William Mann | The Times

A Most Impor­tant Event Indeed

The Most impor­tant event of the year occurs today. It is of course, the pub­li­ca­tion of the new two-disc album from, by and sim­ply enti­tled The Bea­t­les… The poetic stan­dard varies from inspired (Black­bird) through allu­sive (Glass onion) and obscure (Hap­pi­ness Is A Warm Gun) to jokey, trite, and delib­er­ately mean­ing­less. There are too many pri­vate jokes and too much pas­tiche to con­vince me that Lennon and McCart­ney are still press­ing for­ward… but these 30 tracks con­tain plenty to be stud­ied, enjoyed and grad­u­ally appre­ci­ated more fully in the com­ing months.


William Mann | The Times
22 Novem­ber 1968