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Ringo Starr has put out a new box set, George Harrison is alive and kicking, and PAUL MCCARTNEY is engaged--all in all a fine week for former Beatles. McCartney, 59, proposed to model and anti-land mine advocate HEATHER MILLS, 33, while vacationing in Britain's Lake District. She accepted; the couple will marry next year. "They would like to thank their relatives and friends for all the great support they have shown them since they met two years ago," said a McCartney spokesman, who added that McCartney proposed on one knee with a diamond-and-sapphire ring bought...
...LAND MINE BAN TREATY December 1997 121 nations pledged to eliminate antipersonnel land mines, but the U.S. declined, claiming it needed the mines to protect its troops in South Korea...
...popularity in the late ?50s coincided with a shift from the 12-bar format to pop?s favorite descending chord pattern (C, C7, F, F-minor) in the choruses of "Ain?t That Love," "Swanee River Rock" and "That?s Enough" and the release of "This Little Girl of Mine" and his sensaysh cover of Sy Oliver?s "Yes Indeed." We came to expect the revival-show tambourine (rattled by co-producer Jerry Wexler on some sides), the backing girl group (the Cookies, later known as the Raelettes) offer response to his call, the bluesy-jazzy sax solos by David...
...didn?t: a facility for songwriting and the old-fashioned ambition to go legit. The first hint of Darin?s staying power was "Dream Lover," a lovely potpourri of pop modes: the plinking rhythm of "Little Darlin?" (done pizzicato by violins here), the release from "This Little Girl of Mine" and a Don Costa-like mixed chorus, with women singing the heavenly-choir "ooo"s and men answering this siren call with a goofy but musically beguiling "wadda-wadda." Darin?s vocal is much more assured, as if he?d just learned not only how to sing...
...While Lennon read a book on Marx and loudly professed his doubts about capitalism and private property in “Imagine,” George had already written a better, more incisive, more believable song about what ails us: “All through the years, I me mine, I me mine, I me mine. Even those tears, I me mine, I me mine, I me mine...