While The Beatles Always Had George Martin

Elton John Can Be A Master Of The Sleight Of Hand. The Arrangements Make It Seem Like There Are Substantial Melodies Underneath The Tracks - But Almost Nothing Demands Repeated Listenings. Similarly, He Always Sounds Like He's Singing Up A Storm, But His Voice Glosses Over The Material, Reducing Most Things To An Uninteresting Sameness.

'sing It Again Rod' Touches All The Solo Bases Since Stewart's Departure From The Jeff Beck Band, Wherein He Cut His Teeth On American Audiences For $75 A Week Plus Expenses, And Wisely Ignores His Generally Inferior Work With The Faces.

The Title Song Of David Bowie's 'young Americans' Is One Of His Handful Of Classics, A Bizarre Mixture Of Social Comment, Run-on Lyric Style, English Pop And American Soul.

I Saw My Rock'n'roll Past Flash Before My Eyes. And I Saw Something Else: I Saw Rock And Roll Future And Its Name Is Bruce Springsteen. And On A Night When I Needed To Feel Young, He Made Me Feel Like I Was Hearing Music For The Very First Time.

As A Performing Group, The Beatles Began By Playing Old Rock Favorites, For Dancing, To Tough Audiences In Liverpool And Hamburg. When They Began Writing Seriously, They Discovered That They Couldn't Compose In The Early American Rock Tradition.