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Their first significant break with the big beat was Paul McCartney's wistfully beautiful ballad Yesterday, sung to the stately accompaniment of a string quartet. The recording sold 1,800,000 copies, and almost instantly all the shaggies were on the Bach-rock kick. The Beatles followed with another bestseller...
...latest sample of the Beatles' astonishing inventiveness is their new single, Strawberry Fields Forever, the flip side of which is Penny Lane; it is now No. 1 in England. Written by John Lennon and McCartney-who has lately developed a passion for Electronic Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen-Strawberries is full of dissonances and eerie space-age sounds, achieved in part by playing tapes backward and at various speeds. This is nothing new to electronic composers, but employing such methods in a pop song is electrifying. At present, the Beatles are giving up tours and personal appearances, plan instead to devote...
...better than most opera singers." The voice of Ella Fitzgerald, whom he regards as the prima donna of pop, "is so naturally placed that she can sing more in a week than most opera singers can in a month." The falsetto wailings of the Beach Boys and Beatle Paul McCartney all echo the early 19th century bel canto singers, he adds. Beyond their interpretive freedom, the major link between pop singers and the bel canto tradition is the microphone, which allows vocalists to sing more naturally, without straining to make them selves heard above a thundering opera house orchestra...
...opulence are all tangled up in a dazzling blur of op and pop. The city is alive with birds (girls) and beatles, buzzing with minicars and telly stars, pulsing with half a dozen separate veins of excitement. The guards now change at Buckingham Palace to a Lennon and McCartney tune, and Prince Charles is firmly in the longhair set. In Harold Wilson, Downing Street sports a Yorkshire accent, a working-class attitude and a tolerance toward the young that includes Pop Singer "Screaming" Lord Sutch, who ran against him on the Teen-Age Party ticket in the last election. Mary...
This musical spoof sounds almost like Bach. The themes, of course, are pure McCartney-Lennon, but they are treated in authentic baroque style by some excellent classical musicians who call themselves the Baroque Ensemble of the Merseyside Kammermusikgesellschaft. Selections include a suite, The Royale Beatleworks Musicke, and a Cantata for the Third Saturday after Shea Stadium...