"The Beatles remasters have finally hit the street and all across the world, music fans are gorging themselves on the most fabled and revered repertoire in pop music history. This may well prove to be the last hurrah of the CD age and certainly the marketing gurus at Capital have been working … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2009
REVERSE BEATLES TELESCOPE
The Incredible Flying Earpiece (Fraud's Deviant to Fudd's Law) Beatles' Digital Remasters Jim Lehrer Newshour on PBS September 9, 2009 … [Read more...]
NOTES FROM ALL OVER
[cover: Chip Kidd, 1988] Of the scores of Beatles books I've skimmed over the years, Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album by Album, Song by Song, the Sixties and After , by Tim Riley, is one of the few I've taken the time to read because of its depth, insight and readability. Written when the author was … [Read more...]
DIVINE CERTAINTIES
Gary Kamiya on Ronald Reagan's 1964 campaign speech for that other Barry: The Speech tapped into the primordial American myth: untrammeled individuality. There must be a territory for Huck Finn to light out to, a promised land where authority--or government--does not reach. In this always-beckoning … [Read more...]
TAKE THE CANNOLI
The Annotated Godfather Script, by Jenny M. Jones (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers) Even better than it looks. How art is composed of freak accidents, near-misses and poor management, blow by blow. … [Read more...]