I am 58 years old and I think my personal best came maybe when I was 48 years of age. It started with a true love of mine and ending with the death of my brother-in-law, a year later. we all have them, just the best moments, our career, our zenith, our personal bests. So do popstars and at the end of their careers, maybe before, you can take a look and see them. You see something they can never reach again. It is possible 1989 is taylor’s… and it is possible I’ll expand on the concept… For now, the obvious.
The Beatles – 1967 – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band of course. Hindsite being 20/20 we my now see the white Album as not being the disappointment it was seen as there but still, Sgt Peppers changed the game of rock and roll in one fell swoop. The Beatles became bigger then the biggest band on earth, they became the biggest artists on earth.
Louis Armstrong – The second world war was over and Armstrong was back in the states. He would become a bigger pop star and a cultural lodestone but artistically, his concert with his All Stars at new york’s Town Hall in 1947. Later on, he became a pop star and a little earlier he wasn’t pop enough though his artistry was great Here he met the world head on as the greatest practinioner of jazz ever.
Dusty Springfield – 1969 – Was considered a UK phenom like Cilla Black or Sandie Shaw till she Atlantic records got hold of her. The Memphis sessions at the American Sound Studio were produced by Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, and Arif Mardin; with the back-up vocal band Sweet Inspirations; and the instrumental band Memphis Cats,led by guitarist Reggie Young and bass guitarist Tommy Cogbill. Now it stands as a rebuke to those who don’t believe she was a great soul singer.
The Monkees – 1967 – Headquarters, their third album is the one. It ent to # 1, the band had much more power at the recording session, the band wrote seven of the songs and the other seven including superstars like weill And Mann and Boyce and hart. A serious, smart and straight rock album by a real band. Their most complete effort.
