So that's what all the fuss wuz about. Kinda like Springsteen's "Dance Mix" of Born in the USA - mildly interesting, but nothing new really in the long run.

Cirque de Soleil - can't watch 'em - all those contortionists freak me out.

You really want the first time this was done? Go back to the Beastie Boys "Pauls Boutique." I'd bet it's still the best too.

-Glen

You really want an even earlier time this was done? Go back to The Beatles' "All You Need is Love" and listen to the ending. You'll hear Glenn Miller's "In the Mood", the traditional "Greensleeves" and even "She Loves You". Sure, it was done live in a studio, but at that time Al Gore had yet to invent ProTools.

Now excuse me while I go out and get some "real" new music. Kevin Federline here I come!

I'm a twenty something from America. I'm a Beatles fan to the bone. I own every album [many on original vynil presses] by The Beatles, who are very arguably the greatest band since the invention of recorded audio.

That said, I was having a conversation with a friend of mine, who introduced me to the group, about what the beatles might have done with digital technology had they had developed it in 1969s prior to our knowledge of this new album's existence. It is clear to me that this is in the spirit of what they might have done; "...is Love" ends with Paul singing "She Loves You Yeah, Yeah," So, I think it is clear the Beatles might have been interested in the collaging of their work done by Giles Martin. Furthermore, Paul and Ringo did approve this project and approved Giles for the job.

I think that featuring their music in such a way [the Cirque show] is only the natural course for great pop music to take. Look at the way that Joel and Dylan's catalogues have been turned into Broadway productions. If anything, I'm sure that we Beatles fans rest easy at night knowing that such has not happened to our beloved Lennon-McCartney numbers.

The acceptability of that fact only proves the Author's claims to the Beatles' work being treated with reverence. Nevertheless, making great art more widely accessable, in more forms, as had been done in this instance, is probably what our generation will be remembered for contributing to art: the art of archiving.

Some might, in fact, I might make additional claims as to how this only proves the death of art. However, for now, I'll keep listening to the new Beatles album and smile.

A few hears ago I read an article from a man who was traveling across the US in his car in 1967 the week Sgt. Peppers was released. In those hopeful times, the core of the sixties exploded that summer. Most radio stations played Sgt. Pepper straight through, 24 hours, some of them for days on end. He wrote as one radio station would start to fade another would take its place on the radio. As the Summer of Love blossomed in full force that June, the Beatles provided for a short but eternal time its soundtrack.

The Beatles, their sound, their time, their life, and their music are intrinsically wrapped around the hope, ultimately unrealized of the 1960's. The 60's... the visual koan of any individual life, from the innocence of a pre-sexualized love found in I Want To Hold Your Hand, to the awakening of something more than self-indulgence and self-absorption as expressed in Rubber Soul and Revolver...the discovery of another world beyond the Self as imagined in Sgt. Pepper, and the inevitable Zen enlightenment of the back to basics rock in the White Album, that at the end of the journey rivers are once again rivers and mountains are exactly nothing more and nothing less than what they have always been ...closing with a dénouement, the inevitable twilight...the distillation of life as preamble as expressed in Abbey Road and its final track, The End.

It was on the third continuous hearing of this album, hiding behind my headphones, and a cheap pair at that...that I found myself in the same place as a Buddhist monk who's been chanting for half the night or a novice who's been reciting the rosary for hours...when the guitars on Sgt. Pepper's Reprise first break through Hey Jude's horns... I wasn't aware I'd been weeping till I realized that, yes it really is "getting very near the end..."

For me and for those whose who lived it...Their music will forever continue to distill in its most purest form those times, our lives, our hopes, a movement. It has been and will always be more than the music of an entire generation...

...All You Need Is Love man...Love is all you need...

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