Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Remember Abbey Road on the River, that free downtown Cleveland Beatles festival/expo? It was a regular summer event for a few years in the Rock Hall city. And then, like LeBron and other things/people that have a taste of success here, left town for down south (Kentucky, I do believe). Amazing how often that happens. In 2013, a scaled-down version of Abbey Road on the River did come back to Cuyahoga County, but it kind of blindsided me by happening in Independence - at least a Strawberry Fields where one is less likely to get mugged. And there was an admissions charge now, that I was too poor to afford. Still, better than nothing.
Beatles methadone for me instead was
GOOD OL' FREDA, an okay little nonfiction picture that purports to offer a narrative of the Beatles from an insider who, prior to now, had never told all in big-book/movie deal form (unlike, say, every last person who was involved in the Ariel Castro/Seymour Avenue affair).
