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SPARKED by brilliant musical performances and their sophisticated simplicity and variety of arrangement, the songs evoke, at different moments, Dylan's lyricism and the Lennon-McCartney precocity. Singing goodbye to "First Girl I Loved" (now 'a grown-up female stranger"), Williamson uses one of his awkwardly sensitive metaphors; "But in the white hills and behind many a long water, you have gathered flowers; and they do not smell for me." Heron, in "Painting Box," imagines himself out of a dark world: "My Friday evening's footsteps plodding dully through this black town are far far away now from the world...
...hearts. It's their latest single, recorded before they went off to meditate in India last month, and released on both sides of the Atlantic last week. It bears the hallmarks of all their most recent work: a deft arrangement, superb engineering, and a lyric (sung by Paul McCartney in what is known as his "Elvis voice") that combines blithe humor with sharp social portraiture of a hard-pressed mother...
...reference is not facile. Paul McCartney once said: With any kind of thing, my aim seems to be to distort it, distort it from what we know it as, even with music and visual things, and to change it from what it is to see what it could do. To see the potential in it all. To take a note and wreck it and see in that note what else there is in it, that a simple act like distorting has caused. It's all trying to create magic, it's all trying to make things happen so that...
Private Sessions. That does not seem to bother the four Merseysiders and their ladies-the three Beatle wives, Paul McCartney's girl friend and George Harrison's sister-in-law-as they take private meditation sessions with His Holiness on his rooftop porch, or sit down to vegetarian meals in the communal dining room. Just how much longer they will stay to enjoy such back-water bliss is uncertain. Though the course lasts for three months and confers on those who complete it a sort of guru status of their own, the Beatles' manager hinted last week...
JOAN (Vanguard). Joan Baez, with her arranger Peter Schickele (of P.D.Q. Bach fame), has provided one of the most satisfying recordings of the year. She sings songs by some of today's greatest poet-musicians, most of whom are actually-and inaccurately-typecast as rock singers: McCartney and Lennon's Eleanor Rigby, Paul Simon's Dangling Conversation, and Tim Hardin's If You Were a Carpenter. But a French song, titled La Colombe (The Dove), provides the most haunting impact, for it is a beautifully put plaint against the slaughter of wars...