McCartney Times

Not everyone is meant to be a rock and roll troubadour forever. There comes a point where everyone needs to settle down a little bit and figure out what their lives outside of music will be like when they officially retire, and swigging a bottle of booze while raising kids and showing up at PTA meetings doesn’t really balance itself out all the time. While John Lennon did keep rolling through the 1970s off the strength of his albums, he later admitted that Rock ‘n’ Roll was his subtle way of walking away from music.But looking back on his only covers record, you’d think that Lennon hadn’t missed a beat since 1962. He was still singing the kind of early rock and roll standards that he grew up with, and when listening to him sing ‘Peggy Sue’ by Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry’s ‘You Can’t Catch Me’, it’s like he was playing them in the Cavern Club all those years ago.

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