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Sequencing Lennon's Double Fantasy

Crazy Yank Jack Douglas, best known for producing John Lennon’s last album Double Fantasy in 1980, gave me a long talk for my Lennon biography when I interviewed him back in 2008. He didn’t seem to care whether or not it went against the “o...

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Four Dylan Myths Debunked

On WGBH’s Curiosity Desk with Edgar Herwick, May 4, 2026

WGBH’s Curiosity Desk had me in to talk Bob Dylan for its ongoing series on “America 250.” We talked about four key myths:

  • The Singer Not the Voice (“Dylan can’t sing…”)

  • M...

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“Come Together” Roars Anti-War

Lennon revisionism had already undergone several new drafts by the time I wrote Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music in 2011. But I had been defending The 1972 Madison Square Garden concert, alongside 1975’s Rock’n’Roll album, for years. Ev...

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Roy Orbison’s Eternal Return

Roy Orbison 1936-1988
“Long-Run longing: The Endurance of Roy Orbison Is No Mystery,” Boston Phoenix, March 17-23, 1989.

He shares a birthday with Shakespeare on April 23, and he wore those sunglasses like someone who kne...

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Memory Cathedrals

EDDIE, NOW SUZY, IZZARD WALKED out alone on Boston's Shubert stage recently and gave us a Hamlet that felt both timeworn and abstract. She plays history's omnipresent tragedy as one-person show, memory cathedral, and many selves leaping out...

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