One should always be wary of hyperbole, but a new Beatles album is upon us. Titled Love, it was produced by Sir George Martin, From the dense harmonies of Because ("Love is all, love is close of Goodnight, it cites and samples well over a hundred Beatles songs.
The result is a long and winding fugue of juxtapositions, layerings, self-references and assorted magic tricks that may very well rank as the best compilation album ever made, and which will certainly be number one come Christmas.
soundtrack to a new show by Cirque du Soleil, which opened in Las Vegas in June. Critics flown in from the Fab Four's homeland, including my colleague Charles Spencer, universally came out in goosebumps at the show's blissful union of new sights and old sounds.
Regrettably, the spectacle is far too unwieldy ever to tour, so the closest most of us will ever come to seeing Love, The Musical is listening to Love, The Music, which is shortly to be released on CD touring and retreated to the laboratory of the studio, it was the told you about Strawberry Fields" in Glass Onion, Paul McCartney chanting "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah" in the fade-out to All You Need Is Love.
celebrated songs speak to one another across years, albums and, most interestingly, across perceived differences of style and temperament within the band.
In the brief but brilliant annunciation of this idea, the open orchestral crescendo of A Day in the Life and on, via a locomotive drum intro, into Get Back.
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