The evolution of the beatles
The style of the Beatles evolved throughout their career, from their early love songs, i.e. Love Me Do, to their solo endeavors, i.e. Paul McCartney & Wings, and John Lennon's Rubber Ono Band. What I will be discussing is the song/ballad Eleanor Rigby, which originally appeared on the 'Revolver' album. The song, actually the entire album's style, is the predecessor of the style heard on 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.' The style I speak of is that 'psychedelic/deep thought' that the Beatles, evolved into. As Mellers says, ...The song proper is narrative ballad, and the words are poetry, evoking with precise economy Eleanor Rigby, the middle-aged spinster who picks up the rice at somebody else's wedding, lives in a dream, keeps her face 'in a jar by the door' ; and Father Mackenzie, the priest who lives alone, darns his socks in the empty night, writes the sermon that no one wants to listen to, wipes off his hands the dirt from the grave where he's buried Eleanor Rigby after administering the last rites by which 'no one was saved'. The words reverberate through their very plainness (70-71)
'Revolver' was the first album of the Beatles' psychedelic period, but the reason it qualifies as art is the indisputable quality and sophistication of song after song like Eleanor Rigby, ...None of this was cute music.(176) the entire gist of the song, but this is more of an analysis, of the style, so here we go. The Beatles evolved from 'cute' to 'artistic.' It took them a while to evolve, but it was all the better, in my opinion, because they were much better after 'Revolver' than they were before it. The evolution to the artistic style, is best summed up by Hertsgaard, ...the song [Taxman]dosen't end but fades away; it leads nowhere, because Mr. Taxman (yesterday called Mr. Wilson, today Mr. Heath) is there always. The second song, Eleanor Rigby, ...complements the first by being its polar opposite. Taxman is an anti-love song; Eleanor Rigby is pro-love, though it's nor a love song in the sense that the majority of early Beatle songs were. It's about compassion, loneliness, and implicitly about the generation gap-three basic themes of second period Beatle music...(70)He then goes on to talk about the rest of the a
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