A Legend In His Own Minefield

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The Worst Single of the Rock Era

The Worst Single of the Rock Era

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John Mendelssohn
Mar 14, 2015
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The Worst Single of the Rock Era
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Let’s warm up by ascertaining the worst single track in The Beatles’ canon, discarding the weird, experimental stuff because that would be too easy. What we want is something more traditional. And that on which we agree, after only a moment’s deliberation, is George’s irredeemably ghastly ‘Blue Jay Way,” from Magical Mystery Tour. It doesn’t rock. It do…

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