The Long And Winding Road
By Mitch Berg
While the New Yorker’s politics just keep getting more blinkered and puerile, their arts and entertainment coverage remains frequently excellent.
With that in mind, I commend to all of you this fascinating piece by Lee Remnick on Paul McCartney, on the near-eve of the release of a Peter Jackson documentary on the last days of the Beatles that is almost enough to make me consider subscribing to Disney+.
It’s long, but it’s worth it.
October 14th, 2021 at 7:31 pm
An informative piece, to be sure. I get annoyed at writers who add too much of themselves into the story. I don’t care what famous people David Remnick knows, where he stood at the Gene Krupa concert. I’ll give him credit though. A New Yorker article and he didn’t once mention Trump.
October 15th, 2021 at 12:00 am
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October 15th, 2021 at 9:03 am
writers who add too much of themselves into the story. I don’t care what famous people David Remnick knows
A New Yorker writer’s gonna New Yorker.
October 15th, 2021 at 9:51 am
I felt it was a Wonderful piece from Remnick.
(Remnick earnedPulitzer Prize for his book Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. ;^)
“The Beatles worked from a broader range of musical languages than their peers—not least the Rolling Stones. “I’m not sure I should say it, but they’re a blues cover band, that’s sort of what the Stones are,” he [McCartney] told me. “I think our net was cast a bit wider than theirs.”
I would have to agree with McCartney. I’ll definitely pony up for 1 month of Disney+ to see the Film.