Paperback Rocker: Where Words And Music Collide

In this episode, I try to say ''um" less. I start out with some Beatles news. First was the tenth anniversary of the "Let It Be...Naked" album, which was Paul McCartney's attempt to strip Phil Spector off the record. Phil Spector is in jail for murder. The Beatles weren't getting along, even though George looks ecstatic on the cover of "Let It Be". I grew up hearing the strings on "The Long and Winding Road", but Paul hated it. I don't know why, but it was probably because Macca is a control freak. The second anniversary was that of the last George Harrison album, "Brainwashed", which was released after his death. It's a great album. Jeff Lynne of ELO and the Traveling Wilburys and George's son, Dhani, finished the album. I talk about the movie "Easy Rider", the classic motorcycles and hippies saga. I saw this movie as a freshman in college. I wrote a paper about the music in the movie, but I bet it was tripe, since I didn't have the internet and was pretty naive musically. The movie starts out with a drug de