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Author: Colin Fleming
Colin Fleming
Colin Fleming's work appears in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. He is completing a book called Same Band You've Never Known: An Alternative Musical History of the Beatles.
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We don’t talk about it as one of the great debut singles, but perhaps that’s because it transcends the normal categories.
This is the first Beatles guitar solo that shreds, and it’s hard to fathom/estimate how many kids decided they wanted to be guitar heroes upon hearing Harrison’s thrilling break.
After playing ‘The Ed Sullivan Show,’ the Beatles performed their first real U.S. gig in Washington., D.C.
Try to please everyone, and you please no one, including yourself. For the Beatles, January 1, 1962, was the day that the lesson was learned.
This was like having friends over for a boozy party, minus the booze, and in a theater instead of a parlor.
The music of MacGowan and the Pogues is some of the most urgent you’ll ever experience. That immediacy is stunning.
When you listen to the LP as a cohesive experience, it feels like a genuine concept album—these guys being what they were.