When it comes to raising our understanding PetsIan Leslie’s new book “John and Paul: A love story in songs“It is a mixed bag. On the one hand, Leslie provides elegant readings for a set of Lennon and McCartney Classics. On the other hand, he is setting the duo’s friendship to compose the legendary songs with non -changing facts.
Do not understand me wrongly: I share Leslie’s motivation to the wax of nostalgia for “the action that I have known throughout these years.” There are symmetry, a kind of eternal beauty for their irresistible myths. From the Lennon and McCartney meeting in the village of July 1957 to the same registered Beatles Group – 12 incredible studio albums committed to the tape in only seven years – there is an inherent blessing and strength in their story.
After that, it was suddenly and Blashouf with the song Swan Magistial from “”The monastery road“ (1969). When the correct album is approaching “The End”, The Fabs, as it turned out, means work. Although their solution was brutal things, emotional disorders played in a very general way throughout most of the first half of the seventies, their legacy is still pure and not committed to uncomfortable attempts.
In its best moments, “John and Paul” Brevinly picks up the story of the Beatles. Leslie is tracked Lennon and McCartney’s friendship of her teenage origins with her tragic revision. Quite true, as Leslie recounts in painstaking fashion, Lennon and McCartney participated in rapprochement during the training years in the last months of the Beatles band as Rock & Roll Rock. This is not an issue under the conflict between the vast majority of writers and thinkers about the Beatles.
However, Leslie feels that I have to write, “There are several reasons that make us make mistakes in Lennon and MCCARTNEY, but one of them is that we have a problem in thinking about the intimate male friendships.
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I think Leslie’s dispute is, at best, an argument. To my knowledge, no one suggests that we have a cultural defect with the extreme rapprochement of Lennon-McCartney’s friendship. There is no doubt that they loved each other deeply, and that they participated in an extraordinary experience, and in congregation, they tried the most influential and influential music music in music.
But in an attempt to soften their relationship with such romantic Platonic terms, which seem to be present in the heart of his agenda, Leslie loses his grip on the painful reality of the bilateral totality. Whatever the rapprochement that he dissolved by at least 1977. Perhaps they were understandablely exhausted by shock and fighting the disintegration of the Beatles. Or did they reach a conclusion, as many of us do in adulthood, that their friendship, although it is very heart and abundant production, was simply entered a different and less intimate stage?
There is no doubt that they loved each other deeply, and that they participated in an extraordinary experience, and in congregation, they tried the most influential and influential music music in music.
Also, Cosin and Adrian Senkler, the second volume of “” “McCartney’s legacyHe explains, John and Paul were all that were found in their friendship during their last years. After Lennon’s assassination in December 1980, McCartney expressed his satisfaction that “the last phone conversation I had with him was really wonderful, and we had no kind of bombing. It could have been easily one of the other phone calls when we exploded on each other and hit the phone. “It will be easy to say that this level of passion is distinguished for” their intimate friendship “and” their common passion. “
But the bitter truth is that we will never know that all of this is guessing. Beatless fans watched the collective “Threeetles” after the death of Threeetles 2023 in the United Kingdom, as Lennon commander in the late seventies to his friendship with McCartney. I get it. I really do. The wealthy and influential songs in depth never fail to arouse my inspiration, and really, to increase the experience that it is simply alive.
This is their legacy, and when Leslie wisely writes about the Beatles music, he really sings his book. But at other times, it seems that Leslie exceeds his endeavor to forget something greater for their relationship, which is a friendly and tragic friendship. In his first public statement after Lennon was meaningless, George Harrison Note that “the theft of life is the final theft.” Certainly, the killer bullets stole Lennon and McCartney of any hope for creating a new middle -aged and lasting friendship. But as I indicated above, we will never know. This is the dangerous nature of the life of another person. To suggest anything else is to participate in reviving the desire for inactivity.
As I noticed at first, I understand the implicit lasley pulses. I also hope that things would be different, and that the two men who were the fountain of the most important art in my life were able to gently go to that good night. But I was relieved of Lennon’s words when he pointed out, in a moment of great optimism, that people need to abandon their installation on the bittles relationship and the semi -stable ways to reunite his colleagues and focus their energies on the same music. Lennon said: “It is only a rock music collection,” Lenon said. “This is not important. You have all these old records if you want to remember.” It was at that time, and he is now. It is music, unlike our continuous desires to give the romantic character to an incomplete past, this is important.
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