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Charles Shaar Murray (born Charles Maximillian Murray; 27 June 1951) is an English music journalist and broadcaster. He has worked on the New Musical Express and many other magazines and newspapers, and has been interviewed for a number of television documentaries and reports on music.
[103] In his review for the NME, Charles Shaar Murray found that Lennon's composition "verges uncomfortably on self parody" with Starr left as "the butt of the joke, as he's the poor sod who's actually singing it". Amid his criticism of the lyrics, Shaar Murray said that the return of Billy Shears "complete with canned applause" suggested an ...
Music journalist Charles Shaar Murray similarly stated that Ono's verse about Lennon showed that "her love and admiration for her husband are considerably more clear-eyed than his for her; he writes about her as an omnipotent, benevolent, life-giving Natural Force; she writes about him as a gifted human who is still a child."
[109] Writing in the NME in 1975, Charles Shaar Murray wrote of the song's "volcanically desperate optimism" and rated it "a classic". Shaar Murray added, with reference to "Cold Turkey" also: "I can't remember anybody else who put out two such utter killers in a row over the same period of time." [110] [111]
Charles Shaar Murray, of New Musical Express, wrote that the couple's domestic bliss "sounds like a great life but unfortunately it makes a lousy record," adding that he wished Lennon had "kept his big happy trap shut until he has something to say that was even vaguely relevant to those of us not married to Yoko Ono." [41]
Writing for the NME, Charles Shaar Murray described the musicianship as "faultless, if a trifle pedestrian" and the production "as smooth and silky as any discerning hi-fi buff could want", but considered the songs to be "mostly a drag, and worse, most of them are solidly rooted in the Lennonlore of old".
[38] [39] In the description of Charles Shaar Murray, the completed track is nevertheless one of the guitar-based songs on Revolver that "glisten" with "cascades of jangle", as the Beatles responded to "what The Byrds had done with the Fabs' own proto-folk-rock sound on A Hard Day's Night". [40]
"Baby, You're a Rich Man" was the result of combining two unfinished songs written by Lennon and McCartney, [6] in a similar fashion to "A Day in the Life" and "I've Got a Feeling". [7] [8] The working title, based on Lennon's verses, was "One of the Beautiful People", [8] to which McCartney added the "Baby, you're a rich man" chorus. [9]