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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1977
Beatles album fails to recapture era
In
By RUSTY CAWLEY
.The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl
^Capitol Records, $5.98
£ It’s hard to believe it has been
•♦twelve years since Beatlemania
-crossed the Atlantic and stormed
»the country. Twelve years since
2John, Paul, George and Ringo be
came the most salable items on the
market, since rivaled only by the
Bicentennial.
In late 1964, you could buy Bea-
tle wigs, Beatle ash trays, Beatle
bobbing dolls, Beatle T-shirts, Bea
tle buttons, Beatle pennants, Bea
tle pajamas, Beatle pillows, Beatle
underwear . . . Beatle anything.
Everyone waited for the bubble to
burst and for the Fab Four to disap
pear down the tube along with the
tons of junk that had been fashioned
in their names.
But the bubble never has burst,
although it has deflated.
Witness the latest in what prom
ises to be a series of Beatle rip-ofl
albums, “The Beatles at the Hol
lywood Bowl.
It will probably do very well, as
did its predecessor, “Rock and Roll
Music. ” Both are part of a Capitol
Records plot to aid its sagging re-
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cord sales by resurrecting the Beatle
legend.
1 he teenag ers Q f that period will
probably pick the disc up in an in
stant, hoping to recapture a portion
of their past. The kids who discov
ered the Beatles through “Rock and
Roll Music anc l the re-released
single Got Xo Get You Into My
Life will buy it ou t of curiosity.
But I have (Ti e same objection to
this new album as I had to the last
Music Review
one: it treats the Beatles as nothing
more than nostalgia. Not only is this
absurd, but unjust.
The Beatl es did more for rock
music in the s ix years they were in
the public spotlight than all of the
thousands of bands since then put
together.
Nostalgia i s for Jay and the
Americans, tbe Electric Rooster,
Chubby Checker, the Dave Clark
Five and the like. The Beatles influ
ence is as alive today as it was in
1964.
1 his is not to say “The Beatles at
the Hollywood Bowl” is not in
teresting. It i S) after all, a bit of the
excitement that was Beatlemania
pressed into vinyl and captured for
posterity.
The album consists of 13 songs
from their concerts at the Hol
lywood Bowl in 1964 and 1965.
There are the standard Beatle
classics: “Ticket to Ride,” “Help!”,
“Can’t Buy Me Love,” “She Loves
You.”
There are also their versions of
rock and roll hits of the ’50’s: Chuck
Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven, ” Lit
tle Richard’s,” “Long Tall Sally”
iand, of course, “Twist and Shout. ”
And there are samples of the Bea-
tle’s ad-lib stage humor. None are as
funny as when John Lennon told a
Royal Command Performance audi
ence, including Queen Elizabeth,
“You in the cheap seats clap. The
rest of you just rattle your jewelry.”
But the comments on this album are
probably more representative of a
typical performance.
Then there are the thousands of
healthy, young female lungs whose
voices make the album sound as if it
were recorded at Kennedy Interna
tional Airport.
But it’s really nothing more than
history. And like all history, it is
impossible to recapture the feeling
of moment.
You can’t know how it f e |
stand at ground zero when
atomic bomb was dropp e( j
Hiroshima by watching fi] ms T
event.
The same is true here.
We know how the script <
How the Beatles gradually » r j
apart until the final split j n
how they began their own caret,
and stagnated; how we learned|j
the Beatles as a whole were mJ
greater than the sum of their f
George Martin, the Beatlesi
ducer during the 1960’s, likestoij
about the time his nine-yeau
daughter asked him about the 8
ties.
“You used to record them, t
you Daddy? Were they as i
the Bay City Rollers?”
“Probably not,” Martin told
But in his mind he was sa
Some day she will find out.”
Some day the teenyboopersofJ
day, with their K.C. and the sj
shine Bands and their Barry o
ilows, with their Boogie Menu
their Disco Ducks, will comei
realize just how important they
ties were.
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longtime star is too busy earning
millions in real estate and acting to
bother with it.
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year starring j n plays. He manages
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to squeeze in at least one movie and
an occasional television show in be
tween business deals.
A good old Mississippi boy and
son of a Baptist preacher, Andrews
has enjoyed a curious career. Al
though he’s never won an Academy
Award, the square-jawec) star has
appeared in three of Hollywood’s
most memorable classic: “The
Oxbow Incident, “Laura” and “Best
Years of Our Lives. ”
While he hasn’t gathered all the
accolades of say, Jimmy Stewart,
during his string of 70 movies over
three decades, Andrews will he
honored this month as “Mississip-
pian of the Year” at special cere
monies in Biloxi, Miss.
Andrews is a uniquely candid
man who doesn’t mind discussing
subjects traditionally taboo among
actors. He is an alcoholic who sur
vived some notable bouts with the
grape and now is a member of the
National Council on Alcoholism.
He is that rare actor who speaks
openly about personal finances.
“This is hard to believe,” he said,
“but I earn more money working in
plays on the road than I did when I
was a movie star.
“I just signed a contract for
$2,750 a week for six weeks to do a
play back east, ” he said. “The best I
did at Goldwyn during my 10 years
under contract was $2,500 a week.
“Actually, the Goldwyn contract
was pretty good. They paid me for
40 weeks a year whether I worked
or not.”
Andrews had a unique setup dur
ing the height of his popularity. He
was under 10-year contract to
Goldwyn and 20th Century Fox si
multaneously.
But acting salaries are a pittance
compared to his business holdings.
Among other properties, Andrews
owns hotels, apartment houses, raw
land and avocado groves.
“When I first started in pictures
in 1938 they paid me $150 a week, ”
Andrews said, laughing. “That was
good money in those days consider
ing Vic Mature started out at $125
and Robert Preston began at $100.
“It never occurred to me that
someday I’d do better in real estate.
In 1969 I bought a hotel in Reno for
$300,000 and now it’s worth $3 mil
lion.
“In the past three years I earned a
million dollars on an apartment
house project without putting up a
penny.
“Profitable as it is, though, busi
ness isn’t connected with life —
only the necessities of life. Actind
directly connected with the
excitement of life, the idenl
creativity, approbation an
course, the money too.”
Andrews has little trouble
tug his careers. He stars W
p/ays a year, spending two weefc
rehearsals for each six-week
More often than not his wife, Mi
Todd — to whom he’s been
for 38 years — costars with hit
The plays run the gamut
“Any Wednesday” and “Mi
Go-Round” to “ Angel Street,’"' 1
fight, ” “Coming Back Little Si
and “Two For the Seesaw,”
1 call my agent regularly
make engagements months ahe;
time,” Audrevns said, “lem
$90,000 a year acting in p/ays,
easy work with Mary who is my
friend and lover.
“No matter where I’m world:
manage to take care of real
and business matters by telepk
“I do one movie a year jusl
keep my hand in. Two years
was ’Airport 1975.’ In 1976 it
’The Last Tycoon’ and this year
“Good Guys Wear Black.’
“There isn’t much money in
vision and I don’t like the way
make deals. Unless you’re the
in a series the going rate for act:
only $1,000 a day.
“But there’s a catch to it. li
have to make yourself available
week. That sounds like at
$5,000. But they squeeze all
work into one day and then use,
name to beef up the billing
maybe a three-line part.
“That’s not ethical and I don’t
to waste my time like that.”
Andrews, who was an account
before becoming an actor
veloped his real estate shrewd
attending night classes at UCLA
years ago. He is a shrewd
nessman with a genuine knowl
of contracts, loans and interest.
He finds his celebrity more
drance than help in busiw
dealings.
‘‘My fame in show busiw
doesn’t help at all,” he said. Tj
instance, the Chase Manhatl
Bank is less inclined to lend
money as an actor than it would
were just another businessman
“As a matter of fact, as an
I’m something of a target risk.
But it never occurs to me to.
up acting and stick strictly toll
ness. Both ways of life are esc#
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