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| From | bob_hutton@standardlife.com |
| Subject | Re: Bealtes |
| Date | Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:49:11 +0100 |
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To be honest Miguel, I can't see it happening again. The Beatles were a
product of their (more innocent) times as well as being talented
songwriters. Don't get me wrong, there were and are other great
songwriters, but the Beatles were the first to really capture the public's
attention that pop music had so much more to offer than 3-chord "moon in
June" ditties. Their musical invention definitely lit a touch-paper for
other like minded folk across the globe. They were a pretty all-embracing
phenomenon. In their early days at least, they were also fairly
non-threatening to the corporate mainstream, although I would still argue
they were more subversive than The Stones (who always wanted to be the
"bad-boys").
I just cannot see anyone igniting such a common spark of interest in
current times. The music scene is more fragmented than ever before, the
attention span of the public is shorter - I don't see anything uniting
people to the same extent as the Beatles did.
For me, the closest thing to Beatlemania would have been the punk scene in
76/77/78, but it alienated as many folk as it united, plus had an in-built
self-destruct
function in that "punk" was really something people grew out of as they
matured, became better musicians.
Just my tuppence worth
B^)
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