Miscellaneous

By Bill Altreuter

"It is not easy to categorize the Beatles? music; more than any other group, their sound can be described as ?Beatlesque.? It?s akin to a combination of Badfinger, Oasis, Corner Shop, and every other rock band that?s ever existed. The clandestine power derived from the autonomy of the group?s composition?each Beatle has his own distinct persona, even though their given names are almost impossible to remember. There was John Lennon (the mean one), Paul Stereo version McCartney (the hummus eater), George Harrison (the best dancer), and drummer Ringo Starr (The Cat). Even the most casual consumers will be overwhelmed by the level of invention and the degree of change displayed over their scant eight-year recording career, a span complicated by McCartney?s tragic 1966 death and the 1968 addition of Lennon?s wife Yoko Ono, a woman so beloved by the band that they requested her physical presence in the studio during the making of Let It Be."

Full post as published by Outside Counsel on September 09, 2009 (boomark / email).