenzied a pace there is no place for the eloquent bass guitarist building up elegant harmonies a la Paul McCartney, and John Entwistle knows and does better. A big solid unsmiling figure on stage dressed in black with a white ruffled vest ("I don't move around so I can wear fancy clothes") he is jovial and enourmously pleasant in the dressing room. "There's no other bass guitarist that's better than me because I don't play it like a bass guitar." And it's true, he doesn't. He plays...
...sale. Actually, that wasn't far off the mark as the Beatles' Apple Boutique, London's psychedelic Woolworth's, staged a two-day going-out-of-business giveaway. Why, after eight months, was Apple closing? "We got fed up with the rag trade," explained Paul McCartney. Groused Ringo Starr: "I never could find anything to fit me there anyway." In fact, despite the Beatle name and a hefty investment, Apple was barely breaking even...
...cruelty of their lines to each other is intensified by the mutual fear that the actors convey. Sheila Hart starts out sounding like Paul McCartney's grandfather in "A Hard Day's Night", but soon turns chillingly vicious...