Everything Fab Four
Peter Jackson’s Get Back is a mesmerizing feast for the eyes, a veritable time machine that transports viewers back to the Beatles’ heyday in January 1969. New fans and diehards alike will revel in the carefully restored images of the Fab Four as … [Continue reading] about Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” Docuseries Is a Mesmerizing Feast for the Eyes
It may be an overly lofty thing to say, but Paul McCartney was born to compose popular music. There is no better living document to his gift for concocting pop confections than Ram, his 1971 album with wife Linda. Coming on the heels of his eponymous … [Continue reading] about Paul and Linda McCartney’s Ram Still Shines Brightly at 50
Released on November 17, 1980, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy had scarcely been in stores for three weeks before the former Beatle’s senseless murder on December 8. In spite of the incredible buzz surrounding their first new album … [Continue reading] about Everything Fab Four: Reassessing John and Yoko’s “Double Fantasy”
In the autumn months of 1969, Paul McCartney died. It had been a series of deaths, really. First up were the rumors, invented and spread by DJs and college students, that he had perished in a 1966 automobile accident and that the other Beatles were … [Continue reading] about Everything Fab Four: “Maybe I’m Amazed,” Paul McCartney’s Post-Beatles Classic
On Friday, August 22nd, 1969, scarcely more than 30 hours since they’d departed EMI Studios after having finally put the Abbey Road album to bed, the Beatles reconvened at Tittenhurst Park, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s estate in rural … [Continue reading] about Everything Fab Four: The Beatles at Tittenhurst Park