Continued from Part Three
Finally we arrived at the conclusion of the report about the Beatles that we have been publishing for deliveries over the past few weeks. At first it was thought to divide into two separate parts, but I have decided to publish it all in a single chapter. Although this is a text with a little longer for the other deliveries, I think we have gone home as reading public will understand why it whole. I assure you it is worth, because this last part is really beautiful, and is the final makes the difference between a good story about the Beatles and the vast majority of what has been published about them on the Internet. I sincerely hope you enjoy it as surely as you have done so far.
Original author: Agustin Sanchez Vidal
Published in Very Interesting, number 77. October 1987
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Comments on the text (bold) by Leo.
DOWN: The figure of John Lennon, idealized for his tragic end at the hands of the fan Mark David Chapman in 1980, easily stands out from the rest of the group. His relationship with Yoko Ono will lead to divorce the Beatles, anything you do not forgive nor their fans or their own comrades.
In May 1970, coinciding with the launch of the latest album of all, Let it be, Paul officially announced the separation of the Beatles. John already had some time to work on their own with Yoko Ono in more experimental albums that the Beatles (and sometimes also much more unbearable), and expiring embarking on a crusade for peace and disarmament that he would be booked by the FBI and impede their settlement in New York, where he established to raise his son with Yoko, Sean, born in October 1975. It would be murdered outside his house several blank shots to the Dec. 8, 1980. An unbalanced fan, Mark David Chapman, was waiting on his return from a recording studio, where he and Yoko gave the finishing touches to the album that meant his return to music, Double fantasy.
Paul ended up marrying Linda Eastman Kodak heir to the empire, a homely woman who began to fill the sons and striped vests. Her music became a pinch hortera (even more than it was in its final stage with the Beatles), but had the courage to start from scratch with his band Wings, playing in small rooms. John died, was the only one of the Beatles able to resume mass successes, and today he estimated revenues of approximately 130 million daily (pesetas in 1987, of course). His most popular song, Yesterday, has reached 1500 versions, and sounds an average of once per minute throughout the world. At the end of 90, coinciding with the illness and death of Linda because of cancer, his star began to decline. The vicissitudes of his private life have made her name ends to occupy more space in the pages of society and the dreaded British tabloids that the lists of sales, but thanks to his daughter Stella, who has successfully made a dent as a fashion designer , The place of the family among the personalities of success appears to be safe.
George had a lively start with his triple LP, All things must past, then overshadowed by the conviction for kidnapping his most famous single, My sweet lord, identical to He's so fine the Chiffons. The benefit concert for Bangla Desh was his moment before moving to a quiet gloom. Discrete penumbra of which never left Ringo Starr, who made their versions more or less sympathetic and attended school more than their adventure film. In 2001 George also lost a long battle against cancer. Since years before that sad event many fans of the Beatles have made efforts to revindicarlo as the "brain in the shadow" of the band and as an instrumentalist and composer more than competent. Many filmgoers will also have reserved a hole through his production company Handmade Films, responsible among other around as a classic Life of Brian, the best movie of the great Monty Python. In any case, your credit alone can be compared in any way the legacy they have left as a group.
The chemistry of the Beatles functioned as a strange amalgam of personalities. Its producer, George Martin, defined the match between John Paul and comparing it with the mixture between vinegar and oil: isolated, may be too acidic or too unctuous, together, are in balance. Lennon provided an undeniable tear, a corrosive force and a touch of blues that mordant added to the songs, McCartney gave the lightness, optimism, melodic fluency. And we must not negligible as instrumentalists: John printed a rhythm guitar to his personal and not transferable, Paul introduced many innovations in the use of the bass and guitar solo from George or Ringo battery were fair and effective, far from the back of the rock exhibitionism .
And then their personalities were: easy to differentiate, but, like their voices, perfectly capable of amalgamated into a single whole. It is not difficult to emphasize, however, that of Lennon, enlarged by the mythology and necrophilia. John Winston Lennon was a child of postwar, born in the German bombing on Liverpool. As the war wore stigma that second name in tribute to Winston Churchill, like Spain after the 1939 populated by significant Jose-Antonio. "I was nauseated at Liverpool while Hitlerism bombarded the neighborhood," he wrote in In his own write.
His favorite book was Alice in Wonderland country, Peter Pan and its flagship myth: the syndrome who refused to grow. Not that Lennon would not want to evolve: it was the Beatles because they were resigned to stagnate. It did not accept that the mechanisms of initiation by which someone stops being himself to fit into the mold to each, as the coffin, it has prepared: profession, trade, mood, character, identity card, military card, For permission to drive ... not accept, do not even want to spend their lives being a Beatle. And that was his undoing. One of his fans who did not accept that change ended his life.
However, there is something radically different to John Lennon, not only with respect to other illustrious men, but even in relation to other figures in the rock. He took all the 25 years and was world famous in its current account fell 900 million annually thereafter without the need to do anything. He said he was glad to have reached a couple that situation because it felt completely liberated. He felt terrible struggle for a lifetime position, become famous, being respected and influential, have pasta. He had already achieved and went directly to a person. To have the person, not to be adult. And from a certain moment wanted to use his influence to arrange things a bit. Not lacked instinct to embrace the cause of pacifism, which provided its anthem Give peace a chance.
The influence of the Beatles in music and popular culture remains intact after nearly fifty years since the publication of her first single. LEFT: Cover LP The black and white album by The Hives (2007), clearly inspired by the cover of With The Beatles in 1963.
But many of the features that were in John superlative degree would be extended to the other Beatles. They emerged in the'60s by a host of circumstances hardly repeatable. When appeared on the scene, rock and roll we now call classic, that of the fifties, was almost extinct, with Elvis in the military, Little Richard in a convent, Chuck Berry in jail, Buddy Holly in the grave, Jerry Lee Lewis out of action for having married to his cousin for 12 years ... The Beatles returned to that heritage, the stylized, the recreated, put it daily, did evolve and saved all this torrent of adolescent energy projected towards more ambitious goals.
The fate would have it all this is a vast movement for the revision of the values that people like them (or Dylan) became spokespersons. Lennon would like to note, had the impression of going all in the same boat that sailed forward, maybe they were on the bow or at the top of the mast, but the boat was moving in solidarity. Beatles themselves rightly refused to paripé always round of recurrence: that would have been a time to rebuild all that his return would end. Surely there have been moments in the most cutting-edge culture of the twentieth century, and even more commercial, but so convincing a mix of depth and spread rarely has been repeated again and hard.
FIN.
Coming soon publish "11 masterpieces: the albums of the Beatles' brief and very juicy annex published in VERY close to this story.
