Yet whereas Hawke brilliantly breaks down what each Beatle brought to the table and how each other Beatle kind of tempered these creative and personal tastes to make a cohesive whole, he says this album shows that. In fact as a father and a huge Beatles fan myself, the liner notes he wrote for the album are pretty much one of the most beautiful things I’ve read of late. Yet as I’ve been listening to The Black Album pretty much non-stop since receiving a copy about two weeks ago, I find myself not entirely agreeing with Hawke’s assessment of this collection which is one he actually made in real life and gave to his own daughter under the same auspices that occur in the film. The purpose of the album is to show how if you take certain solo works by the Beatles and place them side by side with other solo work from former Beatles you can see just how much The Beatles elevated one another musically as well as helped compliment and refine one another in the mere ten years they were together. According to Hawke’s character “Dad” who created this opus the album is a three CD collection of solo works by the Beatles after they broke up. Which is not to be confused with the DJ Dangermouse Beatles/Jay-Z mashup album entitled The Grey Album but both are plays on the Beatles most excellent The White Album. For me one of the best moments in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is when Ethan Hawke’s onscreen son Mason is gifted with a “perfect post-Beatles Beatles album” dubbed The Black Album.
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