Subj : Re: The ******* Beatles
To   : GEORGE POPE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Dec 06 2021 16:20:00

>  > Maybe they didn't like the later, psychedelic stuff the Beatles did but my
>  > understanding is that they were up in arms about them long before then.

> Pretty much from day one, mostly because they all had long hair (Elvis, their
> hero, always had short/nbet hair, & no facial hair, so what was with the got
> tam Beatles?  These people still say the Beatles began the erosion of American
> moral values upon arrival in 1964.

Except not everyone liked him, either.  He shook his hips too much.  :)

> Turned out that correlation does not equal causation; after a proper
> scientific(following the proper rules for such) study, it was determined that
> the type of woman who used the BCP were also the same type to sunbathe in
> bikinis more than the general, perhaps more priggish, population.

I thought I knew where that was going, and I did. :)

> A comment from a senior member on talkclassical.com said:

> "Almost everything he did was unexpected -- and still is on first listen if
> you're deeply immersed in it. It's those passages where he leads you along and
> you think he's going to resolve a phrase on the tonic or root chord as most
> others composers of the time did, but then goes off on a completely surprising
> tangent. Combine that with the headbanging thrust, Thrust, THRUST of his
> sforzando passages and he must have had people fainting in the aisles."

Did they give you a name?  :)


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