When he left the Beatles in 1969, nobody thought he had much of a future ahead of him. He had always been the quiet, unassuming one in the group, the shy guitarist who rarely sang, standing always in the staggering shadow of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the powerhouse songwriting pair of the Beatles. It’s ...
Paul McCartney has spent much of the millennium playing Renaissance man. Following the recent passing of his first wife to breast cancer after an arduous, emotional struggle, the 59-year-old ex-Beatle spent a year in anguished solitude, slowly finding the energy and the courage to put the pieces of ...
Imagine a boxer in a title fight, winded after throwing one crippling blow to his opponent after another, and pausing to step back from the fracas, catch his breath and assess the damage. Such is the feeling one gets after an initial spin of the new Garbage CD, Beautifulgarbage. With their new release, ...
There is a line from an old Bob Dylan song that goes “Time will tell just who has fell and who’s been left behind.” Certainly that’s true of any newly-released album by a veteran artist. The tendency is always there, at least among music journalists and critics, to measure such new albums against ...
