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...GEORGE HARRISON WAS ASKED That Question for the thousandth time. There would be no Beatles reunion, the quiet one said, "as long as John Lennon remains dead." Yet here they were, George and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, in the Abbey Road studios, putting aside rancors that had festered for decades and making music. "Working together, they've found themselves again," says the Beatles' longtime record producer George Martin of the sessions last winter. "There was a great spirit of camaraderie. It's almost as though John was with them too." And he was. Lennon's audible ghost sings lead...
Such a remark had to give McCartney the cringies. He composed the group's top-selling single (Hey Jude), its most widely covered song (Yesterday) and much of its most enduring music. He was the Beatles' most versatile singer, and not just as a balladeer; his scorched-throat rendition of the raver I'm Down is a highlight of the Anthology show. Yet Paul always shivered in John's shadow. Partly it was his looks. He was cute, coquettish--almost the girl of the group--so how could he be smart? He was the favorite of the girls whose screams...
...religious right will see this as a major resource," he notes, "and seek to strengthen ties with it. There is a danger it might be hijacked." (In fact, Promise Keepers has no official position on abortion, and its disapproval of homosexuality is stated in considerably more neutral terms than McCartney's own brutal remarks in the past.) Martin also shares with some of the movement's feminist critics an unease about Promise Keepers' position on the man's authority within the family.(a speaker once wrote that men should "treat the lady gently and lovingly--but lead"). He notes, however...
...LINDA MCCARTNEY seems to have it all: a happy vegetarian family, a $50 million vegetarian food biz, two cookbooks and the cash to send a million vegetarian meals to Bosnia. But she can't rest. "At night I think of all the animals waiting to be slaughtered," she says. And so she badgered the remaining Beatles into announcing last week that they won't eat meat either...
...Paul McCartney composed Stella May Day for the occasion, but With a Little Help from My Friends may have been more appropriate. Daughter STELLA MCCARTNEY, who's graduating from a London design school this year, already knows enough about fashion to persuade friends NAOMI CAMPBELL, Kate Moss and Yasmin Le Bon to wear her clothes in a student show for parents and industry types. Her collection, described by one critic as "part Penny Lane, part Rita, Meter Maid," must have satisfied the paparazzi, who stomped out as soon as her segment was over...