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In lurching desperation, with nothing else to key itself upon, 1974 seized the Beatles, made their potential - as opposed to reality - its standard, forced icons out of the unwilling sphincter of the past like so much non-metaphoric shit.

April 1, 1975
The Teenage Dwarf

LOONEY TOONS

Preserving The Beetles Fantasy

The Teenage Dwarf

In lurching desperation, with nothing else to key itself upon, 1974 seized the Beatles, made their potential - as opposed to reality - its standard, forced icons out of the unwilling sphincter of the past like so much non-metaphoric shit. The year produced: a Lennon album, a McCartney album, a Ringo album, a George album (and two he produced, one for raga-meister Ravi Shankar, another for a group called Splinter, who shall remain faceless because their music is). In addition: #1 status for “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” (by Elton John); not one, but two, Beatle Fetish conventions (one in Boston, the other in New York); a stage show called “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road”; two marital mishaps (the split-up of George and Patti; the demise of John and Yoko) and rumors of a third (Maureen was going out with G.?); four McCartney hits.(“Helen Wheels,” “Jet,” “Band on the Run,” and as the year waned, “Junior’s Farm”), as well as more-or-less successful singles by the rest; the [Harrison tour; dozens of rumors about reunion, dissolution, further spats and turmoil. It was a drag.

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