None of the ex-Beatles has survived the first half of the Seventies heroically - George Harrison has become a musical Kahlil Gibran, Ringo Starr, a likably mediocre Everyman, Lennon, the confused method actor unsure of what role to play, and McCartney, a latter-day Burt Bacharach trying to invent his Angie Dickinson - but, of the four, only Lennon’s plight still reaches the rock & roll part of the heart. The same old story we’ve been hearing for years - that Lennon’s wit and abrasive probing were needed to balance Paul McCartney’s melodic charm and sweetness - is obvious but true Lennon’s career has certainly had fewer ups and downs (the first Plastic Ono Band LP being his only real success), but his strivings, if at times embarrassing, have never seemed to be the product of assembly-line manufacture. As time goes by, John Lennon’s importance to the Beatles becomes more and more self-evident.
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