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...leaving the Boston Pops at the end of this year, and the orchestra is looking for a new leader -- preferably someone with star power, a marquee name. Among the people still in the running for the Pops job, according to rumor: Top 40- esque entertainers Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones and Marvin Hamlisch. There are also more conventional candidates up for the post, including conductors Erich Kunzel of the Cincinnati Pops and John Mauceri of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra...
...have. Murphy's new R.-and-B. album, LOVE'S ALRIGHT (Motown), was obviously a huge effort, a labor of love, jam-packed with more guest stars than The Player and the Home Shopping Network combined. On the best track, Yeah, there are performance cameos by Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and others. Unfortunately, this hammers home the point that Murphy the musical artist is no Jackson, McCartney or Wonder. With this album Murphy proves he's a good songwriter and vocalist. Trouble is, he's a great comedian...
Catching his breath after a rollicking version of Twenty Flight Rock, the aging icon jokes, "I'm too pooped to pop, man." But McCartney, 50, is hardly ready to give up the ghost of his creative past. After decades of distancing himself from the Beatles, he has in recent years embraced the music that made him famous, and on Up Close he cheerfully continues that trend. His renditions of Lennon-McCartney classics like Fixing a Hole, Lady Madonna and Michelle are enlivened by the unabashed enthusiasm of his band. And McCartney has never rocked harder than on the extended version...
...McCartney's Beatles days also echo through Off the Ground, his best and brashest record since the 1973 Band on the Run. His tendency toward sentimentality is held in check by boisterous guitars and lyrics that raise an activist banner against animal abuse and social intolerance. The quirky orchestral embellishments on Golden Earth Girl and Mistress and Maid recall the Fab Four's psychedelic phase, while C'mon People, with its heartfelt appeal to "get it right this time," evokes the Utopian sweep of Golden Slumbers and Hey Jude...
...epilogue of Up Close, McCartney dangles the possibility of a reunion with the two other surviving Beatles, a prospect that has already generated feverish media anticipation. "If we get together for one piece of music," Paul predicts, "we're bound to say, 'C'mon, let's do another little thing.' " The Fab Three could even dust off their old Sgt. Pepper uniforms and hit the road, showing that their esprit de corps is as timeless as the Beatles' ( music. Then again, it might be wiser to respect the immutability of the past and simply...