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Photos: Paul McCartney at Fenway

Paul McCartney, live at Fenway Park on August 5, 2009
Photos of the former Beatle performing at Fenway Park 
By DAVID F. NICHOLSON  |  August 11, 2009
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From Sir, with love

Paul McCartney, live at Fenway, on August 5, 2009
However people go about justifying an expensive rock experience — whether laundering it through nostalgia, taking it as a sound investment in one’s pop-culture equity, or writing it off as a de facto co-pay toward rock’s fast-failing status quo — a Paul McCartney show just seems . . . different, excusable, maybe even compulsory.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  August 10, 2009
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VIDEO: Watch Paul McCartney at Fenway

Paul McCartney, live at Fenway Park on August 5, 2009
Watch Paul McCartney in concert at Fenway Park
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  August 11, 2009
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The Big Hurt: MJ murder mystery, Aerosmith injuries

Music News in Brief
Much as I hate to bring up Michael Jackson again, I was intrigued by sister La Toya's allegations that he was knocked off for his publishing assets.
By DAVID THORPE  |  July 22, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Michael and Steven, RIP

Music news in brief
Even if I got scooped by everyone else, I believe my inimitable wit will ensure that my reportage goes down in history as the definitive account, so here goes: Michael Jackson died.
By DAVID THORPE  |  July 10, 2009
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The Straight Dope: Michael Jackson and the Beatles

Does he really have the rights?
You think an overdubbed Beatles tune could be any weirder than a new Beatles song with John Lennon? Then again, "I Want to Hold You Hand" overdubbed by a guy with a hand on his crotch and his hair on fire would be pretty hard to top. But don't worry, it won't happen, or anyway, it won't happen as a result of Jackson owning the Beatles library.
By CECIL ADAMS  |  July 02, 2009
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Michael Jackson and his fears

Solo contendere
At the dead end of a decade when everyone was too discouraged to wonder if pop had a center, Michael Jackson's Off the Wall (1979) gathered up disillusioned factions of fans as confidently as it punted four singles into the Top 10.
By MARK MOSES  |  June 26, 2009
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Michael Jackson and his fears

Solo contendere
At the dead end of a decade when everyone was too discouraged to wonder if pop had a center, Michael Jackson's Off the Wall (1979) gathered up disillusioned factions of fans as confidently as it punted four singles into the Top 10.
By MARK MOSES  |  June 26, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Rock in a hard place

The economy makes music its bitch
Fear not, broke American: the music industry feels your pain.
By DAVID THORPE  |  May 18, 2009
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Westward ho!

The Phoenix survives Coachella
Forgot those rabid right-wingers with their hateful teabags — Coachella had the range, and the machinery for change, and the spiritual thirst. Oh and Leonard Cohen.
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  April 29, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Crashing Pumpkins

Plus Lynched Beatles, and a misleading Baby
I recently had the "was that real, or did I dream that?" feeling about the upcoming Spider-Man musical featuring songs by U2, and I happily concluded that it was a dream.
By DAVID THORPE  |  April 13, 2009
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The Fireman | Electric Arguments

MPL/ATO (2008)
This peculiar collaboration between Paul McCartney and electronic producer Youth has now lasted some five years longer than his decade each with the Beatles and Wings.
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  November 24, 2008
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The Big Hurt: Rotten butter

John Lydon spreads it on thick. Plus, intrusive devices and CGI pissoirs
John Lydon spreads it on thick. Plus, intrusive devices and CGI pissoirs
By DAVID THORPE  |  October 08, 2008

Going local?

Letters to the Boston editor, October 3, 2008
I have always enjoyed the Phoenix ’s coverage of the local goings-on with our consistently inept and mostly corrupt elected leaders at City Hall and the State House.  
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  October 03, 2008
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The Big Hurt: Hagar the horrible

Plus award-winning awards and buggering Beatles
I was reading a fascinating article about Sammy’s new record deal, and an epiphany struck: every year, Sammy looks more and more like the Dude.
By DAVID THORPE  |  September 24, 2008

Portland scene report: May 9, 2008

Sibilance starts now
Portland’s little music scene continues to make strange bedfellows.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  May 07, 2008
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The Big Hurt: Neglected press-release roundup

Music news that only a publicist could love
Nothing shakes off the doldrums like a short vacation to the bottom of the press-release barrel.
By DAVID THORPE  |  March 24, 2008
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Celtic tigers

Interview: the Chieftains at Symphony Hall — again
At 69, Paddy Moloney is still the world’s foremost uilleann-pipes player.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  March 12, 2008
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The Big Hurt: Fire sales

Plus, this week in tedious headlines
The world’s largest collection of recorded music has gone up for auction on eBay with a starting bid of $3 million.
By DAVID THORPE  |  March 04, 2008
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Our championship season

Brilliant us
This year’s New England Press Association annual awards dinner forsook the Park Plaza’s rubber chicken for the upper-scale poultry fare at the Marriott Copley Place. And the food’s not the only reason we’re glad we went.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  February 13, 2008
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Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino

Vanguard
This packed two-disc set gathers all the usual suspects and more for a Tipitina’s Foundation project to rebuild Domino’s Ninth Ward neighborhood in New Orleans.
By CLEA SIMON  |  October 22, 2007
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Chairmen of the boards

Our critics pick the 14 producers with the fattest, meanest beats
Not unlike Swedish, Tagalog, and Esperanto, music is a language, with its own conjugations and (lewdly) dangling participles.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  October 18, 2007
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Endless rhapsody

How Queen trumped the punks
If Queen had not existed, it would by no means have been necessary to invent them.
By JAMES PARKER  |  August 07, 2007
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New kids on the rock

The Click Five struggle with the new world disorder
Back on June 20, three tour buses were lined up like impregnable traveling fortresses behind the House of Blues in Cleveland.
By FRANKLIN SOULTS  |  June 29, 2007
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Rushdie’s courage

Why Sir Salman’s knighthood matters
Bombay-born Salman Rushdie, educated at Rugby and Cambridge, is now Sir Salman Rushdie.
By EDITORIAL  |  June 20, 2007
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Heaven and hell

Paul toodles off to Starbucks while Ozzy goes to war
Feel, feel for Sir Paul McCartney.
By JAMES PARKER  |  June 12, 2007
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McCartneymania

Celebrating Paul at the Hard Rock, May 31, 2007
Forget, for a moment, the ugliness concerning Heather Mills and her impending divorce from Paul McCartney.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  June 04, 2007
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Jeff Murphy

Cantilever | Black Vinyl
From Zion, Illinois, the Shoes were an odd combination of romantics and gearheads, combining classic-model pop songwriting with pristine sonics.
By BRETT MILANO  |  February 26, 2007
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Bootleg beats

Gregg Gillis’s Girl Talk mash-ups
The music that Gregg Gillis creates under the name Girl Talk almost necessitates a new classification. Girl Talk, "Hold Up" (mp3)
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  January 09, 2007

The Stones

An essay on the older
This article originally appeared in the August 26, 1994 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By CAMILLE PAGLIA  |  November 16, 2006

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