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...rummaging through the LP artifacts of the '60s, they will be able to discern several distinct phases in the stylistic evolution of the Beatles. Rubber Soul (1966) was the last album of their archaic period, blending the best kind of rock naivete with a mastery of simple forms. Sgt. Pepper (1967) represents the Beatles at their classic moment, fusing the pop spirit and an astoundingly eclectic range of sounds into a harrowing but harmonious whole. Their double-disk album called simply The Beatles, which has just been released in the U.S.,* may well be interpreted as an example...
Among other things, the Beatles in The Beatles seem to be signaling the listener that they have pulled back from the electronic adventurousness and the matic unity of Sgt. Pepper. Their new album is much more relaxed and modest. Well and good; there is no reason why Sgt. Pepper should be a shackling precedent for whatever follows. But when the foursome meander from style to style without any apparent guiding objective or sense of urgency, they seem to be substituting synthetics for synthesis. Even their renewed interest in the song styles of the English music hall and rhythm and blues...
...establish the Stones as England's most subversive roisterers since Fagin's gang in Oliver Twist.* It also stands in notable contrast to their previous album, Their Satanic Majesties Request, which ventured into the realm of electronic wizardry and psychedelic fantasy charted by the Beatles in Sgt. Pepper. Since that was an alien idiom for the Stones, they sounded pretentious and boring...
...Caligari, Unnatural Practices, Unspeakable Acts), and several New York School Poets (Koch, Ashberry, O'Hara). It includes such Zen masters as Joshu, who was given to putting his shoes on his head in reply to weighty theological questions. And it includes my spiritual advisors, the starts of Help, sgt. Pepper's, and The Authorized Biography by Hunter Davies--The Beatles...
...playing with styles by no means stopped when they began performing only their own compositions. On "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" they play at being...well, Seargent Pepper's Band for one thing. The play at being sixty-four. And they play with different states of consciousness: they play at being lonely, at being stoned(and while stoned), and at going insane...