The Beatles: Love (Apple)*****
Jim Irvin, MOJO, December 2006
WE'RE NOT unsympathetic to readers who complain of Beatles fatigue, but we reserve the right to counsel: "Deal with it", because for a large section of the MOJO readership – some settling down to this review with a furtive frisson – even though they may not need to hear The Beatles music ever again, when they do, something uncanny happens.
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