
“There’s a Place” anticipates the musical breakthrough that would come for the band with 1965’s Rubber Soul. “There…is a place/Where I can go/When I feel low/When I feel blue…” – John Lennon, […]
Novelist, college professor, rock musician - are we getting the band back together? Maybe....
“There’s a Place” anticipates the musical breakthrough that would come for the band with 1965’s Rubber Soul. “There…is a place/Where I can go/When I feel low/When I feel blue…” – John Lennon, […]
Holiday’s goal is to reveal herself without giving herself away. “I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. […]
Lennon once said that he likes the lyrics of “Across the Universe” perhaps the best of all the songs he wrote with The Beatles. “When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may […]
The Tell-Tale Treasure is a thriller for which one cannot use the standard descriptions such as fast-paced, edge of your seat, or thrill a minute. That is its most interesting appeal. Diane […]
George Harrison’s song “Piggies” from the White Album (written during another year of tumult, 1968) seems a perfect description of our present situation. “When it gets down to having to use violence, then […]
This year’s reading list will focus on music. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” – Victor Hugo“One ought, every day at least, to […]
“Tyranny is far the worst of treasons.” “They never fail who die in a great cause.” – George Gordon, Lord Byron Today is Lord Byron’s 229th birthday. Much of what is written […]
Despite every attempt to marginalize and discredit him, John Lennon still matters and always will. ” I can’t wake you up. You can wake you up. I can’t cure you. You can […]
What do we want from our art – novelty or originality? “The… idea, then, is that every technology has a philosophy which is given expression in how the technology makes people use […]
Goldhead is the best kind of novel of its genre – it is a novel that provides a great ride even as it reiterates a great lesson. “People start acting stupid when […]