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We're still waiting for the rumoured day when real Beatles
tracks will finally make their way to the iTunes Store. (Unless of
course that happens between my writing the previous sentence and the
moment it gets posted, in which case, never mind.) While
we're waiting, The Smithereens' tribute version of the first
US Beatles release is both eminently listenable and a
reminder of a moment when rock was about to change in a big way. I
was too young to appreciate the shift at the time, or too clueless, or
more likely both. But even I should have felt how big a change was
coming. And The Smithereens have both recreated that
breakthrough album and given it their own spin. Which makes me
wonder: do younger audiences need to rediscover The Beatles,
or did they never disappear from popular consciousness? I suspect I
know the answer to that one.
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