At Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:49:11 Bob wrote:

>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.

No there will never be another Beatles. Will there be an act BIGGER THAN the 
Beatles? Absolutely. Just as the Beatles surpassed Elvis, and Elvis 
surpassed Frank Sinatra, and Sinatra surpassed Glenn Miller....going right 
back to the Mozarts and Beethovens who everyone thought were the "shit" from 
their own era.

One day there will be a musical entity as big as religion itself (or so 
Lennon would have thought) because that's the nature of pop culture. It may 
never be in our lifetime, but my belief is that now that youv'e got a 
capitalist trade situation in mainland China, the exporting of new, as of 
yet unheard talent from the Pacific Rim may trigger a pop music event to 
eclipse even the Beatles....mainly because there are more people per capita 
in THAT part of the world than this. Chances are real high that THEY will 
discover the next William Hung.

It's rather arrogant to think that no one can beat the 'best'. They thought 
that about the 4-minute mile. And if Madonna keeps making music she may very 
well beat a fistful of records already set by The Beatles.

Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPages