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| From | "Barry S." <BarryS@lernerweisslaw.com> |
| Subject | Re: Another Bealtes? |
| Date | Tue, 3 Aug 2004 20:49:40 -0700 |
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Gee Jaimie, you have such great things to say . . . usually. These
however make no sense to me at all.
> 1) It was Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" that was sent up in the
> Voyager explorer to the other side of the galaxy....NOT the Beatles.
It's
> all about frame of reference.
So, a couple of dude at NASA liked the irony of that selection, or maybe
they actually liked the record. That says zero about history.
> 2) With the exception of Queen and The Dave Clark Five, The Beatles
were
> nearly the last hold out to join the CD revolution.
There were CDs when the Beatles and the Dave Clark 5 were recording?
Can't say that I remember that.
> 3) The Beatles "template" will not survive the Internet.....as they've
> balked at the idea of MP3 downloads on any website other than Apple
Records.
I know nothing about what is or is not on Apple Records' website (okay,
I didn't even know there was such a site) but every Beatle recording
imaginable is available all over the net.
>
> In 100 years the Beatles will be but a footnote. There will have been
more
> names and more FIRSTS to have overshadowed everything they did for
those
> brief 8 years. Just as Wayne Gretzky overshadowed Rocket Richard and
Gordie
> Howe...so too shall someone overshadow him.
I am no more a seer than you are, so you could be right. Richard and
Howe were hardly cultural touchstones (at least in the US), so Gretzky's
catapulting over them in hockey's recordbooks is not a good analogy.
What I do know is: we are 35 years into your 100-year period --- a fair
ways, I am sure you will agree --- and I hardly see the Beatles on the
road to being relegated to a footnote.
--- Barry Schlom
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