Rediscovering the Beatles
May 12, 2007
Anyone who knows me knows (or will eventually learn) that I’m a big Beatles fan. I remember being 4 and pulling out my parents’ albums and playing them over and over (and occasionally breaking/scratching them beyond repair!). Back in the early ’90s I discovered a chap named Alan Pollack who was writing about the Beatles’ songs. Not just writing as in “I like this song” but really dissecting each song, pointing out musical nuances, flubs, interesting sections, all from a musicologist’s viewpoint. He was posting these on the ‘rec.music.beatles’ newsgroup, and I remember eagerly awaiting his next submission, because it simply gave you so much to think about.
I recently stumbled on Alan’s writing again, all collected in one nice HTML interface. I looked for writings on the later Beatle projects (Anthology and Love, for example) but didn’t see them there. I guess at soeme point there’s not that much more you can write about these songs, although I’m sure he’d find interesting things to write about these projects too.
If you’ve ever been interested in thinking about the Beatles’ music from an academic standpoint, I highly recommend reading Alan’s series.
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