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Last year's thin but charming excavation, the two-CD Live at the BBC, sold 8 million copies worldwide, so there may yet be fresh gold in the Beatles. abc thinks so; it paid $20 million for the documentary. E.M.I. paid several millions more for the three "new" double albums, and last week Sony paid $95 million to Michael Jackson to share in his ownership of part of the Beatles song catalog...
...long, will appear on video in 1996) is a jolly, narratorless, comprehensive ramble that captures the thrill of the glory years, as reconstructed with rarely seen footage and recollected by the very Fab Four--John from old snippets, of course, the others in recent interviews, individually and together. The CD package, the first of three, promises choice nuggets as well. "It won't be, as some feared, just a ragbag of rejects," says Ian MacDonald, author of Revolution in the Head, a close study of the group's music. "It'll be the vital concluding installment of the Beatles' story...
...original music from the show and was devoid of appearances by major stars. We used the people in the series and cut it for under $10,000--cheap even in those times. Today the record business is a whole different ball game, and the sales potential of the CD depends as much on who performs the music as on how successful the show is. That's why even CDs spawned from megahit shows can still turn out to be sales disasters. BOB RENO Beverly Hills, California...
...comes its third album, the whimsically titled Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. It's the group's most ambitious and accomplished work yet, a double-CD set containing more than two hours of music. "We were trying to get everything the band could do onto one release," says lead singer Billy Corgan. "A lot of times things get left off because bands are trying to do a focused kind of rock album. A double CD widened the parameters of what we could...
...ambitions. The Chicago-based alternative band is quite capable of turning out three-minute, radio-ready songs (Today, Disarm). It also excels in creating longer, art-pop compositions that wander about for seven minutes or more, exploring a variety of musical textures, melodies and emotions. The band's first CD, Gish (1991), featured assertive rock that was at once primal and cerebral; its second, Siamese Dream (1993), was a buzzing, humming, intricately constructed maze of sounds...