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The Magic Circle
The Revolver Super Deluxe Box set enables us to hear the album as we always have, but differently. Here's what I wrote about it.
Talking about Get Back with Tim Riley
Speaking of Beatles, here's a conversation I had with author Tim Riley (Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary) late last year about the Get...
Altogether not bad
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), which is coming out from The Criterion Collection, was an altogether not-bad movie, as I recall, whose...
Get back to where—?
The news that Peter Jackson will be assembling a new version of the Beatles' Get Back-Let It Be footage is interesting and exciting....
Wally and the Beaver
I've done a handful of public readings in my life, and while none has been completely unpleasurable, probably the best so far occurred...
Garry Mimble to you!
The last thing I’ll ask you to read this year, I promise: my thoughts on the Beatles’ Christmas records — both the more familiar and the...
Big box o' Pepper
My review of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – the album, and the new Super Deluxe 50th Anniversary Edition – is up at Critics at...
The hip idol’s hip idol
My review of Dion’s fantastic 1965 Columbia recordings with Tom Wilson and Al Kooper, newly reissued, is up at Critics at Large.
The wrong kind of easy
At Critics at Large, my review of Ron Howard's new documentary Eight Days a Week, concerning the Beatles’ life as a touring band.
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