Here's the Beatles. Some love them, some hate them. Who's right? Well anyway, here they are, Beatling their way into America for the first time.
OK, calm down. Put down the cricket bat. The Beatles don’t suck.
Or do they?
Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. Maybe I just want attention. It’s a debate for the ages, really. Ever since the early 1960s, when barbers first started losing money to Beatlemaniacal boys who neglected crew cuts in favor of moptops, there have been serious arguments about whether or not the Beatles do, in fact, suck.
Just recently, the fab four went on iTunes. If you live in a city, you saw one of the 50 billion billboards per city block that graced us.
If you live in a cave, you have no idea what iTunes is anyway, as you crank your phonograph, mono Beatles originals.
But, it is a little-known fact that there is a distinct part of the population that does believe that the Beatles … well, suck.
It’s true, amigos, it’s true. In the dark ages, before the Internet, they had no voice, and had to meet secretly in speakeasies under cover of the night in order to safely discuss what they believed to be the Fab Four’s lack of musical credibility.
But now, the Internet hath given them a voice. If you can listen to them online, you can also hear the naysayers. Read more here, in my brilliant article about how not everyone wants to meet the Beatles — even digitally.
As it happens, I don’t think the Beatles suck. Had a whole Beatles phase and everything. Got the CDs to prove it. But that is just one man’s opinion.
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