Rock and Roll Faces the Inevitable

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News Source : The Atlantic

News Summary

  • Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney are wringing great art and performance out of the relationship between the present and the past.
  • Jim Windolf’s Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other—And the World is a chatty, new popular history.
  • “We thought, at best, the Beatles would last a couple of years,” Paul McCartney admitted in 2009.
  • And yet, 64 years later, the living artists are still at work.
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