Polythene Pam


  • Beatles Let It Be Reissueโ€”how good is this album, really?

    The Beatles will never be irrelevant. Ask any question about John, Paul, George, and Ringo and youโ€™ll instantly have six people who wanna know the answer, six who think itโ€™s absurd to even have to ask, and six more who think they have a much better question. Itโ€™s a never-ending cyclone that has insinuated itself…

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  • Booker T. & The M.G.โ€™s: a Tribute to the Beatles

    A 12-year-old kid is at a local Woolworthโ€™s store on Ashland Avenue on the South Side of Chicago. Itโ€™s the early โ€˜70s, and heโ€™s spending his few allowance dollars on cheap โ€œcut-outโ€ vinyl albums, shelved at the front end of the checkout counter, neatly tiered, four rows high and ten albums deep. That twelve-year-old was…

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