| # | Track Title | Artist | Composer | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Am The Walrus | Bono & Secret Machines | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 4:47 |
| 2 | Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite | Eddie Izzard | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 2:43 |
| 3 | Because | Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, T.V. Carpio & Martin Luther McCoy | John Lennon | 2:32 |
| 4 | Something | Jim Sturgess | George Harrison | 3:02 |
| 5 | Oh! Darling | Dana Fuchs & Martin Luther McCoy | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 2:30 |
| 6 | Strawberry Fields Forever | Joe Anderson & Jim Sturgess | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 3:39 |
| 7 | Revolution | Jim Sturgess | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 2:18 |
| 8 | While My Guitar Gently Weeps | Martin Luther | George Harrison | 4:02 |
| 9 | Across The Universe | Jim Sturgess | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 3:29 |
| 10 | Helter Skelter | Dana Fuchs | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 3:42 |
| 11 | Happiness Is A Warm Gun | Joe Anderson (Feat. Salma Hayek) | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 3:10 |
| 12 | Blackbird | Evan Rachel Wood | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 3:06 |
| 13 | Hey Jude | Joe Anderson (Feat. Salma Hayek) | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 4:12 |
| 14 | Don't Let Me Down | Dana Fuchs | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 3:08 |
| 15 | All You Need Is Love | Dana Fuchs and Jim Sturgess | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 3:22 |
| 16 | Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds | Bono | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | 4:24 |
| Total Time: | 54:06 | |||
Album Notes
Given a track record littered by misfired oddities like the Bee Gees starring in the 1978 movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, successfully transforming The Beatles' epochal oeuvre into film musicals has been an elusive alchemy. Yet director Julie Taymor's 1968-centered, socio-political romance is more than just a stunning visual achievement. Its soundtrack brings a crucially intimate, emotionally engaging sensibility to its rich catalog of Beatles source material. Using an approach she rightly dubbed ''organic,'' Taymor never gets too ambitious with the original arrangements, balancing the plaintive, often stark performances of central young stars Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood with equally compelling turns by supporting players Carol Woods and Joe Anderson. The stars successfully evoke early Beatlemania via the energetic charms of Sturgess' ''All My Loving'' and Wood's ''It Won't Be Long,'' then get straight to the canon's often melancholy heart on his take of ''In My Life,'' and her gentle cover of ''Blackbird.'' Taymor's use of star turns--the entire point of too many Beatles-rooted projects--is as sparing as it is deft. Eddie Izzard's effusive ''Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite'' is the product of several edited improvisations, while U2's Bono and Edge re-imagine ''Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds'' by way of Pink Floyd. Joe Cocker's swamp-dirge ''Come Together'' shows why he's long been one of the best interpreters of the Lennon-McCartney catalog, and Dana Fuchs alternately evokes the heavenly and hellish via her tender ''Dear Prudence,'' as well as her manic, Joplin-channeling burn through ''Helter Skelter.'' Elsewhere on the CD, Bono teams with Secret Machine for the straightforward ''I Am the Walrus,'' while the Dallas indie rockers also take dream-pop turns on the instrumental ''Flying'' and George Harrison's haunting ''Blue Jay Way.'' Remarkably, Taymor claims the bulk of the performances here were not lip-synced, but recorded live as the cameras rolled.--Jerry McCulley