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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Another Bealtes? |
| Date | Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:19:29 -0400 |
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From: "Miguel Motta" <a2j@bellsouth.net>
>>>...The question is... Do you think that there will ever be another
musical world/changing phenomenon such as The Beatles and if you were a
music manager seeking the "next Fabs", what would that group need to have in
order to not only equal but surpass them? ... On the other hand your answer
might simply be: "there will never be another phenomenon such as boys from
Liverpool"... (Still a possible third reply: "Who are these &**@@ Bealtes?
...lol) ... So whaddaya think? >>>
The answer is easy.
No.
Was Mantle another DiMaggio? That's how he was billed, and he certainly
lived up to the hype, but that just made him Mantle. It will never be the
early 60s again, we'll never have the post-WWII baby boomers coming of age
again. There will never be the confluence of factors that made the Beatles
even possible. On one level you could ask, weren't Michael Jackson or
Springsteen the next Beatles, magnitude and impact-wise? But clearly
neither was the same thing.
If I had to pick, I'd say the closest thing to the Beatles has been, I
think, the Internet. No musical group can ever have that profound an
impact; we can't be that collectively new to rock'n'roll again.
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