Great singers, musicians continue to stay fresh
Deccan Chronicle“Self pity is the opposite Of self-consciousness. Then a few years ago, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the Swedish Academy, in its wisdom, had either blurred the categorical distinction or determined, in some critically mysterious way, to expand the definition of “literature” and make it inclusive of undoubtedly significant creation in language. I never expected my mother or Indian Army father to understand the passion behind Good Golly Miss Molly or I can’t get no satisfaction! At our Anglican school we sang hymns at assembly every day and while singing a particular one I couldn’t understand what, “As pants the hart for cooling streams, when heated in the chase…” meant. I’ve always thought that Paul’s compositions for the Beatles, when the group was still together, made much more poetic sense than the extravagant surrealism or even mysterious, if not mystical, leanings of John Lennon’s lyrics.
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