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...tape transcripts, internal memos and other records show GOPAC quite openly declaring its stake in federal races. "Action alerts," "phonegrams" and other solicitations repeatedly ask contributors for money to help win control of the House. In a letter to textile magnate Roger Milliken, GOPAC chairman Howard ("Bo") Callaway invited the Republican financier to a Washington meeting and vowed, "We will be looking at plans to recruit and support candidates in 210 congressional districts across the country...
That's not at all intended to cast aspersion on the dedicated scientists at Caltech in sunny Pasadena, Calif. (the weather of said city being another science-fiction-like spectre from the vantage point of a New England winter). Malfunctioning antenna and tape deck aside, their probe has lasted six years in space and will, we hope, give us some spectacular pictures...
...original 1977 demo tape, widely available on bootleg cassette, Lennon prefaces the tune by announcing, in the terse gutturals of a Brooklyn gangster, "Free. As a boid.'' That larkish spirit, absent in the new version, abounds on the two-CD album The Beatles Anthology (Apple/Capitol)--60 tracks of the group's compositions, cover recordings, outtakes, TV skits and reminiscences...
...album produces all the evidence anyone will ever need of their growth during those years as musicians, singers and composers. Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison began the way a million other children of early rock 'n' roll did: by singing rough copies of their idols' numbers into clumsy tape recorders in their parents' rec rooms. Six years and two crucial recruits (Ringo Starr and producer George Martin) later, voila--meet the Beatles...
...crooner in a Blackpool pub. John offers a basso-preposteroso spoken verse: "My darlin'...I looked into your eyes, and I could see a National Health eyeball..." The band brought the same proto-camp tone to covers of Three Cool Cats and Sheik of Araby, on a failed audition tape for Decca Records on New Year's Day, 1962. Raw and cheeky, the Beatles sound at best like a dance-hall novelty act. You wouldn't have signed them either...