Lennon and McCartney go head-to-head yet again.
Ram was McCartney’s second solo album, released in 1971, and is a prime example of how popular music, on its release, is adjudged by so many factors other than music. Macca was in disfavour in 1971, regarded, wrongly, as the man who broke up The Beatles and also as the politico-spiritual lightweight of the quartet (Ringo has always been given a pass on these matters!). 50 years later, disconnected from all such blather,
Ram is a jolly thing, scrappy but fun, with an unpretentious thrown-together quality, songs such as lo-fi Beach Boys pastiche “Dear Boy” rubbing up against the entertainingly silly, music hall rockin’ ode to marjuana “Monkberry Moon Delight”. It does, indeed, sound like a man decompressing after the monumental, generational expectations placed on his previous band. In gatefold, it also comes half-speed mastered so sounds great. Lennon’s first solo effort, the
happened on that late winter night might be darker than anyone knew. here s keith morrison. march 19th, 2009. night fell heavy in montana s flathead valley. something off that night. something wrong. at mary and randy winters house anxiety spiked. where was she? it just felt like something was not right. it s hard to explain that there s something not normal. you could set your clock by their daughter justine. that reliable. but a new driver too, just 16. due home at 8:00 from her boyfriend s house. and though she wasn t very late, the feeling seeped in like a poison. something wrong. i called her starting about five after 8:00, and no answer. i called the house where she was at, and they said she had left 15 minutes before that.