Monday, October 29 2007
Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald
In spite of some troubling, reactionary views, the late MacDonald's song-by-song analysis of the Fabs' music remains a Top Five acquisition.
Tuesday, September 18 2007
All My Loving
Tony Palmer's 1968 made-for-BBC "masterpiece" looks decidedly more suspect today.
Tuesday, July 17 2007
Part 2: Janis Ian to Jimi Hendrix (1966-1970)
Music truly is the universal language. The best songs of protest are passed around, from movement-to-movement, era-to-era; its singers gaining multilingual fluency along the way.
Friday, June 1 2007
Sgt. Pepper at 40, from A to Z
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.
Friday, December 15 2006
The Beatles: Love
The companion piece to the Cirque du Soleil extravaganza, George and Giles Martin's remix project affirms newfound thematic correlations within the Beatles' catalog.
Friday, December 16 2005
The Beatles by Bob Spitz
Spitz conquers the sensibilities of common logic by telling us a story we know by heart as if we'd never heard it.
Wednesday, January 12 2005
The Beatles: The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1
They are the greatest pop culture phenomenon of our lifetime and the ongoing artistic touchstone for rock music. But by the 21st century, the Beatles have become synonymous with music industry greed; they are a cash cow milked annually for the progressively lactose-intolerant.
