MOJO #203 (October, 2010) has a 23-page Beatles and Paul McCartney special, focusing especially on 1970 and "Let It Be." McCartney is featured in a new interview by Tom Doyle, talking about how the breakup of the Beatles was turmoil from which he survived. Also, the "Let It Be" album is evaluated by Jon Savage and Mark Paytress writes about Apple Corps.
The magazine includes a free CD, "Let It Be Revisited," with tracks covered by Beth Orton, Phosphorescent, Judy Collins, Wilko Johnson, Pete Molinari, The Amorphous Androgynous, The Besnard Lakes, John Grant, The Jim Jones Revue and more. For the first time, the magazine CD will be available in a vinyl version, which you can order here.
And if that's not enough, the magazine also includes an interview with Brian Wilson.
It's carried in the U.S. at Border's and Barnes and Noble and various record stores.
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I've been a longtime reader of MOJO, but I dread their annual "40th tribute" CD's for Beatle albums. They give mostly unheard of artists the chance to mangle Beatle songs beyond recognition to the point of making most of the tracks unlistenable. Many songs just take snippets of Beatle lyrics and graft them onto tracks with completely different rhythms, melodies, and even completely different chord changes- how is that a "tribute"?
I've got a large collection of artists performing covers of Beatle songs, from all eras and genres, and the MOJO LP tribute compilations are consistently the worst (they did do a Red/Blue cover set many years ago that was pretty good).
Hopefully, with Let It Be, this will be the last time MOJO mangles the Beatles...unless they're planning a 50th anniversary tribute to the Please Please Me LP in 2013...Dear God, No...
I don't mind them so much, though you're right. Some of the covers you want to skip right past. There are a couple of very good names here, Judy Collins for one.
I can't blame the artists MOJO works with for wanting to bring something unique to the table. If I want to listen to the songs as the Beatles performed them, I'll listen to the Beatles CDs. Just as the Beatles took songs that they liked and made them their own, I want to see the musicians MOJO works with to take the songs and make them theirs, to bring something unique to the song. Sometimes, yes, this results in interpretations that are strange for strange's sake.
However, I've found something worthwhile on all of the tribute CDs. The Abbey Road Revisited CD had two standout tracks -- The Leisure Society's "Something" and Broken Records' "Oh! Darling" -- that I am happy to listen to. I'm looking forward to Let It Be Revisited as I can't wait to see what Amorphous Androgynous does.
I kinda sorta wonder if MOJO might do an All Things Must Pass Revisited or Plastic Ono Band Revisited in a few months.
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