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...Here Now finds the band once again aping the Beatles. One song, Magic Pie, has a title that echoes the name of Paul McCartney's last solo release, Flaming Pie; on another, the frenetic My Big Mouth, Liam sings of going "down the long and winding road." There are a few surprises on Be Here Now; at some points, Oasis cribs from bands other than the Beatles. Much of the album is informed by the crunching blues-rock of the Rolling Stones. One of the worst songs, however, draws from a less impressive source: the spaghetti-western-style guitar work...
...there's nothing wrong with being influenced by other bands (as long as they've got better musical credentials than Bon Jovi). As former Beatle McCartney pointed out recently, the Beatles borrowed some of their style from performers such as Chuck Berry. However, Oasis would be a better band if it started to innovate more and imitate less. If we want to hear the Beatles, we can listen to their Anthology records...
...talks at Stormont on Monday when a Sinn Fein delegation arrived for preliminary discussions. "We will not negotiate with anyone who supports violence and who are associated with any group which retained the means of inflicting violence upon others for the attainment of political objectives," party leader Robert McCartney said. The IRA adamantly refuses to meet the Protestant demand that it unconditionally disarm itself. While this sticking point may ruin yet another truce, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is determined to convince pro-British Protestants that holding talks with Sinn Fein is in their best interest...
...result, Flaming Pie is a relaxed, easygoing album; the songs sail blithely along, like boats on a lake on a bright, breezy day. The knock on McCartney's solo work has always been that it is overly sweet; too much light, not enough illumination. Now that McCartney is 54, however, age has brought to his work a welcome melancholy; there's a streak of gray in his golden voice. The Song We Were Singing, a gentle number looking back at the psychedelic bull sessions of the 1960s, has a jaunty feel but also a wistful one; Heaven on a Sunday...
...might expect McCartney, as an elder statesman of rock, to be a grump about the state of today's pop music, but he actually thinks it's going along quite fine. He even has (mostly) generous things to say about Oasis, the aggressively youthful British rock band that in recent years has been accused of ripping off the Beatles' sound. Says McCartney: "I like the fact that they're live and they can play their instruments. I like the fact that they honor us by using us as their source, so it's a tribute. I certainly...