Thursday, September 10, 2009
Music Guys? The Beatles Were Actually Completely Mind-Boggling
Posted by Mark Asch on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:34 PM
In his review of the valedictory album Abbey Road, senior 'Forker Mark Richardson encapsulates nicely how wholly gobsmacking it is to step back and actually think, for a minute, about the taken-for-granted Biggest Band Ever:
Abbey Road came out in late September 1969. Though Let It Be was then still unreleased, the Beatles wouldn't record another album together. But they were still young men: George was 26 years old, Paul was 27, John was 28, and Ringo was 29. The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, had come out almost exactly six and a half years earlier. So if Abbey Road had been released today, Please Please Me would date to March 2003. So think about that for a sec...
Oh, I've been thinking about that a lot, and haven't even remotely exhausted the ways in which it's astonishing.
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Like everyone else I'm enraptured by the recent Beatles resurgence. I've been thinking a lot about them, together and apart, and how much they really mean to so many people. Their story is legendary and I'm only now realizing the weight of their impact.
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