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Mark Caro
Jan 7, 20223 min read
Ethan Russell and his close-ups with the Beatles, Stones and Who
Ethan Russell was a young San Franciscan when he saw Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Blow Up and decided to move to Swinging London with...
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Mark Caro
Dec 1, 20211 min read
To sit or to stand while singing?
One more Get Back-inspired thought: The Beatles do a lot of recording, including vocals, while sitting down. Then again, some of their...
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Mark Caro
Nov 29, 20218 min read
Five takeaways (plus bonus tracks) from Get Back, Part 3
1. Wow. I may have mentioned that I’m quite the Beatles nerd, so I’m very much the target audience for Peter Jackson’s Get Back. That...
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Mark Caro
Nov 28, 20214 min read
Five takeaways from 'Get Back' Pt. 2
“Come on now, back to the drudgery.” —Paul McCartney, Get Back, Part 2 1. This is a lot. People who aren’t that into the Beatles, whoever...
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Mark Caro
Nov 26, 20214 min read
Five takeaways from 'Get Back' Pt. 1
1. I’d read a lot about the Get Back sessions and listened to many bootlegs, but seeing this all was something else. Fears from the jolly...
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Mark Caro
Nov 24, 20216 min read
'Let It Be' revisited: digging into the Beatles' rushed, troubled, non-breakup project
Here’s a key point often overlooked regarding Let It Be, the persistent problem child in the Beatles catalog: The album’s sessions began...
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Mark Caro
Oct 7, 20213 min read
Bruce Thomas: The Caropop interview
Anyone who knows me knows I’m a huge Beatles fan, but I went nuts for them in retrospect, imagining what it would have been like to hear,...
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