WILBURYS,BEATLES & TAMI: CAN YOU TAKE ME BACK?

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One can usually find something worthwhile in the UK music mag, MOJO, and the April edition is thankfully-at $15, per-no exception.
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And most worthwhile is a feature on a new Genesis Publications limited edition book on the Wilburys, by Otis Wilbury, AKA Jeff Lynne, which I have kindly scanned for you to
click upon, at left.
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Difficult to believe that 22 years have gone by since the Wilburys debuted, and that the groups two most iconic members, Roy Orbison and George Harrison, are sadly, no longer with us.
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Also on tap today is a new Beatles mini-coffee-table book.
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From Trans Atlantic Press comes, "The Beatles Illustrated Biography," with many, rare

and/or tasty pics of the Fabs throughout their careers.
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OK, go and roll yer eyes at the thought of another book on the boys
but these largely pictorial editions are wonderful eye-candy that
can bring back the memories, or educate younger fans.
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And like I have wrote before, it never ceases to amaze that for
an act that was probably photographed more than any other in pop culture history.
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This book contains several shots I have not seen, including the one at left, from the photo-shoots around the time of Revolver.
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Personally, I will never tire of seeing the lads when they were in
what they later called "the eye of the hurricane."
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And what is particularly interesting to me is how these photos have
aged.
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Most of the first-Gen Beatles fans saw these images when we were between 9 and 14 years of age.
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Of course the younger one was, the more the pictures would
interpreted differently, especially for girls.
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My memory is how much even the modestly long hair of the Beatles totally freaked out my father, who referred to the Fabs
as "sissies," which he actually meant as gay.
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Kind of took me down a peg to find that my Dad considered my
heroes to be light in their Cuban-heeled loafers.
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But then again, my father also said, "they'd never last."
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Finally, we finally have the long awaited TAMI Show on DVD.
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Shout! Factory somehow got all the relative parties to convene at the legal
table to finally get this much talked about but little seen iconic music special out to the masses.
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Although many reviewers-and for good reason-concentrate on James Brown's other-worldly performance, I'd like to throw my lot in with the Rolling Stones' nice effort, and how Gerry Marsden had either the gall or the bollocks to on the same stage follow the great Chuck Berry with a cover of
a Berry song!
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For much more on TAMI:
http://www.boomermediareview.com/TAMI2010DVD.html