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This quote gets a lot of mileage from Beatles writers. (This one is from Mojo’s special edition on Lennon and McCartney.) But it reads quite differently in context. Here’s Buckle’s full sentence:

“John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison are the greatest composers since Beethoven, with Paul McCartney way out in front.”

The key edits - suppressing poor George, and keeping John and Paul in balance - come from Hunter Davies, who says: “On 29 December [1963], in the Sunday Times, Richard Buckle, reviewing John and Paul’s music used in the ballet ‘Mods and Rockers’, said they were ‘the greatest composers since Beethoven’.”

Buckle was reviewing a ballet that used songs by all three (Please Please Me, From Me To You, I Wanna Be Your Man, Don’t Bother Me, This Boy, She Loves You), which explains why George is on his composer list, even at this very early stage. Singling out Paul is more surprising, especially with that playlist; I wonder what Buckle based that on? Perhaps he was influenced by Paul’s greater visibility in London’s art world? He might just be mistaken - he also thinks George wrote This Boy, and didn’t bother to correct it for his collected criticism, which is where I got the text below.

I wonder if John was remembering this review when he complained to Davies about music criticism: “It’s nice when people like it, but when they start ‘appreciating’ it, getting great deep things out of it, making a thing out of it, then it’s a lot of shit. It proves what we’ve always thought about most sorts of so-called art. It’s all a lot of shit. We hated all the shit they wrote and talked about Beethoven and ballet, all kidding themselves it was important. Now it’s happening to us.” [emphasis mine]

Buckle’s review gives a sideways snapshot of Beatlemania in 1963. In fact he’s not “getting great deep things out of it”. He was a fearlessly camp writer who enjoyed being outrageous. Writing for a mainstream readership, he assumes they know all about the Beatles and their 1963 Christmas show.

Those who were distressed that Christmas Day went by without the Beatles sending any message to their subjects, and who have not got seats for the Astoria, Finsbury Park, can console themselves with a visit to the Prince Charles Theatre, where Western Theatre Ballet are performing a short numero by Peter Darrell, Mods and Rockers, with music by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. I wouldn’t exactly call this a ballet, but it is good value. My mother liked it, anyway.

In an open-work set representing a café, adorned only with the portraits of you-know-who on a record sleeve, two Beatle- (or Cardin-) jacketed males and three female mods are shaking. A wa-wa-ing on the mike from one of the combo in the pit is the signal for a gang of rockers in black leather to take over the floor. They rock and the mods cast up their eyes.

A pas de deux is accompanied by a voice wailing This Boy (by George Harrison); there is a fight, and SImon Mottram, the chief rocker, in form-fitting leather-look pants, gives Sylvia Welman, the chief mod girl, the come-on and they beat it up the old M1, leaving both sides raving.

To one who has been long in Covent Garden pent, watching Swan Lake nightly for over forty years, it makes a change. The kids put it over with terrific zing. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison are the greatest composers since Beethoven, with Paul McCartney way out in front. I’m told I have to go all the way to Whitechapel to get a pair of those pants.

(If you’ve got access to the BFI’s player, you can watch a tv version of the ballet, filmed in 1965. The Beatles bit starts around 13.30. Amazingly, the drummer for the onstage band is Mick Fleetwood, before Fleetwood Mac.)

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“Land of the Sweets”, “Nutcracker”, Scottish Ballet

“Land of the Sweets”, scene from “The Nutcracker”, choreo by Peter Darrell, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, original set and costume design by Philip Prowse, set and costume design revival by Lez Brotherston, Scottish Ballet, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Scotland.

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Well, a while after the folks from Playtone visited, a nice young actor named Peter Youngblood Hills phoned me up and asked if he could also come by for a spell. He was going to play me in the Band of Brothers miniseries. From him, I learned this wasn’t going to be just one movie, but a lot of different episodes they were going to show on a cable channel called HBO. I said sure, I’d like to meet Peter. It also tickled me to think that some fine-looking young fella was going to play my character on TV. Peter flew over from London, where they were working on the series. He spent a day and a night with us in our home, and asked me all sorts of questions about my life, about how I did things, how I said things. I showed him how I carried my rifle and what kind it was. Lot of guys used the carbine, you know, and some guys used Thompsons, but I always liked the M1 Garand best. Even though I couldn’t see very well, I still knew my way around Dickenson County, so I drove Peter up to Cumberland Gap where you can see several states from this one point. All the while he asked about little mannerisms I had. How I said certain words. He was practicing the way I talked, you know. I told him I talked like everybody else, you know, but he was studying hard to get my accent down, I reckoned that’s what they call it. I didn’t believe I have an accent, and I told Peter exactly that. He just grinned. Well, Peter was a fine boy, and we were all getting along real swell. I joked to Peter that Dorothy and me might want to adopt him as one of our own. But then we went to town one night and took him to eat. My, that boy could attack a plate of food, and afterward I said, “You know, Peter, you better forget about that adopting business—I can’t afford to feed you.”

~ Shifty Powers

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