Articles tagged "paul mccartney"

ShortTakes Review

Jars of Clay: Christmas Songs

by Mike Schiller

[5.Dec.07] :. Christmas Songs is refuge from the bombast of the season, a perfectly subtle slice of Heaven.

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McCartney `trying to create an antidote’ for difficult times

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[4.Dec.07] :. "I'm from the world of 45's and LP's, then it became cassettes and 8-tracks, then CDs, and now it's downloading. It doesn't make much difference to me."

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Old rockers go on a DVD roll

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[20.Nov.07] :. Among other accomplishments, it’s often claimed that the Beatles made the first music videos. Even before the band stopped performing live, it was filmed lip-synching and clowning around to...

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Film DVD Review

Help!

by Zeth Lundy

[2.Nov.07] :. The Beatles' second (and second-best) movie, an absurdist romp with Bond-esque aspirations, gets an overdue clean-up on this new double-disc edition.

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Reflections of a Renaissance Man: An Interview with Paul McCartney

by Christian John Wikane

[25.Jun.07] :. From Astaire to T-Pain, from Little Richard to de Kooning, McCartney talks to PopMatters and covers it all, including his uncertainty about what kind of send-off he'd like.

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Paul McCartney frees himself from yesterday and today

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[6.Jun.07] :. Paul McCartney is a musical master, but nobody has ever accused him of bleeding for his art. A tortured artist he is not. McCartney’s lot is to be stereotyped as a remarkable craftsman, not a...

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Macca’s coffee hangover

by Jason Gross

[6.Jun.07] :. The fact that an ex-Beatle would ditch the major label factory to pact with the world’s biggest coffee shop is definitely a sign o’ the times but as far as McCartney’s recorded...

Paul McCartney: Memory Almost Full

by Zeth Lundy

[4.Jun.07] :. The former Beatle's third studio album of the new century backtracks on the creative revitalization of 2005's Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.

Sgt. Pepper at 40, from A to Z

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Jun.07] :. It was 40 years ago today -- to be precise, June 1, 1967, in Britain, a day later in the former colonies of America -- that the Beatles changed the world.

Good Rockin’ Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records (2002)

by Scott Thill

[23.Jan.03] :. Even though Sam Phillips recorded many black artists, there are hardly any, aside from Thomas, to be found in the film.

A Hard Day’s Night (1964/2000)

by Sabadino Parker

A smooth amalgamation of Richard Lester's intricate direction, Alun Owen's hysterical screenplay, and the natural charms of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a film perfectly of its time and perfectly timeless.