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...already gone too far?after all the money was spent and the stock market crashed, after a demagogue had swallowed a dozen countries, afer the ashes of millions had been blown away. Before then, lands off, wait and watch. In 1934 Cole Porter wrote Anything ties; in 1970 Paul McCartney sang...
...Your Hand, the Beatles' biggest hit single-it has sold 5,000,000 copies since 1963-was a cliché boy-girl lyric and a simple tune hammered onto the regulation aaba pop-song structure. But the boys found their conventional sound and juvenile verses stultifying. Says Paul McCartney: "We didn't like the idea of people going onstage and being very un real and doing sickly songs. We felt that people would like it more, and we would like it more, if there was some-reality...
...number of venereal diseases. Later, rich and famous beyond anyone's wildest imaginings, they would become infected with incurable jealousy and suspicion, some of which was well founded. The final blow, Brown writes, came in one of those stultifying board meetings when the other Beatles discovered that McCartney had been secretly buying up shares in their publishing company behind then" collective back...
Brown knew about this because he helped McCartney do it. This fact, like all else in the book, is presented with a tone of slightly mocking worldliness that sometimes cracks into cynicism. Yet The Love You Make is the best backstage Beatles book so far, full of deep-dish gossip, much of it brought together for the first time and some of it new. A good deal of the information is inherently dramatic and painful. Brown's compassionate recollection of Brian Epstein as a deliriously romantic, masochistic homosexual and erratic businessman who died of a drug overdose...
Madeiros' performance and that of fellow dancer Dean Gregory stand out as excellent. The most engaging, though, is that of Leslie Rickert, whose sense of humor and absurdity gets this production over the rocky spots. In a rendition of Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" sung to the tune of the Annie hit "Tomorrow," she sings, "Yesterday, yesterday, you're only a day away." In striking contrast, one player's style is either a poor parody of Laurie Anderson or a case of performance-art plagiarism...