'American Idol' on Lennon-McCartney Night: How did the Top 9 fare?
4/07/2010 11:45:00 AM
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Paul McCartney wasn't on hand to personally mentor the American Idol top nine, but he did have a message for the bright-eyed hopefuls as they tackled the Lennon-McCartney songbook: Don't screw this up.Well, Sir Paul was actually far more eloquent than that, telling the contestants to "get out there, go for it, enjoy yourselves."
But you get our drift. McCartney and John Lennon's prolific work contains recipes for both delight and disaster, as evidenced by Idol's inaugural Beatles night a couple years ago. Amateurs singing these sometimes deceptively profound classics can either make you want to put your hands together…or cover your ears.
So which way did the pendulum swing tonight?
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