Just Give Me One Reason
The last few months have provided us with a collection of music from some of “classic rock’s” most notable stars, some of who are among the most important in rock history. We have a single from The Beatles built from the bones of a John Lennon demo — billed as the final Beatles’ recording. We have the first Rolling Stones album in the post-Charlie Watts era. There was a single by Bruce Springsteen from the film She Came to Me. All of these received plenty of publicity and none of them are bad. They’re just unnecessary records, music that exists in a kind of limbo.
That might seem harsh, but the reality is that none of this music stands up towhees artists’ best work. None of it is likely to be “the track” fans turn to when they think of these bands — and had they been recorded by anyone else, had these songs been associated with a different band or performer, no one would have cared.
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