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11.17am
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15 February 2015
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ewe2 said
And William Mann’s review of Abbey Road is really quite weird. This new-fangled stereo thing is great, but where’s the lyrics sheet?!
Yeah, who the hell calls ‘Here Comes The Sun ‘ ‘slow and torrid’?! It’s absurdly brisk.
I did like his description of the return of ‘YNGMYM’ toward the end of the Medley as ‘satisfying as the return of that ten-bob note you’ve been missing for a week’ (up Mean Mr Mustard ‘s nose, perhaps?) 
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11.23am
31 March 2008
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Yeah, I love the William Mann articles. He was a learned music critic who seemed to really love pop music, as well as the classical stuff that was the more traditional domain of the Times.
I’ve read a few contemporary reviews of Beatles albums, and they’re always interesting. Nobody knew what would happen next, and critics often got the who-did-what information wrong. It’s not really fair to gripe too much about it, because we’ve got better knowledge and perspective – it’s more instructive to just see them as the first of many people to look for meaning.
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11.37am
8 January 2015
Offline He’s the one John was making fun of for the Aeolian cadences, I think. I’ve read some of his other Beatles criticism, but didn’t expect to read such a wonky one even from him. But he was brave to make those musical connections too, way before anyone would dare.
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1.32pm
31 March 2008
Offline Yes, the Aolian cadence piece is on page one, post number nine, number nine.
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2.27pm
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14 April 2010
Offline @Joe – loving these articles!
May I selfishly ask that #4 be fixed? I can’t seem to open it as a new link and can’t read it. Just curious to read it because it was from the day before I was born.
Many thanks for posting all of these. 
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7.28pm
28 March 2014
Offline I always loved this article regarding the 1962 Red Parlophone Love Me Do single
I know a lot of you folks know where this article came from……..
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8.13pm
10 August 2011
Offline These are great.
Somewhere, I have a collection of the NY Times articles regarding the Beatles.
When I get them, I’ll post them too.
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12.56am
31 March 2008
Offline @Zig I can’t fix the #4 image right now, but try this direct link: https://www.beatlesbible.com/w…..etch-3.jpg
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6.28pm
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14 April 2010
Offline Into the Sky with Diamonds said
Somewhere, I have a collection of the NY Times articles regarding the Beatles.
When I get them, I’ll post them too.
I enjoy reading first hand accounts just as much as those written in hindsight. Many thanks to Joe and Ahhh Girl for their respective newspaper article based threads. Thanks in advance to Into the Sky with Diamonds for his willingness to post his NYT articles.
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5.14am
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1 May 2011
Offline Joe said
This is the famous “Aeolian cadence” article by William Mann. Friday 27 December 1963; page 4:
Thanks for that Joe. It’s an article that is frequently quoted for the “Aeolian cadence” line however its a far more powerful appraisal of the band as a whole than I ever remember it to be. I wonder just how many of those who thought the Beatles were just noisy troublemakers ruining the youngsters read that article and decided to actually listen to the music; looking, for once, beyond the too long haircuts and screaming wildly out of control fans.
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