Word: rerecord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimate instrument for forgetting is television. It is inherent in the medium. The flickering image is impossible to retain. Who remembers the once ubiquitous Mike Douglas? Frank Reynolds? Michael Dukakis? Pastlessness is inherent in video, with its fast cuts and dissolving shots and rerecord button, with its moving tape forever recording a vanishing now. For a television society, every day is Today, This Morning and Tonight. Television life is a rolling present relieved only by commercial breaks...
...Enough water has gone under the bridge for it to be a reminder of the wonderful days again, not the hell of the breakup." That is how ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, 42, explains his decision to rerecord such vintage Beatle classics as Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby and For No One as part of the sound track for the just released Give My Regards to Broad Street, a musical rock-fantasy feature film that he wrote and produced. But while it's getting better all the time for McCartney, the singer is still irked that he does not own the copyrights...