“Dig It” (which I take to be a Stones spoof) and “Maggie Mae” (a self‐satire of their own skiffle past?)- are parodies. Parody is the most accessible and least demanding of all forms, be cause it is always easier to parody than to attempt something original, and on their new album at least three songs -“For You Blue” (a put‐down of coun try blues). “Let It Be” is their least together album since “The Beatles,” a parodis tic, two‐record conglomerate of pop sounds which was itself a sign that the Beatles' creative energy was beginning to flag. It”s probably just as well, even though the individual records they have cut so far have been medi ocre. But it seems there comes a time in the progress of any artistic group-whether it be a theater company, a movie co operative or a rock band-when it reaches some sort of creative impasse and has to decide whether to rethink its purpose and work out a new direc tion for itself, or split up.Įach of the Beatles has decided to go his own way. This is not to denigrate their total achievement: it's a truism that the Beatles have been the most imaginative and most influential of all rock groups. Judging by their latest album, “Let It Be,” it's about time.
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